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Praise for Sensual Meditation
‘My body was the bud of a marvellous flower which the
shadows of civilisation and religion prevented from growing.
Sensual Meditation was the ray of sunshine which made the
bud blossom and opened it to the harmony of infinite space
and time.’
Pierre Gary, Paris
‘I used to smoke hashish and take amphetamines to give
me the illusion of feeling and being good – but if you only
knew how those drugs seem ridiculous now! I also stopped
all that because it is completely unnecessary now that I
have discovered Sensual Meditation.’
Laurence, Avignon
‘It is with immense joy that I wish to thank you Raël, for
the unforgettable moments which we lived with you at the
Awakening of the Mind and Body course… since then I
feel as if I am a new man. I am starting my life afresh at 67
years of age.
Alexandre-Denis, St Ubald, Canada
‘When I discovered Sensual Meditation at 24 years of age I
had my first orgasm. How wonderful this revelation was for
me! I might add that I used to suffer regularly from bouts
of depression and anxiety which no medication was ever
able to cure. They have now totally disappeared. I would
just like to express one wish – and that is for every woman
to discover this.
N.C., Quebec
RECORDINGS OF THE
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The programme of six guided Sensual
Meditations outlined in Chapter 6 of this book is
available as a set on CD and audio-tapes from the
Movement of your country of from www.rael.org.
All contain specially
composed background music.
The most important is Meditation 1:
‘Harmonisation with Infinity’. This can be
obtained separately and contains alternative
versions with and without a guiding voice.
The meditations have been newly recorded by
Dr Marcus Wenner.
For full details see page 135
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Awakening the Mind by
Awakening the Body
RAËL
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Awakening the Mind by Awakening the Body
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CONTENTS
Foreword 12
Preface 19
Introduction 21
1 THE WATCHMAKER’S MANUAL 24
2 THE STAGES TOWARDS TOTAL AWAKENING 33
3 BECOMING AWARE OF ONESELF 37
The Human Being – a Biological Computer 38
Sexual Differentiation 55
4 VOLUNTARY DEPROGRAMMING 57
Love or Selfishness 60
How Habits Atrophy Us 66
Seizing the Moment 69
Masturbation 72
Creating a Void 76
5 VOLUNTARY REPROGRAMMING 80
6 PROGRAMME OF SENSUAL MEDITATION 87
Meditation 1: Harmonisation with Infinity 88
Meditation 2: Becoming Aware of Our Life 96
Meditation 3: Body Awareness 98
Meditation 4: Meditation with Symbol of Infinity 100
Meditation 5: Another Universe – Our Partner 104
Meditation 6: Eroticism and Mutual Excitement 107
7 THE CENTRES OF SENSUAL MEDITATION 113
The Function of the Guide 115
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8 PERSONAL EXPERIENCES 118
Bibliography 129
Additional Information 130
References 131
Seminars and contacts 135
Others books 140
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Awakening the Mind by Awakening the Body
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FOREWORD
BY MICHAEL DEYDIER – Psychologist
If only 30 years ago someone had said that computers would
revolutionise our world, nobody would have believed him.
In technology, as in medicine and philosophy, we have
progressed far beyond the post war concepts. The human
mind is developing, and so it should since it is now
perceiving its environment better and better. It creates and
controls its property, it discovers new energy sources and it
experiments with new techniques in all fields.
The general public’s reasoning has improved through its
own changing culture as manifested by the conception of a
more intellectual, a more sophisticated and a freer life.
But even more extraordinary is the evolution of our
understanding of matter. Thanks to the efforts of our
researchers, matter is becoming animate, it is getting closer
to Man, it is spiritualising itself.
Previously, matter was considered to be the opposite of the
mind. Today, thanks to the notable progress made in neuro-
surgery and psychometric research, the activity of the brain
is becoming more familiar and is losing its mystical
character.
We now have information on brain functioning which
puts old psychiatrical and psycho-analytical teachings right
out of date.
This research never ceases to expand and, admittedly, it
does worry the population; mainly because lay people make
the mistake of speculating with only limited information,
instead of trusting the plagiarised creative thinkers, that is to
say, the researchers, beyond their hesitations and legitimate
errors. For the first time in the history of our civilisation,
science and spirituality are walking on the same path. They
both have many points in common which leave mind and
matter, mental and cerebral, inseparable.
We now know, for example, which brain areas are
responsible for which behaviour patterns and that the brain
makes its own natural opiates (the endorphines) which are
released in particular circumstances, resulting in specific
emotions. Now that we know their inhibitory and excitatory
properties, we can begin to understand the functioning of the
brain by observing how they affect behaviour.
The biochemical activity of the human brain seems to be so
automatic and autonomous that we are increasingly tempted
to consider it as a social organism within itself, capable of
constant self-adjustment and auto-equilibration. Thus when
something goes wrong with this balanced system, the only
real solution is to enhance the quality of psychosomatic
integration, that is to say, to improve the connection between
mind and matter.
A CLINICAL APPRAISAL OF SPIRITUAL AWAKENING:
Spiritual awakening corresponds to a state of permanent
availability existing between each neuro-biological function
which makes up the energetic pathways of the brain, that is
to say, when all parts of the brain are communicating.
The human being who has reached an optimum level of
awakening can at all times mobilise and use the various levels
of processing to analyse sensory information while the
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ordinary person cannot function in this psychological state.
‘Permanent mental analysis’ precisely determines the
quality of interconnection and communication between the
regulation of the mind and the information received, ie,
stemming from the perception of both the internal and
external environment.
‘Intelligence’ depends on the level of regulation and
integration – it is defined by the genetic code and cannot be
developed beyond its ceiling level. However, it is normally
not exploited as much as it could be. To operate, it requires
high quality input, particularly the perception of one’s
internal and external world.
‘Sensuality’ is the capacity to perceive this environment.
Sensory information is picked up through the five senses:
vision, hearing, smell, touch, taste, along with the extra sense
of telepathic perception.
The receptors of these senses generate pleasure and pass
these images on to the central computer of the brain.
Sensuality is the most important level of processing since it
provides the basic material, faithfully reproducing the
information in both quality and quantity.
In order to create favourable conditions for a good mental
functioning, a large number of methodologies and therapies
have sprung up such as psycho-analysis, techniques of
relaxation, group sessions, alpha rhythms etc.
However, until now, no technique or method has existed
which is aimed at awakening the mind by awakening the
body, and thus using pure sensual energy to connect and
bring cerebral consciousness to a cellular level. And yet this is
the keystone itself.
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It is logically inconceivable to improve our permanent
mental analysis without first improving our sensuality
because it is this sensory information itself, coming from the
external and internal environment which is the basis of every
mental operation, apart from abstract thought. Every living
thing possesses a sensory system, including plants, animals
and humans; for without this, life itself could not be.
‘Affectivity’ is the complex which controls the whole of the
person’s emotional life. Sensory messages especially
impregnate it and some are memorised.
Most of the time, affectivity acts as a support for
intellectual activity. As it is deeply rooted in our unconscious,
however, the faculty of reason exerts only a weak influence on
unconscious elements and so it is in our interest to restore
our mental and emotional order which we so desperately
need, through means of our sensuality.
AWAKENING THE BODY:
Every organ and every gland of the human body is made up
of cells, including the brain, the heart and the liver for
example, and it is just as important for all of these organs to
be, and to remain connected to the brain, so as to perceive
the internal and external energetic variations. The whole of
our general physiology is conditioned by ‘awareness of its
position in space as related to its surroundings’ – a stomach
which no longer knows its identity will forget part of its
function and will make mistakes which will not necessarily
be repaired or eliminated by the liver or the pancreas. It has
been proven that most people who cannot swim would
overcome their fear if they became aware of their body
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schema. The same applies to partial anorexics. The uses for
physical awareness are unlimited and also concern everyone
in perfect health who wishes to exploit his or her full
potential.
The phenomenon of awakening produces a feeling of
euphoria because the sensation of awareness invades us on a
muscular level, reaches all of the vital organs, the respiratory
and circulatory system, right even to the cellular level. It is a
physiological state.
SENSUAL AWAKENING:
Sensual awakening gives rise to physical awakening.
Sensuality along with sexuality, is part of the pleasure
generating system and because of that, has been repressed for
a long time, especially in our western culture.
And yet pleasure is such a natural and positive reaction.
Human nature is built upon this system. In fact, the whole
of biology seems to be based on this principle of pleasure.
Not one action exists, both conscious or otherwise, which is
done in order to avoid it. But since our morality exerts such
a high level of repression, both unjustified and unjustifiable,
we often follow roundabout and often unhealthy ways to
achieve it. It is not by chance that a person’s basic needs are
directly associated with pleasure when satiated.The feeling of
pleasure is not only nice, but it is also indispensable since it
regulates most of our bodies’ metabolic reactions, including
those of our brain, and allows one to control one’s own
development – an awakened person knows how to enjoy his
sensuality.
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SENSUAL MEDITATION OR SELF-IDENTIFICATION:
Unfortunately, we cannot trigger the process of sensual and
mental expansion at random or by improvising. Our sensuality
has been atrophied by our affective inhibitions.
We need to relax to regulate our stress level and to satisfy
our senses with colours, flavours and music... that too, is part
of Man’s essential needs.
Our body needs to take its bearings of the space and time
which it is in, and of the space and time of which it is
composed.
When we locate our body in space, we link it to our brain
via awareness of our environment, which includes people.
When we situate our body, organs, limbs and glands, we also
link them to the brain.
When we locate our cells mentally, we link them both to
our brain and to each other via the brain, since through it,
each organ can become aware of its position and therefore its
role within the body.
We need to feel that we are THIS, that we are HERE, and
for this we must learn quite simply how to feel oneself, in
other words, to identify ourselves, but not with an accepted
name or socially accepted title, but purely with personal
sensations. Sensual Meditation allows this and much more.
Though access to it requires an initiation, or rather, a sort of
reconnection with our bodily and sensual schemata, its
practice remains an intimate operation. This does not mean
that one must be alone to meditate. In fact, the presence of
people whom we love is always positive, but it is still true that
from initiation to one’s ‘orgasm’, Sensual Meditation remains
a highly personal experience in the sense that the sensations
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develop in a completely autarchic and self-sufficient
atmosphere.
When meditating, it is as if the process of self-identification
occurs automatically and it is precisely this self identification
which carries us towards knowing ourselves.
The state of awakening is a state of mind in which
creativity flourishes and what is more, it vastly improves the
quality or our inter-human relationships. Meditating is not a
complicated operation, one must first learn to encourage
those sensations which eventually lead to the expansion of
consciousness. As euphoria begins to penetrate into the body
tissues, so does the proliferation of the muscular and nerve
connections.
Then during everyday life between meditations, a
psychological and physical well-being instills itself which
adds a new dimension to life.
Sensual Meditations’ depth of understanding as taught by
Raël, answers all of modern psychology’s deficiencies because
it allows the awakening of the mind, the awakening of the
body, and the fulfilment of sensuality.
It regulates our affectivity by reducing any frustrations
while preserving our emotional life.
It gives rise to a phenomenon of natural re-equilibration of
our metabolic system without any external intervention of
medical drugs.
It is accessible to everyone.
It possesses, in my opinion, highly valuable curative and
preventative qualities.
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PREFACE
BY DR. PAUL AUGER – Psychiatrist
Sensual Meditation as taught by Raël is useful for all types of
people, particularly for the people of today.
Basically, it aims at awakening the mind by awakening the
body. It is more than just a technique of relaxation, even
though it uses, as do most others, an heightened oxygenation
of the blood. The background music is appropriately
suggestive and gently induces tranquillity and peace.
Sensual Meditation also has the added advantage of
‘rendering conscious’: of bringing the vital and functional
presence of the various tissues and specific cells composing
them, to the cerebral cortex, in a relatively short time.
It seeks the admiring and marvelling awareness of the
infinitely small, down to the biochemical level, and its
position relative to and harmonious with the body as a whole.
By inviting, or rather by inciting, the nerves and their
‘neuro-transmitters’ to transmit adequately their organic
messages to the cerebral cortex, it is able to increase self
esteem, and catalyse sensual enjoyment. This is directly
complimentary with science and the two together can create,
interactively, a planetary awareness. In my opinion, it is in
this way that Sensual Meditation can awaken Mankind’s
search for enjoyment and can prevent adrenalin and other
such toxic derivatives from reaching the brain. The human
brain is a complex gland, both perfected and perfectioning,
fulfilling the enjoyment of the senses through perception of
the infinitely large.
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The spiral opens the way to the fourth dimension of time
and perhaps its contraction is speed.
In a nutshell, Sensual Meditation, through a biochemical
process lasting only a few minutes at a time, allows Man to
see other humans as his brothers, and to taste and feel part of
the universal harmony which is both created and creator.
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INTRODUCTION
Raël is the young journalist who you have seen numerous
times on television, relating both his contacts with extra-
terrestrials, and his journey to their planet in one of their
machines, what Man calls ‘flying saucers’.
These people from the other planet, or rather, the Elohim,
as they are called, entrusted Raël with a series of extra-
ordinary messages which have been published in French as
three books entitled Le Livre Qui Dit La Vérité, Les Extra-
Terrestres M’ont Emmené Sur Leur Planete and Accueillir Les
Extraterrestres, Ils Ont Créé L’humanité en Laboratoire. These
have been published as two books entitled; ‘The Message
Given By Extra-Terrestrials’ and ‘Let’s Welcome the Extra-
Terrestrials’.
Among other things, the messages explain how these people
had landed on Earth, and through progressive experiments in
genetic engineering, had created all life on Earth including
‘Man in their image’. They also relate how all the religious
texts of the major religions of this world, including The Bible,
in fact describe this scientific creation. In the Old Testament,
one repeatedly finds the word ‘Elohim’, for example in
Genesis – ‘in the beginning, the spirit of Elohim flew over the
waters’, or ‘The first day, Elohim did this’, ‘The second day,
Elohim did that’, etc. By comparing the different versions of
The Bible you can see for yourself that what was originally the
ancient Hebrew word ‘Elohim’, meaning literally: ‘Those
who came from the sky,’ has now been translated into the
word ‘God’. That is to say, what was originally a plural, has
now been changed to a singular. However, some more honest
translators who knew full well that ‘Elohim’ meant ‘Those
who came from the sky’, kept the word as a plural instead of
falsely translating it as ‘God’, which is why one can still find
this plural word ‘Elohim’ in some versions of The Bible, such
as those translated by Edouard Dhorme.
Under this new light, it is easier to understand where it is
written: ‘And Elohim created Man in their image’, especially
now that our scientists are beginning to synthesise DNA and
will soon create other ‘men in our image’. It becomes even
more obvious when we consider how the exploits of flying
something which is heavier than air dates back only to the
beginning of this century, and for our primitive ancestors,
anything coming from the sky just had to be divine. There
are still to this day people on a Pacific island adoring empty
Coca Cola cans and chewing-gum packets, waiting for the
return of the ‘white sky gods and their metal birds’. The
Americans had in fact used the island as an air-base when
fighting against Japan, but since the end of the war when
they packed up and went, the ‘Cargo Cult’ started, with the
natives desperately awaiting anything made in the USA to
drop from the sky.
But the books containing the messages from those people
who had created the first humans in a laboratory not only
constitute a fantastic demystification of all religions, but also
bring an equally fabulous set of techniques for human
fulfilment, called Sensual Meditation. The thousands of
people associating with Raël, and helping him to spread and
publicise these prodigious messages, were able to experience
for themselves the marvellous results of these meditation
techniques, following the courses of awakening organised
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during August at various camp-sites around the world, and
they now wish to make this available to everyone, by setting
up permanent centres of pleasure, awakening and fulfilment.
Furthermore, there were many who wished to benefit from
this teaching, or at least its basis, in their own time and in
their own home, in order to re-harmonise themselves after a
stressful day, or even to progress further in their own
development and fulfilment. It was in this context that the
present work and the basic programme of meditation CDs
and audio cassettes was born.
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THE WATCHMAKER’S INSTRUCTION MANUAL
Happy is the one who has pierced the mystery of things
VIRGIL
The symbol (see left, below) which adorned the cover of the
original edition of this book might have shocked you. Rest
assured, it had nothing to do with the criminal against
humanity who stole the central part, the swastika, and made
it the emblem of one of the worst genocides in the history of
our planet.
In fact the whole symbol represents infinity in time and
space. The triangle pointing down represents the infinitely
small and the triangle pointing upwards, the infinitely large –
obviously, they are both linked. As for the swastika in the
centre, it represents infinity in time which, quite obviously, is
applicable to both the infinitely small and large.*
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* Since the publication of the first edition of Sensual Meditation, the original Raëlian symbol has
been revised (as above, right) in Western countries out of respect for victims of the Holocaust.
Thanks to their 25,000 year scientific advance on us, the
Elohim have been able to prove that the particles of the
atoms which make us up are universes in which one can find
planets, on which live intelligent people just like us, and who
themselves are composed of atoms whose particles are
universes, etc.
From there, they were able to prove that the stars of our
universe are what make up a particle of a huge atom located
somewhere in an intelligent living being, who is perhaps
contemplating its own planet’s sky, wondering if there is any
intelligent life elsewhere in its universe, a universe which is
also but a particle of an atom.
The Elohim, these people from space who created us in
their laboratory, also discovered that time is inversely
proportional to the mass of the universe which it is passing –
that is to say, to continue the previous example, during what
is for us one second, thousands of years have passed by for
the people living on a planet in our big toe, whereas the
amount of time equivalent to one of our life-spans is but a
fraction of a second for the gigantic being of which our
planet is but a particle of one of its atoms.
Obviously, for people who have reached such a level of
civilisation where they are capable of creating living beings in
a laboratory with, as the Scriptures say, ‘a handful of dust’,
that is to say, the chemicals contained in the soil of our
planet, the characteristics of their creations which they decide
to design can vary infinitely. Whether it be the colours of
butterfly wings or the shape of a flower’s petals, all this is easy
for the Elohim to programme into the genetic code of the
species which they are designing.
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What is applicable to the physical characteristics of the
individual is also applicable to their mental characteristics.
Most recently, we have been able to modify animal
behaviour in the laboratory by acting on the chemical
reactions within the parts of the brain which determine
behaviour, and thus make wolves fearful and lambs fierce.
And human science is only just beginning in this area.
If we were to create an animal in a laboratory, first of all we
would give it its physical aspects, then we must decide upon
its mental characteristics. The latter will obviously influence
its appearance since if we decided to create a herbivore we
would have to think about giving it a dentition fit for
grazing.
If we wished it to live in a region with a very cold climate
we must also think about giving it thick fur, and if it is to live
in the snow and other carnivores exist in the same region
which would make it too much of an easy prey, then we must
make it such that its fur becomes an immaculate white
during these dangerous periods.
As far as reproduction is concerned, we must think about
giving the animal the organs necessary for the growth of the
‘organised cancer’, or rather, the living cells which one day
will develop in the mother’s womb into another similar
animal – a faithful reproduction.
We must also determine that at a certain time of the year
our female animal secretes certain substances which give off
a particular smell to attract the male so that copulation can
occur, and obviously the male himself will have been given
olfactory sensors linked to certain centres in his brain which
trigger in him the desire for copulation.
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It is already well established that certain female moths emit
a smell which the male can smell several kilometres away,
which shows the quality of its ‘nose’.
Thus we have just seen how we would trigger the desire to
copulate in the male and female animal that we wish to
make. Next, we must ensure that the act of copulation itself
triggers off pleasurable reactions in the brain of both partners
so that with the help of the Pavlovian reflex, they would wish
to do it again. For this, their sexual organs must be equipped
with nerve endings to transmit the stimulation to the brain
and trigger the feelings of pleasure.
Thus the contact area on the male and female sexual organs
must be large enough for the pleasurable sensation to be
strong.
And so we see that the mental characteristics linked to the
functioning of our animal determine to a large extent its
physical characteristics.
It is important to understand clearly that these
characteristics, mental, physical and those related to the
behaviour of the animal that we are planning on constructing
are all programmed by composing the sequence of the
genetic code. This is exactly comparable to the fact that the
way the letters of the alphabet are ordered when I write, give
either long, hard-to-read phrases or short and clear ones,
technical and hermetic, or poetic and enthusiastic – and with
the same letters of the alphabet it is possible to trigger
reactions of disgust, sexual desire or salivation, etc. in the
reader.
Instead of ordering letters in a certain way, we can use
atoms and molecules which, depending on the sequence in
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which they are ordered, will result in the animal having two
wings or four legs, or be a herbivore or a carnivore, viviparous
or oviparous etc...
This genetic phrase which every living creature possesses, is
called the genetic code in science, whereas certain esoteric
traditions refer to it as the ‘name of each animal’, a name
which is its own and to which it ‘answers’.
Thus we have seen that when building a living being we
can design the physical characteristics that we wish as well as
its mental characteristics, in other words, its desires,
mannerisms and habits.
When the Elohim designed life on Earth, they created an
immense variety of animals and plants by balancing the
desires and reproductive systems of these creatures so that the
whole was capable of reproducing and surviving for as long
as the environment remained the same as when they first
designed it.
To use contemporary fashionable words, one could say that
the group of plants and animals as a whole which was created
in a laboratory on Earth by the Elohim had to be ecologically
balanced. The plants allow the herbivores to nourish
themselves, which are themselves eaten by the carnivores,
which, when they multiply too much, do not find enough
food and so, being weak, die, generally of an epidemic. With
few predators surviving these epidemics, the herbivores are
then free to multiply again in large numbers, which gives the
remaining predators plenty to eat, and the cycle continues
indefinitely. This succession of disequilibria which alternately
compensate themselves, represents an ecological balance as a
whole which makes the totality of the creation viable.
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When the Elohim finally decided to create people similar
to themselves ‘in their image’, as it says in The Bible, they
created humans with the identical physical appearance and
mental characteristics as themselves. Who knows more about
the watch than the watchmakers themselves? No one,
obviously.
Thus it is clear that all of the human’s mental characteristics
were given to him on purpose by those who created him, and
therefore the best method of utilising these capabilities can
come only from the designers themselves, as an ‘instructions
for use’ manual.
While on the subject, it is important to underline the
difference between Man and animals. Animals automatically
develop and fulfil themselves in their environment for the
simple reason that they were designed to develop and
blossom in their natural habitat but not to modify it. Man,
on the other hand, was designed to change the environment.
In fact, animals were designed ready made with their tastes
and desire which they are incapable of questioning whereas
Man is capable of changing all his habits on every level.
For example, as far as their habitat is concerned, robin red
breasts have always built their nests in the same way, and will
always continue to do so, whereas man went from mud huts
to sky scrapers, going through intermediary stages such as
thatched roofs and igloos.
It is precisely this superior intelligence which characterises
humans which is the root cause of the difficulty they have in
fulfilling themselves and blossoming naturally.
When a bird has slept well, eaten well and is cleaning its
feathers in the sun, it is automatically in total harmony. It has
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reached its true potential and has nothing else to do. It is
natural for it to feel ‘high’ and it automatically feels good all
over because it is programmed never to question itself as far
as its behaviour and way of life are concerned. Birds, like all
animals, are specifically programmed computers.
Man on the other hand, never ceases to question himself
and has never ceased to do so ever since he first existed, and
that is why he is a creator. Once he has slept well and eaten
well, he will start thinking about ways of accumulating food
to see him through difficult times, and once that is done, he
will give himself to another task, and then another, never
ceasing to question and re-evaluate himself at all levels. Even
if we were to imagine people who had everything that they
needed to live with for their whole life in terms of both
housing and food, they would still launch themselves into
more and more astounding enterprises, whether these be
artistic creations done for the love of art, or the creation of
enterprises designed to increase their fortune, or simply so as
to have an ‘occupation’.
Be it in his habitat, food, work, leisure or even sexuality,
Man always seeks change, and this is purely because Man, in
contrast to animals, was designed as a self-programmable
computer; that is to say capable at all times of questioning,
re-evaluating and reconsidering his habits, traditions and
morals. Even though Man’s ability to re-evaluate himself
continually represents an enormous superiority over animals,
and though he must develop this capacity to the full in order
to reach full awakening, it is also necessary for him to situate
himself regularly according to his environment, that is to say,
to realise where ‘he is at’ relative to his circumstances.
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Being aware of what we are precisely at the time of doing
this exercise provides us with moments of ecstasy and allows
us to be subsequently even more efficient in our capacity to
use our auto-reprogramming abilities. This momentary break
in Humanity’s frantic race of continual reassessment and self-
questioning can be compared to when a bird settles on its
branch, enjoying a ray of sunshine and sings for no other
reason than for the joy of singing.
This is part of the ‘instructions for use’ for the fantastic
machines that we are, which the maker is giving to us now
that our level of civilisation allows us to understand and use
them.
Who better than the watchmaker can tell us how to make
the watch work? Sensual Meditation, revealed by these people
who had come previously from their distant planet to create
us in a laboratory, is the simplest and most efficient set of
techniques for human awakening and fulfilment, for the
plain and simple reason that it is given to us by those who
designed us as we are.
Certainly, many other techniques now exist, most of them
coming from the East, which a long time ago the Elohim had
revealed to certain prophets or initiates such as Buddha or
other Tibetan monks, but those teachings had been given to
primitives who were still dominated by completely absurd
superstitions and beliefs, and who, most of them, badly or
only partially understood the Elohim’s teachings and had
almost entirely distorted them while passing them on to their
disciples. Most often, the teachings revealed by the Elohim
were mixed together with the primitive beliefs of the times,
producing religions which conserved some excellent methods
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of awakening, but were unfortunately drowned by an
oppressive mysticism and an atrophying ritualism.
The original teachings, rediscovered thanks to the recent
messages of the Elohim, represent a return to the source,
allowing us to understand the concrete basis of all these
oriental techniques, which themselves serve as further
evidence of the way our creators, from the beginning, have
been consistently helping us to improve the living conditions
of the creation that they love as their own children –
Humanity.
Furthermore, it is important to add that a person cannot be
totally in harmony if he still mentally harbours false and
generally guilt-inducing concepts, arising from primitive and
therefore mystical concepts of the universe. This is why
certain exercises, themselves excellent, but taught by
organisations from the East, found their beneficial effects
partially or totally inhibited by the mystical context which in
the end almost completely invaded the original teaching.
Sensual Meditation allows us to rediscover the techniques of
awakening, free from the handicap of centuries-old
theological encrustation.
A return to the watchmaker’s ‘instruction manual’.
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2
THE STAGES TOWARDS TOTAL AWAKENING
The path which leads to total awakening comprises several
stages which can be passed only in a certain order. We cannot
climb the top step of a staircase without having first put our
feet on the first step.
The first step of this staircase is called ‘the sudden
dawning’, where it dawns upon us, or where we realise, how
mediocre our life is, how mediocre and how lacking in
precision our objectives are. We get the feeling of having
wasted our time during the course of our life, of having run
after diplomas, money, the ideal partner, etc... and suddenly
we find ourselves playing out a role in Society or even in the
family, a role which we would never have wished to take, if
we had ‘had the choice’.
Once this realisation of dissatisfaction has hit us, and it
follows that in your case it has since otherwise you would not
be reading these lines, the next step is that of ‘information.’
When we realise that something seems to be wrong with
our life, it is usually due to a ‘trigger event’ stemming from a
thirst for information. This trigger event can be the meeting
of someone who lives differently from our norm, or what we
thought was the best way to live, and yet who seems to be
happier than us. Alternatively, it could be the discovery of a
book or a film in which what we thought was absolutely
unquestionably true suddenly seems not quite so true.
This ‘trigger event’, this beneficial accident, produces in us
the realisation of how possible it is for us to live differently,
to think in a different way from how we usually do – and
even if it may at first sight seem shocking that certain princi-
ples drummed into us by our upbringing are being
questioned, we still wish to find out more, even if it is just to
see if those who live outside ‘our’ norm can really be happy
and if their smile might not be hiding despair and anxiety.
That is when it is important really to inform ourselves
without any preconceived ideas and above all, without
trusting the slanderous gossip coming from people who aren’t
strong enough to question themselves and who thus prefer to
make fun of that which they are afraid of understanding for
fear of consequently being even more unhappy than they
usually are. Weakness, fear and unhappiness, that is what the
minds of those who live tied to their traditions are full of,
that is to say, full of habits and superstitions coming from the
primitives who preceded us and for whom everything which
was unexplained just had to be miraculous, divine or...
diabolical... A comet, a black cat, a solar eclipse, everything
was a pretext or mysterious signal hailing and forecasting bad
luck, since for them everything was a portent of good or bad.
Now that we know how to analyse scientifically and explain
clearly everything around us, now that we know how to
create life in the laboratory, travel into outer space, modify
animal behaviour or colour, enable the blind to see thanks to
electronic prostheses, now that we can understand all these
things, we can realise how ridiculous all these superstitions
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are, and yet we are still brought up, educated and
conditioned by them.
That is why, even now that Man walks on the moon, the
election of a new Pope makes all the headlines, films about
black-magic are the best sellers and the Americans have
processions to make the rain fall during times of drought...
But since you have chosen really to inform yourself and
without a biased point of view, you have begun really to
understand by yourself how ridiculous this superstitious and
un-informed situation is, which the governments carefully
cultivate, since it is in their interest for the populace not to
ask too many questions...
But let us return to our work programme.
Once we have informed ourselves, and it is this stage which
we will go through in the next chapter, then a new realisation
will dawn upon us as we elevate our level of global awareness;
a realisation which will allow us to see to what extent what
we used to take for granted as completely natural was, in fact,
only the result of the way we were conditioned by our
education. Then will come the third step, probably the most
important, and to which we will certainly have to return
during various circumstances of our life when faced with
events which we had not taken into account during our
organised clearing out of the refuse of received ideas.
This third step is the organisation of a great spring-cleaning
of all that controls our behaviour. It is a ‘brain-washing’
which we carry out on ourselves to clean out from this organ
all the elements which have been stuffed in pell-mell and
which have caused both our more obvious inhibitions as well
as those which we are not even aware of ourselves and so
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which are more annoying and dangerous.
Briefly, it consists of questioning deeply all of our actions
and reactions so as to become aware of and define those
which are due to our educators and those which stem from
our very own selves, and then eliminating the former if they
are in contradiction with our deepest tastes and aspirations.
After having emptied ourselves of all our conscious and
unconscious conditioning, which, though we might not
realise it, influence all our tastes, likes and dislikes, we can
then reach the fourth step where we will try to reprogram
ourselves according to our own wishes, and this time not
having to listen to, and owing nothing to our educators,
parents, or even the interference of our environment. We will
reprogram ourselves simply by discovering our real and
strictly personal and individual tastes, likes and dislikes.
Once we have eliminated the elements which caused the
taboos within us, this wilful and voluntary reprogramming
can be done by becoming aware of our sensuality, that is to
say by the optimal usage of our senses, through which our
whole being is linked to the infinite surrounding us and of
which we are made up.
Then we will be ready to tackle the last stage which is the
one from which the infinite staircase rises, leading to total
awakening through a global awareness of space and time,
resulting in a higher level of consciousness and allowing those
who reach it to live in a permanent state of total harmony.
But... let us start at the beginning and be careful not to
stumble on the first step!
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3
BECOMING AWARE OF ONESELF
The education that we have received has conditioned us
without us being aware of it, and has made of us people
pulled between two tendencies hypocritically confused by
our educators – the belief in ‘God’ with Man being the fruit
of a supernatural creation on the one hand, and on the other,
the scientific dogma stating that we are the fruit of a slow
evolution due to an unimaginable succession of chance
mutations and that our grandfather was a monkey... In fact,
there are many ‘scientists’ who back evolution during the
week and then go to church on Sunday morning. And if, as
a child, you had the misfortune and sacrilegious audacity to
have had the ‘wicked’ idea of asking ‘Why?’, nine times out
of ten you would have been told to finish your soup and shut
up... Why? Simply because your educators themselves were
torn between a sacrosanct tradition which they had to pass
on to their descendants at all costs and a so-called scientific
reasoning which through no virtue of its own, is now
considered to be irrefutable by the higher ‘authorities’ who
decide to impose such dogmas.*
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* It is important to note that some scientists are beginning to doubt the theory of evolu-
tion, and that an American university is teaching the possibility that life could have been
created. A book entitled ‘Evolution or Creation’ shows to what extent the dogma of evolu-
tion can be shown as illogical and unscientific. See the bibliography at the end of this book.
How do you expect that living among all of this, your own
educators are not themselves unbalanced and ill at ease with
themselves? And if an educator is not at ease with himself, it
is inevitable that he passes on his fears to those whom he is
forming (in this case it would be more exact to say
‘deforming’).
The fact of discovering that we are the fruit of an intelligent
decision, that we were designed scientifically by people
coming from another planet, and that they created us in their
own image, ie, capable of understanding where we came
from, why we are here, and what we can become – the act of
discovering all this changes the whole basis of the problem.
And what is more, as was mentioned earlier, we are lucky
enough to have been given the ‘instruction manual’ on how
to make us tick, by the watch makers themselves!
But before talking about the instructions, let us look at
what the clock really is and how it works.
THE HUMAN BEING – A BIOLOGICAL COMPUTER, SELF
REPROGRAMMABLE AND SELF-REPRODUCING
We are nothing other than a computer, a sort of machine
whose performance capacities are only relatively mediocre
when compared to some objects made by humans.
For a machine to function, it must first be capable of
feeding itself with energy. When we are hungry, we stop
working and we feed ourselves to build up our strength.
British researchers have designed a metal robot which works
all day as a sort of pickup-truck. When its batteries are flat,
the machine stops working, and equipped with it own wheels
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and a camera, directs itself to a source of electricity and plugs
in to recharge itself. It ‘feeds’ itself just like us, and when its
batteries are sufficiently recharged, it unplugs itself and starts
to work again. Thus we can see that the capacity of feeding
oneself with energy when the need is felt, does not constitute
a superiority of man over machine. Furthermore, work is
now being done on robots fed by solar energy, capable of
storing it up for use during the rainy season which will allow
it to work without having to stop to feed itself. In fact, Man
is not capable of feeding himself with solar energy which is
already a first inferiority of Man compared to machines in
the field of power source.
Let’s now see whether sight makes us superior. We have just
mentioned that some robots are equipped with cameras for
them to ‘see’ with, so that they can move about without
bumping into obstacles just as we do. These cameras are
linked to the robot’s computer which analyse the transmitted
images in exactly the same way that our brain does.
Still no superiority of man over machines in sight. What is
more, we could easily equip our robot computer with
multiple lensed cameras, one of them being a zoom lens
allowing it to see several miles away, another being a wide
angled lens allowing it to see wide areas in one go, another
being a microscope allowing it see into the infinitely small
and another fitted to see infrared so that it can see at night...
Such a simultaneous and instantaneous performance is
impossible for the human being who has to use binoculars, a
concave lens, a microscope, or infrared glasses to get the same
effect and which in any case, cannot all be looked through at
the same time... Yet another superiority of machine over man.
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Let’s take another sense, that of hearing. You all know that
we perceive only a small percentage of the sounds around us,
but dogs can pick up ultra and infra sounds, and we can
equip a robot with ultra and infra sound receptors. What is
more, it can also be designed to detect the precise direction
from which the sound is coming, as well as its distance from
the sound source. We are incapable of such precise skills. The
same goes for the sense of smell.
It is impossible for us to analyse the chemical constituents
of a smell – all we can do is to say ‘it smells good’ or ‘it smells
bad.’ The robot, on the other hand, can be designed to
analyse instantaneously the chemical constituents of the
surrounding smells, to calculate the distance and direction of
their source, and even to say whether they are dangerous to
man, even if Man cannot smell them himself.
As far as the sense of touch goes, we are just as limited.
When we touch something, all we can say is ‘it’s hot’ or ‘it’s
cold’, or even ‘it’s hard’ or ‘it’s soft’, which, let’s face it, is
pretty vague.The robot’s computer however, can measure the
precise weight, hardness and temperature of what it touches
using its prehensile senses, the equivalent of human hands.
Finally, our sense of taste is also limited to the extent that we
can say only ‘it’s sweet’, ‘it’s salty’, ‘it tastes good’ or ‘it tastes
bad’, allowing us to swallow gullibly any old fish so long as it
has been seasoned sufficiently to excite our palate. On the
other hand, the computer can be equipped with chemical
analysers so as to name the exact constituents of the sub-
stance, even though the only use it can have for this ability is
not for itself, since it can feed directly from the sun’s rays, but
to help humans by informing them about what they are eating.
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Thus we can see how a simple machine is not only not
inferior to Man, but is capable of being given infinitely
superior characteristics.
All that is left is the sixth sense, extra-sensory perception,
an ability which humans almost never use and which a
computer could also use much better. Information trans-
mission without the use of the five ordinary senses happens
every day thanks to radio communication and equipping our
robot with a radio emitter-receiver for it to communicate with
other robots would be child’s play. So, to conclude, we can
say that everything that Man does, a computer can do better.
But when it becomes obvious that our sensory
characteristics are very limited, maybe you will say that Man’s
‘divine essence’ must reside elsewhere. In his memory?
Impossible! As you know, any old pocket computer can store
in its memory far more information than can any of our
academics, and moreover, can recall it instantaneously without
making any mistakes. Computerisation, which is increasingly
becoming part of our environment, proves it to us every day:
pocket calculators, pocket translators containing the equi-
valent of an eight language dictionary, electronic opponents
to play chess with us at international championship level...
And yet this is only the beginning of computerisation.
Each year, electronic components double their capabilities.
Some people are already considering the possibility of storing
all of Humanity’s knowledge in all disciplines in just one
crystal just a few millimetres small!
This book that you are reading was written directly onto a
disk linked to a revolutionary computerised system, but
which will in only a few months, be out of date. And yet, on
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a small disk, the size of a 45RPM record, one can store all the
information, every word and every letter of two books like
this one.
Thus so far no sign of a ‘divine essence’ in all this, nor of
any human characteristics which cannot be replaced.
What about the ability to create works of art? Not even in
that! Already now, computerised composers exist which
compose music and play it. Everyone has heard what
synthesisers sound like, which are used more and more in
popular music. All it is, is a computer capable of reproducing
the sound characteristics of every instrument, even the
human voice. This machine can be programmed to play a
piece of Mozart or Bach with much more precision than any
symphony orchestra in the world. Imagine an orchestra with
100 violins. Never will those 100 violins play the music all
exactly in time together. There will always be a time gap of a
few tenths of a second between the promptest and the last
musicians and a few hundredths of a second between each
musician. The computer however, can synthesise the sound
of 100 violins and can make them all play together exactly to
the millisecond, much better than any conductor could ever
achieve with human musicians.
Some people might say that it is precisely that little time
delay between musicians which gives the spice and
personality of each conductor but this hesitation itself can be
programmed to give the computer a personality identical to
the conductor.
Yet another advantage of the computer synthesiser is that it
can produce much purer sounds than the archaic
instruments which have to rely upon the natural acoustics of
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the room in which they are used. This is particularly
noticeable when during recordings, the sound is distorted by
the room’s acoustics and then has to pass through a
microphone and amplifier to be recorded, and then passed
through an amplifier and loudspeaker to be heard. The
synthesiser on the other hand, can send almost totally pure
sounds directly to the amplifier without these being in the
least bit distorted by the acoustic faults of the room in which
it is being played. As composer Jean Claude Risset, in charge
of CNRS research, said: ‘there is no limit to the computer
which can play difficult pieces and complex rhythms with a
precision unattainable by human musicians – and some
musicians even wish to use computers simply so as to
dispense with musicians.’
What is possible with sounds is also possible with shapes,
colours, perfumes and tastes.
The painter who draws the curves of a hip is simply
drawing an ideal line relative to the numerous other possible
lines. The computer can do this too including the defects
which characterise certain painters like Modigliani who
adorns his subjects with long necks, or Buffet who draws
with a maximum number of vertical lines. This the computer
can do with ease. In the same way that it can play a piece of
music in Bach’s style, so can it paint a subject in the same way
as Modigliani.
A computer can even find a style which does not exist, by
scanning all those which do and designing one
corresponding to the public’s taste. ‘The role of the computer
in the process of creativity is still in its infancy and is already
very promising.’ It was Arnold Kaufman from the National
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Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble who said that and the
immediate future will surpass his predictions.
Computers are already capable of creating images,
composing music, synthesising smells and drawing
architecture etc...
We have to face it, even in creativity, man is not superior to
machines.
What is left? The capacity to reproduce? Not even that. It
is easy to envisage the designing of computers programmed
to build other computers in their image, capable of creating
more of themselves etc, thus designing a ‘species’ capable of
proliferating and multiplying.
Thus nothing about Man is impossible to reproduce
mechanically, and therefore Man is not superior to machines.
In fact, we have just seen that Man’s performance is fairly
mediocre compared to what is technically possible.
Man is simply a biological computer, self-programming
and self-reproducing, lost in the infinitely large, composed of
the infinitely small and making up and made up from eternity.
The only superiority of man over machines is his capacity
to decide whether or not he will build those computers
which will be at his service, and decide what their limits shall
be. In fact he could even give them abilities far superior to his
own and even programme them to become the dominant
species on Earth, which will eventually destroy its own
creators. It all depends on how they will be programmed.
However, it seems reasonable to programme them so as to
obey us and serve us efficiently.
But have we therefore no superiority over machines? And
what about the ‘soul’ you might ask? As we have seen at the
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start of this book, since the universe is infinite, there can be
no centre which proves the existence of a ‘God,’ and since
those who did create us did it in a laboratory using a perfect
grasp of genetics, the soul does not exist either. Soon, when
our most advanced scientists create a 100 per cent synthetic
human being, it will prove definatively that there is no soul.
However though there is no god, there is infinity which is in
us just as we are in it, which is eternal. And if in your mind,
that was your definition of the word ‘God’, then you were
not wrong. But be careful. Infinity couldn’t care less whatever
your actions may be, whether you are altruistic, or murder
1,000 people, it does not mind, for the good and simple
reason that infinity has no consciousness of its own, being
both everywhere and nowhere.
To return to the soul, if to you it means ‘that which gives
someone their own individuality or personality’, (following
back the etymology of the French word ‘ame’ to its Latin
‘anima’, meaning ‘that which animate’) then we are talking
about the genetic code. And in the light of some of the most
recent scientific experiments, we notice that it is possible to
recreate a living being starting from one of its cells, a process
which genetic engineering calls ‘cloning’, just as the Elohim,
those people from space who created us in their image, told
us. Therefore it will soon be possible to recreate someone
after they have died by using the genetic code from one of
their preserved cells.
But if to you the soul is an ethereal vapour which floats
gently away after death and which constitutes our real
personality, then you will have to resign yourself to aban-
doning this primitive and destabilising concept since, as do
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all these false ideas, it creates a duality between the mind and
the body, by considering the body to be in one place while
the mind is supposed to be elsewhere, doing something else...
Surely those who created us are best placed to know whether
or not they designed us with something resembling an
ethereal soul. They say that there isn’t one and prove it by
being able to create 50 copies of the same person through
cloning in the laboratory. If no one intervenes after death to
recreate the dead person using his genetic code, then the
matter which made up this person will disperse and the
person will no longer exist. ‘From dust you came and to dust
you will return.’
Therefore, since the soul does not exist, it cannot be con-
sidered a superiority of man over machine. But the genetic
code, does represent a superiority over a robot’s metal com-
puter. Every cell of a living being, whether it be the cell of the
hand or foot, contains the information to recreate the whole
being. But if we take a bit of a robot’s ‘claw’, we cannot find
any information allowing us to rebuild the whole robot again,
not unless the robot is biological... What is a biological robot?
It is a robot which instead of being made of metal, is made
of living matter just like us.
To summarise, we have just seen how we are simply
machines of modest performance, but able to surround our-
selves with machines which are both superior to us and which
we designed so as to give us time to create and fulfil ourselves.
This will be our privilege only if we decide to make it so; it
will not happen by itself.
Once we are able to remove all the mystery surrounding us
and remove those attitudes which consider that our human
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characteristics are sacred, unintelligible and transcendent,
then we can begin to see clearer and get a better idea of
ourselves. Thus we become aware that we are part of the
Infinite with very limited capabilities.
But even though these capabilities might be extremely
limited, they still allow us to feel the infinity around us so
that we can situate ourselves relative to it, and if we know
how, these capabilities enable us to put ourselves in harmony
with it.
Before closing this chapter, which is designed to destroy in
us all false ideas about ourselves, one thing still remains. This
is to demystify the act which primitives are so desperate to
render sacrosanct, either through ignorance, or more likely
by playing on the ignorance of the masses to whom these
religions are aimed, and that is ‘the creation of life’. This is
the ‘mystery’ which is the last remaining bastion which min-
isters of the ‘cults of the uncultured’ shelter behind.
In fact the creation of life is not a mystery at all, and it is
not by chance that the religions who continue to proclaim
that it is a mystery, are losing more and more of their ‘faith-
ful’ and consequently have to lead vast publicity campaigns
in countries where there is over 90 per cent illiteracy. In this
way, they try to compensate for their losses of members in the
educated West by trying to get converts in the uneducated
countries which are hardly informed about scientific
discoveries at all. Therefore the Pope has to travel to South
America, the Middle East etc...
What is in fact the creation of life in a mother’s womb?
Well, simply the creation of a new genetic code, a new
‘genetic phrase’ as we described it earlier. We have seen that
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every living thing has a ‘name’ whose letters are atoms and
molecules. When a living organism is made in a laboratory, a
new ‘name’ is created by assembling the atoms and molecules
in a certain way, and if this organism is to be human, its
‘genetic name’ will be composed of 45 ‘syllables’, which we
call ‘chromosomes.’ If this organism, as is the case here, is
capable of sexual reproduction, then it will give half of its
‘genetic name’ which is its own personal phrase, to the egg
and when its partner of the opposite sex gives the other half
of the genetic code, it will be fertilised and become their
child. Thus they will each give 23 chromosomes, one half
through the sperm, the other through the egg which when
assembled, will form a cell containing a total of 46
chromosomes.The first cell of this new living being will then
divide into two cells, then four, eight, etc... until one day it
will be born, and eventually become a man or a woman.
Nothing magical or mysterious in all of this. It is simply the
intelligent organisation of matter so that it is animated when
it is created, and the combination of two bits of organised
matter during reproduction.
Contemporary scientific research continues to contribute
to the demystification of life, such as the young girl born in
England who was conceived in a laboratory through the
artificial combination of sperm and egg, and the re-
implantation of these into a surrogate mother’s womb. It is
not surprising that this successful experiment was hotly
condemned by the Catholic authorities, since it contributes
to the removal of the ‘mystery’ of the creation of life, the
‘mystery’ upon which the church built its empire. There are
many more experiments in progress which will de-mystify
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things completely. For example, one could quote the cloning
experiments where a living being is created just from the
genetic code taken from a cell of another being which is still
alive. An American millionaire has already had a child which
was produced purely from one of his own cells without the
female element modifying his genetic code.
As a summary, and to make it more easily understandable
for those who have done a bit of gardening, we can use an
analogy, where the technique of cloning can be compared to
growing a new plant from a cutting. Natural reproduction is
like sowing seeds, and the creation of a new species by
modifying an already existing variety’s genetic code can be
compared to creating a new hybrid fruit through grafting.
However the creation of a new species using only the basic
chemicals cannot be compared to anything in this plant
analogy.
So to complete this chapter, it is also important to de-
mystify a concept which if not clarified could leave a dark
shadow blocking the process of your awakening. The concept
is ‘love’, which one might consider to be an exclusively
human privilege, finally affirming our superiority over
machines.
In fact this is not the case at all! We can just as easily
programme a computer to love.
But first let us de-mystify this word ‘love’, behind which lie
many different concepts.
Firstly, if that which you mean by ‘love’ is that which
motivates two people of complementary sex to be nice to
each other, with the ultimate goal being to couple with each
other, then you need only look at birds for example, and their
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nuptial dances, to realise that animals do this far more
artistically than most humans.
If what we mean by love is the sexual act itself, then the
comparison is even easier. Remember that when we design an
animal, we equip its sexual organs with nerve endings which
make the love making more pleasurable. So by enjoying the
pleasure that it procures, reproduction is assured in the
animal, without it knowing it.
We have already seen that it is very easy to conceive of a
computer able to build other computers, that is to say,
capable of reproducing itself. We could just as well design
these computers to be ‘sexed’, so that each one carries a half-
plan necessary for the fabrication of another computer, which
means that two complementary half-plans from two comple-
mentary computers must come together to make ‘babies.’
We could easily have one computer which we could call
‘male’, designed to give its half-plan to the other and this
other which we could call ‘female’ would combine the male’s
half-plan with hers to build the new computer which we
would call the ‘child’.
Whilst we are on the subject, it would be useful also to de-
mystify the concept of ‘pleasure’. While we could easily
programme both computers to ‘couple’ their respective half-
plans in order to reproduce a new computer in their image,
for them to ‘go forth and multiply’, we would have to build
in them organs which gave them pleasure as they transmitted
their half-plans, thus ensuring that they will do it as often as
possible.
What is pleasure?
Most recently, scientists have located pleasure centres in the
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brain. They have even been able to stimulate these areas with
electrodes and the ‘guinea pig subject’ reported that he was
feeling sensations similar to an orgasm. They were also able
to prove that it was always these centres which were
stimulated when someone was experiencing any sort of
pleasure, (such as sexual enjoyment, a military person
receiving a medal, a scientist or athlete receiving a reward or
a caress etc)...
Now we know all about this pleasure centre and the process
which allows us to feel any sort of pleasure. In fact, it is
simply physio-chemical reactions occurring within the brain
which produce electrical discharges experienced as
pleasurable.
In the same way, other physio-chemical reactions can result
in unpleasant sensations. The brain has been programmed to
react in this way to certain exterior events and stimuli. This
is what controls our behaviour. We seek things which give
pleasure and avoid those which give pain.
So as to understand this phenomenon clearly, let us go back
to the robot which returns to the mains socket to recharge its
exhausted batteries. Let us imagine a simple needle on a dial
indicating the amount of electricity remaining in the battery
accumulator. Beside this dial is another one showing the
quantity of electricity entering the robot’s rechargeable
batteries when it plugs itself into the mains.
When the batteries are almost dead, the needle of the first
dial goes almost to zero and triggers a contact relaying a
signal to the computer, which is the robot’s brain, informing
it that it is time to go to the mains to recharge its batteries.
This signal is disagreeable, just as hunger is disagreeable
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when it pains your stomach when it is soon time to eat after
a day’s fasting.
So our robot goes towards the mains and plugs in. Then the
needle on the second dial is activated showing a maximum
reading as it measures the amount of current entering. This
triggers off another signal sent to the central computer which
experiences it as pleasure, just like the first mouthfuls of a
meal, or the first caresses before making love.
Gradually, the first needle which indicates the amount of
accumulated current will go to the maximum reading, and
when it reaches it, another contact will be made, triggering
an electrical impulse informing the central computer that the
batteries are now full. This impulse will be felt as a
pleasurable satiety, in the same way that we feel a pleasurable
satiety when our stomach is full after a good meal, or more
explicitly, at the moment of sexual orgasm.
Then our robot unplugs itself and goes back to work just as
we can do after a good meal or sexual relations. For to enjoy
doing something, we must have abstained from doing it for
a while beforehand, during which we do other things. As we
will see later, it is the contrast between things which increase
the sensation of pleasure, such as the contrast between
hunger and eating, sexual abstinence and sexual activity, etc...
We can thus see what the mechanism of pleasure is and
consequently it is very easy to understand what love is when
we are making love or preparing for it – it is physico-
chemical reactions which trigger electrical impulses which
the brain experiences as pleasurable and in no circumstances
does it represent a superiority of man over machine since we
can build a computer which can feel the same sensations.
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Everything that we do, is done because it gives us pleasure,
either directly or indirectly.
We eat because it gives us pleasure, we sleep, drink, make
love, wash, groom ourselves... because it gives us pleasure.
But we also pay our taxes because it indirectly gives us
pleasure, ie, the pleasure of not going to prison. The woman
who throws herself under a lorry’s wheels to save her child,
does it because it pleases her to do so. Otherwise she would
not do it. The pleasure that she gets from saving her child is
greater than the displeasure or pain that she would feel while
being crushed by the lorry’s wheels. The Japanese Kamikaze
hurls himself and his plane at the enemy’s ship because he
gets more pleasure from the idea of dying for his country
than displeasure at the thought of dying, otherwise he would
not do it. Altruism is just another form of pleasure.
Selfishness is another. But when we consider that the quality
of pleasure that we get when giving pleasure to others is
proportional to the number of people to whom we are giving
pleasure, then altruism is a superior form of pleasure. What
is more, the quality of pleasure is also proportional to what
we consider the quality of the people to whom we are giving
the pleasure. To satisfy a foolish crowd by giving them the
pleasure of hearing what they want to hear, is far inferior to
giving pleasure to one person if this person is wise or seeks to
become wise. Between the rabble calling out for bread and
distractions, and the person who is alone on the mountain to
elevate his level of consciousness, it is to the latter that we
must choose to give pleasure if we wish to elevate ourselves.
Even the person who dedicates his life to Humanity, does
it because it is pleasurable and the reason why I am writing
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these lines is because it gives me pleasure to pass on to you
the teachings which were given to me.
Thus we can see that even if we included what we call
‘noble’ sentiments behind the word ‘love’ such as altruism or
devotion, though they may be nothing to do with sex, they
are still based on the pleasure which they provoke in those
who carry them out.
So it would be very easy to programme our robot so that it
is able to put the interests of its child, companion, group or
species above its own life. It is just a matter of needles and
dials...
And so we have shown that even love for others doesn’t
represent a superiority of man over machine.
To conclude, what every concept we attribute or ‘hide
behind’ the word ‘love’, it cannot be called a privilege only of
Man, since love is mechanically reproducible.
Finally, one more word on the human ability to put
ourselves in harmony with the Infinite which makes us up
and which we are a part of. Even this ability cannot be called
a superiority of man over machine. It would be very easy to
conceive of a computer programmed to be aware of infinity,
capable of feeling the infinitely big and infinitely small
through the sensors which we have already mentioned, so
that it can ‘feel where it is at’ and harmonise the energies
which animate it.
This computer would be able to meditate with its senses,
just as we are going to do, ie, practising Sensual Meditation.
Yet another non-superiority over machines!
Incidentally, the etymology of ‘meditate’ comes from the
Latin ‘meditare’, which means to exercise. To exercise one’s
senses, that is the aim of Sensual Meditation.
SEXUAL DIFFERENTIATION
When using the example of the male and female robots,
where the former gives his half-plan to the latter, who needs
both plans to make a child robot, those who find it difficult
to admit that we are not superior to machines could hide
behind the question as to why some children turn out to be
male while others are female.
We already know that in humans ‘his’ or ‘her’ sex is defined
by the spermatozoon, that is to say the half-plan coming
from the male, and nowadays, during artificial insemination,
we know very well how to choose which sex we wish our
child to be, since male and female spermatozoa are very easy
to differentiate and separate.
So when a man transmits his sperm to a woman, if it is a
male spermatozoon which combines with the woman’s half-
plan (the ovule), then the child who is born will be a boy, and
if it was a female spermatozoon, then a little girl will see the
light of day in nine months’ time.
And so it is exactly the same with our robots who are
capable of reproducing themselves. The robot which we will
call a female robot, who will build another robot called the
child robot, must have a complete plan (blueprint) to be able
to build it. But she has only a half-plan which she must
combine with another half-plan given to her by the male
robot. It is the male’s half-plan which will determine the sex
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of the child about to be built. When the male robot ‘couples’
with the female robot to give her the half-plan, in fact he
gives her a large number of them, half of which are male half-
plans, the other half, female half-plans. Only one will end up
combining with the female’s half-plan and it will be the one
which chance put in the right place at the right time which
will do it, in exactly the same way that only one
spermatozoon among millions will manage to combine with
the ovule during human conception.
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4
VOLUNTARY DEPROGRAMMING
Every reaction and all our behaviour is due to the
programming which we underwent throughout our
education.
From the moment we were born, we have been unwittingly
fashioned by our environment, parents, friends, educators,
newspapers, films, etc... all have conditioned us to make us
what we are today.
The way we sleep, wash, eat, dress, talk, walk, and even the
way we judge others, everything, absolutely every part of our
behaviour, is due to this unconscious conditioning to which
we have been subjected.
Here again, to understand this phenomenon clearly, we
must compare ourselves to a computer. The latter does only
what it is programmed to do and has in its memory only
what was put in it. It is just like us, the only difference being
that we are capable of becoming aware of our programming,
of analysing the elements and of eliminating those which
seem stupid in order to replace them with others. That is why
we are computers capable of programming ourselves,
therefore auto programmable.
The problem is that we have been programmed not only
according to our own tastes, but by people who simply pass
on and instill in us the same elements which were imposed
on them without themselves having questioned them. For
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thousands of years, Man has been transmitting in this way,
from generation to generation; a mode of conditioning,
which through time became loaded with superstitions, fears
and mysticism characteristic of all primitive societies.
The first stage of awakening consists of a re-questioning
and re-evaluation of all our behaviour, and I mean all, from
the way we eat to our own way of walking, including every
reaction that we are in the habit of having in whatever
circumstances, however harmless and insignificant they
might seem to us.
The way we dress, to take an example, is not universal. We
could just as well have been born in North Africa and worn
a djellaba, or in the bush and worn a piece of cloth. Though
the latter might not quite correspond to the requirements of
our climate, the former certainly could. But for our parents,
men wore shirts and trousers, and we wear the same thing as
them, even though there is no objective reason to do so.
The same goes for the way we eat. Had we been born in
China, we would be eating with chopsticks, and in certain
parts of Africa, with our fingers. The use of the fork was not
our choice, it was imposed upon us by our educators, even
though it was not necessarily the best way. Take Chinese cook-
ing for example, where food is served already chopped into
small pieces, thus removing the need for a knife. Yet we (in the
West) go on regardless with our custom of dishing out food
which everyone must laboriously cut up on their own plate.
In this way, consider every act which you carry out during
one day, and analyse it objectively, asking yourself precisely
why you acted thus. You will be surprised to discover that
there will be very few of them, maybe none for some people,
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which you did consciously, choosing to differ from what your
parents do.
Admittedly, not everything taught to us during our
education is bad, and certain elements can be kept as they
are, but the important thing is to realise what is behind
everything that we do.
The operation becomes more delicate when we start
analysing our reactions to actions and personalities of others.
While it might be amusing (for a Westerner) to eat with
chopsticks or wear a djellaba because of their exotic aspect, it
becomes infinitely harder, once we have been conditioned to
hate Arabs or make fun of homosexuals, to seek to
understand them so as to accept them as they are.
How many times in our lives have we heard Arabs being
talked of badly by people who consider them an inferior race,
just because our ancestors dominated them with violence? So
many times, that one day we even ended up repeating it.
How many times have we heard of homosexuals being
described as abnormal or perverted by people so ill at ease
with their own selves, that they were afraid that these
differences might uncover similar tendencies long buried
within themselves? So often, that we ended up by saying the
same stupid things ourselves.
The awakened person enriches himself through contact
with the differences which constitute the personality of
others. The closed minded person atrophies his brain by
fighting these differences. And even as he dumbly insults
them by using the same old clichés that, unknown to him, he
was inculcated with, he would not be able to remove these
differences.
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The point is therefore to extract and sort out all the ideas
which we received from those who shaped us. ‘This one
seems good for such-and-such a reason, therefore I keep it –
that one seems bad, I eliminate it.’ The criteria for choosing
which ideas to conserve must depend upon what we think
after having informed ourselves about them, rather than
what our educators’ opinions were.
This would be useless if one said merely: ‘This idea must
be good since my parents thought like that’ – in fact, we
should regard any of our ideas which are identical to those of
our parents with complete suspicion.
Whether we are talking about Arabs or homosexuals, we
should first meet one of them without any preconceptions,
open ourselves to them and try to understand their
reasoning, and then, only having done this, can we make up
our own minds, being careful not to generalise from the
personal characteristics of what may be the only subject
whom we met, but basing our judgment only on the general
points of the discussion.
But where this self questioning is essential in the hope of
elevating our level of consciousness is in the area which
concerns our sexuality and our conception of love.
LOVE OR SELFISHNESS
We have been continually impressed with a conception of
love which implies definite and absolute possession and
which has been bequeathed to us by thousands of years of
fear and anguish. In the past, one would attack a village to
acquire their gold, their horses, and... their women. All these
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things were considered to be goods capable of being
exchanged and bartered without the slightest scruple.
After having recognised that if ‘man’ had a soul, then
‘woman’ must have one too (the Church doubted it for quite
a time), after having granted them the right to vote (barely a
century ago, and still not everywhere), we still do not
recognise women’s right to do freely with their body as they
wish, by refusing them the right not to give life even if they
do not want to (condemnation of abortion and
contraception by the Church and certain governments).
What is more, if we kill someone whom we do not love, in
order to steal their money, we can be condemned to life
imprisonment, even death; but if we were to kill someone
whom we claim to ‘love’ – what is called a ‘crime of passion’ –
we can sometimes get off with only five or six years in prison!
This means that we are living in a society which is
encouraging its members to kill those they love.
The simple fact of conceiving that one can kill someone
that one claims to love proves that we have quite a peculiar
idea of love. Those who think in this way are in fact con-
fusing love and selfishness, two things which are, however,
very different and incompatible. In fact, the one who really
loves someone thinks only of giving, but he who loves
himself, and who is therefore selfish, thinks only of taking.
The selfish person is afraid that his partner might get more
pleasure with someone else and abandon him, which will
deprive him of the pleasure which he is in the habit of
receiving, because what is important above all for him, is his
personal pleasure.
The one who truly loves, hopes that his partner might meet
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someone who will give her even more pleasure, since what is
important above all for him is the happiness of the other.
The selfish person watches over his partner so that she
won’t risk meeting someone else who will give her pleasure.
The one who truly loves, tries to facilitate his partner’s
contacts with other people who correspond to her tastes.
When the partners of the selfish people meet someone who
gives them pleasure, they will feel that they are stealing this
happiness and will find it even better as forbidden fruit,
which will bind them even more to their accomplices.
When the partners who are truly loved meet someone else
who gives them pleasure, they will be grateful to their usual
partner who had encouraged them to live these marvellous
moments with someone else, and in most cases, they will
both be enriched by this new experience.
And if the other really meets someone who fulfils them
even more, then the one who truly loves will be filled with
happiness at the thought that the one he loves is even happier
than before, even if it is with someone else.
The selfish person prefers to keep ‘his property,’ he prefers
his companion to be unhappy with him rather than happy
elsewhere. And if that happens, he takes his gun to kill his
‘loved one’... because he prefers that the one he claims to love
is dead rather than happy with another. He does not see his
partner’s happiness, he only sees the pleasure that a stranger
will take from the body of someone who belongs to him. It
is exactly the same as a dog, who though not hungry, will not
tolerate another dog approaching his bone. He’ll bare his
teeth and bury his goods just like the selfish person, since for
the latter, his partner belongs to him, just as the dog owns the
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bone. All that counts is the pleasure that it gives him, and he
prefers to remove it than see someone else benefiting from it.
But so as to better understand the process which leads to
the curse that is jealousy, which is but a form of selfishness,
let us return to our auto-reprogrammable robots.
We saw that it was very easy to create a strain of ‘sexed’
robots, each possessing half a plan so that while ‘coupling’
they would create one complete plan and so allow the ‘female’
to make a ‘child’. We also saw that to incite our robots to
reproduce, we needed to render the act of coupling very
pleasurable, so by equipping their sexual organs designed to
transmit and receive their half-plans with nerve endings, the
meeting of the two would generate pleasure.
When a ‘male’ robot meets a ‘female’ robot for the first
time, they get to know each other, that is to say, they mutu-
ally discover a part of each other’s programme and if they get
on, that is to say, if their programming leads them to a certain
‘spiritual’ harmony, then they can let themselves satisfy the
sexual desire building up in them, and connect.
They may then decide to live together so as to benefit as
often as possible from the pleasure which they feel when
united.
Then, one day, one of our robots might meet another robot
whose apparent programming, whose ‘charm’ or... whose
bodywork will strongly attract it. It is at that point that the
habitual companion of our machine will have the choice
between two forms of behaviour – it could seek the enrich-
ment of its partner’s programming with another and even
encourage it, or it could prohibit all contact with other
robots of complementary sex.
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If it behaves in the second way, it can only be because it was
programmed to behave in this way, since otherwise it could
not consider itself to be the owner of another entity
completely separate from its own body.
How can a person who meets another among the billions
populating our planet suddenly say to himself ‘here is the
only individual with whom I shall henceforth have intimate
relations, and even if I meet others who appear to correspond
to my tastes, I shall stay faithful to the first, for the one and
only reason that luck had it that they were there first.’ That,
in a nutshell, is ‘fidelity’.
In fact, it is a striking observation that in many countries
still undergoing the consequences of primitive civilisation,
women are still considered as merchandise to be bought. In
the West, it’s the father who provides the dowry for his
daughter to find a spouse, who is often already interested in
marrying her, whereas in the primitive societies, it is the
husband-to-be who must offer the father of the young
woman farm animals or other such presents.
This mixing between commerce and human relationships
is scandalous. Potentially it can generate feelings of
ownership which can lead to slavery. If it is tempting to
consider someone whom one has just met as one’s property,
purely because one has become used to their presence, then
it is even more likely to be so if one has ‘paid’ for such a
companion.
Awakened people not only do not fear losing their partners,
by encouraging them to live out all the experiences which
tempt them, but on the contrary, they find themselves
enriched by this and become even closer, especially as their
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sensitivity develops by the contact with people of differing
personalities.
There also, contrast is a factor in the awakening process.
All this does not mean that you must force yourself to
change partners in order to have a good chance of awakening
yourself. One can be just as likely to have the good luck of
having a companion who always knows how to be different
while still being the same person, and who knows how to
bring imagination and fantasy into the relationship which is
indispensable to escape from habit, which is love’s mortal
enemy.
Thus the blossoming of each partner can continue in a
permanent exchange of information, allowing each to benefit
from the reflections and discoveries of the other and
mutually developing their sensuality and consequently their
level of awareness.
But though one must not force oneself to have experiences
with others which one could live more intensely with one’s
partner, the whole, the composite organism which one forms
with the latter must be an entity totally open to the exterior,
that is to say, permanently ready for intimate contact with a
third party. Each must understand that the enrichment of the
other will enrich themselves.
Awakening is the permanent development of one’s ability
to communicate with one’s environment and one’s capacity
for analysing and integrating (linking) the information
transmitted to us by our senses.
In fact the word ‘intelligence’ etymologically means just
that, since it comes from the Latin ‘intelligere’ meaning
‘interlinking of things’, ‘ligere’ meaning ‘to link’. Awakening
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is therefore a development of one’s intelligence and one’s
capacity to understand, to comprehend; the word
‘comprehend’ being derived from the Latin ‘comprehendere’
meaning ‘to bring together’.
It is also interesting to note that the word ‘consciousness’
comes from the Latin ‘consciencia’ which means ‘know
together.’ Thus by elevating our level of consciousness, we
raise our understanding and knowledge of the Infinite which
is within us and which surrounds us.
This elevation allows the infinitely small within us and the
infinitely large of which we are part, to ‘know itself together’
within us.
HOW HABITS ATROPHY US
Habit, on the other hand, progressively atrophies the
mechanisms for perceiving events. When we have just moved
into a new flat and walk down the street for the first time, we
notice everything, windows, colours, music, people we cross
in the street, everything seems interesting. After a few days,
we begin to perceive much less of the neighbourhood’s
atmosphere and our mind is filled more with our own
personal introspections as we make our way to work. Then,
with time, we may end up moving like a sleepwalker,
perceiving almost nothing of our environment. We could
almost go home reading the paper. That is habit. And when
we behave like this with a partner, we progressively atrophy
our capacity to communicate with our surroundings and
diminish our intelligence.
The person whom we met, and whose appearance grabbed
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us by the feeling that it gave out, whose voice we found so
charming, whose fragrance so intoxicating, now we live in
their presence without even being aware of their existence. By
repeatedly eating the same things in the same way, wearing
the same clothes, making love at the same time, in the same
position, we act mechanically, and allow the quality of
pleasure obtained by our actions to become increasingly
reduced, whereas it would hardly need anything, (it would
take only a tiny bit of extra effort) to begin to re- discover the
pleasure of marvelling at the life we lead and at each instant
which passes, which we will never be able to live again.
It is in fact striking to observe that the progressive
disintegration of faculties of an individual who allows himself
to be invaded by habit is exactly comparable to the gradual
decrease in enthusiasm of a population who allowed
themselves to be choked by tradition.
This is why, if we wish to reach a maximum awakening of
our faculties, we must live a life of maximum contrasts.
Not only visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory and gustatory
contrasts, but also sexual and intellectual contrasts; basically
in all ways of being, so as to make our life a totally original
work of art, full of imagination and fantasy. Bear in mind
that etymologically speaking, the Greek word ‘phantasia’
means ‘apparition’ and ‘imagination’, with imagination
obviously being the apparition of images in the brain which
are wilfully produced by the combination of known but
previously unconnected elements which become linked by
the intelligence (inter-ligere).
But so that these contrasts produce the desired effects, we
must ensure that every one of the successive elements which
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come together to form these effects must be experienced as
intensely as possible and that we miss none out. That is why
every moment in our life must be lived to the fullest. We
must ‘grab the moment’ as the poet would say, and ‘the poet
is always right because he sees beyond the horizon’, (‘le poete
a toujours raison qui voit plus haut que I’horizon’).
We must live every second as if it were our last with all the
cells of our body, especially those which make up our
receptors, through which we are aware of our surroundings.
It is striking to realise, that when a loved one dies, we think
back to the moments that we lived out with them, and regret
not having given them more love or shown how much we
loved them. Only death gives us this awareness, allowing us
to realise how this negligence is irreparable.
The poorer one’s level of awareness, the more he despairs at
the death of a loved one.That is because he did not live those
moments passed together intensely enough and he suddenly
realises that it is too late to do so now.
On the other hand, an awakened person does not grieve at
the death of someone close, since he knows that he fully
appreciated every second shared with that person, that he
gave all the love that he could give, and that there was
nothing more that he could have done to make him or her
happier.
We also feel this intense emotion when someone whom we
are fond of departs on a journey. In fact, it is often said that
‘leaving is a little death’ and this is because one is aware at
that moment that our loved one could easily disappear en-
route and one might never see him or her again. Therefore
we seize that instant as we wave goodbye to him or her,
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appreciating it fully, and are full of regrets for not having also
intensely lived all the moments during the days spent in their
company.
It is also interesting to note that certain reactions of
jealousy are caused by the lack of awareness of time passing
when with a loved one. In fact, when our partner announces
that he or she wishes to leave us, we suddenly think back to
the times when we could have given a lot more love, but
which we neglected and let pass without living intensely. So
we then wish to start all over again and try to behave better,
but after beautiful promises, we fall back into routine and
habit until separation becomes inevitable. We experience this
separation as a failure because it shows up our inability to
live as we wish and be aware constantly of our actions so as
to give the maximum amount of pleasure to this person we
love. And yet, if we lived out every moment really intensely,
all this would be possible, and all this not in order to keep
the other person with us, but simply for the pleasure of not
losing even one instant passing us.
SEIZING THE MOMENT
In fact one cannot live every moment intensely for any
reason other than for the pleasure of living each moment
intensely.
That is why the awakened person accepts separations with
joy, since he knows that at every moment he gave the best of
himself, that he enjoyed thoroughly the essence of every
second and that he will fully enjoy the minutes yet to come
during the separations. These separations will themselves be
enriched by the memories of someone to whose awakening
he contributed and whose harmony will in turn bring benefit
to others.
The world we live in is responsible for a lowering of the
level of consciousness, especially as far as time perception is
concerned. We reach adolescence without even having
realised that our childhood has gone by, then we find
ourselves married with children ourselves and we didn’t even
notice our adolescence, then we discover ourselves old,
without having noticed our lives going by. And we still feel
that we haven’t done what we wanted to do, or enjoyed fully
the satisfaction of each age. We become shadowed by solitude
and despair, and begin to hate the young, thinking that they
know happiness which we’ve never had.
Thus back to jealousy again, where all that is needed to
break this uninterrupted cycle which leads us like sheep from
womb to tomb is a few moments of pause, so as to live the
passing of time in a different way.
We jump from one action to another, without appreciating
fully any of them, in a sort of constant flight forwards where
we look forward constantly to what we are going to do,
without being conscious of what we are doing right now.
With joy, we imagine what we are going to do in the evening
after work, but when we get back home, we switch on the
television and since the programme is pretty mediocre, we
watch it while looking forward to tomorrow’s programme.
And the next day, we do it all over again. The same goes for
our annual holidays, we always think next year’s will be
better, but when we are actually there, we say ‘it was better
last year’ and we start thinking about next year’s ones...
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When our partner is expecting a child, we imagine it playing
with us and asking us questions, but when it is old enough
to do so, we tell it to shut up and go to bed. Until one fine
day, we realise that we are old without having had the time
to live out the moments which have definitely passed.
And yet it is so easy to stop unconsciously letting events fly
past us and learn to enjoy them fully, one needs simply to
open one’s eyes, one’s ears and all one’s senses and to pay
attention to what is around us. We need to become aware
mentally of our position in time, realising how all the events
in time made us what we are and put us where we are.
This mental re-situation in time must be carried out by re-
living all the events of our existence which marked us, as far
back through our childhood as we can go, remembering the
faces, the voices and the smells of those who knew us when
we were small, re-living those scenes which remain engraved
somewhere in our neurons, up to the present time, including
the teachers who influenced us, our first contacts, our first
flirts, or our first job, etc. In this way, we will rediscover
progressively the path which made us what we are, we will
find the common thread linking all the events which
moulded us to make the individual which we know today.
Once we have done that, we will need to see if the life that
we lead is the one which we enjoy living and if that is not the
case, then we must fix ourselves objectives so that it does
become what we wish.
Having made this link with our past and what we wish our
future to be, all that needs to be done is to live every instant
with intensity, bearing in mind that it may be the last.
To live an event fully, one needs to be aware at the very
moment that one is experiencing it, of the joy that one had
when looking forward to it and to the pleasure that one will
have when recalling it.
Someone said ‘the best moment of love is when one is
climbing up the staircase.’ This is true for mediocre people.
For the action itself to bring us even more pleasure than did
expecting it or remembering it, we must be conscious while
carrying out this action, of the joy which we felt when going
up the stairs and the memory that one would keep of the
occasion afterwards.
What is more, this technique also allows us to obtain a
better memorisation of the event, which will enable us,
simply by thinking about it, to re-live it with an intensity
almost as great as when it first occurred.
Finally, it is not possible not to mention masturbation
while still on this fundamental subject of sexuality and its
role in the awakening and fulfilment of the individual.
MASTURBATION – AN INDISPENSABLE STAGE
By stopping people from discovering the pleasures of self
eroticism that their bodies give them, or by inflicting them
with guilt at the highest level and associating touching
oneself with evil, calling it unnatural and even dangerous or,
as has been done for some time now, by telling those who
indulge that it could make them blind, mad or paralysed, by
doing any of these things, one is reducing the capacities of
thousands of young people.
Those who dare tell such things to adolescents, who are
entering a period of hyper-sensitivity due to major physical
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and hormonal changes, are simply criminals. How many of
their own children did they give life-long complexes to and
turn them into maniacs, ‘impotents’ and ‘frigids’?
Now that science has been able to demonstrate how
masturbation not only does not present any of the dangers
that the medieval oracles predicted of it, but also that it is
indispensable for the harmonious development of an
individual during the critical period when one discovers one’s
own body, it is time to denounce out loud all those,
including the Church first and foremost, who peddled such
foolish and guilt inducing idiocies.
For adolescents, the act of discovering that, all of a sudden,
their sexual organs give them enormous sensations of
pleasure is fundamental to their development. A feeling of
guilt created by their environment will in no way keep them
from touching themselves, but instead they will continue to
do so in a conflicted state of mind where the individual will
begin to feel disgust toward their temptations, and as they
unavoidably succumb, they will begin to feel disgust for their
bodies, bearing the consequences for the rest of their lives.
The most deeply unbalanced will be those rare cases who will
be intimately convinced of the need for ‘abstinence’ from this
self-eroticism known as masturbation, and who will abstain
at huge cost and effort against themselves. This will make
them harsh and cold individuals whose sensitivity will be
reduced enormously, with all the consequences that this
entails, both physically and mentally.
One must also add to this list of children seriously
traumatised by being made to feel guilty of their natural
reactions, all those who though they did not suffer such a
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treatment, were not informed by parents who were too afraid
to face such a task and happy to say that ‘one must not talk
about anything touching upon sexuality or their organs.’
More often than not, these parents themselves were badly
informed and suffering from the sequels of a mystico-
religious education seeing the body as bad and the mind as
good.
However, all those who suffered such a guilt inducing
education or who were lucky enough only to have to cope
with the problem of awakening themselves, seeing as they
could not rely on the illumination of their parents who were
themselves too ashamed to even take the time to help their
offspring understand what was happening to them, all those,
and this is of special importance to the first lot whatever their
age, can re-learn how to love the body and its reactions. They
can re-learn to love their sexual organs and the pleasure
which they can give them in all freedom and without the
slightest feeling of guilt. What is more, they can re-live their
so important discovery of self-eroticism, of which they had
been deprived, and their adolescence in all awareness without
all that they had previously suffered.
If this rebirth towards one’s own sexuality is important for
men, it is even more so for women, since as Betty Dodson
says in her marvellous book ‘The Feminine Orgasm’,
‘masturbation is the basis of sexual activity. Everything else
that we do is no more than the socialisation of our sexual life.’
Among other things, through its excellently done illu-
strations, this book helps women to become aware of the
beauty of their sexual organs which a male dominated society
has always degraded and debased.
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The first thing to do in order to re-live the adolescence
which one has been deprived of, is to love one’s body, even,
and especially, the part which is able to give us the most
pleasure and then learn how to discover and increase one’s
understanding of this organ so as to heighten the quality of
joy that one can get from it.
The best way to understand fully how one’s sexual organs
work and to discover which caresses produce the strongest
sensations of pleasure in the brain, is to experiment on
oneself. No one can direct our fingers better than we can do
ourselves so as to reach the exact spots which satisfy us most,
and which differ for each individual anyway.
We can inform our partners of our specific tastes on the
subject, so that they can do the things which we like, but to
teach what we like to others, we must first teach it to
ourselves.
While our sensuality is our link with Infinity surrounding
us, self-eroticism is one of the most efficient ways to set off
on the internal exploration of our computer. Self-eroticism is
the lever which sparks off the physical reactions where men
liberate their ‘half-plans’ and where for women, their organs
become receptive for the meeting of the ‘half-plans’.
It is also very important that those who live as a couple
discover their capacities of self-eroticism together. In fact
they could be even stronger precisely because of the presence
of each other’s bodies.
In this case too, the selfish mediocre person will not accept
that his partner masturbates in his presence, since the person
whose only use is to give him pleasure, is beginning to get
pleasure by herself. What then is the use of his virility which
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he is so proud of and which he considers as his only
unchallengeable superiority over women?
The selfish person is jealous even of the hand of his partner.
The awakened person, on the contrary, rejoices at the sight
of the person they love being happy and discovering her own
profound mechanism of pleasure.
Once we have completed the destruction of ideas received
concerning the basis of our sexuality, which is itself the roots
of the tree of our personal blossoming, we can now think
through once again in the same way, all our behaviour
patterns, considering all the ways and all the subjects which
make up our environment and which is our life.
By questioning everything which constitutes our
personality, we are in fact carrying out a great spring cleaning
and after having done this, we can go on to the next stage.
However, we must bear in mind throughout our existence,
that whenever we are faced with an issue which we have never
thought about ourselves, we must proceed in the above way
so that our reaction is a true reflection of our own thought.
CREATING A VOID
When the first day of self questioning and analysis of
apparent personality has been completed, it is useful to
practise the first exercise. This consists of creating a void in
oneself and clearing out all the ideas which are jostling about
within our minds and which create tensions most trying for
our equilibrium.
One starts by sitting on the ground, either cross-legged or
in any other position in which one finds comfortable, while
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breathing deeply for about 12 minutes and concentrating on
one’s breathing and nothing but one’s breathing.
Then we concentrate on the fact that we are concentrating
on nothing. The point is to clear out any idea appearing in
our mind, whatever it might be, and with practice, manage
to have no thoughts surfacing in our minds, not even the
thought of not having any.
As we say earlier on, the brain is nothing more than a com-
puter with electric currents running through it in all direct-
ions. This exercise is designed to balance these currents so as
to obtain calmness and serenity. After practising this for a few
minutes, we are then ready to act and think more efficiently.
When seeking this absolute void, it is as important to cut
oneself off totally from the outside world as it is from the
inside one.
The aim is to try to become ‘vegetable’ for a few moments,
in fact, even more vegetable than plants, since we know that
plants can feel their environment. One could almost say that
we are trying to become mineral.
No noise, no movement from anyone or anything, no
odour and no sound is perceived by someone who is creating
the void. This exercise is possible even in the middle of a
crowd in a bustling street. In fact it is particularly useful for
those living or working in a noisy environment.
In a way, we are putting ourselves into a state of sensory
fasting. And this fasting, like all forms of positive
abstinence, is designed to make us better appreciate the
perception of what we were depriving ourselves of voluntarily.
In fact, before embarking on the process of awakening, it is
extremely useful to fast for a day, both sensorially and so far
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as food is concerned, just drinking a lot of water to purify our
organism.
To manage keeping a permanently new state of mind, it is
of capital importance to be aware that we never perform an
action proper to ourselves, but all our actions are merely
reactions to something else. The only action which we can
decide upon personally, is not to have a reaction.
Everything that we do during our life which we think are
actions are in fact no more than a succession of reactions.
The simplest fact of being born is no more than the react-
ion to the mating of our parents which occurred nine months
beforehand. Then we cried because we were hungry and we
were hungry because we burned energy through living, etc...
Now you are reading this book, and that is due only to an
advertisement or an interest in the subject. An interest in a
subject which was only a reaction following the education
given to you, or a reaction against this education. In this way,
we can trace back all our reactions to our birth, then to that
of our parents, going right back to the first humans who were
created. And they themselves were created only as a reaction
of our creators who had reached a level of scientific know-
ledge allowing them the wish to do such an experiment. And
these creators themselves lived only as a succession of reactions,
etc. We could continue this train of thought, which is only a
reaction, indefinitely. In fact, that would contribute to us
becoming aware of infinity.
As for myself, I am transmitting this teaching as a reaction
to the meeting with the extra-terrestrials who asked me to do
so and who are guiding us.
Thus it is, when we become aware of the infinite series of
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reactions that we have had ever since we existed, and which
we thought were actions, that we must understand the
importance of always being conscious of the reactions which
we chose to have.
When people jostle us in the street or insult us, they expect
us to have certain reactions which they might hope for if
they wish to fight us. If we react with further insults, we are
providing just those reactions which they are waiting for, so
that they can then become violent. If on the other hand, we
refuse to react to their insults and continue on our way, thus
refusing to give a reaction, we have then performed our own
action, proper to our own self.
When we are doing the exercise where we create the void,
refusing all reaction to our environment as well as to our
thoughts, we are entering a situation where our action
becomes proper to ourselves.
The person who initiates this process, escapes the
uninterrupted cycle of unconscious successive reactions and
consequently begins to elevate his level of consciousness.
5
VOLUNTARY REPROGRAMMING
DISCOVERING OUR OWN TRUE TASTES
After having voluntarily deprogrammed ourselves and having
cleared out our minds by doing the void, we can now awaken
our whole being to our immediate environment and then to
the infinity which encompasses us, through that which links
us to all this, our senses.
‘They have eyes, but they do not see, they have ears, but
they do not hear’, such is a description of the people who
surround us and who we resembled before we became aware
of ourselves.
In exactly the same way that when a baby is born, it
progressively discovers the world in which it is cast, through
the sense of touch, taste, smell, hearing, and sight, so too
shall we be reborn through our senses to all that surrounds us
except that this time we shall be totally aware of the process.
The act of developing our sensuality will allow us to
discover the things that deep down we really don’t like, even
though in the past, we thought that we liked them because
we accepted and became used to them through our
conditioning. By the same token, it will also allow us to
discover that there are many other things that deep down we
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really like even though we thought that we hated them
because our education did not give us the opportunity to try
them out.
The functioning of our senses is based on the perception of
contrasts, such as contrasts in temperature or roughness for
the sense of touch, in flavours for the sense of taste, in
fragrances for the sense of smell, and in shapes and colours
for vision.
To develop our sensuality means to develop our ability to
perceive changes through our senses, especially the effects
that these produce in us.
The mediocre person perceives only the large differences
existing in the food that he swallows at great speed, and
besides that, his taste buds have also deteriorated through
alcohol, tobacco or stimulants. For him, it is totally
incomprehensible that one could taste a difference in two
types of water. If you are in this category, do not worry, for
once you have given up smoking, the sense of taste returns
bit by bit, and after a few weeks begins to develop normally.
This same mediocre person perceives differences in smells
only when they are huge. For him, it either ‘smells good’ or
it ‘smells bad’ and nothing else. Don’t bother asking him if
he noticed that his partner put roses in the lounge. Unless he
saw them, he won’t even realise that they are there.
For the sense of hearing, it is exactly the same, so long as
there are drums and an electric guitar, then it is music.
Grasping the subtleties of classical music or synthetic sounds
is out of the question.
The same goes for sight, the colours on the television are
set at a maximum so that the contrast will be as large as
possible. No chance in him grasping the subtleties and colour
ranges of a master-painting or spotting a flower in the middle
of a field.
And finally for the sense of touch, this insensitive person,
who unfortunately represents the majority of our
contemporaries, does not know how to caress. He can hardly
recognise hot from cold and is totally incapable of
distinguishing the softness of two cloths. For him, to caress
means to knead brutally and the only reason why contact
with feminine skin is pleasurable is because it precedes a
brutal and impersonal ejaculation which is accomplished
from time to time, more often than not, only because it is a
conjugal ‘duty’.
Let us quickly forget this horrific description which, sadly,
is that of the majority of present day ‘humans’, to look at
how it could be otherwise and especially how to get there.
It is all based on an improvement in the perception of
contrasts.
But before proceeding any further, it is most important to
make the following point: no valid improvement of one’s
sensuality can be obtained by someone who smokes, even if
it is just a few, or who drinks alcohol, or who takes excitants
including tea and coffee, or obviously who does all these at
the same time. It will be useless to try to refine one’s
perception of infinity while continuing to clog up one’s
perceptual organs. It is a bit like putting cotton-wool in your
ears before going to listen to a concert.
Let us start with the sense of touch. To improve our tactile
perception means to improve our capacity to differentiate
between the temperatures and textures of things that we are
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touching, by becoming aware in an increasingly subtle way of
the effects that they produce in our brain.
We start with the things that contain the largest differences
and then we whittle down these differences until we have great
difficulty in perceiving them. Thus we define our degree of
tactile sensitivity, and through exercises, we manage to refine
the quality of perception while we ourselves will be witness
to our own progress. When we caress something or someone,
we must be totally at the tip of our fingers, so as to become
what we are touching, and fit into the slightest contour, while
all the time enjoying fully the effect that this has on us.
The way to start developing the sense of taste will be
exactly the same, this time taking time to analyse the flavours
of what we are eating, and even what we are drinking,
especially water. When you are tasting, become the taste buds
and follow the path taken by this chemical message to your
brain and the way it decodes it. To develop one sense, you
must short circuit the others completely, so as to mobilise
your consciousness on the one with which you are
concerned.
If the blind have a highly developed sense of touch, hearing
and smell, it is because they compensate for the absence of
their visual perception by improving the quality of their
other receptors.
To develop one sense is to pretend to be ‘blind’ in all the
others, whilst we exercise one intensely.
We are linked to infinity which surrounds us through our
senses and only through our senses. A person who cannot
touch, taste, smell, hear or see, will be totally unconscious.
Consciousness is developed through sensuality.
We cannot conceive of infinity, we can only feel it.
It is these exchanges which are produced in us, between our
organism and the Infinite within which we evolve, which
makes us alive. The ordinary man is made up of these
interchanges but is not aware of them, which creates
imbalances within him causing physical or mental illnesses,
resulting in aggression or violence.
The awakened person is aware of these exchanges and
improves them, which allows him to be in harmony with
himself and Infinity at all times.
What is more serious, is that the ordinary man sometimes
hinders these exchanges or atrophies willingly them to obey
guilt-inducing precepts which were handed on to him by
generations of violent and warlike people who gave rise to the
world which we know today and which accumulated the
weapons of its own destruction.
The awakened person develops these interchanges to the
maximum and becomes the Earth when stroking a rock, a
cherry tree when eating a cherry, a rose when smelling a rose,
a nightingale when listening to one sing and a universe when
contemplating a star-filled sky.
The mediocre person feels alone and isolated, cut off from
everything and cuts himself off from everything through a
fear of contact, due to a lack of awareness and to the pro-
gressive atrophication of his physical means of communi-
cating with his environment.
The awakened person feels linked to everything, and makes
love with every molecule of his body and to every star in the sky.
The sense of smell too, must also be developed progress-
ively, by an increasing perception of contrasts which must be
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preceded by a period of purification for those who were
smokers.
The sense of hearing must also be allowed to recover if you
have taken up the habit of frequenting ‘nightclubs’ or ‘rock-
concerts’ where the volume is so loud that, according to a
serious study, all those who frequent them are 30 per cent
deaf. That means that at least one quarter of our auditory
capacity, that is to say, one quarter of the possible amount of
communication with Infinity, is missing for millions of
young people! All we need to do is to impose upon ourselves
a period of auditory abstinence during which we must be
careful to avoid all sound and all music. Bit by bit our
auditory organs will regain all their sensitivity and we can
rediscover the sounds of our environment and music with all
its richness at a normal level.
Finally, our sight must be refined in its capacity to perceive
the subtle nuances in colour and to convey the stimuli which
condition our state of mind. We know that red is exciting
and green is calming, for example, but every tint has
properties which we can discover by improving our visual
perception.
Once the five senses begin to be developed sufficiently, then
we can practise within ourselves the mechanisms of
synesthesia. We can thus see a colour by listening to a sound,
hear a sound by smelling a fragrance or have a taste in our
mouth by looking at a colour.
This sublime feast of the senses opens up one of the most
important doors of our minds, by producing in us one of the
effects that drugs have and which the youth of the entire
world is seeking. These can be obtained without the slightest
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degree of danger, through the natural mechanisms which
practice in Sensual Meditation provides, by improving our
sensuality and therefore by making us aware of what links us
with Infinity.
‘Perfumes, colours and sounds all answer each other,’ said
Baudelaire, who had synesthesia without knowing it. Let us
be bathed in the harmony of all these sensations, let us be
enveloped by all the perceptions of Infinity which mingle in
us to fling us into a whirlwind of pleasure from which we will
emerge yet stronger and more sensitive, to thus make of our
planet a world of happiness by elevating the level of
awareness of our peers, and allowing them to discover the
treasure hidden in each of them.
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6
PROGRAMME OF SENSUAL MEDITATION
The programme of Sensual Meditation is taught usually as a
course of awakening which lasts for one week and contains a
total of a dozen exercises. Following the fantastic results
obtained by these techniques, and because a daily practice of
Sensual Meditation is indispensable for reaping all the
benefits, many people who followed the courses in France
and Canada have manifested their desire to have them
recorded on CDs and audio cassettes.
For this reason, six basic exercises were selected and
recorded onto compact discs which can be obtained in any of
the four centres of Sensual Meditation which were all opened
simultaneously in Paris, Geneva, Brussels and Montreal.
In these centres it is also possible to come to meditate,
alone or as a group. Teachers are waiting there for you, who
will allow you to discover all the facets of these teachings, as
well as other exercises which cannot be taught by CDs.
Furthermore, some of these recordings are designed to be
listened to when accompanied by a partner of
complementary sex, and so those who are single can hope to
meet another person in these centres with whom they can be
sure to find spiritual harmony, since they are mutually
interested in the same process of awakening and with whom
they can also hope to find physical harmony.
These centres will also, among other things, allow those
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who might not have such an harmonious residence to come
to spend a few hours whenever they like, in a place designed
to satisfy their five senses through its decoration and layout.
A place of teaching, where people who have chosen the
same path for awakening can meet and a place of exchange
where they can improve their sensory perception of Infinity,
guided by teachers who take up any problems of all new
arrivals as their own in order better to solve them; that is
what is meant by a centre of Sensual Meditation.
Now we shall outline the six basic exercises which are
recorded in the programme of Sensual Meditation.
Meditation 1
HARMONISATION WITH INFINITY
Ideally, this meditation should be practised outside, if
possible under a starlit sky. But since the weather does not
always bring together such favourable conditions, it might be
preferable to kit yourselves out with a meditation room,
harmoniously decorated with posters, paintings, sculptures
or other works of art which you particularly enjoy. See to it
that the lighting is soft or indirect, if possible with reddish
tints or better still, use candlelight. This is for your visual
sense.
You can burn some scents, as voluptuous as possible. This
is for your second sense: smell.
Lay down a very soft surface for lying on, which is also
pleasant to stroke, but don’t make it too soft so that your
body may be maintained quite straight when lying down on
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it. This is for your third sense, touch.
Try to have a good quality high fidelity sound system in
order to get all the musical nuances. This is for your fourth
sense, hearing.
For the fifth sense, taste, stimulate your mouth before
starting, with a fragrance which you like (mint, aniseed,
fruits, etc).
Make sure that the room temperature is sufficiently high
for you to be naked without feeling cold (22 degrees
Centigrade at least). Total nudity is ideal in order to feed
your body fully, but wearing a meditation gown made out of
a very soft and silky material can bring about further
sensations by its contact.
A lukewarm and perfumed bath just before the meditation
is an excellent preparation.
It is very important after coming home from work to take
off the clothes which you worked in, which are often in
disharmonious or polluted atmospheres, and to at least take
a shower and put on this meditation robe, which could be
either a djellaba or a gown, made from a material so soft and
silky that you can enjoy being caressed through it.The colour
of this piece of clothing should be your favourite one and if
you do not have any preferences, white will do very well.
It is indispensable, especially for men, to be totally naked
under this robe so that the male sexual organs, which are
usually submitted to a genuine torture by today’s fashion of
tight trousers which is responsible, among other things, for a
great number of cases of impotence, can regain their normal
position, blood flow and temperature which is upset when
they are compressed.
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Now let us listen to the first CD or audio tape.
Lie down comfortably on the surface designed for this
purpose so that your body weight is distributed equally. Place
your hands along your body, palms facing upwards. It is
essential to be in a comfortable position which you can keep
up for a very long time without needing to move.
Then close your eyes and listen...
I
THE IMPORTANCE OF BREATHING
What is breathing? Why do we breathe? As you certainly
know, we fill our lungs with fresh air rich in oxygen and then
exhale air rich in carbon dioxide.
Our lungs are organs in which our blood eliminates carbon
dioxide which it took from our cells and loads itself with
oxygen which it will then bring to all the cells which form
our body.
The majority of people breathe very badly. The simple fact
of sometimes needing to sigh proves bad breathing. He who
breathes well, never sighs.
A few moments of conscious breathing every day improves
our health and accelerates the process of awakening.
We have seen how the brain is nothing other than a
biological computer. Secretions of chemicals are being
constantly produced in our brains which spark off electric
discharges which form our thoughts and which are
responsible for both the physical balance of our body as well
as our mental equilibrium. If the latter is under- oxygenated,
then these secretions are weak, or as a reaction to the lack of
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oxygen, become too abundant, which then give rise to all the
imbalances which provoke physical and mental illnesses.
If our breathing is sufficient, then the oxygenation of the
cells which make up this central computer which is our brain
provokes an improvement of the chemical secretions within it
and finally a harmony spreads throughout our whole organism.
To be in harmony simply means having a brain which is
functioning to its optimum in the management of the
organism that it is controlling.
That is why you must commit yourself to a few minutes of
breathing at the beginning of each exercise of Sensual
Meditation and obtain an over-oxygenation of your body
which will trigger an acceleration of the chemical exchanges
within it, especially within our head.
It is vital to breathe very deeply for at least three minutes
before each exercise; but the results will be far better if you
have enough time to extend it to 12 minutes of oxygenation.
It is also important during the exercise to be totally
concentrated on our breathing and to be fully aware of the
effects that this produces on our organism. By being
conscious of this action, the effects are increased even more
through a process of feedback.
II
BECOMING AWARE OF THE INFINITELY SMALL
OF WHICH WE ARE COMPOSED
The second part of this first CD in the programme consists
of becoming aware of the infinitely small of which we are
composed. The aim is to connect together all the cells of which
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we are composed and which are all linked through nerves to
the central computer which is our brain. In this way, these
subtle unconscious interconnections must become conscious
so that their quality might improve, enabling one to feel totally
coherent and integrated, first physically and then mentally.
The first CD is the most important one of the Sensual
Meditation programme since it constitutes the basis, the
trunk of the tree of knowledge, which we shall see grow in us
and of which the later exercises will only be the branches.
The point of this exercise is for the body to become aware
of the cells which make it up and for the cells to become
aware of the body which they compose. Each one of these
building blocks called cells, of which we are made, feels
suddenly linked directly with those immediately surrounding
it and linked indirectly with all the others via the brain
computer which links them all together.
Towards the end of the exercise, it is the computer itself
which becomes aware of the matter that it is made of, with
all these neurons which allow it to feel itself. It is matter
becoming aware of both itself and its own awareness.
At that moment, our whole organism is so filled with waves
of energy circulating in all directions between the brain and
every cell, that we experience a sensation of well-being that
even provokes crying in the more sensitive among us. You
should certainly not fight the phenomenon, which is no
more than a chemical reaction resulting from the well-being
that the cells which compose us experience, when at last they
feel connected and united totally with each other. On the
contrary, you should enjoy fully this fabulous moment, rich
in harmonious pulsations.
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In fact, it was this which was the original meaning of the
‘collect’, (in French, the word is ‘recueillement’), which is
part of some religious ceremonies involving terrible minutes
of silence, having totally lost its deeper physical significance.
To ‘collect’ oneself comes from the Latin word ‘colligere’
which means ‘to co-link’ or ‘to link together’ and in this
context means to link together that of which we are
composed.
III
BECOMING AWARE OF ONE’S LEVEL
At this point of the exercise, our whole ‘collected’ organism
whose parts are united and integrated totally, will become
aware of its surroundings purely through the sense of
hearing, by listening to the music.
By becoming aware of the music through the intermediary
of this sense, whose functioning is based on the perception of
vibrations which we call sound, our body as a whole is then
able to perceive these musical vibrations. As it listens to the
music, our body is suddenly aware of something not coming
from itself, which has an effect of accentuating the
phenomenon where the cells become aware of their unity,
and this gets the cells to vibrate in unison with an even
greater feeling of solidarity among themselves, every one
united totally in a rush of global harmony.
Finally, waves have the property of being made up of
nothing while animating the medium in which they are
travelling, and so the organism which listens not only with its
ears but also with all the pores of its skin, becomes the music
to which it listens, because it is penetrated and traversed
throughout by the music’s vibrations.
IV
BECOMING AWARE OF THE INFINITELY LARGE
OF WHICH WE ARE A PART
Once the organism that is in harmony with itself and has
become aware of its ability to get in harmony with what it
can pick up from its environment, it can then try to get in
harmony with the infinitely large, of which it is a tiny part.
This is the aim of the penultimate phase of this CD and
which opens up to us the movements which, though we
might not be aware of it normally, shoot us through the
infinite galaxies. Our Earth is spinning on its own axis while
at the same time rotating around our sun, our sun is rotating
around the centre of the galaxy, while our galaxy itself is
moving around another point. As all these movements add
up ‘ad infinitum’, we end up being hurtled through an
infinite dance at unimaginable speeds, yet as we lie down on
the ground, we usually tend to think that we are lying still...
And somewhere above us in this cosmic immensity, there are
some people watching us who love us as their own children.
This way of looking at the infinitely large allows someone
who is already in harmony with the infinitely small which
composes him and who is capable of resonating fully to the
rhythm of the surrounding waves, to become aware of the
immense size of the universe in which he lives and the
natural cosmic harmony of which he is a small part, and in
which he is bathing permanently.
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The act of feeling this harmony which exists in the
infinitely large in which we are navigating, strengthens the
integration which has settled in our constituents cells,
through a process similar to mimicry. As our organism
realises suddenly that it is surrounded by harmony, it feels
obliged to become harmonious itself.
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REALISING HUMANITY’S POTENTIAL
The last part of this exercise consists of becoming aware of
Humanity, of which we are an element; that is to say,
returning to our level and opening ourselves up to how our
planet could be if everyone were to vibrate together in the
same total harmony which brings about fraternity and
universal peace automatically.
The act of understanding that everyone can feel this
fantastic well being, allows us to realise how we ourselves are
cells of a huge body called Humanity and that we can take
part in the spreading of this wave of love on a planetary level
by sharing what we have felt with everyone around us,
allowing all those who haven’t yet had the good fortune of
doing so to know the joy of discovering the natural harmony
in which they are unconsciously bathing.
It is this exercise which allows us to feel ‘high’ the fastest
and to feel, naturally and without danger, the sensations
obtained normally through the use of drugs. There are many
young drug users who have stopped using these dangerous
substances after having discovered that they can ‘trip out’ far
more powerfully, but without the terrible feelings of need,
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and what is more important, becoming at the same time even
more efficient, in their professional and sexual lives.
Drugs produce altered states of consciousness by
establishing certain ‘short circuits’ in the brain which, though
these might produce pleasant sensations in the short term,
actually damage the functioning of the brain. Sensual
Meditation allows one to obtain the same sensations, but far
stronger and more permanently, since instead of altering the
state of consciousness through short circuits, it elevates the
level of awareness by developing our natural mechanism,
which through training will be able to function better and
better as we use them more and more.
Drugs enable us to discover certain ecstatic experiences by
atrophying the natural mechanisms which are designed to
allow us to reach them, whereas Sensual Meditation develops
these mechanisms, thus allowing us to reach these ecstasies
more and more easily. The totally awakened person is able to
live permanently in a state of absolute joy. To reach such a
level of awareness may require many years of work upon
oneself, usually seven years. For those who are already fairly
awakened or who have already started to meditate, it will
take far less time.
Meditation 2
BECOMING AWARE OF OUR LIFE RHYTHMS
To begin with, this second CD or tape will allow us to
become aware of our breathing, but this time in a more
physical way compared with the last exercise.
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The point is to feel the whole of our respiratory apparatus
by, after having held our breath, contrasting the feeling of
fresh air which we breathe in with the residual warm air left
in the lungs and bronchial tubes.
Our sensuality is developed by feeling contrasts, such as
differences in temperature, colour, sound or odours.
After having oxygenated ourselves thoroughly, as we do
before all of these exercises, we then tune into our lungs and
live out this fantastic chemical exchange thanks to which we
are alive – the oxygenation of our blood.
Then we concentrate on feeling our heart beat, this pump
which passes the blood through our lungs so that it picks up
those precious oxygen atoms for which our whole body is
waiting.
So as to feel our heart beating more easily, we can press
lightly the tips of our right hand against those of our left.
By doing this, first we can feel this regular rhythm easily in
the tips of our fingers, and then in the whole hand, and
progressively we will try to feel it everywhere, in the arms, in
the whole body and finally in the brain itself, where it feels as
if we can hear the heart beat. Thus we become aware of our
heart as we feel it beat calmly and harmoniously in our chest.
Through other exercises taught at the course of awakening,
we can learn how to slow down or speed up our heartbeat at
will, just as we can choose to slow down or speed up our
breathing, even though usually, as with the heart, its rhythm
is regulated by the brain without us having to think about it.
The first CD integrated our organism, whereas this one
makes us aware of the rhythms which are animating and
keeping it living continually. This allows us to feel alive,
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pulsating right up to our finger tips to the best of this pumps
ability, whose every action is essential and which is just as
much ‘us’ as is the brain which is aware of it.
Meditation 3
BODY AWARENESS
Now that we have interconnected the cells forming our body
and felt the rhythms which animate it, in this meditation we
shall become aware of our body through our senses.
The first two exercises occurred within ourselves and
consisted of our organism becoming aware of itself through
totally internal mechanisms without requiring the use of our
external senses.
Now we are going to discover our physique, first through
our sense of touch, by keeping our eyes closed and then
through each of the other senses.
Discovering our body through the sense of touch allows us
to become aware of the sensitivity of different parts of our
organism and to enjoy the pleasure of both being toucher
and touched, stroker and stroked.
However, for the first few times that we do this exercise, we
must try to be more in the tips of our fingers than in the rest
of our body and be just the toucher so as to become aware of
the shape and form of our body through our own hands. In
this tactile exploration of our own shape, we rediscover the
pleasure that we once had as babies when we explored
ourselves, except that this time we are fully conscious of what
we are doing.
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The feelers are being felt themselves. This is particularly
obvious when we start sucking the tips of our fingers to feel
them better. At the same time, we are discovering the taste of
our own skin. By sucking our fingers and then the skin of
our own arm, we discover what we taste of, our own unique
flavour.
Then, still with our eyes closed, we explore our own body
smells. In fact it is important not to have taken a soapy
shower just before this exercise, and obviously not to have
put on any deodorants or perfumes. The best thing would be
to take a soapy shower the evening before this exercise and
then allow the body to produce overnight the secretions
responsible for our body smells.
The next stage consists in discovering our voice by feeling
ourselves talk, as much with our hands as with our ears. ‘I
am touching this head, which is me emitting sounds.’ Thus
we listen to ourselves as if we were someone else listening to
another person speak.
Finally we open our eyes to discover ourselves through our
sense of vision, first by looking at our hands moving, just as
a baby does in its cot, except this time we are fully conscious
of the beauty of our limbs and their movements.
Then we caress once again our body with our hands,
discovering every part of our physique as if we were looking
at it for the first time. It is very important to have a portable
mirror beside us from the start of the exercise, to help us
look at certain less-accessible parts of our body.
We look at ourselves as if with new eyes. We have never
taken the time to look at certain parts of our body with love,
particularly our sexual organs, because of the taboos passed
on to us by our parents. This is especially true for women,
whose sexual organs were considered ‘dirty’ by phallocratic
societies.
Our sexual organs, which give us pleasure and which can
give life, are as beautiful as flowers for both men and women.
In fact, flowers are plant’s sexual organs.
Our anus itself, which we can see using our mirror, is a
magnificent part of our body. It is through there that matter
is evacuated, matter which has been in contact with every
part of the inside our body, that we can never touch, and
which has left the best of itself so that we can live.
After having discovered with amazement this fabulous
living toy, which is our body, and which expects only one
thing, namely, that we enjoy it, we can then re-establish
contact with our environment, where other people are
developing and who like us, have just been able to become
aware of these treasures of which we are composed and which
we have ignored for far too long.
Meditation 4
MEDITATION FACING THE SYMBOL OF INFINITY
The CD or tape should be listened to sitting down as
comfortably as you can and, if possible, sitting cross-legged
in contrast to the first three exercises which were to be done
lying down.
The poster showing the symbol of Infinity which may be
obtained along with the CDs should be stuck on a wall at eye
level and if possible illuminated by a bright light, with the
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rest of the room in darkness. Once a person has tuned into
himself and totally awakened to themselves internally
through the previous exercises, he can then become aware of
something entirely foreign to himself and allow himself to be
invaded by the vibrations transmitted by the drawing’s shape.
Every shape around us is influencing permanently us and
the most recent experiments using small pyramids have
shown that fruit can be dehydrated completely without going
bad purely as a result of waves reflected off walls angled and
orientated in a certain way.
We also know that when sounds are analysed electronically,
‘O’ produces an O form on the screen while ‘I’ shows an I
form.
Every colour and sound emits specific vibrations which can
harmonise with themselves and influence our behaviour and
well-being, and in the same way, the waves of form produced
by our environment exert an enormous influence upon our
development and fulfilment.
As explained in the beginning of this book, this symbol
represents Infinity in space and time and emits particularly
harmonious waves of form. It is not by chance that it can be
found in the Tibetan Book of the Dead, or dotted all over
India in places well known for their traditional emphasis on
the blossoming and development of the individual, even
though it is now buried under years of superstition.
The ‘watchmaker’ left traces of how his watches function,
particularly in this huge continent.
To get maximum benefit from this exercise, it is most impor-
tant to understand that this symbol has absolutely nothing to
do with the Nazi criminals who stole part of it for their
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emblem. In any dictionary a ‘swastika’ is described as ‘reli-
gious symbol of India’ (from the Sanskrit ‘su’ = well and ‘asti’ =
being). At this moment there are millions of people medi-
tating in their Buddhist temples decorated with this symbol,
just as their ancestors have done daily for thousands of years.
If Hitler had used the Christian cross as his symbol instead,
(and he almost did since it would have helped him in his
project of Jewish genocide) would that have meant that after
the war Christians all over the world would not have been
allowed to carry or use their symbol? Obviously not. In the
same way, the fact that the Inquisition killed thousands of
people in the name of the Christian cross does not reduce
Jesus’ message of love and fraternity.
It was important to write that paragraph since it is
impossible to awaken ourselves and blossom while
contemplating a symbol which we think is an emblem of
violence. On the contrary, this combination of the two
triangles interlocked into each other and the swastika, is the
emblem of absolute love, infinity, life and joy.
The triangle pointing upwards represents the infinitely big,
which includes the stars and galaxies swirling around us, or
more precisely together with us, since we aren’t the centre of
the universe, not even that of our own solar system.
The triangle pointing downwards represents the infinitely
small, including cells which compose us, which are
themselves independent organisms as well as integrated with
each other, molecules which make up our cells, atoms which
are themselves universes containing planets upon which
people like us live and who look up at their sky, wondering
whether life exists elsewhere.
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The stars of our sky make up our galaxy in which we bathe.
Our galaxy is a part of our universe, which itself is a tiny bit
of a huge particle situated somewhere in a cell in the body of
a gigantic living being, which itself is contemplating its own
sky, wondering whether there is life elsewhere.
The infinitely large is composed of the infinitely small and
without the infinitely small there would be no infinitely
large, which is why the two triangles are interlinked.
As for the swastika, it represents infinity in time. Every-
thing around us has always existed, either in the form of
matter, or in the form of energy. The matter of which we are
made has always existed and will always exist because we are
made of eternity. Only its form changes. We are but the
organised accumulation of particles taken from the food
which was absorbed by our mother, and which came together
according to a specific plan to form us in her womb. Then
after our birth these particles came from the food we ate,
some from carrots, others from potatoes, meat and eggs, etc.
But the carrot eaten by our mother or by us, of which an
atom might have remained in our nose, for example, will
have extracted this atom from the soil in which it grew. It
came to this soil from the compost brought by the gardener,
and before that was in the dung coming from a cow’s
intestines. Before that it was part of a mouse which, after
being eaten and excreted by a carnivore, was absorbed by the
grass which the cow ate, etc... In this way, we could follow
the story of this particle which is in your nose right back to
a time preceding the creation of life on Earth, and the same
goes for all the particles of which you are made: they have
always existed. Some have even been part of other people’s
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bodies, living hundreds or thousands of years ago.
That is what the symbol which we are contemplating
represents, and as we do so, it irradiates us with its beneficial
vibrations.
The technique of looking at it as described by the CD is
designed to imprint its image on our retina and especially to
inform our computer of its exact shape. Prolonged exposure
to these vibrations elevates our degree of harmony even more.
This develops our ability to perceive Infinity through its
vibrations in which we are bathing.
Meditation 5
DISCOVERING ANOTHER UNIVERSE: OUR PARTNER
In contrast to the first four exercises, this one cannot be done
alone, a partner is necessary. If we are with someone with
whom we are thinking of making love, then this is an
excellent preparation for the relationship to be a success;
alternatively, if we have been having an intimate relationship
already with someone for a long time and wish to rediscover
each other and bring a new light to the relationship, where
each awakens the other simultaneously, then this, too, is an
excellent preparation.
However, this CD can also be listened to when we are with
someone with whom we do not wish to have any sexual
contact, but in whose company we simply wish to develop
our personal awakening and blossoming.
The previous CD consisted of someone, already fully self-
harmonious, opening themselves to the outside world and
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becoming aware of it through an inert symbol which was
imprinting its waves of form into them.
Now this universe which we are, and which has become
conscious of its own internal harmony, is going to discover
another universe made in its own image by massaging gently
its partner’s whole body, who, once finished, will turn the
cassette over and listen to it again, except this time, the one
who was massaged now becomes the masseur: the discovered
is now the discoverer. Thus two universes will have known
each other mutually. The French word ‘connaissance’ means
‘being born’ or ‘entering into the world together’. As we have
seen, our body is a universe, and thus a world, and when we
become aware of something around us it becomes part of our
world and thus is born to us. When two people meet each
other, they mutually enter into each other’s world.
The massage is not supposed to be a form of physiotherapy,
and to do it one need not have any prior knowledge of
kinesotherapy. The aim is simply to become aware, through
the sense of touch, of another person’s shape and how they
are a body of cells and atoms just like us, susceptible to the
same reactions as we are.
Neither must it be erotic. We are not caressing, we are
gently kneading the organism which we are discovering,
steadily moving up towards the heart. It is better to press
slightly too hard than too soft. We are becoming aware of the
texture of our partner’s flesh as we follow the contours of
their bones through the skin. Our thumbs are working and
kneading this living matter which makes up another world.
As for the one being massaged, this exercise produces even
more important effects in us as we become aware of another
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organism through their hands. We were lying there in
absolute harmony, when suddenly, something foreign to
ourselves started to feel our body. The first reaction is a
feeling of tension or a sort of coiling away from something
alien.Then, bit by bit, our body realises progressively that the
effects produced by this contact are positive and marvellously
relaxing, until the finger movements on our skin are ex-
pected, anticipated and wished for, particularly in those parts
where the hands have not yet been and where you know that
they will go.
This expectancy turns to pleasure and increases the feeling
of unity of our whole organism.
When this CD is finished, we have reached the end of the
part of the programme addressed to people without sexual
partners, since the next exercise is designed for the moments
preceding physical union of two people of complementary sex.
The act of discovering that physical contact with others is
possible without necessarily being sexual, is going to modify
deeply our reactions towards others. We will not see those
close to us and those we meet in the same way that we used
to. This new vision of humans around us will multiply our
capabilities for communication tenfold.
Henceforth we will no longer consider others as people with
whom we can communicate only through sound and sight, as
our medieval education taught us, now we can see them as
living beings whom we can also touch and who can touch us
if they have understood the importance of this contact and
have accepted it so as to develop and blossom further.
It has been proven that children need this physical contact,
to be touched and to touch their parents, if they are to
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develop and blossom fully. And if we are so reticent and
reluctant about the idea of this contact even before trying it
out, it is because we have been terribly deprived of these
tactile exchanges by our educators, who were themselves
prisoners of their Judeo-Christian guilt-ridden morality,
putting shame on anything physical. How many times have
some of us wished to be hugged by our fathers rather than
just pecked with the tips of their lips on our forehead, or
wished to be stroked, kneaded, massaged and pressed against
their chests, instead of being held at a distance as if we had
the plague?
This lack of physical contact is what is responsible for our
inhibitions in this area, but it is not too late to re-learn to live
out this sense banned by our parents. We can catch up for
lost time and re-discover all our tactile possibilities and,
above all, develop the neural connections within our central
computer which are connected to the tips of our fingers.
And we must remember all this especially with our
children, if we have any, and teach them to touch each other,
to touch us and to be touched themselves.
Meditation 6
EROTICISM AND MUTUAL EXCITEMENT
This CD or tape is designed to be listened to by two people
who are considering having a sexual experience.
Our sexuality can be seen as the top of the tree’s trunk
which we are growing within us, from which stems the
branches carrying the flowers of our total fulfilment and
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blossoming. A person cannot reach full awakening if their
sexuality is not totally liberated and harmonious.
The physical union of two people is in fact the simplest
action which requires the simultaneous use of the five senses,
and moreover, is the easiest way to get in harmony with
Infinity in a moment of total illumination, allowing us a
glimpse of the state that we can be in permanently if we reach
absolute awakening.
After the usual period of oxygenation which should always
precede the playing of each CD and which aims to improve
the quality of the chemical reactions within our brain, thus
allowing us to feel what our five senses are picking up, the
first part of this exercise consists of becoming visually aware
of our partner’s body.
Your partner is lying down next to you and you are looking
at their physique from head to toe, becoming aware of this
universe similar to yourself, with which you will soon be one
and a part of, as two ‘infinitely small’, which are both part of
the ‘infinitely small’, which are both part of the ‘infinitely
large’, meet each other.
The one who is lying down, eyes closed, becomes aware of
the other person’s gaze caressing their body and ‘feels it’
moving along. Thus they are offering their charming body
curves to the visual organs of the person with whom they
shall be progressing together in the awakening of their sen-
suality. The person lying down almost feels penetrated by the
looks which are flowing into them through all the pores of
their skin.
The second part of this exercise consists of exciting the
erogenous zones of your partner by massaging them far more
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lightly than in CD number five, with caresses designed to
excite sexually the person being massaged.
Certain parts of the body should be stroked very lightly
while others should be massaged much harder, bearing
individual sensitivity in mind. It is very important that the
one being massaged collaborates fully during this exercise by
expressing what they like or like less and which parts they
wish to be stroked gently and which parts to be stroked harder.
In fact, though the main erogenous zones are the same for
everyone, there are certain variations depending on the
individual personality, so that some parts which do nothing
for some people are particularly exciting for others. With
practice, we will be able to discover all these variations which
produce even better results and refine our stimulation of the
other person’s sensitive parts.
What is more, it is most important that the one being
stroked informs the stroker very precisely about everything
that they feel. Even the most minute of pleasurable
sensations must be manifested clearly by little moans. This
will have three effects: first, it will guide the massager’s hands
with more precision, then it will trigger a feeling of
excitement in the masseur as they perceive the results of the
movements, and finally it will improve the quality of pleasure
in the one being massaged through a process of positive
feedback. The act of hearing yourself moaning with pleasure
will trigger in your brain certain mechanisms which provoke
an improvement in the functioning of the receptor organs.
Pleasure generates pleasure, which is why it is most
important to react to the slightest pleasurable sensation at the
beginning of the exercise by moaning loud enough for your
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partner to perceive the pleasurable sensations, by slightly
amplifying the vocal manifestations of these positive
perceptions, even if, to begin with, the sensations were not
quite large enough to push you to express your satisfaction
audibly. This amplification of our reactions to pleasure will
produce an amplification of the pleasure itself.
Once our sense of vision, touch and hearing has been in
contact with our partner, now the sense of taste and smell can
come into action.
This time the same areas which have just been stroked with
the tips of the fingers will now be touched gently with the
lips, tasted with the tip of the tongue in some areas, and
smelled and breathed upon in others, so that the person lying
down feels the hot breath of the person who is discovering
them through the nose and mouth. It is important during
this exercise to breathe in through the nose so as to exercise
the sense of smell and to breathe out through the mouth so
that your partner lying down feels your breath on their skin.
The discovery of body smells on your partner is very
important. It has been scientifically proven that body smells
contain certain chemicals called pheromones, a word coming
from the Greek ‘pherein’ meaning ‘carrier’ and ‘hormao’
meaning ‘I exist’, thus together meaning ‘I broadcast my
existence’. The name was given to all substances which are
secreted by living organisms which influence the behaviour
of others of the same species.
Certain moths can find their partners of the opposite sex
during the mating season by tracing a smell emitted by the
latter up to several kilometres away, even in a wood full of
other smells. Thus we can understand just how important
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this sense is. What is more, certain cases of impotence have
been cured by using the odours emitted by the female sexual
organ and cases of frigidity by men’s odours – yet another
reason for not using deodorants if we wish to have an
harmonious sexual life.
In addition, it is important to understand clearly that fresh
body odours do not smell bad. Fresh sweat, for example, is
not at all unpleasant to smell. If, on the other hand, we do
not wash for a long time, and we allow the sweat to ferment
on us and in our clothes, it becomes completely unbearable.
Even roses begin to smell bad when they rot.
Thus we have just seen that certain substances contained in
our body odours affect our sexual reactions. This is why it is
vital to breathe in and smell our partner in the areas
described by the CD and to allow these particular substances
to produce their own exciting effects in our brain.
The same goes for the sense of taste. The skin secretes
substances which also have their importance and which
contain chemical messages which the receptors of our tongue
decode and transmit to our brain, which itself relays other
chemical and neural messages to our sexual organs so that
they can prepare for action.
The exchange of breath is also essential since it allows both
bodies to harmonise their breathing and to feel themselves
living, thanks to the same rhythm.
Also, this air which has been in contact with the inside of
our body takes up atoms which have travelled within us and
contributes to the reciprocal ‘connection’ of the two
organisms.
Finally, the kissing enables both people to exchange
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chemical messages by communicating with their taste buds,
and to directly taste the other person tasting them with a
similar organ. We cannot do this with hearing or smelling,
but we can with touch when people are mutually touching
each other with the tips of their fingers, but it is even more
intense with the mouth.
At the end of this exercise it will be the turn of the other
person who was lying down, to do on the other what the
latter did for them. Thus both partners will at last be totally
open to each other and ready to unite while bearing in mind
the wondrous scale of this meeting of two universes, who are
mutually enriching each other.
Reaching a conscious orgasm simultaneously, felt by the
whole body rather than just by the sexual organs, will be the
reward of scrupulous preparation of this celebration of
Infinity, which could last a very long time and which will
have nothing to do with what until now has been called
‘making love’.
The absolute symbiosis of two people finally becoming a
bit of each other allows them to make love with the atoms
which make them up and with the galaxies of which they are
part, and thus to have what can be called a cosmic orgasm.
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7
THE CENTRES OF SENSUAL MEDITATION
The programme which we have just analysed does not
represent the totality of the teaching given to ‘Man’ by the
‘watchmakers’ who made us, but as stated above, it is the tree
trunk of our fulfilment. A tree with just a trunk cannot live,
and every branch is vital for the development of the leaves
which allow it to breathe and for the flowers to blossom. The
branches are other exercises which are just as important, but
which were not able to be presented in the form of recorded
CDs, because some necessitate the intervention of a teacher
of Sensual Meditation (whom we call a guide), and others
require the presence of a group as is the case, among others,
for the development of the collective harmonic vocal
vibration.
We could also mention as part of the process of awakening,
the guided and progressive discovery of the beauty of our
own body through an initiation into naturalism, allowing us
to appreciate the beauty and harmony of every part of our
body by comparing them with those of our course
companions. This is particularly important for women in
whom the idea has been inculcated that their sexual organ is
dirty and ugly. By comparing this part of themselves with
each other, they can discover how wonderfully interesting
and full of grace their sexual organs are, in their innumerable
variety of shapes.
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Men, too, can forget their inferiority complexes by
discovering the richness of their sexual organs, each
marvellously adapted for relations with their partners. They
can discover the great variety of shapes and sizes, each one
with its own advantages and thus none of them inferior to
any other.
But one of the most important groups of exercises consists
of the improvement in the use of the senses, which are also
developed in these centres. It is the development of the five
basic senses which finally allows the development of the sixth
one, that is to say, the ability to communicate telepathically.
This last sense develops only when all the others are capable
of functioning to their maximum potential.
This is a brief glimpse of the possibilities offered by these
centres of Sensual Meditation which are truly schools of
sensuality.
Moreover, it is important to note the utility of these centres
for our youth – those adolescents whose parents do not dare
explain the facts of life and whose educators present them
with a ‘sexual education’ which talks only about dogs and
mice. Basically, they explain only ‘how it works’ rather than
teaching them how to use their organs to attain the
maximum pleasure. They try to make out that sex is only for
procreation, even though in our day and age our
contraceptive techniques are improving all the time. We
provide young girls with the ‘pill’, yet we tell them that sexual
union is only for making babies, one of the heights of human
hypocrisy.
These Sensual Meditation centres will be open only to those
‘above the age of consent’, which represents different ages
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depending on the legislation of the country in which the
centre is located. In France, for example, you must be at least
18 years old to frequent the centres, and those between the
ages of 15 and 18 require a written authorisation from their
parents, a draft form of which will be provided by our
‘sensuality schools’. Those between the ages of 15 and 18
have the right (!) to have a sexual life with the consent (!) of
their parents. As for those under the age of 15, even if their
parents consent, they have no right to a sexual life. It is not
our fault, it is the law!
Inform yourselves at your local Sensual Meditation centre
which will let you know the current laws concerning the age
limits of your country which we have to respect. If you are
too young, be patient, and in the meantime awaken
yourselves by yourselves, according to principles described in
this book.
THE FUNCTION OF THE GUIDE
Though some particularly gifted individuals can learn how to
awaken and blossom by themselves, most people would do
better to be guided along the path of harmony so as to avoid
wasting time along directions which lead to nothing. And
even the particularly gifted people will still waste a lot of time
with unproductive experiences unless they meet someone
who will give them the benefit of their own experience.
Awakening has sometimes been compared to a mountain
with many paths leading to the top, the attainment of which
represents self-realisation. Personally, I prefer comparing it to
a tree which we cultivate within ourselves, and which is
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therefore different for each person, both in shape and in the
fruit which it will produce. A mountain representing
awakening would imply that there is only one summit to
reach and everyone must climb the same mountain, which is
incorrect, and even if we admitted that everyone has his or
her own personal mountain, then that would mean that once
we reach the top, there will be nothing left to discover. With
the other image, the tree is alive and we never cease to develop
it, growing its branches and bearing more and more fruit, the
flavours of each one becoming more and more delicious.
That is why those who teach Sensual Meditation are, above
all, gardeners, even though the only title which they would
accept would be ‘guides’. They are there to guide the saplings
as they begin to grow, so that their development is as rapid
and harmonious as can be.
A real guide will never accept being called ‘master’ since,
deriving from the Latin word ‘magister’, its meaning is to
have authority over people, and the guide is not there to
order anyone around, but on the contrary, to allow the young
tree to decide what is the right direction to send out its roots
by letting it discover all its possibilities. And the best way to
help it take the best possible decision is to allow it to develop
its links connecting it with Infinity, that is to say, by
developing its senses. We have seen that the word ‘meditate’
comes from the Latin word ‘meditare’ which means ‘to
exercise’. Therefore, Sensual Meditation is a training of the
senses aimed at an improved perception of the Infinite,
eventually allowing us to realise that we ourselves are infinite
and leading us to develop completely naturally in the best
possible direction.
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When putting ourselves in harmony with the Infinite, we
ourselves become the vehicle or instrument through which it
is manifest in the eyes of those who are not yet aware of the
Infinite.
The guide is no more than a manifestation of the Infinite,
addressed to those who have not yet realised that they, too,
can be the instrument of what they are made up of and what
they make up.
Guides do not teach love, they are love because they derive
their pleasure from seeing others develop, and are nourished
by their progress.
They do not see people when they teach, they see only
manifestations of Infinity whom they are helping to become
aware of what and who they are.
The guides do not teach so as to be loved or admired, they
teach so as to give to other bits of Infinity the joy of realising
what they are, because they admire in others that which
animates themselves.
You who are reading these lines, you, too, are composed of
Infinity which is in the process of discovering itself, and that
is why you feel as enthusiastic as you do now. The guides are
there to help you prolong and develop this enthusiasm.
The word ‘enthusiasm’ comes from the Greek word
‘entheos’ which means ‘inspired by the Gods’, and as we have
seen, this concept of God represents infinity. Thus, to help
you to be ‘inspired by Infinity’ which is you, that is the aim
of the guide.
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8
PERSONAL EXPERIENCES
Here are a few of the more notable personal experiences sent
by some of the hundreds of people who have already
followed a course of awakening through Sensual Meditation.
When I arrived at the site of the course of awakening on the
5th August I was still wondering what I was doing there,
especially as I’ve always found it very hard to approach
people.
Always ill at ease with myself, I had been carrying about for
a couple of years then some badly healed emotional injuries
which had made me retreat into my shell just like a snail
which had been frightened. Relatively ignorant about the
damage which can be caused by nastiness and stupidity, I
discovered a few years beforehand the destructive power of
words, and after having met shame, anxiety, fear and panic of
other people, I was emotionally injured and had found refuge
in my solitude.
It was in this state of mind that I came into contact with
Raël and the Raëlians; something very strong had pushed me
there, but like a fighter on his guard, I was closed into myself,
suspicious and tense.
The next day the course of awakening started and in the
company of a few dozen men and women, we embarked
upon a subject which for me required serious thinking and to
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which I had so far remained very painfully closed and sen-
sitive: sexuality.
It was as if I was extracting from my flesh a foreign body
which had been poisoning me, and as everyone expelled from
themselves their own memories which had been poisoning
them, so too did I start hearing myself relate in my shaky
voice in a way that I would never have thought possible. I
was feeling the support from the trust which had been built
up so rapidly between us all, men and women, even though
we had met each other only the previous evening. I had just
discovered Raëlian fraternity and rapport, something which,
until then, I was unfamiliar with, and in front of them I had
just got rid of a huge load which before, I had been trailing
about with me for far too long.
And throughout the course, Raël had handled with
simplicity, common sense and in-depth knowledge this
subject for which in the past I had only heard derogatory
laughter and rude remarks from others.
How can I describe all the benefits of this course without
missing any out, apart from saying that it changed my life
completely, not to mention all the deep changes of which I
am not yet aware.
More open in mind and body, more aware of myself and
others, little by little I have noticed that many things have
changed in my outlook on life and in the way I live it.
The range of values which I had previously built up seemed
outmoded and from that moment, I think, I started to
consider other people and events with much more acuity and
serenity, as if they had shed their deceitful facade and as if
they had taken back their real dimensions.
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I also rediscovered, I think, the capacity of my youth to
marvel at everything and everyone as if seeing with new eyes,
looking as if in love at women and at life in all its variety with
an ever greater sensitivity.
This internal revolution also had its effects upon my way of
behaving, a change which itself was not without its problems
since, and this I realised straight away, my acquaintances
could not or did not always try to understand why they
found me as someone different to the person whom they
knew before. I had to balance my desire to realise myself to
the full, with the fear of shocking the people whom I love or
whom I feel something for, and yet I still try to temper my
way of being with common sense.
The final result is that those with whom I live see me in a
new light; they are left both surprised and wondering and, in
general, respect my way of being since it appeals to their
reason, and from their attitude towards me, I believe that I
am taken into more consideration, and people respect me more.
Rene Jourdren, Saint Etienne, France
Before participating in the course of awakening my life didn’t
have the same intensity. In fact, I wasn’t autonomous or
independent and tended to solve my problems by leaning on
others a lot. I would seek things which I didn’t have without
giving anything in exchange. I was caught in a system of
consumerism. In the same way as a consumer needs to have
things, I would swallow food and words, losing out on the
meaning of dialogue, exchange and sharing.
Thanks to the course of awakening, I have experienced the
importance of interchanges and interactions, these exchanges
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which make life possible. But for that it is necessary to know
ourselves and to like ourselves for what we are. It’s much
simpler! ‘If you like yourself even a little bit, then you’ll like
others.’
During this course of awakening Raël gave us the basis of
the awakening of our body and hence of our mind, by
emphasising the importance of breathing. This breathing
allows us to communicate with the outside world. But that
isn’t all, our body possesses other senses which serve us every
day and which we are not conscious of, yet if they didn’t exist
there wouldn’t be any interaction between us and the outside
world, and therefore no life.
Raël taught us how to utilise our senses sensually. This
course of awakening is a birth into the senses which I attempt
to live out every day. I can measure my development by the
reactions of the people who surround me. People say to me,
‘You create a feeling of confidence because you’re always
smiling.’
The course of awakening made me realise that life is not
just a routine, but on the contrary, can be infinitely rich
when we become one with it. Now I experience things in life
as much outside me as inside me. Everything is simple. My
life now contains only those interchanges and interactions
which unite me in a beautiful harmony called love.
Chantal Lemetayer, Rennes, France
I used to stumble in the darkness, imprisoned by an
atrophying education, colliding with all the taboos that
centuries of obscurantism had imposed through the ages.
And yet one fine day the sun rose as I discovered Sensual
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Meditation during a ‘course of awakening’ supervised by
Raël. For me, it was the dawn of a new life. Up till then, all
my shutters were closed, but at that moment, they opened
onto a beautiful landscape. I had rediscovered the secrets of
my body.
It is very difficult to describe in words all the treasures that
this brought me. Instead, I would rather that one day,
everyone could live what I feel and experience through
Sensual Meditation.
It was through this that I was able to rediscover simplicity,
and that in everything, in every passing moment, there is an
unlimited source of pleasure: the look of a child, the
freshness of a summer’s rain, a flower, a bird singing... In the
same way that a bee creams the pollen from every flower,
Sensual Meditation teaches us how to harvest the nectar of life
with all the strength of our senses, from every moment of our
existence.
And now every morning, while millions of people wake up
into the monotony of habit, my mind awakes into a
whirlwind of colours. An infinite energy rises from the
depths of my brain and illuminates all of my cells.
Imagination and creativity know no bounds, and sensuality
takes the lead.
My body was the bud of a marvellous flower, which the
shadows of civilisation and religion prevented from growing.
Sensual Meditation was the ray of sunshine, which made the
bud blossom and opened it into the harmony of infinite
space and time.
Pierre Gary, engineer, Paris
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I am 16 years old and my name is Laurence. I discovered
Sensual Meditation and it was a revelation for me, something
very powerful, burning me like a voluptuous caress. Even
more, it was ecstasy. Yet I had been doing yoga for many
years, but it was nowhere near the same. I felt in perfect
harmony with the whole of my body, the whole of my being
and with other people. Your voice, recorded on the cassette,
penetrated me right to my depth, every little part of my body
was invaded by warmth. I was drunk with happiness and
love. I would get up effortlessly after meditating as if floating,
bathing or being carried by air, and it’s the most beautiful
thing that there is, to feel thus in harmony with everything
that surrounds us.
On Sunday, I went to the Cevennes and I climbed very
high up a mountain with a tape recorder and your cassette.
And there I lay down, facing the sky and its immensity...
What words can I use to describe how I felt? No word is
powerful enough or sensual enough to describe this feeling of
being high. I used to smoke hashish before and take
amphetamines to give me the illusion of being, of feeling
good, but if you only knew how these drugs seem ridiculous
now! I also stopped all that because it is completely
unnecessary now that I have discovered Sensual Meditation. I
have discovered an ideal, I breathe, I live, I exist, and I realise
that only now.
I am learning to look at things in a better way, at flowers,
and sometimes, it happens that I talk with a flower and am
ecstatic over its beauty. There, time no longer exists, it is
Infinity.
Laurence, Avignon, France
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After the time spent practising the meditation this summer at
the course of awakening, I now feel a new clarity of mind
with an improved awareness of my personality, and therefore
of my potential.
What is more, I have also noticed an improvement in my
general well-being. I am lightly handicapped by a stiff spine,
especially in the lumbar region. Since practising Sensual
Meditation, I can feel a definite increase in suppleness in this
area. It might be due purely to the breathing exercises which
precede each meditation, but whatever the cause, I felt I had
to give my testimony.
Pierre-Simon, Rennes, France
It is with immense joy that I wish to thank you Raël, for the
unforgettable moments which we lived with you at the
course of the ‘awakening of the mind and body’. What
transformed me the most was the moment where we created
the void for a better ‘renaissance’ afterwards. I experienced
such a strong emotion, that I wanted to shout my joy to
everyone, but the emotion left me speechless. Since then, I feel
as if a new man, I am starting my life afresh at 67 years old.
Alexandre-Denis, Saint Ubald, Canada
Since I am already of a certain age, my development
following the course of awakening has occurred slowly, but
surely. The change, however, certainly was radical since my
associate asked me what was happening. Now that I have this
feeling of joy within me, I must say that I have a thirst to live
as long as possible and I have noticed that the more time
passes, the more the meditation transforms me. For me, there
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is no greater joy than to be Raëlian and my convictions are
unshakable. I am sincere, and I have found what I was
looking for after so many years.
Simone David, Montreal, Canada
When I first came across Raël and the teachings of our
creators, the Elohim, my life was just a huge question mark.
I was almost ashamed to be a man and I did not have the
courage to face the prospect, on the one hand, of the social –
economic – political – mystical – fanatical orgy, on which I
was unable to open any doors without taking a beating, and
on the other hand, that of the primitive obscurantism in
which I had been immersed since my birth, and whose cast
was stuck to my skin and would have asphyxiated me.
Despite everything, I was looking for something else,
something which would allow me to breathe in peace,
something logical, real and humane.
At the time I was timid, ill at ease and could not express
myself, even in front of only one person. What is more, my
sensual tastes required me to fulfil my senses with the contact
of male bodies. Therefore, I was traumatised, and filled with
guilt, I was disgraced by conventional morality, by religion,
by education and by the most futile of simple customs.
Maybe you don’t realise it, but one is born as a homosexual,
just as one is born with green eyes or will inevitably have size
38 in shoes, or measure 1,42 metres, etc... that is to say, that
in one’s chromosomes, within the nucleus of an individual’s
cells, the stack of genes carries the characteristics of each
person and determines absolutely everything about their
tastes, shapes and everything which makes them original.
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What is scandalous, is that in the middle ages they killed
hysterics and not so long ago, they put heretics to death with
the blessing of the obscurantist religions, and now of course,
it is fashionable to kill politica dissidents and homosexuals,
whom they lock up in concentration camps, pompously
called asylums or adjustment houses. Even in Paris,
homosexuals are imprisoned, tortured, harassed, hemmed in,
and forced to live underground in ghettos by this ignorant
society and submit to this injustice. And yet, it is so easy to
understand how such characteristics are determined
genetically, thanks to the work of our scientists.
So, in the two years since I have known and practised Raël’s
teachings, I have seen myself totally transformed. I have now,
little by little, discovered all my possibilities which I do not
yet exploit completely, but at least I have discovered them
and I am setting off on the exploitation of myself through the
awakening of my faculties, just as a gardener who discovers
his land, starts working the land to bring out its best before
sowing, cultivating and finally harvesting.
All cultivation requires various technical knowledge, a bit
of experience and a lot of common sense. Raël’s teachings are
a bit like that! To begin with, one must have the wish to open
one’s garden and to see it blossom with the most magnificent
of plants, flowers and trees. The technical know-how is
needed to clear the soil which has never been exploited, to
liberate it from the weeds, the brambles and excess limestone,
so as to regain a neutral environment, not too acid, not too
alkaline and to restore a little order, just what is necessary so
that what is desired can grow in the harmony of its climate
and the richness of the soil.
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The common sense is needed so as not to put the cart
before the horse, so as to gauge what the soil can produce and
at what rhythm, what it needs and what it has too much of,
so that the balance can be restored at any time, under the
watchful eye of the gardener.
The practical experience allows us to see how the soil is
biological, full of natural chemicals. Just as we breathe, it is
quite obvious that the Earth is alive, from the carrot and
dandelion to ‘Man’, everything has its own specific function
to fulfil, determined by each individual’s genetic code con-
tained within his or her cells. Every living thing is a cog in
the harmonious equilibrium of the whole planet, each thing
is finely tuned to everything else and only ‘Man’ is capable of
understanding all this. Today, I live out my sexuality by
seeking fulfilment through all my senses, and with whom I
please. I now feel good with myself, my timidity is disappear-
ing and as a consequence, my aggression is controlled.
Moreover, I am giving lectures to audiences of more than
100 people, I can now address myself to anyone, with total
simplicity and more open-mindedness and respect for others.
I can feel an infinity of dormant potential being awakened
within me, the rhythm of exploitation which I can control,
since it is precisely this control and management of each
action, based on a mature awareness of each thought, felt by
optimum functioning of the brain drawn away from its
lethargy by the exercising of one’s sensuality, that is one of the
main qualities of Sensual Meditation.
I forgot to mention that since 1967, I have had a gastric
ulcer, which at the time, I was advised to have operated on
through surgery, but I refused in favour of a homeopathic
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treatment which I tried for the next 10 years, but without
success. When I started practising Sensual Meditation, I still
had the ulcer, but within a few months, it disappeared so
completely that I even forgot to mention it. I have all the x-
ray photos and medical certificates available for all sceptics to
see, as well as my military service papers which, to my joy,
certify me inept for service precisely because of my ulcer.
Michel Vuaillat, horticultural technician
I am 24 years old, and though I started my sexual life at 16
I’ve been frigid for the last eight years. That is, I made love, with
the only pleasure being the contemplation of the effect of my
body, which is of nice proportions, on my male partners.
I was limited to the pleasure of giving them pleasure, and
like many women, I pretended to enjoy it so that they would
feel virile, and so that I would not seem abnormal.
When I discovered Sensual Meditation at 24 years of age, I
had my first orgasm. I put into words how beautiful this
revelation was for me. I might add that I used to suffer
regularly from bouts of depression and anxiety which no
medication was able to cure, but which have now
disappeared totally following this discovery of physical
pleasure. I express one wish, and that is for every woman to
be able to discover this, especially as I have learned that 70
per cent of women have never experienced an orgasm.
N.C., Quebec
I feel as if I have now discovered the source of pleasure, of
happiness, and can draw pleasure from it at will.
Cristiane Gariepy, Montreal, Canada
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Art et science de la creative, Publication du
Centre culturel de Cerisy-la-Salle
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Evolution ou Creation
by Jean Fiori
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Dammarlie-les-Lys, France
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Published by Editions Univers,
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The Sensual Meditation CDs and audio tapes and the
poster of the symbol of Infinity can be obtained from the
Raelian Movement of your country as on page 135 or
ordered directly form the internet at www.rael.org
The official internet addresses of the Raëlian Movement
and associated organisations are:
www.rael.org
www.clonaid.com
www.subversions.com
www.ufoland.com
To subscribe to rael-science,
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• To resurrect the dead:
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• No premature aging:
http://www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/677? &start=652
• We are conserving DNA:
http://www.humancloning.org/dnaaustralia.htm
http://www.savingsandclone.com
• Four Japanese calves copied with a new technique:
Le Figaro Magazine. January 5th, 2000.
• Cloned beef for dinner?:
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Discoveries in Biology
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• Mutant mice with exceptional longevity: Le Figaro Magazine, November 19th 1999
• A killer’s brain: a clinically sick brain:
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• The virtual plant:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_771000/771145.stm
• To wake up our retired neurons:
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• Cultures of bone and cornea:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_719000/719673.stm
http://www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/585?
Genetically modified organisms
• Introduction: http://www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/440?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_482000/482467.stm
• Modified salmon:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_708000/708927.stm
• A solution for the Third World countries?
http://www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/605? &start=597
• Treatment for victims of third degree burns:
http://www.wired.com/news/techno ogy/0,1282,20874,00.html
• More intelligent thanks to genetic engineering:
http://www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/397? &start=395
Building a Brainier Mouse, Scientific American, April 2000. pp.62-68
Mickey Mouse, Ph.D. Scientific American, November 1999. p. 30.
• Genetically modified organisms for pleasure!:
http://www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/498? &start=470
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• Water me!:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/specials/sheffield_99/newsid_446000/446837.stm
• The marriage of the monkey and the jellyfish: Le Figaro Magazine,
December 24th, 1999
New technologies
• The speed of light:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/10/991005114024.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_655000/655518.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_655000/655518.stm
• The DNA-based computer: Quebec Science, Volume 38, number 7,
April 2000, p.30.
• An electronic eye for blind persons:
http://news.bbc.co.uk: 80/low/english/sci/tech/newsid_606000/606938.stm
• AIBO the dog full of bugs: Le Figaro Magazine, November 6th 1999.
Space and its inhabitants
• The Crop circles:
http://www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/377? &start=364
• Dream or reality soon to be?:
http://www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/456?
• A new planet: http://www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/457
• The search for a contact:
http://www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/390?
http://www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/407?
http://www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/671?
http://www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/356?
The beauty of Creation
• The nose of the mosquitoes:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_426000/426655.stm
• Insects… lesbians: Le Figaro Magazine
http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/sci/tech/newsid_481000/481394.stm
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• A nose to see the infinitely small:
http://www.aibs.org/biosciencelibrary/vol46/sep.96.cover.info.html
Le Figaro Magazine, January 11th 2000
Sexuality and sensuality
• The human sexuality Society: www.sexuality.org
• The chemical mysteries of sexuality: Le Figaro Magazine: March 4th, 2000.
• Badly informed young people:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19991018/hl/sex9_1.html
• The National Masturbation Day:
http://www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/215?
Meditation and Peace
• Meditation prevents heart disease:
http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/living/InYourHead/allinyourhead_56.html
http://www.egroups.com/messages/rael-science-select/637
• Do you want to live longer? Smile!:
http://www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/622?
The case of Ancient Greece, Special research Living120 years,
July/August> 1999
• Planetary Day for Peace:
http://www.clothofmanycolors.com/
http://www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/670?
• The effects of AOM meditation have been scientifically proven:
Sang Yuel Choi (National Guide in Korea)
• The case of Ancient Greece: La Recherche special issue ‘Living 120 years’,
July/August 1999, p. 90
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OTHER BOOKS BY RAËL
For a full understanding of the background to Sensual
Meditation, it is necessary to read Raël’s previous writings.
They include:
The Message Given By Extra-Terrestrials
This book comprises two books which in French
were originally entitled:
Le livre qui dit la Vérité and
Les extra terrestres m’ont emmené sur leur planète.
(1 million copies sold, translated into 24 languages)
Yes to Human Cloning
Immortality thanks to Science
Raël’s latest book describing how genetic engineering and nano-
technology are about to revolutionise our lives.
Geniocracy
The first English language edition of this book which outlines a
controversial political thesis is due to be published soon.
Fuller details appear on pages 142 to 144.
All books available directly from
www.rael.org
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CD RECORDINGS
SENSUAL MEDITATION
The full set of six guided meditations from the book Sensual
Meditation is available on two CDs or one audio tape cassette.
The first and most important meditation ‘Harmonisation with
Infinity’ is available on a separate CD or tape. These can be
ordered from the Raelian Movement of your country
(see addresses on pages 135-9) or directly online at www.rael.org
NARRATION OF THE BOOK
The Message Given By Extra-Terrestrials also exists
as a fully narrated recording in 6 CDs
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THE FINAL MESSAGE
Humanity’s Origins and our Future Explained
All life on Earth, including human beings, was originally created
scientifically in laboratory by the Elohim, an advanced people
from space, using a perfect mastery of genetic engineering and
DNA synthesis. Traces of their work can be found in the Bible,
which is the oldest atheist book in the world, since the word
«Elohim», which appears in the original Hebrew version, means
«those who came from the sky».
The Elohim entrusted Rael with the mission of propagating this
revolutionary revelation and building an Embassy where they will
officially return very soon, along with the Great Prophets of Old
that they had sent, such as Jesus, Moses, Buddha and Muhammed,
who are being kept alive on their planet thanks to cloning, the
secret of eternal life.
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YES TO HUMAN CLONING
Raël’s most recent publication
Today’s new cloning technology is the first step in the quest for
immortality or eternal life. What past religions used to promise
only after death in a mythical paradise will soon be a scientific real-
ity on Earth – this is Raël’s challenging conclusion in an incisive
and wide-ranging review of how science is about to revolutionise
all our lives.
Once we can clone exact replicas of ourselves, the next step will
be to transfer our memory and personality into our newly cloned
brains and this will allow us to truly live forever, he writes. Since
we will be able to remember our past, we will be able to accumu-
late knowledge indefinitely.
With rare vision, Raël sketches details of an amazing future in
which our nascent technology will revolutionise and transform the
world. Nano-technology, he explains, will make agriculture and
heavy industry redundant, super-artificial intelligence will quickly
outstrip human intelligence – and eternal life will be possible in a
computer without the need for any biological body!
These developments, he warns, are not 22nd-century science fic-
tion. All this will happen in the next twenty years – and this book’s
purpose is to prepare us for an unimaginably beautiful world-
turned paradise, where nobody will ever need to work again!
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GENIOCRACY
The first English translation of a controversial
political thesis.
Democracy is an imperfect form of government destined to give
way to rule by geniuses – ‘geniocracy’. Under this system, no can-
didate for high office may stand for election unless his or her
consciousness and intelligence is measurably fifty per cent above
the ‘norm’. Furthermore, to be eligible to vote, an elector must
have a level of consciousness ten per cent above the average.
Geniocracy is therefore selective democracy.
These challenging concepts, according to Raël, already apply on
the planet of the Elohim. Unless we can come up with something
better, he says, they advise us to begin preparing to implement a
similar system, since all human progress is ultimately dependent
on the work of geniuses.
In this first edition of the book to be published in the English
language, Raël describes how such a process might work here –
once intelligence testing is sufficiently developed.
Sensual Meditation

Sensual Meditation

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    Praise for SensualMeditation ‘My body was the bud of a marvellous flower which the shadows of civilisation and religion prevented from growing. Sensual Meditation was the ray of sunshine which made the bud blossom and opened it to the harmony of infinite space and time.’ Pierre Gary, Paris ‘I used to smoke hashish and take amphetamines to give me the illusion of feeling and being good – but if you only knew how those drugs seem ridiculous now! I also stopped all that because it is completely unnecessary now that I have discovered Sensual Meditation.’ Laurence, Avignon ‘It is with immense joy that I wish to thank you Raël, for the unforgettable moments which we lived with you at the Awakening of the Mind and Body course… since then I feel as if I am a new man. I am starting my life afresh at 67 years of age. Alexandre-Denis, St Ubald, Canada ‘When I discovered Sensual Meditation at 24 years of age I had my first orgasm. How wonderful this revelation was for me! I might add that I used to suffer regularly from bouts of depression and anxiety which no medication was ever able to cure. They have now totally disappeared. I would just like to express one wish – and that is for every woman to discover this. N.C., Quebec
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    RECORDINGS OF THE SENSUALMEDITATIONS The programme of six guided Sensual Meditations outlined in Chapter 6 of this book is available as a set on CD and audio-tapes from the Movement of your country of from www.rael.org. All contain specially composed background music. The most important is Meditation 1: ‘Harmonisation with Infinity’. This can be obtained separately and contains alternative versions with and without a guiding voice. The meditations have been newly recorded by Dr Marcus Wenner. For full details see page 135
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    SENSUAL MEDITATION Awakening the Mindby Awakening the Body RAËL © Nova Diffusion DN
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    SENSUAL MEDITATION Awakening theMind by Awakening the Body © 2002 The Raëlian Foundation The right of Raël to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the author and copyright holder. © Nova Diffusion www.rael.org DN
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    CONTENTS Foreword 12 Preface 19 Introduction21 1 THE WATCHMAKER’S MANUAL 24 2 THE STAGES TOWARDS TOTAL AWAKENING 33 3 BECOMING AWARE OF ONESELF 37 The Human Being – a Biological Computer 38 Sexual Differentiation 55 4 VOLUNTARY DEPROGRAMMING 57 Love or Selfishness 60 How Habits Atrophy Us 66 Seizing the Moment 69 Masturbation 72 Creating a Void 76 5 VOLUNTARY REPROGRAMMING 80 6 PROGRAMME OF SENSUAL MEDITATION 87 Meditation 1: Harmonisation with Infinity 88 Meditation 2: Becoming Aware of Our Life 96 Meditation 3: Body Awareness 98 Meditation 4: Meditation with Symbol of Infinity 100 Meditation 5: Another Universe – Our Partner 104 Meditation 6: Eroticism and Mutual Excitement 107 7 THE CENTRES OF SENSUAL MEDITATION 113 The Function of the Guide 115
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    10 8 PERSONAL EXPERIENCES118 Bibliography 129 Additional Information 130 References 131 Seminars and contacts 135 Others books 140
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    11 SENSUAL MEDITATION Awakening theMind by Awakening the Body
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    12 SENSUAL MEDITATION FOREWORD BY MICHAELDEYDIER – Psychologist If only 30 years ago someone had said that computers would revolutionise our world, nobody would have believed him. In technology, as in medicine and philosophy, we have progressed far beyond the post war concepts. The human mind is developing, and so it should since it is now perceiving its environment better and better. It creates and controls its property, it discovers new energy sources and it experiments with new techniques in all fields. The general public’s reasoning has improved through its own changing culture as manifested by the conception of a more intellectual, a more sophisticated and a freer life. But even more extraordinary is the evolution of our understanding of matter. Thanks to the efforts of our researchers, matter is becoming animate, it is getting closer to Man, it is spiritualising itself. Previously, matter was considered to be the opposite of the mind. Today, thanks to the notable progress made in neuro- surgery and psychometric research, the activity of the brain is becoming more familiar and is losing its mystical character. We now have information on brain functioning which puts old psychiatrical and psycho-analytical teachings right out of date. This research never ceases to expand and, admittedly, it does worry the population; mainly because lay people make the mistake of speculating with only limited information,
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    instead of trustingthe plagiarised creative thinkers, that is to say, the researchers, beyond their hesitations and legitimate errors. For the first time in the history of our civilisation, science and spirituality are walking on the same path. They both have many points in common which leave mind and matter, mental and cerebral, inseparable. We now know, for example, which brain areas are responsible for which behaviour patterns and that the brain makes its own natural opiates (the endorphines) which are released in particular circumstances, resulting in specific emotions. Now that we know their inhibitory and excitatory properties, we can begin to understand the functioning of the brain by observing how they affect behaviour. The biochemical activity of the human brain seems to be so automatic and autonomous that we are increasingly tempted to consider it as a social organism within itself, capable of constant self-adjustment and auto-equilibration. Thus when something goes wrong with this balanced system, the only real solution is to enhance the quality of psychosomatic integration, that is to say, to improve the connection between mind and matter. A CLINICAL APPRAISAL OF SPIRITUAL AWAKENING: Spiritual awakening corresponds to a state of permanent availability existing between each neuro-biological function which makes up the energetic pathways of the brain, that is to say, when all parts of the brain are communicating. The human being who has reached an optimum level of awakening can at all times mobilise and use the various levels of processing to analyse sensory information while the 13 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    ordinary person cannotfunction in this psychological state. ‘Permanent mental analysis’ precisely determines the quality of interconnection and communication between the regulation of the mind and the information received, ie, stemming from the perception of both the internal and external environment. ‘Intelligence’ depends on the level of regulation and integration – it is defined by the genetic code and cannot be developed beyond its ceiling level. However, it is normally not exploited as much as it could be. To operate, it requires high quality input, particularly the perception of one’s internal and external world. ‘Sensuality’ is the capacity to perceive this environment. Sensory information is picked up through the five senses: vision, hearing, smell, touch, taste, along with the extra sense of telepathic perception. The receptors of these senses generate pleasure and pass these images on to the central computer of the brain. Sensuality is the most important level of processing since it provides the basic material, faithfully reproducing the information in both quality and quantity. In order to create favourable conditions for a good mental functioning, a large number of methodologies and therapies have sprung up such as psycho-analysis, techniques of relaxation, group sessions, alpha rhythms etc. However, until now, no technique or method has existed which is aimed at awakening the mind by awakening the body, and thus using pure sensual energy to connect and bring cerebral consciousness to a cellular level. And yet this is the keystone itself. 14 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    15 It is logicallyinconceivable to improve our permanent mental analysis without first improving our sensuality because it is this sensory information itself, coming from the external and internal environment which is the basis of every mental operation, apart from abstract thought. Every living thing possesses a sensory system, including plants, animals and humans; for without this, life itself could not be. ‘Affectivity’ is the complex which controls the whole of the person’s emotional life. Sensory messages especially impregnate it and some are memorised. Most of the time, affectivity acts as a support for intellectual activity. As it is deeply rooted in our unconscious, however, the faculty of reason exerts only a weak influence on unconscious elements and so it is in our interest to restore our mental and emotional order which we so desperately need, through means of our sensuality. AWAKENING THE BODY: Every organ and every gland of the human body is made up of cells, including the brain, the heart and the liver for example, and it is just as important for all of these organs to be, and to remain connected to the brain, so as to perceive the internal and external energetic variations. The whole of our general physiology is conditioned by ‘awareness of its position in space as related to its surroundings’ – a stomach which no longer knows its identity will forget part of its function and will make mistakes which will not necessarily be repaired or eliminated by the liver or the pancreas. It has been proven that most people who cannot swim would overcome their fear if they became aware of their body SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    schema. The sameapplies to partial anorexics. The uses for physical awareness are unlimited and also concern everyone in perfect health who wishes to exploit his or her full potential. The phenomenon of awakening produces a feeling of euphoria because the sensation of awareness invades us on a muscular level, reaches all of the vital organs, the respiratory and circulatory system, right even to the cellular level. It is a physiological state. SENSUAL AWAKENING: Sensual awakening gives rise to physical awakening. Sensuality along with sexuality, is part of the pleasure generating system and because of that, has been repressed for a long time, especially in our western culture. And yet pleasure is such a natural and positive reaction. Human nature is built upon this system. In fact, the whole of biology seems to be based on this principle of pleasure. Not one action exists, both conscious or otherwise, which is done in order to avoid it. But since our morality exerts such a high level of repression, both unjustified and unjustifiable, we often follow roundabout and often unhealthy ways to achieve it. It is not by chance that a person’s basic needs are directly associated with pleasure when satiated.The feeling of pleasure is not only nice, but it is also indispensable since it regulates most of our bodies’ metabolic reactions, including those of our brain, and allows one to control one’s own development – an awakened person knows how to enjoy his sensuality. 16 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    SENSUAL MEDITATION ORSELF-IDENTIFICATION: Unfortunately, we cannot trigger the process of sensual and mental expansion at random or by improvising. Our sensuality has been atrophied by our affective inhibitions. We need to relax to regulate our stress level and to satisfy our senses with colours, flavours and music... that too, is part of Man’s essential needs. Our body needs to take its bearings of the space and time which it is in, and of the space and time of which it is composed. When we locate our body in space, we link it to our brain via awareness of our environment, which includes people. When we situate our body, organs, limbs and glands, we also link them to the brain. When we locate our cells mentally, we link them both to our brain and to each other via the brain, since through it, each organ can become aware of its position and therefore its role within the body. We need to feel that we are THIS, that we are HERE, and for this we must learn quite simply how to feel oneself, in other words, to identify ourselves, but not with an accepted name or socially accepted title, but purely with personal sensations. Sensual Meditation allows this and much more. Though access to it requires an initiation, or rather, a sort of reconnection with our bodily and sensual schemata, its practice remains an intimate operation. This does not mean that one must be alone to meditate. In fact, the presence of people whom we love is always positive, but it is still true that from initiation to one’s ‘orgasm’, Sensual Meditation remains a highly personal experience in the sense that the sensations 17 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    develop in acompletely autarchic and self-sufficient atmosphere. When meditating, it is as if the process of self-identification occurs automatically and it is precisely this self identification which carries us towards knowing ourselves. The state of awakening is a state of mind in which creativity flourishes and what is more, it vastly improves the quality or our inter-human relationships. Meditating is not a complicated operation, one must first learn to encourage those sensations which eventually lead to the expansion of consciousness. As euphoria begins to penetrate into the body tissues, so does the proliferation of the muscular and nerve connections. Then during everyday life between meditations, a psychological and physical well-being instills itself which adds a new dimension to life. Sensual Meditations’ depth of understanding as taught by Raël, answers all of modern psychology’s deficiencies because it allows the awakening of the mind, the awakening of the body, and the fulfilment of sensuality. It regulates our affectivity by reducing any frustrations while preserving our emotional life. It gives rise to a phenomenon of natural re-equilibration of our metabolic system without any external intervention of medical drugs. It is accessible to everyone. It possesses, in my opinion, highly valuable curative and preventative qualities. 18 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    PREFACE BY DR. PAULAUGER – Psychiatrist Sensual Meditation as taught by Raël is useful for all types of people, particularly for the people of today. Basically, it aims at awakening the mind by awakening the body. It is more than just a technique of relaxation, even though it uses, as do most others, an heightened oxygenation of the blood. The background music is appropriately suggestive and gently induces tranquillity and peace. Sensual Meditation also has the added advantage of ‘rendering conscious’: of bringing the vital and functional presence of the various tissues and specific cells composing them, to the cerebral cortex, in a relatively short time. It seeks the admiring and marvelling awareness of the infinitely small, down to the biochemical level, and its position relative to and harmonious with the body as a whole. By inviting, or rather by inciting, the nerves and their ‘neuro-transmitters’ to transmit adequately their organic messages to the cerebral cortex, it is able to increase self esteem, and catalyse sensual enjoyment. This is directly complimentary with science and the two together can create, interactively, a planetary awareness. In my opinion, it is in this way that Sensual Meditation can awaken Mankind’s search for enjoyment and can prevent adrenalin and other such toxic derivatives from reaching the brain. The human brain is a complex gland, both perfected and perfectioning, fulfilling the enjoyment of the senses through perception of the infinitely large. 19 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    20 The spiral opensthe way to the fourth dimension of time and perhaps its contraction is speed. In a nutshell, Sensual Meditation, through a biochemical process lasting only a few minutes at a time, allows Man to see other humans as his brothers, and to taste and feel part of the universal harmony which is both created and creator. SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    21 SENSUAL MEDITATION INTRODUCTION Raël isthe young journalist who you have seen numerous times on television, relating both his contacts with extra- terrestrials, and his journey to their planet in one of their machines, what Man calls ‘flying saucers’. These people from the other planet, or rather, the Elohim, as they are called, entrusted Raël with a series of extra- ordinary messages which have been published in French as three books entitled Le Livre Qui Dit La Vérité, Les Extra- Terrestres M’ont Emmené Sur Leur Planete and Accueillir Les Extraterrestres, Ils Ont Créé L’humanité en Laboratoire. These have been published as two books entitled; ‘The Message Given By Extra-Terrestrials’ and ‘Let’s Welcome the Extra- Terrestrials’. Among other things, the messages explain how these people had landed on Earth, and through progressive experiments in genetic engineering, had created all life on Earth including ‘Man in their image’. They also relate how all the religious texts of the major religions of this world, including The Bible, in fact describe this scientific creation. In the Old Testament, one repeatedly finds the word ‘Elohim’, for example in Genesis – ‘in the beginning, the spirit of Elohim flew over the waters’, or ‘The first day, Elohim did this’, ‘The second day, Elohim did that’, etc. By comparing the different versions of The Bible you can see for yourself that what was originally the ancient Hebrew word ‘Elohim’, meaning literally: ‘Those who came from the sky,’ has now been translated into the word ‘God’. That is to say, what was originally a plural, has now been changed to a singular. However, some more honest
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    translators who knewfull well that ‘Elohim’ meant ‘Those who came from the sky’, kept the word as a plural instead of falsely translating it as ‘God’, which is why one can still find this plural word ‘Elohim’ in some versions of The Bible, such as those translated by Edouard Dhorme. Under this new light, it is easier to understand where it is written: ‘And Elohim created Man in their image’, especially now that our scientists are beginning to synthesise DNA and will soon create other ‘men in our image’. It becomes even more obvious when we consider how the exploits of flying something which is heavier than air dates back only to the beginning of this century, and for our primitive ancestors, anything coming from the sky just had to be divine. There are still to this day people on a Pacific island adoring empty Coca Cola cans and chewing-gum packets, waiting for the return of the ‘white sky gods and their metal birds’. The Americans had in fact used the island as an air-base when fighting against Japan, but since the end of the war when they packed up and went, the ‘Cargo Cult’ started, with the natives desperately awaiting anything made in the USA to drop from the sky. But the books containing the messages from those people who had created the first humans in a laboratory not only constitute a fantastic demystification of all religions, but also bring an equally fabulous set of techniques for human fulfilment, called Sensual Meditation. The thousands of people associating with Raël, and helping him to spread and publicise these prodigious messages, were able to experience for themselves the marvellous results of these meditation techniques, following the courses of awakening organised 22 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    23 during August atvarious camp-sites around the world, and they now wish to make this available to everyone, by setting up permanent centres of pleasure, awakening and fulfilment. Furthermore, there were many who wished to benefit from this teaching, or at least its basis, in their own time and in their own home, in order to re-harmonise themselves after a stressful day, or even to progress further in their own development and fulfilment. It was in this context that the present work and the basic programme of meditation CDs and audio cassettes was born. SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    1 THE WATCHMAKER’S INSTRUCTIONMANUAL Happy is the one who has pierced the mystery of things VIRGIL The symbol (see left, below) which adorned the cover of the original edition of this book might have shocked you. Rest assured, it had nothing to do with the criminal against humanity who stole the central part, the swastika, and made it the emblem of one of the worst genocides in the history of our planet. In fact the whole symbol represents infinity in time and space. The triangle pointing down represents the infinitely small and the triangle pointing upwards, the infinitely large – obviously, they are both linked. As for the swastika in the centre, it represents infinity in time which, quite obviously, is applicable to both the infinitely small and large.* 24 SENSUAL MEDITATION * Since the publication of the first edition of Sensual Meditation, the original Raëlian symbol has been revised (as above, right) in Western countries out of respect for victims of the Holocaust.
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    Thanks to their25,000 year scientific advance on us, the Elohim have been able to prove that the particles of the atoms which make us up are universes in which one can find planets, on which live intelligent people just like us, and who themselves are composed of atoms whose particles are universes, etc. From there, they were able to prove that the stars of our universe are what make up a particle of a huge atom located somewhere in an intelligent living being, who is perhaps contemplating its own planet’s sky, wondering if there is any intelligent life elsewhere in its universe, a universe which is also but a particle of an atom. The Elohim, these people from space who created us in their laboratory, also discovered that time is inversely proportional to the mass of the universe which it is passing – that is to say, to continue the previous example, during what is for us one second, thousands of years have passed by for the people living on a planet in our big toe, whereas the amount of time equivalent to one of our life-spans is but a fraction of a second for the gigantic being of which our planet is but a particle of one of its atoms. Obviously, for people who have reached such a level of civilisation where they are capable of creating living beings in a laboratory with, as the Scriptures say, ‘a handful of dust’, that is to say, the chemicals contained in the soil of our planet, the characteristics of their creations which they decide to design can vary infinitely. Whether it be the colours of butterfly wings or the shape of a flower’s petals, all this is easy for the Elohim to programme into the genetic code of the species which they are designing. 25 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    What is applicableto the physical characteristics of the individual is also applicable to their mental characteristics. Most recently, we have been able to modify animal behaviour in the laboratory by acting on the chemical reactions within the parts of the brain which determine behaviour, and thus make wolves fearful and lambs fierce. And human science is only just beginning in this area. If we were to create an animal in a laboratory, first of all we would give it its physical aspects, then we must decide upon its mental characteristics. The latter will obviously influence its appearance since if we decided to create a herbivore we would have to think about giving it a dentition fit for grazing. If we wished it to live in a region with a very cold climate we must also think about giving it thick fur, and if it is to live in the snow and other carnivores exist in the same region which would make it too much of an easy prey, then we must make it such that its fur becomes an immaculate white during these dangerous periods. As far as reproduction is concerned, we must think about giving the animal the organs necessary for the growth of the ‘organised cancer’, or rather, the living cells which one day will develop in the mother’s womb into another similar animal – a faithful reproduction. We must also determine that at a certain time of the year our female animal secretes certain substances which give off a particular smell to attract the male so that copulation can occur, and obviously the male himself will have been given olfactory sensors linked to certain centres in his brain which trigger in him the desire for copulation. 26 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    It is alreadywell established that certain female moths emit a smell which the male can smell several kilometres away, which shows the quality of its ‘nose’. Thus we have just seen how we would trigger the desire to copulate in the male and female animal that we wish to make. Next, we must ensure that the act of copulation itself triggers off pleasurable reactions in the brain of both partners so that with the help of the Pavlovian reflex, they would wish to do it again. For this, their sexual organs must be equipped with nerve endings to transmit the stimulation to the brain and trigger the feelings of pleasure. Thus the contact area on the male and female sexual organs must be large enough for the pleasurable sensation to be strong. And so we see that the mental characteristics linked to the functioning of our animal determine to a large extent its physical characteristics. It is important to understand clearly that these characteristics, mental, physical and those related to the behaviour of the animal that we are planning on constructing are all programmed by composing the sequence of the genetic code. This is exactly comparable to the fact that the way the letters of the alphabet are ordered when I write, give either long, hard-to-read phrases or short and clear ones, technical and hermetic, or poetic and enthusiastic – and with the same letters of the alphabet it is possible to trigger reactions of disgust, sexual desire or salivation, etc. in the reader. Instead of ordering letters in a certain way, we can use atoms and molecules which, depending on the sequence in 27 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    which they areordered, will result in the animal having two wings or four legs, or be a herbivore or a carnivore, viviparous or oviparous etc... This genetic phrase which every living creature possesses, is called the genetic code in science, whereas certain esoteric traditions refer to it as the ‘name of each animal’, a name which is its own and to which it ‘answers’. Thus we have seen that when building a living being we can design the physical characteristics that we wish as well as its mental characteristics, in other words, its desires, mannerisms and habits. When the Elohim designed life on Earth, they created an immense variety of animals and plants by balancing the desires and reproductive systems of these creatures so that the whole was capable of reproducing and surviving for as long as the environment remained the same as when they first designed it. To use contemporary fashionable words, one could say that the group of plants and animals as a whole which was created in a laboratory on Earth by the Elohim had to be ecologically balanced. The plants allow the herbivores to nourish themselves, which are themselves eaten by the carnivores, which, when they multiply too much, do not find enough food and so, being weak, die, generally of an epidemic. With few predators surviving these epidemics, the herbivores are then free to multiply again in large numbers, which gives the remaining predators plenty to eat, and the cycle continues indefinitely. This succession of disequilibria which alternately compensate themselves, represents an ecological balance as a whole which makes the totality of the creation viable. 28 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    When the Elohimfinally decided to create people similar to themselves ‘in their image’, as it says in The Bible, they created humans with the identical physical appearance and mental characteristics as themselves. Who knows more about the watch than the watchmakers themselves? No one, obviously. Thus it is clear that all of the human’s mental characteristics were given to him on purpose by those who created him, and therefore the best method of utilising these capabilities can come only from the designers themselves, as an ‘instructions for use’ manual. While on the subject, it is important to underline the difference between Man and animals. Animals automatically develop and fulfil themselves in their environment for the simple reason that they were designed to develop and blossom in their natural habitat but not to modify it. Man, on the other hand, was designed to change the environment. In fact, animals were designed ready made with their tastes and desire which they are incapable of questioning whereas Man is capable of changing all his habits on every level. For example, as far as their habitat is concerned, robin red breasts have always built their nests in the same way, and will always continue to do so, whereas man went from mud huts to sky scrapers, going through intermediary stages such as thatched roofs and igloos. It is precisely this superior intelligence which characterises humans which is the root cause of the difficulty they have in fulfilling themselves and blossoming naturally. When a bird has slept well, eaten well and is cleaning its feathers in the sun, it is automatically in total harmony. It has 29 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    reached its truepotential and has nothing else to do. It is natural for it to feel ‘high’ and it automatically feels good all over because it is programmed never to question itself as far as its behaviour and way of life are concerned. Birds, like all animals, are specifically programmed computers. Man on the other hand, never ceases to question himself and has never ceased to do so ever since he first existed, and that is why he is a creator. Once he has slept well and eaten well, he will start thinking about ways of accumulating food to see him through difficult times, and once that is done, he will give himself to another task, and then another, never ceasing to question and re-evaluate himself at all levels. Even if we were to imagine people who had everything that they needed to live with for their whole life in terms of both housing and food, they would still launch themselves into more and more astounding enterprises, whether these be artistic creations done for the love of art, or the creation of enterprises designed to increase their fortune, or simply so as to have an ‘occupation’. Be it in his habitat, food, work, leisure or even sexuality, Man always seeks change, and this is purely because Man, in contrast to animals, was designed as a self-programmable computer; that is to say capable at all times of questioning, re-evaluating and reconsidering his habits, traditions and morals. Even though Man’s ability to re-evaluate himself continually represents an enormous superiority over animals, and though he must develop this capacity to the full in order to reach full awakening, it is also necessary for him to situate himself regularly according to his environment, that is to say, to realise where ‘he is at’ relative to his circumstances. 30 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    Being aware ofwhat we are precisely at the time of doing this exercise provides us with moments of ecstasy and allows us to be subsequently even more efficient in our capacity to use our auto-reprogramming abilities. This momentary break in Humanity’s frantic race of continual reassessment and self- questioning can be compared to when a bird settles on its branch, enjoying a ray of sunshine and sings for no other reason than for the joy of singing. This is part of the ‘instructions for use’ for the fantastic machines that we are, which the maker is giving to us now that our level of civilisation allows us to understand and use them. Who better than the watchmaker can tell us how to make the watch work? Sensual Meditation, revealed by these people who had come previously from their distant planet to create us in a laboratory, is the simplest and most efficient set of techniques for human awakening and fulfilment, for the plain and simple reason that it is given to us by those who designed us as we are. Certainly, many other techniques now exist, most of them coming from the East, which a long time ago the Elohim had revealed to certain prophets or initiates such as Buddha or other Tibetan monks, but those teachings had been given to primitives who were still dominated by completely absurd superstitions and beliefs, and who, most of them, badly or only partially understood the Elohim’s teachings and had almost entirely distorted them while passing them on to their disciples. Most often, the teachings revealed by the Elohim were mixed together with the primitive beliefs of the times, producing religions which conserved some excellent methods 31 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    32 SENSUAL MEDITATION of awakening,but were unfortunately drowned by an oppressive mysticism and an atrophying ritualism. The original teachings, rediscovered thanks to the recent messages of the Elohim, represent a return to the source, allowing us to understand the concrete basis of all these oriental techniques, which themselves serve as further evidence of the way our creators, from the beginning, have been consistently helping us to improve the living conditions of the creation that they love as their own children – Humanity. Furthermore, it is important to add that a person cannot be totally in harmony if he still mentally harbours false and generally guilt-inducing concepts, arising from primitive and therefore mystical concepts of the universe. This is why certain exercises, themselves excellent, but taught by organisations from the East, found their beneficial effects partially or totally inhibited by the mystical context which in the end almost completely invaded the original teaching. Sensual Meditation allows us to rediscover the techniques of awakening, free from the handicap of centuries-old theological encrustation. A return to the watchmaker’s ‘instruction manual’.
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    33 SENSUAL MEDITATION 2 THE STAGESTOWARDS TOTAL AWAKENING The path which leads to total awakening comprises several stages which can be passed only in a certain order. We cannot climb the top step of a staircase without having first put our feet on the first step. The first step of this staircase is called ‘the sudden dawning’, where it dawns upon us, or where we realise, how mediocre our life is, how mediocre and how lacking in precision our objectives are. We get the feeling of having wasted our time during the course of our life, of having run after diplomas, money, the ideal partner, etc... and suddenly we find ourselves playing out a role in Society or even in the family, a role which we would never have wished to take, if we had ‘had the choice’. Once this realisation of dissatisfaction has hit us, and it follows that in your case it has since otherwise you would not be reading these lines, the next step is that of ‘information.’ When we realise that something seems to be wrong with our life, it is usually due to a ‘trigger event’ stemming from a thirst for information. This trigger event can be the meeting of someone who lives differently from our norm, or what we thought was the best way to live, and yet who seems to be happier than us. Alternatively, it could be the discovery of a book or a film in which what we thought was absolutely
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    unquestionably true suddenlyseems not quite so true. This ‘trigger event’, this beneficial accident, produces in us the realisation of how possible it is for us to live differently, to think in a different way from how we usually do – and even if it may at first sight seem shocking that certain princi- ples drummed into us by our upbringing are being questioned, we still wish to find out more, even if it is just to see if those who live outside ‘our’ norm can really be happy and if their smile might not be hiding despair and anxiety. That is when it is important really to inform ourselves without any preconceived ideas and above all, without trusting the slanderous gossip coming from people who aren’t strong enough to question themselves and who thus prefer to make fun of that which they are afraid of understanding for fear of consequently being even more unhappy than they usually are. Weakness, fear and unhappiness, that is what the minds of those who live tied to their traditions are full of, that is to say, full of habits and superstitions coming from the primitives who preceded us and for whom everything which was unexplained just had to be miraculous, divine or... diabolical... A comet, a black cat, a solar eclipse, everything was a pretext or mysterious signal hailing and forecasting bad luck, since for them everything was a portent of good or bad. Now that we know how to analyse scientifically and explain clearly everything around us, now that we know how to create life in the laboratory, travel into outer space, modify animal behaviour or colour, enable the blind to see thanks to electronic prostheses, now that we can understand all these things, we can realise how ridiculous all these superstitions 34 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    are, and yetwe are still brought up, educated and conditioned by them. That is why, even now that Man walks on the moon, the election of a new Pope makes all the headlines, films about black-magic are the best sellers and the Americans have processions to make the rain fall during times of drought... But since you have chosen really to inform yourself and without a biased point of view, you have begun really to understand by yourself how ridiculous this superstitious and un-informed situation is, which the governments carefully cultivate, since it is in their interest for the populace not to ask too many questions... But let us return to our work programme. Once we have informed ourselves, and it is this stage which we will go through in the next chapter, then a new realisation will dawn upon us as we elevate our level of global awareness; a realisation which will allow us to see to what extent what we used to take for granted as completely natural was, in fact, only the result of the way we were conditioned by our education. Then will come the third step, probably the most important, and to which we will certainly have to return during various circumstances of our life when faced with events which we had not taken into account during our organised clearing out of the refuse of received ideas. This third step is the organisation of a great spring-cleaning of all that controls our behaviour. It is a ‘brain-washing’ which we carry out on ourselves to clean out from this organ all the elements which have been stuffed in pell-mell and which have caused both our more obvious inhibitions as well as those which we are not even aware of ourselves and so 35 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    which are moreannoying and dangerous. Briefly, it consists of questioning deeply all of our actions and reactions so as to become aware of and define those which are due to our educators and those which stem from our very own selves, and then eliminating the former if they are in contradiction with our deepest tastes and aspirations. After having emptied ourselves of all our conscious and unconscious conditioning, which, though we might not realise it, influence all our tastes, likes and dislikes, we can then reach the fourth step where we will try to reprogram ourselves according to our own wishes, and this time not having to listen to, and owing nothing to our educators, parents, or even the interference of our environment. We will reprogram ourselves simply by discovering our real and strictly personal and individual tastes, likes and dislikes. Once we have eliminated the elements which caused the taboos within us, this wilful and voluntary reprogramming can be done by becoming aware of our sensuality, that is to say by the optimal usage of our senses, through which our whole being is linked to the infinite surrounding us and of which we are made up. Then we will be ready to tackle the last stage which is the one from which the infinite staircase rises, leading to total awakening through a global awareness of space and time, resulting in a higher level of consciousness and allowing those who reach it to live in a permanent state of total harmony. But... let us start at the beginning and be careful not to stumble on the first step! 36 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    3 BECOMING AWARE OFONESELF The education that we have received has conditioned us without us being aware of it, and has made of us people pulled between two tendencies hypocritically confused by our educators – the belief in ‘God’ with Man being the fruit of a supernatural creation on the one hand, and on the other, the scientific dogma stating that we are the fruit of a slow evolution due to an unimaginable succession of chance mutations and that our grandfather was a monkey... In fact, there are many ‘scientists’ who back evolution during the week and then go to church on Sunday morning. And if, as a child, you had the misfortune and sacrilegious audacity to have had the ‘wicked’ idea of asking ‘Why?’, nine times out of ten you would have been told to finish your soup and shut up... Why? Simply because your educators themselves were torn between a sacrosanct tradition which they had to pass on to their descendants at all costs and a so-called scientific reasoning which through no virtue of its own, is now considered to be irrefutable by the higher ‘authorities’ who decide to impose such dogmas.* 37 SENSUAL MEDITATION * It is important to note that some scientists are beginning to doubt the theory of evolu- tion, and that an American university is teaching the possibility that life could have been created. A book entitled ‘Evolution or Creation’ shows to what extent the dogma of evolu- tion can be shown as illogical and unscientific. See the bibliography at the end of this book.
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    How do youexpect that living among all of this, your own educators are not themselves unbalanced and ill at ease with themselves? And if an educator is not at ease with himself, it is inevitable that he passes on his fears to those whom he is forming (in this case it would be more exact to say ‘deforming’). The fact of discovering that we are the fruit of an intelligent decision, that we were designed scientifically by people coming from another planet, and that they created us in their own image, ie, capable of understanding where we came from, why we are here, and what we can become – the act of discovering all this changes the whole basis of the problem. And what is more, as was mentioned earlier, we are lucky enough to have been given the ‘instruction manual’ on how to make us tick, by the watch makers themselves! But before talking about the instructions, let us look at what the clock really is and how it works. THE HUMAN BEING – A BIOLOGICAL COMPUTER, SELF REPROGRAMMABLE AND SELF-REPRODUCING We are nothing other than a computer, a sort of machine whose performance capacities are only relatively mediocre when compared to some objects made by humans. For a machine to function, it must first be capable of feeding itself with energy. When we are hungry, we stop working and we feed ourselves to build up our strength. British researchers have designed a metal robot which works all day as a sort of pickup-truck. When its batteries are flat, the machine stops working, and equipped with it own wheels 38 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    and a camera,directs itself to a source of electricity and plugs in to recharge itself. It ‘feeds’ itself just like us, and when its batteries are sufficiently recharged, it unplugs itself and starts to work again. Thus we can see that the capacity of feeding oneself with energy when the need is felt, does not constitute a superiority of man over machine. Furthermore, work is now being done on robots fed by solar energy, capable of storing it up for use during the rainy season which will allow it to work without having to stop to feed itself. In fact, Man is not capable of feeding himself with solar energy which is already a first inferiority of Man compared to machines in the field of power source. Let’s now see whether sight makes us superior. We have just mentioned that some robots are equipped with cameras for them to ‘see’ with, so that they can move about without bumping into obstacles just as we do. These cameras are linked to the robot’s computer which analyse the transmitted images in exactly the same way that our brain does. Still no superiority of man over machines in sight. What is more, we could easily equip our robot computer with multiple lensed cameras, one of them being a zoom lens allowing it to see several miles away, another being a wide angled lens allowing it to see wide areas in one go, another being a microscope allowing it see into the infinitely small and another fitted to see infrared so that it can see at night... Such a simultaneous and instantaneous performance is impossible for the human being who has to use binoculars, a concave lens, a microscope, or infrared glasses to get the same effect and which in any case, cannot all be looked through at the same time... Yet another superiority of machine over man. 39 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    Let’s take anothersense, that of hearing. You all know that we perceive only a small percentage of the sounds around us, but dogs can pick up ultra and infra sounds, and we can equip a robot with ultra and infra sound receptors. What is more, it can also be designed to detect the precise direction from which the sound is coming, as well as its distance from the sound source. We are incapable of such precise skills. The same goes for the sense of smell. It is impossible for us to analyse the chemical constituents of a smell – all we can do is to say ‘it smells good’ or ‘it smells bad.’ The robot, on the other hand, can be designed to analyse instantaneously the chemical constituents of the surrounding smells, to calculate the distance and direction of their source, and even to say whether they are dangerous to man, even if Man cannot smell them himself. As far as the sense of touch goes, we are just as limited. When we touch something, all we can say is ‘it’s hot’ or ‘it’s cold’, or even ‘it’s hard’ or ‘it’s soft’, which, let’s face it, is pretty vague.The robot’s computer however, can measure the precise weight, hardness and temperature of what it touches using its prehensile senses, the equivalent of human hands. Finally, our sense of taste is also limited to the extent that we can say only ‘it’s sweet’, ‘it’s salty’, ‘it tastes good’ or ‘it tastes bad’, allowing us to swallow gullibly any old fish so long as it has been seasoned sufficiently to excite our palate. On the other hand, the computer can be equipped with chemical analysers so as to name the exact constituents of the sub- stance, even though the only use it can have for this ability is not for itself, since it can feed directly from the sun’s rays, but to help humans by informing them about what they are eating. 40 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    Thus we cansee how a simple machine is not only not inferior to Man, but is capable of being given infinitely superior characteristics. All that is left is the sixth sense, extra-sensory perception, an ability which humans almost never use and which a computer could also use much better. Information trans- mission without the use of the five ordinary senses happens every day thanks to radio communication and equipping our robot with a radio emitter-receiver for it to communicate with other robots would be child’s play. So, to conclude, we can say that everything that Man does, a computer can do better. But when it becomes obvious that our sensory characteristics are very limited, maybe you will say that Man’s ‘divine essence’ must reside elsewhere. In his memory? Impossible! As you know, any old pocket computer can store in its memory far more information than can any of our academics, and moreover, can recall it instantaneously without making any mistakes. Computerisation, which is increasingly becoming part of our environment, proves it to us every day: pocket calculators, pocket translators containing the equi- valent of an eight language dictionary, electronic opponents to play chess with us at international championship level... And yet this is only the beginning of computerisation. Each year, electronic components double their capabilities. Some people are already considering the possibility of storing all of Humanity’s knowledge in all disciplines in just one crystal just a few millimetres small! This book that you are reading was written directly onto a disk linked to a revolutionary computerised system, but which will in only a few months, be out of date. And yet, on 41 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    a small disk,the size of a 45RPM record, one can store all the information, every word and every letter of two books like this one. Thus so far no sign of a ‘divine essence’ in all this, nor of any human characteristics which cannot be replaced. What about the ability to create works of art? Not even in that! Already now, computerised composers exist which compose music and play it. Everyone has heard what synthesisers sound like, which are used more and more in popular music. All it is, is a computer capable of reproducing the sound characteristics of every instrument, even the human voice. This machine can be programmed to play a piece of Mozart or Bach with much more precision than any symphony orchestra in the world. Imagine an orchestra with 100 violins. Never will those 100 violins play the music all exactly in time together. There will always be a time gap of a few tenths of a second between the promptest and the last musicians and a few hundredths of a second between each musician. The computer however, can synthesise the sound of 100 violins and can make them all play together exactly to the millisecond, much better than any conductor could ever achieve with human musicians. Some people might say that it is precisely that little time delay between musicians which gives the spice and personality of each conductor but this hesitation itself can be programmed to give the computer a personality identical to the conductor. Yet another advantage of the computer synthesiser is that it can produce much purer sounds than the archaic instruments which have to rely upon the natural acoustics of 42 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    the room inwhich they are used. This is particularly noticeable when during recordings, the sound is distorted by the room’s acoustics and then has to pass through a microphone and amplifier to be recorded, and then passed through an amplifier and loudspeaker to be heard. The synthesiser on the other hand, can send almost totally pure sounds directly to the amplifier without these being in the least bit distorted by the acoustic faults of the room in which it is being played. As composer Jean Claude Risset, in charge of CNRS research, said: ‘there is no limit to the computer which can play difficult pieces and complex rhythms with a precision unattainable by human musicians – and some musicians even wish to use computers simply so as to dispense with musicians.’ What is possible with sounds is also possible with shapes, colours, perfumes and tastes. The painter who draws the curves of a hip is simply drawing an ideal line relative to the numerous other possible lines. The computer can do this too including the defects which characterise certain painters like Modigliani who adorns his subjects with long necks, or Buffet who draws with a maximum number of vertical lines. This the computer can do with ease. In the same way that it can play a piece of music in Bach’s style, so can it paint a subject in the same way as Modigliani. A computer can even find a style which does not exist, by scanning all those which do and designing one corresponding to the public’s taste. ‘The role of the computer in the process of creativity is still in its infancy and is already very promising.’ It was Arnold Kaufman from the National 43 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    Polytechnic Institute ofGrenoble who said that and the immediate future will surpass his predictions. Computers are already capable of creating images, composing music, synthesising smells and drawing architecture etc... We have to face it, even in creativity, man is not superior to machines. What is left? The capacity to reproduce? Not even that. It is easy to envisage the designing of computers programmed to build other computers in their image, capable of creating more of themselves etc, thus designing a ‘species’ capable of proliferating and multiplying. Thus nothing about Man is impossible to reproduce mechanically, and therefore Man is not superior to machines. In fact, we have just seen that Man’s performance is fairly mediocre compared to what is technically possible. Man is simply a biological computer, self-programming and self-reproducing, lost in the infinitely large, composed of the infinitely small and making up and made up from eternity. The only superiority of man over machines is his capacity to decide whether or not he will build those computers which will be at his service, and decide what their limits shall be. In fact he could even give them abilities far superior to his own and even programme them to become the dominant species on Earth, which will eventually destroy its own creators. It all depends on how they will be programmed. However, it seems reasonable to programme them so as to obey us and serve us efficiently. But have we therefore no superiority over machines? And what about the ‘soul’ you might ask? As we have seen at the 44 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    start of thisbook, since the universe is infinite, there can be no centre which proves the existence of a ‘God,’ and since those who did create us did it in a laboratory using a perfect grasp of genetics, the soul does not exist either. Soon, when our most advanced scientists create a 100 per cent synthetic human being, it will prove definatively that there is no soul. However though there is no god, there is infinity which is in us just as we are in it, which is eternal. And if in your mind, that was your definition of the word ‘God’, then you were not wrong. But be careful. Infinity couldn’t care less whatever your actions may be, whether you are altruistic, or murder 1,000 people, it does not mind, for the good and simple reason that infinity has no consciousness of its own, being both everywhere and nowhere. To return to the soul, if to you it means ‘that which gives someone their own individuality or personality’, (following back the etymology of the French word ‘ame’ to its Latin ‘anima’, meaning ‘that which animate’) then we are talking about the genetic code. And in the light of some of the most recent scientific experiments, we notice that it is possible to recreate a living being starting from one of its cells, a process which genetic engineering calls ‘cloning’, just as the Elohim, those people from space who created us in their image, told us. Therefore it will soon be possible to recreate someone after they have died by using the genetic code from one of their preserved cells. But if to you the soul is an ethereal vapour which floats gently away after death and which constitutes our real personality, then you will have to resign yourself to aban- doning this primitive and destabilising concept since, as do 45 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    all these falseideas, it creates a duality between the mind and the body, by considering the body to be in one place while the mind is supposed to be elsewhere, doing something else... Surely those who created us are best placed to know whether or not they designed us with something resembling an ethereal soul. They say that there isn’t one and prove it by being able to create 50 copies of the same person through cloning in the laboratory. If no one intervenes after death to recreate the dead person using his genetic code, then the matter which made up this person will disperse and the person will no longer exist. ‘From dust you came and to dust you will return.’ Therefore, since the soul does not exist, it cannot be con- sidered a superiority of man over machine. But the genetic code, does represent a superiority over a robot’s metal com- puter. Every cell of a living being, whether it be the cell of the hand or foot, contains the information to recreate the whole being. But if we take a bit of a robot’s ‘claw’, we cannot find any information allowing us to rebuild the whole robot again, not unless the robot is biological... What is a biological robot? It is a robot which instead of being made of metal, is made of living matter just like us. To summarise, we have just seen how we are simply machines of modest performance, but able to surround our- selves with machines which are both superior to us and which we designed so as to give us time to create and fulfil ourselves. This will be our privilege only if we decide to make it so; it will not happen by itself. Once we are able to remove all the mystery surrounding us and remove those attitudes which consider that our human 46 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    characteristics are sacred,unintelligible and transcendent, then we can begin to see clearer and get a better idea of ourselves. Thus we become aware that we are part of the Infinite with very limited capabilities. But even though these capabilities might be extremely limited, they still allow us to feel the infinity around us so that we can situate ourselves relative to it, and if we know how, these capabilities enable us to put ourselves in harmony with it. Before closing this chapter, which is designed to destroy in us all false ideas about ourselves, one thing still remains. This is to demystify the act which primitives are so desperate to render sacrosanct, either through ignorance, or more likely by playing on the ignorance of the masses to whom these religions are aimed, and that is ‘the creation of life’. This is the ‘mystery’ which is the last remaining bastion which min- isters of the ‘cults of the uncultured’ shelter behind. In fact the creation of life is not a mystery at all, and it is not by chance that the religions who continue to proclaim that it is a mystery, are losing more and more of their ‘faith- ful’ and consequently have to lead vast publicity campaigns in countries where there is over 90 per cent illiteracy. In this way, they try to compensate for their losses of members in the educated West by trying to get converts in the uneducated countries which are hardly informed about scientific discoveries at all. Therefore the Pope has to travel to South America, the Middle East etc... What is in fact the creation of life in a mother’s womb? Well, simply the creation of a new genetic code, a new ‘genetic phrase’ as we described it earlier. We have seen that 47 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    every living thinghas a ‘name’ whose letters are atoms and molecules. When a living organism is made in a laboratory, a new ‘name’ is created by assembling the atoms and molecules in a certain way, and if this organism is to be human, its ‘genetic name’ will be composed of 45 ‘syllables’, which we call ‘chromosomes.’ If this organism, as is the case here, is capable of sexual reproduction, then it will give half of its ‘genetic name’ which is its own personal phrase, to the egg and when its partner of the opposite sex gives the other half of the genetic code, it will be fertilised and become their child. Thus they will each give 23 chromosomes, one half through the sperm, the other through the egg which when assembled, will form a cell containing a total of 46 chromosomes.The first cell of this new living being will then divide into two cells, then four, eight, etc... until one day it will be born, and eventually become a man or a woman. Nothing magical or mysterious in all of this. It is simply the intelligent organisation of matter so that it is animated when it is created, and the combination of two bits of organised matter during reproduction. Contemporary scientific research continues to contribute to the demystification of life, such as the young girl born in England who was conceived in a laboratory through the artificial combination of sperm and egg, and the re- implantation of these into a surrogate mother’s womb. It is not surprising that this successful experiment was hotly condemned by the Catholic authorities, since it contributes to the removal of the ‘mystery’ of the creation of life, the ‘mystery’ upon which the church built its empire. There are many more experiments in progress which will de-mystify 48 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    things completely. Forexample, one could quote the cloning experiments where a living being is created just from the genetic code taken from a cell of another being which is still alive. An American millionaire has already had a child which was produced purely from one of his own cells without the female element modifying his genetic code. As a summary, and to make it more easily understandable for those who have done a bit of gardening, we can use an analogy, where the technique of cloning can be compared to growing a new plant from a cutting. Natural reproduction is like sowing seeds, and the creation of a new species by modifying an already existing variety’s genetic code can be compared to creating a new hybrid fruit through grafting. However the creation of a new species using only the basic chemicals cannot be compared to anything in this plant analogy. So to complete this chapter, it is also important to de- mystify a concept which if not clarified could leave a dark shadow blocking the process of your awakening. The concept is ‘love’, which one might consider to be an exclusively human privilege, finally affirming our superiority over machines. In fact this is not the case at all! We can just as easily programme a computer to love. But first let us de-mystify this word ‘love’, behind which lie many different concepts. Firstly, if that which you mean by ‘love’ is that which motivates two people of complementary sex to be nice to each other, with the ultimate goal being to couple with each other, then you need only look at birds for example, and their 49 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    nuptial dances, torealise that animals do this far more artistically than most humans. If what we mean by love is the sexual act itself, then the comparison is even easier. Remember that when we design an animal, we equip its sexual organs with nerve endings which make the love making more pleasurable. So by enjoying the pleasure that it procures, reproduction is assured in the animal, without it knowing it. We have already seen that it is very easy to conceive of a computer able to build other computers, that is to say, capable of reproducing itself. We could just as well design these computers to be ‘sexed’, so that each one carries a half- plan necessary for the fabrication of another computer, which means that two complementary half-plans from two comple- mentary computers must come together to make ‘babies.’ We could easily have one computer which we could call ‘male’, designed to give its half-plan to the other and this other which we could call ‘female’ would combine the male’s half-plan with hers to build the new computer which we would call the ‘child’. Whilst we are on the subject, it would be useful also to de- mystify the concept of ‘pleasure’. While we could easily programme both computers to ‘couple’ their respective half- plans in order to reproduce a new computer in their image, for them to ‘go forth and multiply’, we would have to build in them organs which gave them pleasure as they transmitted their half-plans, thus ensuring that they will do it as often as possible. What is pleasure? Most recently, scientists have located pleasure centres in the 50 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    brain. They haveeven been able to stimulate these areas with electrodes and the ‘guinea pig subject’ reported that he was feeling sensations similar to an orgasm. They were also able to prove that it was always these centres which were stimulated when someone was experiencing any sort of pleasure, (such as sexual enjoyment, a military person receiving a medal, a scientist or athlete receiving a reward or a caress etc)... Now we know all about this pleasure centre and the process which allows us to feel any sort of pleasure. In fact, it is simply physio-chemical reactions occurring within the brain which produce electrical discharges experienced as pleasurable. In the same way, other physio-chemical reactions can result in unpleasant sensations. The brain has been programmed to react in this way to certain exterior events and stimuli. This is what controls our behaviour. We seek things which give pleasure and avoid those which give pain. So as to understand this phenomenon clearly, let us go back to the robot which returns to the mains socket to recharge its exhausted batteries. Let us imagine a simple needle on a dial indicating the amount of electricity remaining in the battery accumulator. Beside this dial is another one showing the quantity of electricity entering the robot’s rechargeable batteries when it plugs itself into the mains. When the batteries are almost dead, the needle of the first dial goes almost to zero and triggers a contact relaying a signal to the computer, which is the robot’s brain, informing it that it is time to go to the mains to recharge its batteries. This signal is disagreeable, just as hunger is disagreeable 51 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    when it painsyour stomach when it is soon time to eat after a day’s fasting. So our robot goes towards the mains and plugs in. Then the needle on the second dial is activated showing a maximum reading as it measures the amount of current entering. This triggers off another signal sent to the central computer which experiences it as pleasure, just like the first mouthfuls of a meal, or the first caresses before making love. Gradually, the first needle which indicates the amount of accumulated current will go to the maximum reading, and when it reaches it, another contact will be made, triggering an electrical impulse informing the central computer that the batteries are now full. This impulse will be felt as a pleasurable satiety, in the same way that we feel a pleasurable satiety when our stomach is full after a good meal, or more explicitly, at the moment of sexual orgasm. Then our robot unplugs itself and goes back to work just as we can do after a good meal or sexual relations. For to enjoy doing something, we must have abstained from doing it for a while beforehand, during which we do other things. As we will see later, it is the contrast between things which increase the sensation of pleasure, such as the contrast between hunger and eating, sexual abstinence and sexual activity, etc... We can thus see what the mechanism of pleasure is and consequently it is very easy to understand what love is when we are making love or preparing for it – it is physico- chemical reactions which trigger electrical impulses which the brain experiences as pleasurable and in no circumstances does it represent a superiority of man over machine since we can build a computer which can feel the same sensations. 52 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    53 SENSUAL MEDITATION Everything thatwe do, is done because it gives us pleasure, either directly or indirectly. We eat because it gives us pleasure, we sleep, drink, make love, wash, groom ourselves... because it gives us pleasure. But we also pay our taxes because it indirectly gives us pleasure, ie, the pleasure of not going to prison. The woman who throws herself under a lorry’s wheels to save her child, does it because it pleases her to do so. Otherwise she would not do it. The pleasure that she gets from saving her child is greater than the displeasure or pain that she would feel while being crushed by the lorry’s wheels. The Japanese Kamikaze hurls himself and his plane at the enemy’s ship because he gets more pleasure from the idea of dying for his country than displeasure at the thought of dying, otherwise he would not do it. Altruism is just another form of pleasure. Selfishness is another. But when we consider that the quality of pleasure that we get when giving pleasure to others is proportional to the number of people to whom we are giving pleasure, then altruism is a superior form of pleasure. What is more, the quality of pleasure is also proportional to what we consider the quality of the people to whom we are giving the pleasure. To satisfy a foolish crowd by giving them the pleasure of hearing what they want to hear, is far inferior to giving pleasure to one person if this person is wise or seeks to become wise. Between the rabble calling out for bread and distractions, and the person who is alone on the mountain to elevate his level of consciousness, it is to the latter that we must choose to give pleasure if we wish to elevate ourselves. Even the person who dedicates his life to Humanity, does it because it is pleasurable and the reason why I am writing
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    54 SENSUAL MEDITATION these linesis because it gives me pleasure to pass on to you the teachings which were given to me. Thus we can see that even if we included what we call ‘noble’ sentiments behind the word ‘love’ such as altruism or devotion, though they may be nothing to do with sex, they are still based on the pleasure which they provoke in those who carry them out. So it would be very easy to programme our robot so that it is able to put the interests of its child, companion, group or species above its own life. It is just a matter of needles and dials... And so we have shown that even love for others doesn’t represent a superiority of man over machine. To conclude, what every concept we attribute or ‘hide behind’ the word ‘love’, it cannot be called a privilege only of Man, since love is mechanically reproducible. Finally, one more word on the human ability to put ourselves in harmony with the Infinite which makes us up and which we are a part of. Even this ability cannot be called a superiority of man over machine. It would be very easy to conceive of a computer programmed to be aware of infinity, capable of feeling the infinitely big and infinitely small through the sensors which we have already mentioned, so that it can ‘feel where it is at’ and harmonise the energies which animate it. This computer would be able to meditate with its senses, just as we are going to do, ie, practising Sensual Meditation. Yet another non-superiority over machines! Incidentally, the etymology of ‘meditate’ comes from the
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    Latin ‘meditare’, whichmeans to exercise. To exercise one’s senses, that is the aim of Sensual Meditation. SEXUAL DIFFERENTIATION When using the example of the male and female robots, where the former gives his half-plan to the latter, who needs both plans to make a child robot, those who find it difficult to admit that we are not superior to machines could hide behind the question as to why some children turn out to be male while others are female. We already know that in humans ‘his’ or ‘her’ sex is defined by the spermatozoon, that is to say the half-plan coming from the male, and nowadays, during artificial insemination, we know very well how to choose which sex we wish our child to be, since male and female spermatozoa are very easy to differentiate and separate. So when a man transmits his sperm to a woman, if it is a male spermatozoon which combines with the woman’s half- plan (the ovule), then the child who is born will be a boy, and if it was a female spermatozoon, then a little girl will see the light of day in nine months’ time. And so it is exactly the same with our robots who are capable of reproducing themselves. The robot which we will call a female robot, who will build another robot called the child robot, must have a complete plan (blueprint) to be able to build it. But she has only a half-plan which she must combine with another half-plan given to her by the male robot. It is the male’s half-plan which will determine the sex 55 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    of the childabout to be built. When the male robot ‘couples’ with the female robot to give her the half-plan, in fact he gives her a large number of them, half of which are male half- plans, the other half, female half-plans. Only one will end up combining with the female’s half-plan and it will be the one which chance put in the right place at the right time which will do it, in exactly the same way that only one spermatozoon among millions will manage to combine with the ovule during human conception. 56 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    4 VOLUNTARY DEPROGRAMMING Every reactionand all our behaviour is due to the programming which we underwent throughout our education. From the moment we were born, we have been unwittingly fashioned by our environment, parents, friends, educators, newspapers, films, etc... all have conditioned us to make us what we are today. The way we sleep, wash, eat, dress, talk, walk, and even the way we judge others, everything, absolutely every part of our behaviour, is due to this unconscious conditioning to which we have been subjected. Here again, to understand this phenomenon clearly, we must compare ourselves to a computer. The latter does only what it is programmed to do and has in its memory only what was put in it. It is just like us, the only difference being that we are capable of becoming aware of our programming, of analysing the elements and of eliminating those which seem stupid in order to replace them with others. That is why we are computers capable of programming ourselves, therefore auto programmable. The problem is that we have been programmed not only according to our own tastes, but by people who simply pass on and instill in us the same elements which were imposed on them without themselves having questioned them. For 57 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    thousands of years,Man has been transmitting in this way, from generation to generation; a mode of conditioning, which through time became loaded with superstitions, fears and mysticism characteristic of all primitive societies. The first stage of awakening consists of a re-questioning and re-evaluation of all our behaviour, and I mean all, from the way we eat to our own way of walking, including every reaction that we are in the habit of having in whatever circumstances, however harmless and insignificant they might seem to us. The way we dress, to take an example, is not universal. We could just as well have been born in North Africa and worn a djellaba, or in the bush and worn a piece of cloth. Though the latter might not quite correspond to the requirements of our climate, the former certainly could. But for our parents, men wore shirts and trousers, and we wear the same thing as them, even though there is no objective reason to do so. The same goes for the way we eat. Had we been born in China, we would be eating with chopsticks, and in certain parts of Africa, with our fingers. The use of the fork was not our choice, it was imposed upon us by our educators, even though it was not necessarily the best way. Take Chinese cook- ing for example, where food is served already chopped into small pieces, thus removing the need for a knife. Yet we (in the West) go on regardless with our custom of dishing out food which everyone must laboriously cut up on their own plate. In this way, consider every act which you carry out during one day, and analyse it objectively, asking yourself precisely why you acted thus. You will be surprised to discover that there will be very few of them, maybe none for some people, 58 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    which you didconsciously, choosing to differ from what your parents do. Admittedly, not everything taught to us during our education is bad, and certain elements can be kept as they are, but the important thing is to realise what is behind everything that we do. The operation becomes more delicate when we start analysing our reactions to actions and personalities of others. While it might be amusing (for a Westerner) to eat with chopsticks or wear a djellaba because of their exotic aspect, it becomes infinitely harder, once we have been conditioned to hate Arabs or make fun of homosexuals, to seek to understand them so as to accept them as they are. How many times in our lives have we heard Arabs being talked of badly by people who consider them an inferior race, just because our ancestors dominated them with violence? So many times, that one day we even ended up repeating it. How many times have we heard of homosexuals being described as abnormal or perverted by people so ill at ease with their own selves, that they were afraid that these differences might uncover similar tendencies long buried within themselves? So often, that we ended up by saying the same stupid things ourselves. The awakened person enriches himself through contact with the differences which constitute the personality of others. The closed minded person atrophies his brain by fighting these differences. And even as he dumbly insults them by using the same old clichés that, unknown to him, he was inculcated with, he would not be able to remove these differences. 59 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    The point istherefore to extract and sort out all the ideas which we received from those who shaped us. ‘This one seems good for such-and-such a reason, therefore I keep it – that one seems bad, I eliminate it.’ The criteria for choosing which ideas to conserve must depend upon what we think after having informed ourselves about them, rather than what our educators’ opinions were. This would be useless if one said merely: ‘This idea must be good since my parents thought like that’ – in fact, we should regard any of our ideas which are identical to those of our parents with complete suspicion. Whether we are talking about Arabs or homosexuals, we should first meet one of them without any preconceptions, open ourselves to them and try to understand their reasoning, and then, only having done this, can we make up our own minds, being careful not to generalise from the personal characteristics of what may be the only subject whom we met, but basing our judgment only on the general points of the discussion. But where this self questioning is essential in the hope of elevating our level of consciousness is in the area which concerns our sexuality and our conception of love. LOVE OR SELFISHNESS We have been continually impressed with a conception of love which implies definite and absolute possession and which has been bequeathed to us by thousands of years of fear and anguish. In the past, one would attack a village to acquire their gold, their horses, and... their women. All these 60 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    things were consideredto be goods capable of being exchanged and bartered without the slightest scruple. After having recognised that if ‘man’ had a soul, then ‘woman’ must have one too (the Church doubted it for quite a time), after having granted them the right to vote (barely a century ago, and still not everywhere), we still do not recognise women’s right to do freely with their body as they wish, by refusing them the right not to give life even if they do not want to (condemnation of abortion and contraception by the Church and certain governments). What is more, if we kill someone whom we do not love, in order to steal their money, we can be condemned to life imprisonment, even death; but if we were to kill someone whom we claim to ‘love’ – what is called a ‘crime of passion’ – we can sometimes get off with only five or six years in prison! This means that we are living in a society which is encouraging its members to kill those they love. The simple fact of conceiving that one can kill someone that one claims to love proves that we have quite a peculiar idea of love. Those who think in this way are in fact con- fusing love and selfishness, two things which are, however, very different and incompatible. In fact, the one who really loves someone thinks only of giving, but he who loves himself, and who is therefore selfish, thinks only of taking. The selfish person is afraid that his partner might get more pleasure with someone else and abandon him, which will deprive him of the pleasure which he is in the habit of receiving, because what is important above all for him, is his personal pleasure. The one who truly loves, hopes that his partner might meet 61 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    someone who willgive her even more pleasure, since what is important above all for him is the happiness of the other. The selfish person watches over his partner so that she won’t risk meeting someone else who will give her pleasure. The one who truly loves, tries to facilitate his partner’s contacts with other people who correspond to her tastes. When the partners of the selfish people meet someone who gives them pleasure, they will feel that they are stealing this happiness and will find it even better as forbidden fruit, which will bind them even more to their accomplices. When the partners who are truly loved meet someone else who gives them pleasure, they will be grateful to their usual partner who had encouraged them to live these marvellous moments with someone else, and in most cases, they will both be enriched by this new experience. And if the other really meets someone who fulfils them even more, then the one who truly loves will be filled with happiness at the thought that the one he loves is even happier than before, even if it is with someone else. The selfish person prefers to keep ‘his property,’ he prefers his companion to be unhappy with him rather than happy elsewhere. And if that happens, he takes his gun to kill his ‘loved one’... because he prefers that the one he claims to love is dead rather than happy with another. He does not see his partner’s happiness, he only sees the pleasure that a stranger will take from the body of someone who belongs to him. It is exactly the same as a dog, who though not hungry, will not tolerate another dog approaching his bone. He’ll bare his teeth and bury his goods just like the selfish person, since for the latter, his partner belongs to him, just as the dog owns the 62 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    bone. All thatcounts is the pleasure that it gives him, and he prefers to remove it than see someone else benefiting from it. But so as to better understand the process which leads to the curse that is jealousy, which is but a form of selfishness, let us return to our auto-reprogrammable robots. We saw that it was very easy to create a strain of ‘sexed’ robots, each possessing half a plan so that while ‘coupling’ they would create one complete plan and so allow the ‘female’ to make a ‘child’. We also saw that to incite our robots to reproduce, we needed to render the act of coupling very pleasurable, so by equipping their sexual organs designed to transmit and receive their half-plans with nerve endings, the meeting of the two would generate pleasure. When a ‘male’ robot meets a ‘female’ robot for the first time, they get to know each other, that is to say, they mutu- ally discover a part of each other’s programme and if they get on, that is to say, if their programming leads them to a certain ‘spiritual’ harmony, then they can let themselves satisfy the sexual desire building up in them, and connect. They may then decide to live together so as to benefit as often as possible from the pleasure which they feel when united. Then, one day, one of our robots might meet another robot whose apparent programming, whose ‘charm’ or... whose bodywork will strongly attract it. It is at that point that the habitual companion of our machine will have the choice between two forms of behaviour – it could seek the enrich- ment of its partner’s programming with another and even encourage it, or it could prohibit all contact with other robots of complementary sex. 63 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    If it behavesin the second way, it can only be because it was programmed to behave in this way, since otherwise it could not consider itself to be the owner of another entity completely separate from its own body. How can a person who meets another among the billions populating our planet suddenly say to himself ‘here is the only individual with whom I shall henceforth have intimate relations, and even if I meet others who appear to correspond to my tastes, I shall stay faithful to the first, for the one and only reason that luck had it that they were there first.’ That, in a nutshell, is ‘fidelity’. In fact, it is a striking observation that in many countries still undergoing the consequences of primitive civilisation, women are still considered as merchandise to be bought. In the West, it’s the father who provides the dowry for his daughter to find a spouse, who is often already interested in marrying her, whereas in the primitive societies, it is the husband-to-be who must offer the father of the young woman farm animals or other such presents. This mixing between commerce and human relationships is scandalous. Potentially it can generate feelings of ownership which can lead to slavery. If it is tempting to consider someone whom one has just met as one’s property, purely because one has become used to their presence, then it is even more likely to be so if one has ‘paid’ for such a companion. Awakened people not only do not fear losing their partners, by encouraging them to live out all the experiences which tempt them, but on the contrary, they find themselves enriched by this and become even closer, especially as their 64 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    sensitivity develops bythe contact with people of differing personalities. There also, contrast is a factor in the awakening process. All this does not mean that you must force yourself to change partners in order to have a good chance of awakening yourself. One can be just as likely to have the good luck of having a companion who always knows how to be different while still being the same person, and who knows how to bring imagination and fantasy into the relationship which is indispensable to escape from habit, which is love’s mortal enemy. Thus the blossoming of each partner can continue in a permanent exchange of information, allowing each to benefit from the reflections and discoveries of the other and mutually developing their sensuality and consequently their level of awareness. But though one must not force oneself to have experiences with others which one could live more intensely with one’s partner, the whole, the composite organism which one forms with the latter must be an entity totally open to the exterior, that is to say, permanently ready for intimate contact with a third party. Each must understand that the enrichment of the other will enrich themselves. Awakening is the permanent development of one’s ability to communicate with one’s environment and one’s capacity for analysing and integrating (linking) the information transmitted to us by our senses. In fact the word ‘intelligence’ etymologically means just that, since it comes from the Latin ‘intelligere’ meaning ‘interlinking of things’, ‘ligere’ meaning ‘to link’. Awakening 65 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    is therefore adevelopment of one’s intelligence and one’s capacity to understand, to comprehend; the word ‘comprehend’ being derived from the Latin ‘comprehendere’ meaning ‘to bring together’. It is also interesting to note that the word ‘consciousness’ comes from the Latin ‘consciencia’ which means ‘know together.’ Thus by elevating our level of consciousness, we raise our understanding and knowledge of the Infinite which is within us and which surrounds us. This elevation allows the infinitely small within us and the infinitely large of which we are part, to ‘know itself together’ within us. HOW HABITS ATROPHY US Habit, on the other hand, progressively atrophies the mechanisms for perceiving events. When we have just moved into a new flat and walk down the street for the first time, we notice everything, windows, colours, music, people we cross in the street, everything seems interesting. After a few days, we begin to perceive much less of the neighbourhood’s atmosphere and our mind is filled more with our own personal introspections as we make our way to work. Then, with time, we may end up moving like a sleepwalker, perceiving almost nothing of our environment. We could almost go home reading the paper. That is habit. And when we behave like this with a partner, we progressively atrophy our capacity to communicate with our surroundings and diminish our intelligence. The person whom we met, and whose appearance grabbed 66 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    us by thefeeling that it gave out, whose voice we found so charming, whose fragrance so intoxicating, now we live in their presence without even being aware of their existence. By repeatedly eating the same things in the same way, wearing the same clothes, making love at the same time, in the same position, we act mechanically, and allow the quality of pleasure obtained by our actions to become increasingly reduced, whereas it would hardly need anything, (it would take only a tiny bit of extra effort) to begin to re- discover the pleasure of marvelling at the life we lead and at each instant which passes, which we will never be able to live again. It is in fact striking to observe that the progressive disintegration of faculties of an individual who allows himself to be invaded by habit is exactly comparable to the gradual decrease in enthusiasm of a population who allowed themselves to be choked by tradition. This is why, if we wish to reach a maximum awakening of our faculties, we must live a life of maximum contrasts. Not only visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory and gustatory contrasts, but also sexual and intellectual contrasts; basically in all ways of being, so as to make our life a totally original work of art, full of imagination and fantasy. Bear in mind that etymologically speaking, the Greek word ‘phantasia’ means ‘apparition’ and ‘imagination’, with imagination obviously being the apparition of images in the brain which are wilfully produced by the combination of known but previously unconnected elements which become linked by the intelligence (inter-ligere). But so that these contrasts produce the desired effects, we must ensure that every one of the successive elements which 67 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    come together toform these effects must be experienced as intensely as possible and that we miss none out. That is why every moment in our life must be lived to the fullest. We must ‘grab the moment’ as the poet would say, and ‘the poet is always right because he sees beyond the horizon’, (‘le poete a toujours raison qui voit plus haut que I’horizon’). We must live every second as if it were our last with all the cells of our body, especially those which make up our receptors, through which we are aware of our surroundings. It is striking to realise, that when a loved one dies, we think back to the moments that we lived out with them, and regret not having given them more love or shown how much we loved them. Only death gives us this awareness, allowing us to realise how this negligence is irreparable. The poorer one’s level of awareness, the more he despairs at the death of a loved one.That is because he did not live those moments passed together intensely enough and he suddenly realises that it is too late to do so now. On the other hand, an awakened person does not grieve at the death of someone close, since he knows that he fully appreciated every second shared with that person, that he gave all the love that he could give, and that there was nothing more that he could have done to make him or her happier. We also feel this intense emotion when someone whom we are fond of departs on a journey. In fact, it is often said that ‘leaving is a little death’ and this is because one is aware at that moment that our loved one could easily disappear en- route and one might never see him or her again. Therefore we seize that instant as we wave goodbye to him or her, 68 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    69 SENSUAL MEDITATION appreciating itfully, and are full of regrets for not having also intensely lived all the moments during the days spent in their company. It is also interesting to note that certain reactions of jealousy are caused by the lack of awareness of time passing when with a loved one. In fact, when our partner announces that he or she wishes to leave us, we suddenly think back to the times when we could have given a lot more love, but which we neglected and let pass without living intensely. So we then wish to start all over again and try to behave better, but after beautiful promises, we fall back into routine and habit until separation becomes inevitable. We experience this separation as a failure because it shows up our inability to live as we wish and be aware constantly of our actions so as to give the maximum amount of pleasure to this person we love. And yet, if we lived out every moment really intensely, all this would be possible, and all this not in order to keep the other person with us, but simply for the pleasure of not losing even one instant passing us. SEIZING THE MOMENT In fact one cannot live every moment intensely for any reason other than for the pleasure of living each moment intensely. That is why the awakened person accepts separations with joy, since he knows that at every moment he gave the best of himself, that he enjoyed thoroughly the essence of every second and that he will fully enjoy the minutes yet to come during the separations. These separations will themselves be
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    enriched by thememories of someone to whose awakening he contributed and whose harmony will in turn bring benefit to others. The world we live in is responsible for a lowering of the level of consciousness, especially as far as time perception is concerned. We reach adolescence without even having realised that our childhood has gone by, then we find ourselves married with children ourselves and we didn’t even notice our adolescence, then we discover ourselves old, without having noticed our lives going by. And we still feel that we haven’t done what we wanted to do, or enjoyed fully the satisfaction of each age. We become shadowed by solitude and despair, and begin to hate the young, thinking that they know happiness which we’ve never had. Thus back to jealousy again, where all that is needed to break this uninterrupted cycle which leads us like sheep from womb to tomb is a few moments of pause, so as to live the passing of time in a different way. We jump from one action to another, without appreciating fully any of them, in a sort of constant flight forwards where we look forward constantly to what we are going to do, without being conscious of what we are doing right now. With joy, we imagine what we are going to do in the evening after work, but when we get back home, we switch on the television and since the programme is pretty mediocre, we watch it while looking forward to tomorrow’s programme. And the next day, we do it all over again. The same goes for our annual holidays, we always think next year’s will be better, but when we are actually there, we say ‘it was better last year’ and we start thinking about next year’s ones... 70 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    71 SENSUAL MEDITATION When ourpartner is expecting a child, we imagine it playing with us and asking us questions, but when it is old enough to do so, we tell it to shut up and go to bed. Until one fine day, we realise that we are old without having had the time to live out the moments which have definitely passed. And yet it is so easy to stop unconsciously letting events fly past us and learn to enjoy them fully, one needs simply to open one’s eyes, one’s ears and all one’s senses and to pay attention to what is around us. We need to become aware mentally of our position in time, realising how all the events in time made us what we are and put us where we are. This mental re-situation in time must be carried out by re- living all the events of our existence which marked us, as far back through our childhood as we can go, remembering the faces, the voices and the smells of those who knew us when we were small, re-living those scenes which remain engraved somewhere in our neurons, up to the present time, including the teachers who influenced us, our first contacts, our first flirts, or our first job, etc. In this way, we will rediscover progressively the path which made us what we are, we will find the common thread linking all the events which moulded us to make the individual which we know today. Once we have done that, we will need to see if the life that we lead is the one which we enjoy living and if that is not the case, then we must fix ourselves objectives so that it does become what we wish. Having made this link with our past and what we wish our future to be, all that needs to be done is to live every instant with intensity, bearing in mind that it may be the last. To live an event fully, one needs to be aware at the very
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    moment that oneis experiencing it, of the joy that one had when looking forward to it and to the pleasure that one will have when recalling it. Someone said ‘the best moment of love is when one is climbing up the staircase.’ This is true for mediocre people. For the action itself to bring us even more pleasure than did expecting it or remembering it, we must be conscious while carrying out this action, of the joy which we felt when going up the stairs and the memory that one would keep of the occasion afterwards. What is more, this technique also allows us to obtain a better memorisation of the event, which will enable us, simply by thinking about it, to re-live it with an intensity almost as great as when it first occurred. Finally, it is not possible not to mention masturbation while still on this fundamental subject of sexuality and its role in the awakening and fulfilment of the individual. MASTURBATION – AN INDISPENSABLE STAGE By stopping people from discovering the pleasures of self eroticism that their bodies give them, or by inflicting them with guilt at the highest level and associating touching oneself with evil, calling it unnatural and even dangerous or, as has been done for some time now, by telling those who indulge that it could make them blind, mad or paralysed, by doing any of these things, one is reducing the capacities of thousands of young people. Those who dare tell such things to adolescents, who are entering a period of hyper-sensitivity due to major physical 72 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    and hormonal changes,are simply criminals. How many of their own children did they give life-long complexes to and turn them into maniacs, ‘impotents’ and ‘frigids’? Now that science has been able to demonstrate how masturbation not only does not present any of the dangers that the medieval oracles predicted of it, but also that it is indispensable for the harmonious development of an individual during the critical period when one discovers one’s own body, it is time to denounce out loud all those, including the Church first and foremost, who peddled such foolish and guilt inducing idiocies. For adolescents, the act of discovering that, all of a sudden, their sexual organs give them enormous sensations of pleasure is fundamental to their development. A feeling of guilt created by their environment will in no way keep them from touching themselves, but instead they will continue to do so in a conflicted state of mind where the individual will begin to feel disgust toward their temptations, and as they unavoidably succumb, they will begin to feel disgust for their bodies, bearing the consequences for the rest of their lives. The most deeply unbalanced will be those rare cases who will be intimately convinced of the need for ‘abstinence’ from this self-eroticism known as masturbation, and who will abstain at huge cost and effort against themselves. This will make them harsh and cold individuals whose sensitivity will be reduced enormously, with all the consequences that this entails, both physically and mentally. One must also add to this list of children seriously traumatised by being made to feel guilty of their natural reactions, all those who though they did not suffer such a 73 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    treatment, were notinformed by parents who were too afraid to face such a task and happy to say that ‘one must not talk about anything touching upon sexuality or their organs.’ More often than not, these parents themselves were badly informed and suffering from the sequels of a mystico- religious education seeing the body as bad and the mind as good. However, all those who suffered such a guilt inducing education or who were lucky enough only to have to cope with the problem of awakening themselves, seeing as they could not rely on the illumination of their parents who were themselves too ashamed to even take the time to help their offspring understand what was happening to them, all those, and this is of special importance to the first lot whatever their age, can re-learn how to love the body and its reactions. They can re-learn to love their sexual organs and the pleasure which they can give them in all freedom and without the slightest feeling of guilt. What is more, they can re-live their so important discovery of self-eroticism, of which they had been deprived, and their adolescence in all awareness without all that they had previously suffered. If this rebirth towards one’s own sexuality is important for men, it is even more so for women, since as Betty Dodson says in her marvellous book ‘The Feminine Orgasm’, ‘masturbation is the basis of sexual activity. Everything else that we do is no more than the socialisation of our sexual life.’ Among other things, through its excellently done illu- strations, this book helps women to become aware of the beauty of their sexual organs which a male dominated society has always degraded and debased. 74 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    The first thingto do in order to re-live the adolescence which one has been deprived of, is to love one’s body, even, and especially, the part which is able to give us the most pleasure and then learn how to discover and increase one’s understanding of this organ so as to heighten the quality of joy that one can get from it. The best way to understand fully how one’s sexual organs work and to discover which caresses produce the strongest sensations of pleasure in the brain, is to experiment on oneself. No one can direct our fingers better than we can do ourselves so as to reach the exact spots which satisfy us most, and which differ for each individual anyway. We can inform our partners of our specific tastes on the subject, so that they can do the things which we like, but to teach what we like to others, we must first teach it to ourselves. While our sensuality is our link with Infinity surrounding us, self-eroticism is one of the most efficient ways to set off on the internal exploration of our computer. Self-eroticism is the lever which sparks off the physical reactions where men liberate their ‘half-plans’ and where for women, their organs become receptive for the meeting of the ‘half-plans’. It is also very important that those who live as a couple discover their capacities of self-eroticism together. In fact they could be even stronger precisely because of the presence of each other’s bodies. In this case too, the selfish mediocre person will not accept that his partner masturbates in his presence, since the person whose only use is to give him pleasure, is beginning to get pleasure by herself. What then is the use of his virility which 75 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    he is soproud of and which he considers as his only unchallengeable superiority over women? The selfish person is jealous even of the hand of his partner. The awakened person, on the contrary, rejoices at the sight of the person they love being happy and discovering her own profound mechanism of pleasure. Once we have completed the destruction of ideas received concerning the basis of our sexuality, which is itself the roots of the tree of our personal blossoming, we can now think through once again in the same way, all our behaviour patterns, considering all the ways and all the subjects which make up our environment and which is our life. By questioning everything which constitutes our personality, we are in fact carrying out a great spring cleaning and after having done this, we can go on to the next stage. However, we must bear in mind throughout our existence, that whenever we are faced with an issue which we have never thought about ourselves, we must proceed in the above way so that our reaction is a true reflection of our own thought. CREATING A VOID When the first day of self questioning and analysis of apparent personality has been completed, it is useful to practise the first exercise. This consists of creating a void in oneself and clearing out all the ideas which are jostling about within our minds and which create tensions most trying for our equilibrium. One starts by sitting on the ground, either cross-legged or in any other position in which one finds comfortable, while 76 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    breathing deeply forabout 12 minutes and concentrating on one’s breathing and nothing but one’s breathing. Then we concentrate on the fact that we are concentrating on nothing. The point is to clear out any idea appearing in our mind, whatever it might be, and with practice, manage to have no thoughts surfacing in our minds, not even the thought of not having any. As we say earlier on, the brain is nothing more than a com- puter with electric currents running through it in all direct- ions. This exercise is designed to balance these currents so as to obtain calmness and serenity. After practising this for a few minutes, we are then ready to act and think more efficiently. When seeking this absolute void, it is as important to cut oneself off totally from the outside world as it is from the inside one. The aim is to try to become ‘vegetable’ for a few moments, in fact, even more vegetable than plants, since we know that plants can feel their environment. One could almost say that we are trying to become mineral. No noise, no movement from anyone or anything, no odour and no sound is perceived by someone who is creating the void. This exercise is possible even in the middle of a crowd in a bustling street. In fact it is particularly useful for those living or working in a noisy environment. In a way, we are putting ourselves into a state of sensory fasting. And this fasting, like all forms of positive abstinence, is designed to make us better appreciate the perception of what we were depriving ourselves of voluntarily. In fact, before embarking on the process of awakening, it is extremely useful to fast for a day, both sensorially and so far 77 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    as food isconcerned, just drinking a lot of water to purify our organism. To manage keeping a permanently new state of mind, it is of capital importance to be aware that we never perform an action proper to ourselves, but all our actions are merely reactions to something else. The only action which we can decide upon personally, is not to have a reaction. Everything that we do during our life which we think are actions are in fact no more than a succession of reactions. The simplest fact of being born is no more than the react- ion to the mating of our parents which occurred nine months beforehand. Then we cried because we were hungry and we were hungry because we burned energy through living, etc... Now you are reading this book, and that is due only to an advertisement or an interest in the subject. An interest in a subject which was only a reaction following the education given to you, or a reaction against this education. In this way, we can trace back all our reactions to our birth, then to that of our parents, going right back to the first humans who were created. And they themselves were created only as a reaction of our creators who had reached a level of scientific know- ledge allowing them the wish to do such an experiment. And these creators themselves lived only as a succession of reactions, etc. We could continue this train of thought, which is only a reaction, indefinitely. In fact, that would contribute to us becoming aware of infinity. As for myself, I am transmitting this teaching as a reaction to the meeting with the extra-terrestrials who asked me to do so and who are guiding us. Thus it is, when we become aware of the infinite series of 78 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    79 SENSUAL MEDITATION reactions thatwe have had ever since we existed, and which we thought were actions, that we must understand the importance of always being conscious of the reactions which we chose to have. When people jostle us in the street or insult us, they expect us to have certain reactions which they might hope for if they wish to fight us. If we react with further insults, we are providing just those reactions which they are waiting for, so that they can then become violent. If on the other hand, we refuse to react to their insults and continue on our way, thus refusing to give a reaction, we have then performed our own action, proper to our own self. When we are doing the exercise where we create the void, refusing all reaction to our environment as well as to our thoughts, we are entering a situation where our action becomes proper to ourselves. The person who initiates this process, escapes the uninterrupted cycle of unconscious successive reactions and consequently begins to elevate his level of consciousness.
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    5 VOLUNTARY REPROGRAMMING DISCOVERING OUROWN TRUE TASTES After having voluntarily deprogrammed ourselves and having cleared out our minds by doing the void, we can now awaken our whole being to our immediate environment and then to the infinity which encompasses us, through that which links us to all this, our senses. ‘They have eyes, but they do not see, they have ears, but they do not hear’, such is a description of the people who surround us and who we resembled before we became aware of ourselves. In exactly the same way that when a baby is born, it progressively discovers the world in which it is cast, through the sense of touch, taste, smell, hearing, and sight, so too shall we be reborn through our senses to all that surrounds us except that this time we shall be totally aware of the process. The act of developing our sensuality will allow us to discover the things that deep down we really don’t like, even though in the past, we thought that we liked them because we accepted and became used to them through our conditioning. By the same token, it will also allow us to discover that there are many other things that deep down we 80 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    81 SENSUAL MEDITATION really likeeven though we thought that we hated them because our education did not give us the opportunity to try them out. The functioning of our senses is based on the perception of contrasts, such as contrasts in temperature or roughness for the sense of touch, in flavours for the sense of taste, in fragrances for the sense of smell, and in shapes and colours for vision. To develop our sensuality means to develop our ability to perceive changes through our senses, especially the effects that these produce in us. The mediocre person perceives only the large differences existing in the food that he swallows at great speed, and besides that, his taste buds have also deteriorated through alcohol, tobacco or stimulants. For him, it is totally incomprehensible that one could taste a difference in two types of water. If you are in this category, do not worry, for once you have given up smoking, the sense of taste returns bit by bit, and after a few weeks begins to develop normally. This same mediocre person perceives differences in smells only when they are huge. For him, it either ‘smells good’ or it ‘smells bad’ and nothing else. Don’t bother asking him if he noticed that his partner put roses in the lounge. Unless he saw them, he won’t even realise that they are there. For the sense of hearing, it is exactly the same, so long as there are drums and an electric guitar, then it is music. Grasping the subtleties of classical music or synthetic sounds is out of the question. The same goes for sight, the colours on the television are set at a maximum so that the contrast will be as large as
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    possible. No chancein him grasping the subtleties and colour ranges of a master-painting or spotting a flower in the middle of a field. And finally for the sense of touch, this insensitive person, who unfortunately represents the majority of our contemporaries, does not know how to caress. He can hardly recognise hot from cold and is totally incapable of distinguishing the softness of two cloths. For him, to caress means to knead brutally and the only reason why contact with feminine skin is pleasurable is because it precedes a brutal and impersonal ejaculation which is accomplished from time to time, more often than not, only because it is a conjugal ‘duty’. Let us quickly forget this horrific description which, sadly, is that of the majority of present day ‘humans’, to look at how it could be otherwise and especially how to get there. It is all based on an improvement in the perception of contrasts. But before proceeding any further, it is most important to make the following point: no valid improvement of one’s sensuality can be obtained by someone who smokes, even if it is just a few, or who drinks alcohol, or who takes excitants including tea and coffee, or obviously who does all these at the same time. It will be useless to try to refine one’s perception of infinity while continuing to clog up one’s perceptual organs. It is a bit like putting cotton-wool in your ears before going to listen to a concert. Let us start with the sense of touch. To improve our tactile perception means to improve our capacity to differentiate between the temperatures and textures of things that we are 82 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    83 SENSUAL MEDITATION touching, bybecoming aware in an increasingly subtle way of the effects that they produce in our brain. We start with the things that contain the largest differences and then we whittle down these differences until we have great difficulty in perceiving them. Thus we define our degree of tactile sensitivity, and through exercises, we manage to refine the quality of perception while we ourselves will be witness to our own progress. When we caress something or someone, we must be totally at the tip of our fingers, so as to become what we are touching, and fit into the slightest contour, while all the time enjoying fully the effect that this has on us. The way to start developing the sense of taste will be exactly the same, this time taking time to analyse the flavours of what we are eating, and even what we are drinking, especially water. When you are tasting, become the taste buds and follow the path taken by this chemical message to your brain and the way it decodes it. To develop one sense, you must short circuit the others completely, so as to mobilise your consciousness on the one with which you are concerned. If the blind have a highly developed sense of touch, hearing and smell, it is because they compensate for the absence of their visual perception by improving the quality of their other receptors. To develop one sense is to pretend to be ‘blind’ in all the others, whilst we exercise one intensely. We are linked to infinity which surrounds us through our senses and only through our senses. A person who cannot touch, taste, smell, hear or see, will be totally unconscious. Consciousness is developed through sensuality.
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    We cannot conceiveof infinity, we can only feel it. It is these exchanges which are produced in us, between our organism and the Infinite within which we evolve, which makes us alive. The ordinary man is made up of these interchanges but is not aware of them, which creates imbalances within him causing physical or mental illnesses, resulting in aggression or violence. The awakened person is aware of these exchanges and improves them, which allows him to be in harmony with himself and Infinity at all times. What is more serious, is that the ordinary man sometimes hinders these exchanges or atrophies willingly them to obey guilt-inducing precepts which were handed on to him by generations of violent and warlike people who gave rise to the world which we know today and which accumulated the weapons of its own destruction. The awakened person develops these interchanges to the maximum and becomes the Earth when stroking a rock, a cherry tree when eating a cherry, a rose when smelling a rose, a nightingale when listening to one sing and a universe when contemplating a star-filled sky. The mediocre person feels alone and isolated, cut off from everything and cuts himself off from everything through a fear of contact, due to a lack of awareness and to the pro- gressive atrophication of his physical means of communi- cating with his environment. The awakened person feels linked to everything, and makes love with every molecule of his body and to every star in the sky. The sense of smell too, must also be developed progress- ively, by an increasing perception of contrasts which must be 84 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    preceded by aperiod of purification for those who were smokers. The sense of hearing must also be allowed to recover if you have taken up the habit of frequenting ‘nightclubs’ or ‘rock- concerts’ where the volume is so loud that, according to a serious study, all those who frequent them are 30 per cent deaf. That means that at least one quarter of our auditory capacity, that is to say, one quarter of the possible amount of communication with Infinity, is missing for millions of young people! All we need to do is to impose upon ourselves a period of auditory abstinence during which we must be careful to avoid all sound and all music. Bit by bit our auditory organs will regain all their sensitivity and we can rediscover the sounds of our environment and music with all its richness at a normal level. Finally, our sight must be refined in its capacity to perceive the subtle nuances in colour and to convey the stimuli which condition our state of mind. We know that red is exciting and green is calming, for example, but every tint has properties which we can discover by improving our visual perception. Once the five senses begin to be developed sufficiently, then we can practise within ourselves the mechanisms of synesthesia. We can thus see a colour by listening to a sound, hear a sound by smelling a fragrance or have a taste in our mouth by looking at a colour. This sublime feast of the senses opens up one of the most important doors of our minds, by producing in us one of the effects that drugs have and which the youth of the entire world is seeking. These can be obtained without the slightest 85 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    degree of danger,through the natural mechanisms which practice in Sensual Meditation provides, by improving our sensuality and therefore by making us aware of what links us with Infinity. ‘Perfumes, colours and sounds all answer each other,’ said Baudelaire, who had synesthesia without knowing it. Let us be bathed in the harmony of all these sensations, let us be enveloped by all the perceptions of Infinity which mingle in us to fling us into a whirlwind of pleasure from which we will emerge yet stronger and more sensitive, to thus make of our planet a world of happiness by elevating the level of awareness of our peers, and allowing them to discover the treasure hidden in each of them. 86 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    6 PROGRAMME OF SENSUALMEDITATION The programme of Sensual Meditation is taught usually as a course of awakening which lasts for one week and contains a total of a dozen exercises. Following the fantastic results obtained by these techniques, and because a daily practice of Sensual Meditation is indispensable for reaping all the benefits, many people who followed the courses in France and Canada have manifested their desire to have them recorded on CDs and audio cassettes. For this reason, six basic exercises were selected and recorded onto compact discs which can be obtained in any of the four centres of Sensual Meditation which were all opened simultaneously in Paris, Geneva, Brussels and Montreal. In these centres it is also possible to come to meditate, alone or as a group. Teachers are waiting there for you, who will allow you to discover all the facets of these teachings, as well as other exercises which cannot be taught by CDs. Furthermore, some of these recordings are designed to be listened to when accompanied by a partner of complementary sex, and so those who are single can hope to meet another person in these centres with whom they can be sure to find spiritual harmony, since they are mutually interested in the same process of awakening and with whom they can also hope to find physical harmony. These centres will also, among other things, allow those 87 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    who might nothave such an harmonious residence to come to spend a few hours whenever they like, in a place designed to satisfy their five senses through its decoration and layout. A place of teaching, where people who have chosen the same path for awakening can meet and a place of exchange where they can improve their sensory perception of Infinity, guided by teachers who take up any problems of all new arrivals as their own in order better to solve them; that is what is meant by a centre of Sensual Meditation. Now we shall outline the six basic exercises which are recorded in the programme of Sensual Meditation. Meditation 1 HARMONISATION WITH INFINITY Ideally, this meditation should be practised outside, if possible under a starlit sky. But since the weather does not always bring together such favourable conditions, it might be preferable to kit yourselves out with a meditation room, harmoniously decorated with posters, paintings, sculptures or other works of art which you particularly enjoy. See to it that the lighting is soft or indirect, if possible with reddish tints or better still, use candlelight. This is for your visual sense. You can burn some scents, as voluptuous as possible. This is for your second sense: smell. Lay down a very soft surface for lying on, which is also pleasant to stroke, but don’t make it too soft so that your body may be maintained quite straight when lying down on 88 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    it. This isfor your third sense, touch. Try to have a good quality high fidelity sound system in order to get all the musical nuances. This is for your fourth sense, hearing. For the fifth sense, taste, stimulate your mouth before starting, with a fragrance which you like (mint, aniseed, fruits, etc). Make sure that the room temperature is sufficiently high for you to be naked without feeling cold (22 degrees Centigrade at least). Total nudity is ideal in order to feed your body fully, but wearing a meditation gown made out of a very soft and silky material can bring about further sensations by its contact. A lukewarm and perfumed bath just before the meditation is an excellent preparation. It is very important after coming home from work to take off the clothes which you worked in, which are often in disharmonious or polluted atmospheres, and to at least take a shower and put on this meditation robe, which could be either a djellaba or a gown, made from a material so soft and silky that you can enjoy being caressed through it.The colour of this piece of clothing should be your favourite one and if you do not have any preferences, white will do very well. It is indispensable, especially for men, to be totally naked under this robe so that the male sexual organs, which are usually submitted to a genuine torture by today’s fashion of tight trousers which is responsible, among other things, for a great number of cases of impotence, can regain their normal position, blood flow and temperature which is upset when they are compressed. 89 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    Now let uslisten to the first CD or audio tape. Lie down comfortably on the surface designed for this purpose so that your body weight is distributed equally. Place your hands along your body, palms facing upwards. It is essential to be in a comfortable position which you can keep up for a very long time without needing to move. Then close your eyes and listen... I THE IMPORTANCE OF BREATHING What is breathing? Why do we breathe? As you certainly know, we fill our lungs with fresh air rich in oxygen and then exhale air rich in carbon dioxide. Our lungs are organs in which our blood eliminates carbon dioxide which it took from our cells and loads itself with oxygen which it will then bring to all the cells which form our body. The majority of people breathe very badly. The simple fact of sometimes needing to sigh proves bad breathing. He who breathes well, never sighs. A few moments of conscious breathing every day improves our health and accelerates the process of awakening. We have seen how the brain is nothing other than a biological computer. Secretions of chemicals are being constantly produced in our brains which spark off electric discharges which form our thoughts and which are responsible for both the physical balance of our body as well as our mental equilibrium. If the latter is under- oxygenated, then these secretions are weak, or as a reaction to the lack of 90 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    oxygen, become tooabundant, which then give rise to all the imbalances which provoke physical and mental illnesses. If our breathing is sufficient, then the oxygenation of the cells which make up this central computer which is our brain provokes an improvement of the chemical secretions within it and finally a harmony spreads throughout our whole organism. To be in harmony simply means having a brain which is functioning to its optimum in the management of the organism that it is controlling. That is why you must commit yourself to a few minutes of breathing at the beginning of each exercise of Sensual Meditation and obtain an over-oxygenation of your body which will trigger an acceleration of the chemical exchanges within it, especially within our head. It is vital to breathe very deeply for at least three minutes before each exercise; but the results will be far better if you have enough time to extend it to 12 minutes of oxygenation. It is also important during the exercise to be totally concentrated on our breathing and to be fully aware of the effects that this produces on our organism. By being conscious of this action, the effects are increased even more through a process of feedback. II BECOMING AWARE OF THE INFINITELY SMALL OF WHICH WE ARE COMPOSED The second part of this first CD in the programme consists of becoming aware of the infinitely small of which we are composed. The aim is to connect together all the cells of which 91 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    we are composedand which are all linked through nerves to the central computer which is our brain. In this way, these subtle unconscious interconnections must become conscious so that their quality might improve, enabling one to feel totally coherent and integrated, first physically and then mentally. The first CD is the most important one of the Sensual Meditation programme since it constitutes the basis, the trunk of the tree of knowledge, which we shall see grow in us and of which the later exercises will only be the branches. The point of this exercise is for the body to become aware of the cells which make it up and for the cells to become aware of the body which they compose. Each one of these building blocks called cells, of which we are made, feels suddenly linked directly with those immediately surrounding it and linked indirectly with all the others via the brain computer which links them all together. Towards the end of the exercise, it is the computer itself which becomes aware of the matter that it is made of, with all these neurons which allow it to feel itself. It is matter becoming aware of both itself and its own awareness. At that moment, our whole organism is so filled with waves of energy circulating in all directions between the brain and every cell, that we experience a sensation of well-being that even provokes crying in the more sensitive among us. You should certainly not fight the phenomenon, which is no more than a chemical reaction resulting from the well-being that the cells which compose us experience, when at last they feel connected and united totally with each other. On the contrary, you should enjoy fully this fabulous moment, rich in harmonious pulsations. 92 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    93 SENSUAL MEDITATION In fact,it was this which was the original meaning of the ‘collect’, (in French, the word is ‘recueillement’), which is part of some religious ceremonies involving terrible minutes of silence, having totally lost its deeper physical significance. To ‘collect’ oneself comes from the Latin word ‘colligere’ which means ‘to co-link’ or ‘to link together’ and in this context means to link together that of which we are composed. III BECOMING AWARE OF ONE’S LEVEL At this point of the exercise, our whole ‘collected’ organism whose parts are united and integrated totally, will become aware of its surroundings purely through the sense of hearing, by listening to the music. By becoming aware of the music through the intermediary of this sense, whose functioning is based on the perception of vibrations which we call sound, our body as a whole is then able to perceive these musical vibrations. As it listens to the music, our body is suddenly aware of something not coming from itself, which has an effect of accentuating the phenomenon where the cells become aware of their unity, and this gets the cells to vibrate in unison with an even greater feeling of solidarity among themselves, every one united totally in a rush of global harmony. Finally, waves have the property of being made up of nothing while animating the medium in which they are travelling, and so the organism which listens not only with its ears but also with all the pores of its skin, becomes the music
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    to which itlistens, because it is penetrated and traversed throughout by the music’s vibrations. IV BECOMING AWARE OF THE INFINITELY LARGE OF WHICH WE ARE A PART Once the organism that is in harmony with itself and has become aware of its ability to get in harmony with what it can pick up from its environment, it can then try to get in harmony with the infinitely large, of which it is a tiny part. This is the aim of the penultimate phase of this CD and which opens up to us the movements which, though we might not be aware of it normally, shoot us through the infinite galaxies. Our Earth is spinning on its own axis while at the same time rotating around our sun, our sun is rotating around the centre of the galaxy, while our galaxy itself is moving around another point. As all these movements add up ‘ad infinitum’, we end up being hurtled through an infinite dance at unimaginable speeds, yet as we lie down on the ground, we usually tend to think that we are lying still... And somewhere above us in this cosmic immensity, there are some people watching us who love us as their own children. This way of looking at the infinitely large allows someone who is already in harmony with the infinitely small which composes him and who is capable of resonating fully to the rhythm of the surrounding waves, to become aware of the immense size of the universe in which he lives and the natural cosmic harmony of which he is a small part, and in which he is bathing permanently. 94 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    The act offeeling this harmony which exists in the infinitely large in which we are navigating, strengthens the integration which has settled in our constituents cells, through a process similar to mimicry. As our organism realises suddenly that it is surrounded by harmony, it feels obliged to become harmonious itself. V REALISING HUMANITY’S POTENTIAL The last part of this exercise consists of becoming aware of Humanity, of which we are an element; that is to say, returning to our level and opening ourselves up to how our planet could be if everyone were to vibrate together in the same total harmony which brings about fraternity and universal peace automatically. The act of understanding that everyone can feel this fantastic well being, allows us to realise how we ourselves are cells of a huge body called Humanity and that we can take part in the spreading of this wave of love on a planetary level by sharing what we have felt with everyone around us, allowing all those who haven’t yet had the good fortune of doing so to know the joy of discovering the natural harmony in which they are unconsciously bathing. It is this exercise which allows us to feel ‘high’ the fastest and to feel, naturally and without danger, the sensations obtained normally through the use of drugs. There are many young drug users who have stopped using these dangerous substances after having discovered that they can ‘trip out’ far more powerfully, but without the terrible feelings of need, 95 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    and what ismore important, becoming at the same time even more efficient, in their professional and sexual lives. Drugs produce altered states of consciousness by establishing certain ‘short circuits’ in the brain which, though these might produce pleasant sensations in the short term, actually damage the functioning of the brain. Sensual Meditation allows one to obtain the same sensations, but far stronger and more permanently, since instead of altering the state of consciousness through short circuits, it elevates the level of awareness by developing our natural mechanism, which through training will be able to function better and better as we use them more and more. Drugs enable us to discover certain ecstatic experiences by atrophying the natural mechanisms which are designed to allow us to reach them, whereas Sensual Meditation develops these mechanisms, thus allowing us to reach these ecstasies more and more easily. The totally awakened person is able to live permanently in a state of absolute joy. To reach such a level of awareness may require many years of work upon oneself, usually seven years. For those who are already fairly awakened or who have already started to meditate, it will take far less time. Meditation 2 BECOMING AWARE OF OUR LIFE RHYTHMS To begin with, this second CD or tape will allow us to become aware of our breathing, but this time in a more physical way compared with the last exercise. 96 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    The point isto feel the whole of our respiratory apparatus by, after having held our breath, contrasting the feeling of fresh air which we breathe in with the residual warm air left in the lungs and bronchial tubes. Our sensuality is developed by feeling contrasts, such as differences in temperature, colour, sound or odours. After having oxygenated ourselves thoroughly, as we do before all of these exercises, we then tune into our lungs and live out this fantastic chemical exchange thanks to which we are alive – the oxygenation of our blood. Then we concentrate on feeling our heart beat, this pump which passes the blood through our lungs so that it picks up those precious oxygen atoms for which our whole body is waiting. So as to feel our heart beating more easily, we can press lightly the tips of our right hand against those of our left. By doing this, first we can feel this regular rhythm easily in the tips of our fingers, and then in the whole hand, and progressively we will try to feel it everywhere, in the arms, in the whole body and finally in the brain itself, where it feels as if we can hear the heart beat. Thus we become aware of our heart as we feel it beat calmly and harmoniously in our chest. Through other exercises taught at the course of awakening, we can learn how to slow down or speed up our heartbeat at will, just as we can choose to slow down or speed up our breathing, even though usually, as with the heart, its rhythm is regulated by the brain without us having to think about it. The first CD integrated our organism, whereas this one makes us aware of the rhythms which are animating and keeping it living continually. This allows us to feel alive, 97 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    pulsating right upto our finger tips to the best of this pumps ability, whose every action is essential and which is just as much ‘us’ as is the brain which is aware of it. Meditation 3 BODY AWARENESS Now that we have interconnected the cells forming our body and felt the rhythms which animate it, in this meditation we shall become aware of our body through our senses. The first two exercises occurred within ourselves and consisted of our organism becoming aware of itself through totally internal mechanisms without requiring the use of our external senses. Now we are going to discover our physique, first through our sense of touch, by keeping our eyes closed and then through each of the other senses. Discovering our body through the sense of touch allows us to become aware of the sensitivity of different parts of our organism and to enjoy the pleasure of both being toucher and touched, stroker and stroked. However, for the first few times that we do this exercise, we must try to be more in the tips of our fingers than in the rest of our body and be just the toucher so as to become aware of the shape and form of our body through our own hands. In this tactile exploration of our own shape, we rediscover the pleasure that we once had as babies when we explored ourselves, except that this time we are fully conscious of what we are doing. 98 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    99 SENSUAL MEDITATION The feelersare being felt themselves. This is particularly obvious when we start sucking the tips of our fingers to feel them better. At the same time, we are discovering the taste of our own skin. By sucking our fingers and then the skin of our own arm, we discover what we taste of, our own unique flavour. Then, still with our eyes closed, we explore our own body smells. In fact it is important not to have taken a soapy shower just before this exercise, and obviously not to have put on any deodorants or perfumes. The best thing would be to take a soapy shower the evening before this exercise and then allow the body to produce overnight the secretions responsible for our body smells. The next stage consists in discovering our voice by feeling ourselves talk, as much with our hands as with our ears. ‘I am touching this head, which is me emitting sounds.’ Thus we listen to ourselves as if we were someone else listening to another person speak. Finally we open our eyes to discover ourselves through our sense of vision, first by looking at our hands moving, just as a baby does in its cot, except this time we are fully conscious of the beauty of our limbs and their movements. Then we caress once again our body with our hands, discovering every part of our physique as if we were looking at it for the first time. It is very important to have a portable mirror beside us from the start of the exercise, to help us look at certain less-accessible parts of our body. We look at ourselves as if with new eyes. We have never taken the time to look at certain parts of our body with love, particularly our sexual organs, because of the taboos passed
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    on to usby our parents. This is especially true for women, whose sexual organs were considered ‘dirty’ by phallocratic societies. Our sexual organs, which give us pleasure and which can give life, are as beautiful as flowers for both men and women. In fact, flowers are plant’s sexual organs. Our anus itself, which we can see using our mirror, is a magnificent part of our body. It is through there that matter is evacuated, matter which has been in contact with every part of the inside our body, that we can never touch, and which has left the best of itself so that we can live. After having discovered with amazement this fabulous living toy, which is our body, and which expects only one thing, namely, that we enjoy it, we can then re-establish contact with our environment, where other people are developing and who like us, have just been able to become aware of these treasures of which we are composed and which we have ignored for far too long. Meditation 4 MEDITATION FACING THE SYMBOL OF INFINITY The CD or tape should be listened to sitting down as comfortably as you can and, if possible, sitting cross-legged in contrast to the first three exercises which were to be done lying down. The poster showing the symbol of Infinity which may be obtained along with the CDs should be stuck on a wall at eye level and if possible illuminated by a bright light, with the 100 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    rest of theroom in darkness. Once a person has tuned into himself and totally awakened to themselves internally through the previous exercises, he can then become aware of something entirely foreign to himself and allow himself to be invaded by the vibrations transmitted by the drawing’s shape. Every shape around us is influencing permanently us and the most recent experiments using small pyramids have shown that fruit can be dehydrated completely without going bad purely as a result of waves reflected off walls angled and orientated in a certain way. We also know that when sounds are analysed electronically, ‘O’ produces an O form on the screen while ‘I’ shows an I form. Every colour and sound emits specific vibrations which can harmonise with themselves and influence our behaviour and well-being, and in the same way, the waves of form produced by our environment exert an enormous influence upon our development and fulfilment. As explained in the beginning of this book, this symbol represents Infinity in space and time and emits particularly harmonious waves of form. It is not by chance that it can be found in the Tibetan Book of the Dead, or dotted all over India in places well known for their traditional emphasis on the blossoming and development of the individual, even though it is now buried under years of superstition. The ‘watchmaker’ left traces of how his watches function, particularly in this huge continent. To get maximum benefit from this exercise, it is most impor- tant to understand that this symbol has absolutely nothing to do with the Nazi criminals who stole part of it for their 101 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    emblem. In anydictionary a ‘swastika’ is described as ‘reli- gious symbol of India’ (from the Sanskrit ‘su’ = well and ‘asti’ = being). At this moment there are millions of people medi- tating in their Buddhist temples decorated with this symbol, just as their ancestors have done daily for thousands of years. If Hitler had used the Christian cross as his symbol instead, (and he almost did since it would have helped him in his project of Jewish genocide) would that have meant that after the war Christians all over the world would not have been allowed to carry or use their symbol? Obviously not. In the same way, the fact that the Inquisition killed thousands of people in the name of the Christian cross does not reduce Jesus’ message of love and fraternity. It was important to write that paragraph since it is impossible to awaken ourselves and blossom while contemplating a symbol which we think is an emblem of violence. On the contrary, this combination of the two triangles interlocked into each other and the swastika, is the emblem of absolute love, infinity, life and joy. The triangle pointing upwards represents the infinitely big, which includes the stars and galaxies swirling around us, or more precisely together with us, since we aren’t the centre of the universe, not even that of our own solar system. The triangle pointing downwards represents the infinitely small, including cells which compose us, which are themselves independent organisms as well as integrated with each other, molecules which make up our cells, atoms which are themselves universes containing planets upon which people like us live and who look up at their sky, wondering whether life exists elsewhere. 102 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    The stars ofour sky make up our galaxy in which we bathe. Our galaxy is a part of our universe, which itself is a tiny bit of a huge particle situated somewhere in a cell in the body of a gigantic living being, which itself is contemplating its own sky, wondering whether there is life elsewhere. The infinitely large is composed of the infinitely small and without the infinitely small there would be no infinitely large, which is why the two triangles are interlinked. As for the swastika, it represents infinity in time. Every- thing around us has always existed, either in the form of matter, or in the form of energy. The matter of which we are made has always existed and will always exist because we are made of eternity. Only its form changes. We are but the organised accumulation of particles taken from the food which was absorbed by our mother, and which came together according to a specific plan to form us in her womb. Then after our birth these particles came from the food we ate, some from carrots, others from potatoes, meat and eggs, etc. But the carrot eaten by our mother or by us, of which an atom might have remained in our nose, for example, will have extracted this atom from the soil in which it grew. It came to this soil from the compost brought by the gardener, and before that was in the dung coming from a cow’s intestines. Before that it was part of a mouse which, after being eaten and excreted by a carnivore, was absorbed by the grass which the cow ate, etc... In this way, we could follow the story of this particle which is in your nose right back to a time preceding the creation of life on Earth, and the same goes for all the particles of which you are made: they have always existed. Some have even been part of other people’s 103 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    bodies, living hundredsor thousands of years ago. That is what the symbol which we are contemplating represents, and as we do so, it irradiates us with its beneficial vibrations. The technique of looking at it as described by the CD is designed to imprint its image on our retina and especially to inform our computer of its exact shape. Prolonged exposure to these vibrations elevates our degree of harmony even more. This develops our ability to perceive Infinity through its vibrations in which we are bathing. Meditation 5 DISCOVERING ANOTHER UNIVERSE: OUR PARTNER In contrast to the first four exercises, this one cannot be done alone, a partner is necessary. If we are with someone with whom we are thinking of making love, then this is an excellent preparation for the relationship to be a success; alternatively, if we have been having an intimate relationship already with someone for a long time and wish to rediscover each other and bring a new light to the relationship, where each awakens the other simultaneously, then this, too, is an excellent preparation. However, this CD can also be listened to when we are with someone with whom we do not wish to have any sexual contact, but in whose company we simply wish to develop our personal awakening and blossoming. The previous CD consisted of someone, already fully self- harmonious, opening themselves to the outside world and 104 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    becoming aware ofit through an inert symbol which was imprinting its waves of form into them. Now this universe which we are, and which has become conscious of its own internal harmony, is going to discover another universe made in its own image by massaging gently its partner’s whole body, who, once finished, will turn the cassette over and listen to it again, except this time, the one who was massaged now becomes the masseur: the discovered is now the discoverer. Thus two universes will have known each other mutually. The French word ‘connaissance’ means ‘being born’ or ‘entering into the world together’. As we have seen, our body is a universe, and thus a world, and when we become aware of something around us it becomes part of our world and thus is born to us. When two people meet each other, they mutually enter into each other’s world. The massage is not supposed to be a form of physiotherapy, and to do it one need not have any prior knowledge of kinesotherapy. The aim is simply to become aware, through the sense of touch, of another person’s shape and how they are a body of cells and atoms just like us, susceptible to the same reactions as we are. Neither must it be erotic. We are not caressing, we are gently kneading the organism which we are discovering, steadily moving up towards the heart. It is better to press slightly too hard than too soft. We are becoming aware of the texture of our partner’s flesh as we follow the contours of their bones through the skin. Our thumbs are working and kneading this living matter which makes up another world. As for the one being massaged, this exercise produces even more important effects in us as we become aware of another 105 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    organism through theirhands. We were lying there in absolute harmony, when suddenly, something foreign to ourselves started to feel our body. The first reaction is a feeling of tension or a sort of coiling away from something alien.Then, bit by bit, our body realises progressively that the effects produced by this contact are positive and marvellously relaxing, until the finger movements on our skin are ex- pected, anticipated and wished for, particularly in those parts where the hands have not yet been and where you know that they will go. This expectancy turns to pleasure and increases the feeling of unity of our whole organism. When this CD is finished, we have reached the end of the part of the programme addressed to people without sexual partners, since the next exercise is designed for the moments preceding physical union of two people of complementary sex. The act of discovering that physical contact with others is possible without necessarily being sexual, is going to modify deeply our reactions towards others. We will not see those close to us and those we meet in the same way that we used to. This new vision of humans around us will multiply our capabilities for communication tenfold. Henceforth we will no longer consider others as people with whom we can communicate only through sound and sight, as our medieval education taught us, now we can see them as living beings whom we can also touch and who can touch us if they have understood the importance of this contact and have accepted it so as to develop and blossom further. It has been proven that children need this physical contact, to be touched and to touch their parents, if they are to 106 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    develop and blossomfully. And if we are so reticent and reluctant about the idea of this contact even before trying it out, it is because we have been terribly deprived of these tactile exchanges by our educators, who were themselves prisoners of their Judeo-Christian guilt-ridden morality, putting shame on anything physical. How many times have some of us wished to be hugged by our fathers rather than just pecked with the tips of their lips on our forehead, or wished to be stroked, kneaded, massaged and pressed against their chests, instead of being held at a distance as if we had the plague? This lack of physical contact is what is responsible for our inhibitions in this area, but it is not too late to re-learn to live out this sense banned by our parents. We can catch up for lost time and re-discover all our tactile possibilities and, above all, develop the neural connections within our central computer which are connected to the tips of our fingers. And we must remember all this especially with our children, if we have any, and teach them to touch each other, to touch us and to be touched themselves. Meditation 6 EROTICISM AND MUTUAL EXCITEMENT This CD or tape is designed to be listened to by two people who are considering having a sexual experience. Our sexuality can be seen as the top of the tree’s trunk which we are growing within us, from which stems the branches carrying the flowers of our total fulfilment and 107 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    blossoming. A personcannot reach full awakening if their sexuality is not totally liberated and harmonious. The physical union of two people is in fact the simplest action which requires the simultaneous use of the five senses, and moreover, is the easiest way to get in harmony with Infinity in a moment of total illumination, allowing us a glimpse of the state that we can be in permanently if we reach absolute awakening. After the usual period of oxygenation which should always precede the playing of each CD and which aims to improve the quality of the chemical reactions within our brain, thus allowing us to feel what our five senses are picking up, the first part of this exercise consists of becoming visually aware of our partner’s body. Your partner is lying down next to you and you are looking at their physique from head to toe, becoming aware of this universe similar to yourself, with which you will soon be one and a part of, as two ‘infinitely small’, which are both part of the ‘infinitely small’, which are both part of the ‘infinitely large’, meet each other. The one who is lying down, eyes closed, becomes aware of the other person’s gaze caressing their body and ‘feels it’ moving along. Thus they are offering their charming body curves to the visual organs of the person with whom they shall be progressing together in the awakening of their sen- suality. The person lying down almost feels penetrated by the looks which are flowing into them through all the pores of their skin. The second part of this exercise consists of exciting the erogenous zones of your partner by massaging them far more 108 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    lightly than inCD number five, with caresses designed to excite sexually the person being massaged. Certain parts of the body should be stroked very lightly while others should be massaged much harder, bearing individual sensitivity in mind. It is very important that the one being massaged collaborates fully during this exercise by expressing what they like or like less and which parts they wish to be stroked gently and which parts to be stroked harder. In fact, though the main erogenous zones are the same for everyone, there are certain variations depending on the individual personality, so that some parts which do nothing for some people are particularly exciting for others. With practice, we will be able to discover all these variations which produce even better results and refine our stimulation of the other person’s sensitive parts. What is more, it is most important that the one being stroked informs the stroker very precisely about everything that they feel. Even the most minute of pleasurable sensations must be manifested clearly by little moans. This will have three effects: first, it will guide the massager’s hands with more precision, then it will trigger a feeling of excitement in the masseur as they perceive the results of the movements, and finally it will improve the quality of pleasure in the one being massaged through a process of positive feedback. The act of hearing yourself moaning with pleasure will trigger in your brain certain mechanisms which provoke an improvement in the functioning of the receptor organs. Pleasure generates pleasure, which is why it is most important to react to the slightest pleasurable sensation at the beginning of the exercise by moaning loud enough for your 109 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    partner to perceivethe pleasurable sensations, by slightly amplifying the vocal manifestations of these positive perceptions, even if, to begin with, the sensations were not quite large enough to push you to express your satisfaction audibly. This amplification of our reactions to pleasure will produce an amplification of the pleasure itself. Once our sense of vision, touch and hearing has been in contact with our partner, now the sense of taste and smell can come into action. This time the same areas which have just been stroked with the tips of the fingers will now be touched gently with the lips, tasted with the tip of the tongue in some areas, and smelled and breathed upon in others, so that the person lying down feels the hot breath of the person who is discovering them through the nose and mouth. It is important during this exercise to breathe in through the nose so as to exercise the sense of smell and to breathe out through the mouth so that your partner lying down feels your breath on their skin. The discovery of body smells on your partner is very important. It has been scientifically proven that body smells contain certain chemicals called pheromones, a word coming from the Greek ‘pherein’ meaning ‘carrier’ and ‘hormao’ meaning ‘I exist’, thus together meaning ‘I broadcast my existence’. The name was given to all substances which are secreted by living organisms which influence the behaviour of others of the same species. Certain moths can find their partners of the opposite sex during the mating season by tracing a smell emitted by the latter up to several kilometres away, even in a wood full of other smells. Thus we can understand just how important 110 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    this sense is.What is more, certain cases of impotence have been cured by using the odours emitted by the female sexual organ and cases of frigidity by men’s odours – yet another reason for not using deodorants if we wish to have an harmonious sexual life. In addition, it is important to understand clearly that fresh body odours do not smell bad. Fresh sweat, for example, is not at all unpleasant to smell. If, on the other hand, we do not wash for a long time, and we allow the sweat to ferment on us and in our clothes, it becomes completely unbearable. Even roses begin to smell bad when they rot. Thus we have just seen that certain substances contained in our body odours affect our sexual reactions. This is why it is vital to breathe in and smell our partner in the areas described by the CD and to allow these particular substances to produce their own exciting effects in our brain. The same goes for the sense of taste. The skin secretes substances which also have their importance and which contain chemical messages which the receptors of our tongue decode and transmit to our brain, which itself relays other chemical and neural messages to our sexual organs so that they can prepare for action. The exchange of breath is also essential since it allows both bodies to harmonise their breathing and to feel themselves living, thanks to the same rhythm. Also, this air which has been in contact with the inside of our body takes up atoms which have travelled within us and contributes to the reciprocal ‘connection’ of the two organisms. Finally, the kissing enables both people to exchange 111 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    chemical messages bycommunicating with their taste buds, and to directly taste the other person tasting them with a similar organ. We cannot do this with hearing or smelling, but we can with touch when people are mutually touching each other with the tips of their fingers, but it is even more intense with the mouth. At the end of this exercise it will be the turn of the other person who was lying down, to do on the other what the latter did for them. Thus both partners will at last be totally open to each other and ready to unite while bearing in mind the wondrous scale of this meeting of two universes, who are mutually enriching each other. Reaching a conscious orgasm simultaneously, felt by the whole body rather than just by the sexual organs, will be the reward of scrupulous preparation of this celebration of Infinity, which could last a very long time and which will have nothing to do with what until now has been called ‘making love’. The absolute symbiosis of two people finally becoming a bit of each other allows them to make love with the atoms which make them up and with the galaxies of which they are part, and thus to have what can be called a cosmic orgasm. 112 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    7 THE CENTRES OFSENSUAL MEDITATION The programme which we have just analysed does not represent the totality of the teaching given to ‘Man’ by the ‘watchmakers’ who made us, but as stated above, it is the tree trunk of our fulfilment. A tree with just a trunk cannot live, and every branch is vital for the development of the leaves which allow it to breathe and for the flowers to blossom. The branches are other exercises which are just as important, but which were not able to be presented in the form of recorded CDs, because some necessitate the intervention of a teacher of Sensual Meditation (whom we call a guide), and others require the presence of a group as is the case, among others, for the development of the collective harmonic vocal vibration. We could also mention as part of the process of awakening, the guided and progressive discovery of the beauty of our own body through an initiation into naturalism, allowing us to appreciate the beauty and harmony of every part of our body by comparing them with those of our course companions. This is particularly important for women in whom the idea has been inculcated that their sexual organ is dirty and ugly. By comparing this part of themselves with each other, they can discover how wonderfully interesting and full of grace their sexual organs are, in their innumerable variety of shapes. 113 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    Men, too, canforget their inferiority complexes by discovering the richness of their sexual organs, each marvellously adapted for relations with their partners. They can discover the great variety of shapes and sizes, each one with its own advantages and thus none of them inferior to any other. But one of the most important groups of exercises consists of the improvement in the use of the senses, which are also developed in these centres. It is the development of the five basic senses which finally allows the development of the sixth one, that is to say, the ability to communicate telepathically. This last sense develops only when all the others are capable of functioning to their maximum potential. This is a brief glimpse of the possibilities offered by these centres of Sensual Meditation which are truly schools of sensuality. Moreover, it is important to note the utility of these centres for our youth – those adolescents whose parents do not dare explain the facts of life and whose educators present them with a ‘sexual education’ which talks only about dogs and mice. Basically, they explain only ‘how it works’ rather than teaching them how to use their organs to attain the maximum pleasure. They try to make out that sex is only for procreation, even though in our day and age our contraceptive techniques are improving all the time. We provide young girls with the ‘pill’, yet we tell them that sexual union is only for making babies, one of the heights of human hypocrisy. These Sensual Meditation centres will be open only to those ‘above the age of consent’, which represents different ages 114 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    depending on thelegislation of the country in which the centre is located. In France, for example, you must be at least 18 years old to frequent the centres, and those between the ages of 15 and 18 require a written authorisation from their parents, a draft form of which will be provided by our ‘sensuality schools’. Those between the ages of 15 and 18 have the right (!) to have a sexual life with the consent (!) of their parents. As for those under the age of 15, even if their parents consent, they have no right to a sexual life. It is not our fault, it is the law! Inform yourselves at your local Sensual Meditation centre which will let you know the current laws concerning the age limits of your country which we have to respect. If you are too young, be patient, and in the meantime awaken yourselves by yourselves, according to principles described in this book. THE FUNCTION OF THE GUIDE Though some particularly gifted individuals can learn how to awaken and blossom by themselves, most people would do better to be guided along the path of harmony so as to avoid wasting time along directions which lead to nothing. And even the particularly gifted people will still waste a lot of time with unproductive experiences unless they meet someone who will give them the benefit of their own experience. Awakening has sometimes been compared to a mountain with many paths leading to the top, the attainment of which represents self-realisation. Personally, I prefer comparing it to a tree which we cultivate within ourselves, and which is 115 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    therefore different foreach person, both in shape and in the fruit which it will produce. A mountain representing awakening would imply that there is only one summit to reach and everyone must climb the same mountain, which is incorrect, and even if we admitted that everyone has his or her own personal mountain, then that would mean that once we reach the top, there will be nothing left to discover. With the other image, the tree is alive and we never cease to develop it, growing its branches and bearing more and more fruit, the flavours of each one becoming more and more delicious. That is why those who teach Sensual Meditation are, above all, gardeners, even though the only title which they would accept would be ‘guides’. They are there to guide the saplings as they begin to grow, so that their development is as rapid and harmonious as can be. A real guide will never accept being called ‘master’ since, deriving from the Latin word ‘magister’, its meaning is to have authority over people, and the guide is not there to order anyone around, but on the contrary, to allow the young tree to decide what is the right direction to send out its roots by letting it discover all its possibilities. And the best way to help it take the best possible decision is to allow it to develop its links connecting it with Infinity, that is to say, by developing its senses. We have seen that the word ‘meditate’ comes from the Latin word ‘meditare’ which means ‘to exercise’. Therefore, Sensual Meditation is a training of the senses aimed at an improved perception of the Infinite, eventually allowing us to realise that we ourselves are infinite and leading us to develop completely naturally in the best possible direction. 116 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    When putting ourselvesin harmony with the Infinite, we ourselves become the vehicle or instrument through which it is manifest in the eyes of those who are not yet aware of the Infinite. The guide is no more than a manifestation of the Infinite, addressed to those who have not yet realised that they, too, can be the instrument of what they are made up of and what they make up. Guides do not teach love, they are love because they derive their pleasure from seeing others develop, and are nourished by their progress. They do not see people when they teach, they see only manifestations of Infinity whom they are helping to become aware of what and who they are. The guides do not teach so as to be loved or admired, they teach so as to give to other bits of Infinity the joy of realising what they are, because they admire in others that which animates themselves. You who are reading these lines, you, too, are composed of Infinity which is in the process of discovering itself, and that is why you feel as enthusiastic as you do now. The guides are there to help you prolong and develop this enthusiasm. The word ‘enthusiasm’ comes from the Greek word ‘entheos’ which means ‘inspired by the Gods’, and as we have seen, this concept of God represents infinity. Thus, to help you to be ‘inspired by Infinity’ which is you, that is the aim of the guide. 117 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    8 PERSONAL EXPERIENCES Here area few of the more notable personal experiences sent by some of the hundreds of people who have already followed a course of awakening through Sensual Meditation. When I arrived at the site of the course of awakening on the 5th August I was still wondering what I was doing there, especially as I’ve always found it very hard to approach people. Always ill at ease with myself, I had been carrying about for a couple of years then some badly healed emotional injuries which had made me retreat into my shell just like a snail which had been frightened. Relatively ignorant about the damage which can be caused by nastiness and stupidity, I discovered a few years beforehand the destructive power of words, and after having met shame, anxiety, fear and panic of other people, I was emotionally injured and had found refuge in my solitude. It was in this state of mind that I came into contact with Raël and the Raëlians; something very strong had pushed me there, but like a fighter on his guard, I was closed into myself, suspicious and tense. The next day the course of awakening started and in the company of a few dozen men and women, we embarked upon a subject which for me required serious thinking and to 118 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    which I hadso far remained very painfully closed and sen- sitive: sexuality. It was as if I was extracting from my flesh a foreign body which had been poisoning me, and as everyone expelled from themselves their own memories which had been poisoning them, so too did I start hearing myself relate in my shaky voice in a way that I would never have thought possible. I was feeling the support from the trust which had been built up so rapidly between us all, men and women, even though we had met each other only the previous evening. I had just discovered Raëlian fraternity and rapport, something which, until then, I was unfamiliar with, and in front of them I had just got rid of a huge load which before, I had been trailing about with me for far too long. And throughout the course, Raël had handled with simplicity, common sense and in-depth knowledge this subject for which in the past I had only heard derogatory laughter and rude remarks from others. How can I describe all the benefits of this course without missing any out, apart from saying that it changed my life completely, not to mention all the deep changes of which I am not yet aware. More open in mind and body, more aware of myself and others, little by little I have noticed that many things have changed in my outlook on life and in the way I live it. The range of values which I had previously built up seemed outmoded and from that moment, I think, I started to consider other people and events with much more acuity and serenity, as if they had shed their deceitful facade and as if they had taken back their real dimensions. 119 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    I also rediscovered,I think, the capacity of my youth to marvel at everything and everyone as if seeing with new eyes, looking as if in love at women and at life in all its variety with an ever greater sensitivity. This internal revolution also had its effects upon my way of behaving, a change which itself was not without its problems since, and this I realised straight away, my acquaintances could not or did not always try to understand why they found me as someone different to the person whom they knew before. I had to balance my desire to realise myself to the full, with the fear of shocking the people whom I love or whom I feel something for, and yet I still try to temper my way of being with common sense. The final result is that those with whom I live see me in a new light; they are left both surprised and wondering and, in general, respect my way of being since it appeals to their reason, and from their attitude towards me, I believe that I am taken into more consideration, and people respect me more. Rene Jourdren, Saint Etienne, France Before participating in the course of awakening my life didn’t have the same intensity. In fact, I wasn’t autonomous or independent and tended to solve my problems by leaning on others a lot. I would seek things which I didn’t have without giving anything in exchange. I was caught in a system of consumerism. In the same way as a consumer needs to have things, I would swallow food and words, losing out on the meaning of dialogue, exchange and sharing. Thanks to the course of awakening, I have experienced the importance of interchanges and interactions, these exchanges 120 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    which make lifepossible. But for that it is necessary to know ourselves and to like ourselves for what we are. It’s much simpler! ‘If you like yourself even a little bit, then you’ll like others.’ During this course of awakening Raël gave us the basis of the awakening of our body and hence of our mind, by emphasising the importance of breathing. This breathing allows us to communicate with the outside world. But that isn’t all, our body possesses other senses which serve us every day and which we are not conscious of, yet if they didn’t exist there wouldn’t be any interaction between us and the outside world, and therefore no life. Raël taught us how to utilise our senses sensually. This course of awakening is a birth into the senses which I attempt to live out every day. I can measure my development by the reactions of the people who surround me. People say to me, ‘You create a feeling of confidence because you’re always smiling.’ The course of awakening made me realise that life is not just a routine, but on the contrary, can be infinitely rich when we become one with it. Now I experience things in life as much outside me as inside me. Everything is simple. My life now contains only those interchanges and interactions which unite me in a beautiful harmony called love. Chantal Lemetayer, Rennes, France I used to stumble in the darkness, imprisoned by an atrophying education, colliding with all the taboos that centuries of obscurantism had imposed through the ages. And yet one fine day the sun rose as I discovered Sensual 121 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    Meditation during a‘course of awakening’ supervised by Raël. For me, it was the dawn of a new life. Up till then, all my shutters were closed, but at that moment, they opened onto a beautiful landscape. I had rediscovered the secrets of my body. It is very difficult to describe in words all the treasures that this brought me. Instead, I would rather that one day, everyone could live what I feel and experience through Sensual Meditation. It was through this that I was able to rediscover simplicity, and that in everything, in every passing moment, there is an unlimited source of pleasure: the look of a child, the freshness of a summer’s rain, a flower, a bird singing... In the same way that a bee creams the pollen from every flower, Sensual Meditation teaches us how to harvest the nectar of life with all the strength of our senses, from every moment of our existence. And now every morning, while millions of people wake up into the monotony of habit, my mind awakes into a whirlwind of colours. An infinite energy rises from the depths of my brain and illuminates all of my cells. Imagination and creativity know no bounds, and sensuality takes the lead. My body was the bud of a marvellous flower, which the shadows of civilisation and religion prevented from growing. Sensual Meditation was the ray of sunshine, which made the bud blossom and opened it into the harmony of infinite space and time. Pierre Gary, engineer, Paris 122 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    I am 16years old and my name is Laurence. I discovered Sensual Meditation and it was a revelation for me, something very powerful, burning me like a voluptuous caress. Even more, it was ecstasy. Yet I had been doing yoga for many years, but it was nowhere near the same. I felt in perfect harmony with the whole of my body, the whole of my being and with other people. Your voice, recorded on the cassette, penetrated me right to my depth, every little part of my body was invaded by warmth. I was drunk with happiness and love. I would get up effortlessly after meditating as if floating, bathing or being carried by air, and it’s the most beautiful thing that there is, to feel thus in harmony with everything that surrounds us. On Sunday, I went to the Cevennes and I climbed very high up a mountain with a tape recorder and your cassette. And there I lay down, facing the sky and its immensity... What words can I use to describe how I felt? No word is powerful enough or sensual enough to describe this feeling of being high. I used to smoke hashish before and take amphetamines to give me the illusion of being, of feeling good, but if you only knew how these drugs seem ridiculous now! I also stopped all that because it is completely unnecessary now that I have discovered Sensual Meditation. I have discovered an ideal, I breathe, I live, I exist, and I realise that only now. I am learning to look at things in a better way, at flowers, and sometimes, it happens that I talk with a flower and am ecstatic over its beauty. There, time no longer exists, it is Infinity. Laurence, Avignon, France 123 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    After the timespent practising the meditation this summer at the course of awakening, I now feel a new clarity of mind with an improved awareness of my personality, and therefore of my potential. What is more, I have also noticed an improvement in my general well-being. I am lightly handicapped by a stiff spine, especially in the lumbar region. Since practising Sensual Meditation, I can feel a definite increase in suppleness in this area. It might be due purely to the breathing exercises which precede each meditation, but whatever the cause, I felt I had to give my testimony. Pierre-Simon, Rennes, France It is with immense joy that I wish to thank you Raël, for the unforgettable moments which we lived with you at the course of the ‘awakening of the mind and body’. What transformed me the most was the moment where we created the void for a better ‘renaissance’ afterwards. I experienced such a strong emotion, that I wanted to shout my joy to everyone, but the emotion left me speechless. Since then, I feel as if a new man, I am starting my life afresh at 67 years old. Alexandre-Denis, Saint Ubald, Canada Since I am already of a certain age, my development following the course of awakening has occurred slowly, but surely. The change, however, certainly was radical since my associate asked me what was happening. Now that I have this feeling of joy within me, I must say that I have a thirst to live as long as possible and I have noticed that the more time passes, the more the meditation transforms me. For me, there 124 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    is no greaterjoy than to be Raëlian and my convictions are unshakable. I am sincere, and I have found what I was looking for after so many years. Simone David, Montreal, Canada When I first came across Raël and the teachings of our creators, the Elohim, my life was just a huge question mark. I was almost ashamed to be a man and I did not have the courage to face the prospect, on the one hand, of the social – economic – political – mystical – fanatical orgy, on which I was unable to open any doors without taking a beating, and on the other hand, that of the primitive obscurantism in which I had been immersed since my birth, and whose cast was stuck to my skin and would have asphyxiated me. Despite everything, I was looking for something else, something which would allow me to breathe in peace, something logical, real and humane. At the time I was timid, ill at ease and could not express myself, even in front of only one person. What is more, my sensual tastes required me to fulfil my senses with the contact of male bodies. Therefore, I was traumatised, and filled with guilt, I was disgraced by conventional morality, by religion, by education and by the most futile of simple customs. Maybe you don’t realise it, but one is born as a homosexual, just as one is born with green eyes or will inevitably have size 38 in shoes, or measure 1,42 metres, etc... that is to say, that in one’s chromosomes, within the nucleus of an individual’s cells, the stack of genes carries the characteristics of each person and determines absolutely everything about their tastes, shapes and everything which makes them original. 125 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    What is scandalous,is that in the middle ages they killed hysterics and not so long ago, they put heretics to death with the blessing of the obscurantist religions, and now of course, it is fashionable to kill politica dissidents and homosexuals, whom they lock up in concentration camps, pompously called asylums or adjustment houses. Even in Paris, homosexuals are imprisoned, tortured, harassed, hemmed in, and forced to live underground in ghettos by this ignorant society and submit to this injustice. And yet, it is so easy to understand how such characteristics are determined genetically, thanks to the work of our scientists. So, in the two years since I have known and practised Raël’s teachings, I have seen myself totally transformed. I have now, little by little, discovered all my possibilities which I do not yet exploit completely, but at least I have discovered them and I am setting off on the exploitation of myself through the awakening of my faculties, just as a gardener who discovers his land, starts working the land to bring out its best before sowing, cultivating and finally harvesting. All cultivation requires various technical knowledge, a bit of experience and a lot of common sense. Raël’s teachings are a bit like that! To begin with, one must have the wish to open one’s garden and to see it blossom with the most magnificent of plants, flowers and trees. The technical know-how is needed to clear the soil which has never been exploited, to liberate it from the weeds, the brambles and excess limestone, so as to regain a neutral environment, not too acid, not too alkaline and to restore a little order, just what is necessary so that what is desired can grow in the harmony of its climate and the richness of the soil. 126 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    The common senseis needed so as not to put the cart before the horse, so as to gauge what the soil can produce and at what rhythm, what it needs and what it has too much of, so that the balance can be restored at any time, under the watchful eye of the gardener. The practical experience allows us to see how the soil is biological, full of natural chemicals. Just as we breathe, it is quite obvious that the Earth is alive, from the carrot and dandelion to ‘Man’, everything has its own specific function to fulfil, determined by each individual’s genetic code con- tained within his or her cells. Every living thing is a cog in the harmonious equilibrium of the whole planet, each thing is finely tuned to everything else and only ‘Man’ is capable of understanding all this. Today, I live out my sexuality by seeking fulfilment through all my senses, and with whom I please. I now feel good with myself, my timidity is disappear- ing and as a consequence, my aggression is controlled. Moreover, I am giving lectures to audiences of more than 100 people, I can now address myself to anyone, with total simplicity and more open-mindedness and respect for others. I can feel an infinity of dormant potential being awakened within me, the rhythm of exploitation which I can control, since it is precisely this control and management of each action, based on a mature awareness of each thought, felt by optimum functioning of the brain drawn away from its lethargy by the exercising of one’s sensuality, that is one of the main qualities of Sensual Meditation. I forgot to mention that since 1967, I have had a gastric ulcer, which at the time, I was advised to have operated on through surgery, but I refused in favour of a homeopathic 127 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    treatment which Itried for the next 10 years, but without success. When I started practising Sensual Meditation, I still had the ulcer, but within a few months, it disappeared so completely that I even forgot to mention it. I have all the x- ray photos and medical certificates available for all sceptics to see, as well as my military service papers which, to my joy, certify me inept for service precisely because of my ulcer. Michel Vuaillat, horticultural technician I am 24 years old, and though I started my sexual life at 16 I’ve been frigid for the last eight years. That is, I made love, with the only pleasure being the contemplation of the effect of my body, which is of nice proportions, on my male partners. I was limited to the pleasure of giving them pleasure, and like many women, I pretended to enjoy it so that they would feel virile, and so that I would not seem abnormal. When I discovered Sensual Meditation at 24 years of age, I had my first orgasm. I put into words how beautiful this revelation was for me. I might add that I used to suffer regularly from bouts of depression and anxiety which no medication was able to cure, but which have now disappeared totally following this discovery of physical pleasure. I express one wish, and that is for every woman to be able to discover this, especially as I have learned that 70 per cent of women have never experienced an orgasm. N.C., Quebec I feel as if I have now discovered the source of pleasure, of happiness, and can draw pleasure from it at will. Cristiane Gariepy, Montreal, Canada 128 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    ADDITIONAL INFORMATION The SensualMeditation CDs and audio tapes and the poster of the symbol of Infinity can be obtained from the Raelian Movement of your country as on page 135 or ordered directly form the internet at www.rael.org The official internet addresses of the Raëlian Movement and associated organisations are: www.rael.org www.clonaid.com www.subversions.com www.ufoland.com To subscribe to rael-science, which distributes by e-mail a selection of scientific news concerning this book, in English, please send a blank e-mail to [email protected] [email protected] For a selection of news in French, please send a similar e-mail to [email protected] 130 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    REFERENCES Internet links forRael’s books Advancements in cloning • Human cloning: http://www.humancloning.org/firsthumanclone.htm • Noah's ark: http://www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/686? &start=682 • Great Britain accepts human cloning: http://www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/655? • The stars of cloning: http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/sci/tech/newsid_437000/437391.stm http://dailynews.muzi.com/cgi/lateline/news.cgi? p=62546&l=english& http://www.p-i.com/national/pigs15.shtml http://www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/649? &start=627 • To resurrect the dead: http://www.globeandmail.com/offsite/Science/19991023/UMAMMN.html http://www.discovery.com/exp/mammoth/990911dispatch.html http://www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/420? &start=412 • No premature aging: http://www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/677? &start=652 • We are conserving DNA: http://www.humancloning.org/dnaaustralia.htm http://www.savingsandclone.com • Four Japanese calves copied with a new technique: Le Figaro Magazine. January 5th, 2000. • Cloned beef for dinner?: http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/clone_beef990909.html Discoveries in Biology • And Man created…: http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/living/Bioethics/bioethics.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/specials/anaheim_99/newsid_262000/262025.stm http://www.sundaytimes.co.uk/news/pages/sti/00/01/23/stinwenws01049.html? 999 131
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    • Sequencing ofthe human genome: the mission has been carried out!: http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/living/Bioethics/bioethics.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/specials/an heim_99/newsid_262000/262025.stm http://www.sundaytimes.co.uk/news/pages/sti/00/01/23/stinwenws01049.html? 999 • On the way to eternity: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releas- es/1999/08/990831080844.htm http://www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/552 http://www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/627? • Mutant mice with exceptional longevity: Le Figaro Magazine, November 19th 1999 • A killer’s brain: a clinically sick brain: http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/living/InYourHead/allinyourhead.html • The virtual plant: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_771000/771145.stm • To wake up our retired neurons: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_447000/447973.stm • Cultures of bone and cornea: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_719000/719673.stm http://www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/585? Genetically modified organisms • Introduction: http://www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/440? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_482000/482467.stm • Modified salmon: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_708000/708927.stm • A solution for the Third World countries? http://www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/605? &start=597 • Treatment for victims of third degree burns: http://www.wired.com/news/techno ogy/0,1282,20874,00.html • More intelligent thanks to genetic engineering: http://www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/397? &start=395 Building a Brainier Mouse, Scientific American, April 2000. pp.62-68 Mickey Mouse, Ph.D. Scientific American, November 1999. p. 30. • Genetically modified organisms for pleasure!: http://www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/498? &start=470 132 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    • Water me!: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/specials/sheffield_99/newsid_446000/446837.stm •The marriage of the monkey and the jellyfish: Le Figaro Magazine, December 24th, 1999 New technologies • The speed of light: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/10/991005114024.htm http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_655000/655518.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_655000/655518.stm • The DNA-based computer: Quebec Science, Volume 38, number 7, April 2000, p.30. • An electronic eye for blind persons: http://news.bbc.co.uk: 80/low/english/sci/tech/newsid_606000/606938.stm • AIBO the dog full of bugs: Le Figaro Magazine, November 6th 1999. Space and its inhabitants • The Crop circles: http://www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/377? &start=364 • Dream or reality soon to be?: http://www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/456? • A new planet: http://www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/457 • The search for a contact: http://www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/390? http://www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/407? http://www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/671? http://www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/356? The beauty of Creation • The nose of the mosquitoes: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_426000/426655.stm • Insects… lesbians: Le Figaro Magazine http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/sci/tech/newsid_481000/481394.stm 133 SENSUAL MEDITATION
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    134 • A noseto see the infinitely small: http://www.aibs.org/biosciencelibrary/vol46/sep.96.cover.info.html Le Figaro Magazine, January 11th 2000 Sexuality and sensuality • The human sexuality Society: www.sexuality.org • The chemical mysteries of sexuality: Le Figaro Magazine: March 4th, 2000. • Badly informed young people: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19991018/hl/sex9_1.html • The National Masturbation Day: http://www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/215? Meditation and Peace • Meditation prevents heart disease: http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/living/InYourHead/allinyourhead_56.html http://www.egroups.com/messages/rael-science-select/637 • Do you want to live longer? Smile!: http://www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/622? The case of Ancient Greece, Special research Living120 years, July/August> 1999 • Planetary Day for Peace: http://www.clothofmanycolors.com/ http://www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/670? • The effects of AOM meditation have been scientifically proven: Sang Yuel Choi (National Guide in Korea) • The case of Ancient Greece: La Recherche special issue ‘Living 120 years’, July/August 1999, p. 90 [email protected] [email protected]
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    135 ARGENTINA Movimiento Raeliano deArgentina Suipacha No.645 6620 Chivilcoy, Procincia de Buenos Aires AUSTRALIA Australian Raelian Movement G.P.O. Box 2397 Sydney, N.S.W. 2001 [email protected] BELGIUM Religion Raëlienne de Belgique P.O. Box 2065 2600 Antwerpen/Berchem [email protected] BENIN Religion Raëlienne du Bénin 02 BP 1179 Cotonou [email protected] BOLIVIA Movimiento Raeliano Boliviano Casilla 1341 Santa Cruz BRAZIL Movimento Raeliano Brasileiro Caixa Postal 9044 CEP 22272-970 Rio de Janeiro - RJ [email protected] BRITAIN British Raelian Movement BCM Minstrel GB-London WC1N3XX [email protected] BURKINA-FASO Religion Raëlienne du Burkina Faso DOUANIO Manaka B.P. 883 Bobodioulasso 01 [email protected] If you would like to participate in the seminars given by Raël in your area, or seek further information, please contact the Raëlian Movement of your country in the following list or check out the internet website www.rael.org SEMINARS AND CONTACTS
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    136 CANADA Eglise Raëlienne duCanada Case postale 86 - Succursale Youville Montreal (QC) H2P 2V2 CHILE Movimiento Raeliano Chileno Casilla 390 Centro Casilla Santiago de Chile CHINA c/o Japanese Raelian Movement Tokyo-To, Shibuya-Ku Shibuya 2-12-12 Miki Biru 401 Japan 150-0002 [email protected] COLOMBIA Movimiento Raeliano Colombiano Apartado Aereo # 3000 Medellin [email protected] CONGO Religion Raëlienne du Congo B.P 2872 Kinshava 1 [email protected] ECUADOR Movimiento Raeliano de Ecuador Imbabura 19-25 y Carchi Quito FRANCE Religion Raëlienne de France BP26 75660 Paris Cedex 14 GABON Religon Raëlienne du Gabon B.P. 22171 Libreville jr.ogoula@voilà.fr GERMANY Raelistische Religion Postfach 1252 79372 Muellheim GREECE Greek Raelian Movement Nea Egnatia 270 Str. 54644 Thessaloniki GUADELOUPE Religion Raëlienne de Guadeloupe BP 3105 Raizet Sud 97139 Abymes [email protected] HAWAII USA Hawaiian Raelian Movement P.O. Box 278 KAILUA, HI 96734 HOLLAND Raeliaanse Religie Nederland Postbus 10662 2501 HR. DEN HAAG HONG KONG c/o Japanese Raelian Movement Tokyo-To, Shibuya-Ku Shibuya 2-12-12 Miki Biru 401 Japan 150-0002 [email protected]
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    137 INDIA Indian Raelian Movement c/oP.O.Box No.2058 Kalbadevi Head Post Office Mumbai 400002 [email protected] IRAN Iranian Raelian Movement P.O. Box 56 Station D Toronto, Ontario M6P 3J5 , Canada IRELAND Irish Raelian Movement P.O. Box 2680 Dublin 7 [email protected] ISRAEL Israeli Raelian Movement P.O. Box 27244 Tel Aviv - Jaffa 61272 [email protected] ITALY Religione Raeliana CP202 33170 Pordenone [email protected] IVORY COAST Religion Raëlienne de Côte d'Ivoire 05BP1444 Abidjan 05 [email protected] JAPAN Japanese Raelian Movement Tokyo-To, Shibuya-Ku Shibuya 2-12-12 Miki Biru 401 Japan 150-0002 [email protected] KOREA Korean Raelian Movement K.P.O. Box 399 Seoul Korea 110-603 [email protected] MARTINIQUE Mouvement Raëlien Martiniquais BP 4058 TSV 97254 Fort-de-France Cédex MAURITIUS ISLANDS Religion Raëlienne de l'Ile Maurice 4 Robinson Lane Phoenix [email protected] MEXICO San Pablo Tepetlapa N° 56-4 Ampl. San Francisco Culhuacan 04470 Mexico D.F. [email protected] NEPAL Nepalese Raelian Movement GPO Box 10857 Kathmandu [email protected]
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    138 NEW ZEALAND New ZealandRaelian Movement P.O. Box 1744 Shortland Street Auckland PANAMA Movimiento Raeliano de Panama Aeropuerto int'i de Tocumen Zona Posta # 14 Panama [email protected] PARAGUAY Movimiento Raeliano del Paraguay Olivia 1019 Edif-lider V Piso 15, Officina 151 Asuncion PERU Movimiento Raeliano Peruano Guia Nacional Avenida Benavides 955 # Miraflores, Lima, PHILIPPINE Philipine Raelian Movement UP Box 241, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City Philippine 1101 [email protected] POLAND Religia Raelianska w Polsce c/o Iwona Adamczak, Skr. Poczt. 555 00-950 Warszawa 1 PORTUGAL Movimento Raeliano Portugues Apartado Postal 2715 1118 Lisboa Codex SLOVAKIA Raelske Hnutie na Slovensku P.O. Box 117 82005 Bratislava 25 SLOVENIA Raeljansko Gibanje Slovenije Vojkovo nab. 23 6000 Koper [email protected] SOUTH AFRICA South African Raelian Religion P.O.Box 1572 Boksburg 1460 Republic of South Africa SPAIN Religion Raeliana España Apartado de Correos 19113 08080 Barcelona [email protected] SWEDEN Raeliska religionen BP 1026 10138 Stockholm [email protected]
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    SWITZERLAND Religion Raëlienne Suisse Casepostale 176 1926 Fully offi[email protected] TAIWAN Taiwan Raelian Movement P.O. Box 84-686 Taipei [email protected] TCHAD Religion Raëlienne du Tchad ASECNA B.P. 5629 N'Djamena, [email protected] THAILAND Thai Raelian Movement c/o Sung Hyuk RHIM P.O.Box 1556 Bangkok Post Office 10500 TOGO Religion Raëlienne du Togo Rita Amétépé Responsable B.P. 1476 Lomé USA USA Raelian Movement B.O. Box 630368 North Miami Beach, FL 33163 Florida VENEZUELA Movimiento Raeliano Venezolano Segunda Calle # 71, Urbanizacion El Rincon, Segunda Sabana, Bocono Trujillo ZIMBABWE Zimbabwe Raelian Movement P.O. Box 666 Zengeza, Chitungwiza 139
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    140 OTHER BOOKS BYRAËL For a full understanding of the background to Sensual Meditation, it is necessary to read Raël’s previous writings. They include: The Message Given By Extra-Terrestrials This book comprises two books which in French were originally entitled: Le livre qui dit la Vérité and Les extra terrestres m’ont emmené sur leur planète. (1 million copies sold, translated into 24 languages) Yes to Human Cloning Immortality thanks to Science Raël’s latest book describing how genetic engineering and nano- technology are about to revolutionise our lives. Geniocracy The first English language edition of this book which outlines a controversial political thesis is due to be published soon. Fuller details appear on pages 142 to 144. All books available directly from www.rael.org
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    141 CD RECORDINGS SENSUAL MEDITATION Thefull set of six guided meditations from the book Sensual Meditation is available on two CDs or one audio tape cassette. The first and most important meditation ‘Harmonisation with Infinity’ is available on a separate CD or tape. These can be ordered from the Raelian Movement of your country (see addresses on pages 135-9) or directly online at www.rael.org NARRATION OF THE BOOK The Message Given By Extra-Terrestrials also exists as a fully narrated recording in 6 CDs
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    142 THE FINAL MESSAGE Humanity’sOrigins and our Future Explained All life on Earth, including human beings, was originally created scientifically in laboratory by the Elohim, an advanced people from space, using a perfect mastery of genetic engineering and DNA synthesis. Traces of their work can be found in the Bible, which is the oldest atheist book in the world, since the word «Elohim», which appears in the original Hebrew version, means «those who came from the sky». The Elohim entrusted Rael with the mission of propagating this revolutionary revelation and building an Embassy where they will officially return very soon, along with the Great Prophets of Old that they had sent, such as Jesus, Moses, Buddha and Muhammed, who are being kept alive on their planet thanks to cloning, the secret of eternal life.
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    143 YES TO HUMANCLONING Raël’s most recent publication Today’s new cloning technology is the first step in the quest for immortality or eternal life. What past religions used to promise only after death in a mythical paradise will soon be a scientific real- ity on Earth – this is Raël’s challenging conclusion in an incisive and wide-ranging review of how science is about to revolutionise all our lives. Once we can clone exact replicas of ourselves, the next step will be to transfer our memory and personality into our newly cloned brains and this will allow us to truly live forever, he writes. Since we will be able to remember our past, we will be able to accumu- late knowledge indefinitely. With rare vision, Raël sketches details of an amazing future in which our nascent technology will revolutionise and transform the world. Nano-technology, he explains, will make agriculture and heavy industry redundant, super-artificial intelligence will quickly outstrip human intelligence – and eternal life will be possible in a computer without the need for any biological body! These developments, he warns, are not 22nd-century science fic- tion. All this will happen in the next twenty years – and this book’s purpose is to prepare us for an unimaginably beautiful world- turned paradise, where nobody will ever need to work again!
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    144 GENIOCRACY The first Englishtranslation of a controversial political thesis. Democracy is an imperfect form of government destined to give way to rule by geniuses – ‘geniocracy’. Under this system, no can- didate for high office may stand for election unless his or her consciousness and intelligence is measurably fifty per cent above the ‘norm’. Furthermore, to be eligible to vote, an elector must have a level of consciousness ten per cent above the average. Geniocracy is therefore selective democracy. These challenging concepts, according to Raël, already apply on the planet of the Elohim. Unless we can come up with something better, he says, they advise us to begin preparing to implement a similar system, since all human progress is ultimately dependent on the work of geniuses. In this first edition of the book to be published in the English language, Raël describes how such a process might work here – once intelligence testing is sufficiently developed.