Spiritual Nutrition: Six Foundations for Spiritual Life and the Awakening of Kundalini

By Gabriel Cousens, M.D.

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The Six Foundations for Spiritual Life formulated by Gabriel are:

• Nutrition: vegan, organic, live-food, high-mineralized, low-sugar, individualized, moderate food intake diet, well-hydrated with pure living water, and including Spiritual Fasting.
• Building prana (life force): Yoga asanas (postures), pranayama (breathing practices), Ophanim (the energetics of the Hebrew letters), T'ai Chi, Reiki, Tachyon Energy, other energy practices, and sacred dance. These all enhance and expand the consciousness of the body-mind complex, filling it with increased life force energy or prana.  
• Service and charity:   In the process of service and charity, we are able to face our attachments to things, as well as to feel our connection to all of the family of humanity. This helps to expand consciousness through direct experience.
• Spiritual guidance and inspiration: Being in the energy of Truth in the presence of a Liberated or awakened spiritual teacher. This gives meaning, value, heart, and energy to spiritual wisdom teachings and spiritual life energetics. It is also important to spend time with spiritual people or community. Expanding and refining the mind with spiritual wisdom teachings, the great scriptures such as the Zohar, the Torah, the Tao Te Ching, or the Vedas, and great mystical poetry such as that of Hafitz, Rumi, or Blake is also part of this Foundation. Wisdom literature helps formulate and focus our consciousness and expand it. Zero Point Process (Western jnana Yoga) as taught by Gabriel, sacred music, and spending time in Nature are also part of this Foundation.
• Silence: Meditation, prayer, repetition of mantra (hagiya), and chanting (mizmor) the names of God. Silence is the doorway to the Heart of God. The source of all spiritual wisdom emanates from the silence of the Divine.
• Kundalini Awakening: Shaktipat initiation, which is the awakening of the Divine force that is resting in potential within us. This is known as the descent of Grace. It usually occurs through a living enlightened spiritual teacher, but may occur spontaneously. Once the Shakti Kundalini is activated, it begins to spontaneously move through our body, spiritualizing every cell, every aspect of the DNA, every chakra, every nadi (the channels of the subtle nervous system), every organ, and every tissue, so that consciousness becomes activated into the next evolutionary stage.

Yet these are not goal-oriented practices, but ways of Being that remove the obstacles that prevent enlightenment from the mind and body. The Six Foundations simply prepare us to awaken from the dream illusion that we are separate from each other and the earth.

What is essential to remember is that:

• We were never born and will never die.
• We are not the body-mind-I AM complex.
• One cannot lose what one never had (that is, the body-mind-I AM complex).
• One cannot attain what was never lost

Devotion and love of God is another major driving force in the Kabbalistic-Jewish and Yogic traditions, and most major religions.   Without Divine Love, without the burning desire to commune fully with God, the Six Foundations can become empty mechanical disciplines that have a limited impact on our spiritual evolution.

 

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