Ancestral Memory
Experiment 01 Session 01:
Tibetan Initiation Protection Bracelet

I meditated for about five minutes with my personal mantra to reach the level of inner silence that I felt was adequate for the task and then picked up the bracelet. The first impression I had was to start using a Buddhist mantra, so I began to use 'Aum Mani Padme Hum', but quickly felt drawn to a more Tibetan Buddhist mantra, 'Aum Ah Hum Vagra Guru Padma Siddhi Hum'. I them had the impression of a young male monk (20's) working in a hot work area. I felt a wooden bench and adobe style mud wall behind it. I felt a compulsive quality to the craftsman's actions. The formation of bracelets was important to the monk and his attention was obsessively focused on the bracelet.

I then felt that I should put on the bracelet, which felt then like a band encircling me wrist. It should be noted that in this Tibetan Tradition that has been migrated to India, a student would be required to spend many years to be worthy of initiation and the receipt of one of these bracelets. On putting it on I felt an anxious feeling, not quite fear or worry, but along those lines. These bracelets are meant as astral charms to protect the wearer both in the material world, but also from astral demons which would either be parasites of a person's soul or lead that person into misguided actions and cause them to stray from the path of the Buddha. I believe that the sacred vibrations of true mantic words protects us and nothing material is required for my spiritual practice. As I continued to meditate I understood the fears of incarnate beings and how this leads to the misguided desire to transcend incarnation, rather than embrace incarnation as a gift that we posses. I also felt the obsessive quality of the strict adherence to a religious philosophical system, rather than the modern freedom to find the truth in many methods and to grow humbly as we might.

Finally I would like to add that the monk and bracelet were not negative, though the previous description might imply that. I did not feel any dark side energies (hate, violence, cruelness, etc...), rather I felt the compulsive quality of spiritual seekers toward attainment which is contrary to humbleness (letting the spirit guide us and trusting in the spirit through all our fates). The bracelet felt like a complete band around my wrist. It gave me a feeling of protection and power. Additionally it gave me a sense that I am somebody with achievement. I was bearing a power object to ward off demons and evil fates.

When I took it off and continued to meditate, I did not feel like returning to my mantra immediately, but continued with the Tibetan power mantra. I felt like the great spiritual battle for the world was lifted from my shoulders and again became a humble two legged with the watery-airy luminous light flowing through my being. The mantra seemed more powerful without the addition influence of the material bracelet. The specific vibrations of the sacred words were more vivid and easier to feel (they energized my internal energy centers more clearly). These words obviously contain several levels of ancestral memory due to the fact of being repeated over the centuries by numerous spiritual people and also being chanted currently by high souls around the globe. Their vibrations flow through the psychic web of human consciousness in a very powerful way. My belief is that material objects are a lower form of spiritual practice than internal non-material forms and this session reaffirmed this belief.