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Egyptian Book of the Dead​/​Kundalini Yoga - music + visualisations

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This is the visualisation version. You can buy and download the music-only + visualisation double album on iTunes.

The Egyptian Book Of The Dead / Kundalini Yoga is the third album in The Mystic Pathways series. This series is a collection of ancient traditions brought into a modern setting as a meditation tool based on the five elements - Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Spirit.

The Egyptian Book Of The Dead opens with preparation in the pyramid being wrapped in bandages before undertaking a journey into the underworld and finally being reborn as a sky god. The second part Kundalini Yoga orgasmically explodes from the base chakra up to the crown where Shakti and Shiva are joined in a celestial marriage.

The Mystic Pathways series is as diverse and colourful as the elements themselves and each tradition offers a well trodden insight into these ancient practices. With the music and the spoken visualisations there is a complete package for exploring and transforming consciousness.

In 2002 I repackaged some albums with spoken, guided visualisations - they were double albums with the original music on one (CD) and the music plus the visualisation on the other. Here are both albums. Free to stream (3 times).

Egyptian Book Of The Dead
I would like you to imagine that you are now about to undertake a journey of spiritual rebirth through the different regions of the Egyptian underworld. The important thing to remember is that you are taking the role of the Sun-god and this means you will be bringing your light and radiance to the dark regions of the Tuat. You will notice that as you shine your light forth, any menacing images will recede before you, retreating as you pass by. Remember at all times that you are the dominant force in the Tuat - you are the Sun itself - and this is your journey of self-transformation.

Now, as you lie relaxed, I would like you to imagine that, like a mummy, you are protected by embalming bandages. Imagine them first looped around your feet and now imagine that they encircle your body all the way up your legs and your arms and your chest, to your chin: leaving your head uncovered. Accustom yourself to this feeling and sense the protective, armouring quality which the bandages provide. And now focus your consciousness in your head. I'd like you to imagine that your head is filled with luminous spiritual radiance so that you are rather like a beacon sending your rays of light in all directions

And now feel that you are traveling on a boat which is drawn along by other gods who surround and protect you, and that this boat is passing down into the earth along a mighty river. It is a vast and awesome river that stretches before you, but you are its master, and as the boat moves serenely in the waters the darkness fills with the light you send forth.

Imagine also, as you move along, that a wonderful song is coming forth from your heart, and that this is the Song of Life which sustains all positive forms within the Tuat.

Now, as you journey further, you come to the Field of the Gods of Grain and you are given nourishment fresh food from the golden fields to sustain you on your journey. And still you continue and as you go further into the Tuat you hear songs of praise rise up in your honour.

But now the Tuat grows somewhat darker and you have to focus your light more intently. The ancient hawk-god Seker lives here, deep beneath the earth, and the river has dried up. So instead you move across the desert sands, above Seker's domain. Now there are rumblings in the earth beneath you, but you pass above these rumblings without a care, hurling beams of light upon the sand as you do so. And now on your left-hand side you see a huge snake, looped and coiled in flames. But as you cast your gaze upon him he grows smaller and smaller and is finally consumed in his own fire.

Meanwhile, on your right-hand side another huge snake rises up this time from a pool of boiling water. Now, as you turn your gaze upon him you send forth a beam of light and this evaporates the water and dissolves his form like steam wafting in the air.

So now you go forward even further in the Tuat and you begin to feel that like the reborn Osiris a new vitality is entering your body. And from now on that feeling of inner light will slowly intensify as you travel through the Tuat.

Still you venture along the river, and as you do so various welcoming images pass before your eyes. As you offer light to them, songs of praise rise up. And now you notice that twelve serpents of fire have formed a protective circle around you as you move forward, and the boat proceeds still further through the Tuat.

The light is welling up within you as you move steadily towards the Mountain of the Sunrise.

Now, the entry through this mountain is strange indeed because you are about to pass through a long tunnel, and that tunnel is the body of the giant serpent Mehen. But you have nothing to fear and now you are entering his tail, drawn by the protector gods that lead your boat. As you move through his body in stages the light builds up within your body. And you feel your mummy-bandages falling away, and it is as if you have a new, beautiful, radiant body, which, in its innocence and purity, is about to come forth into the world.

Now as you prepare to emerge from the snake tunnel you hear your mother, the sky goddess, calling to you to be born

And ever so gradually you feel you are coming forth from her thighs, and there is a wonderful feeling of release, a serene and wonderful feeling of release. You are coming through . . . you are being born . . . and it is beautiful.

And you are floating free, floating into the sky. And as you float still higher into the heavens a wonderful radiance shines from your body, for you are illuminating the world with your purity and love . . . (pause) Now I'd like you to just stay with that wonderful feeling of peace and innocence and light, and simply relax. . . relax and dwell in the beauty of it all.

KUNDALINI YOGA
Tattva visualisations for the Chakras.

The following exercise should be practiced for each of the chakra tattva's in turn, from Muladhara to Visuddha. Initially, you make like to practice one tattva each day, for 10-20 minutes.

Sit in a relaxed position, ideally in a full lotus asana or in a chair if that is more comfortable, and breath deeply. Close your eyes and visualise the following tattva's, one at a time, persisting until you can hold the image clearly in your mind's eye:

Muladhara - a yellow square containing an inverted red triangle
Svaisthana - a white horizontal crescent (points upward)
Manipura - an inverted red triangle
Anahata - a smoky gray hexagram
Visuddha - a white circle

When you can visualise each of the tattva's clearly, practice vibrating the seed syllable through each tattva using each as a 'bridge' from one tattva to the next. The sequence as follows:

Visualise the Muladhara tattva... intone Vam
Dissolve the Lam intonation as you begin to visualise the Svaisthana tattva.

Visualise the Svaisthana tattva... intone Vam
Dissolve the Lam intonation as you begin to visualise the Manipura tattva.

Visualise the Manipura tattva... intone Vam
Dissolve the Lam intonation as you begin to visualise the Anahata tattva.

Visualise the Anahata tattva... intone Vam
Dissolve the Lam intonation as you begin to visualise the Visuddha tattva.

Visualise the Visuddha tattva... intone Ham
Dissolve the Ham intonation into your own visualisation of Kundalini Shakti - the serpent energy.

Once this alteration of symbol and mantra has begun to work for you as a sequence, practice the same sequence but visualise the Kundalini energy rising through the chakras in their appropriate position on the body:
Muladhara - base of the spine
Svaisthana - just below the navel
Manipura - just above the navel
Anahata - near the heart
Visuddha - near the Adam's Apple in the throat

Visualisations from the book Music For Inner Space by Nevill Drury ISBN 0907061745

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released October 21, 2016

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A multi-award winning band project with a range of products including ambient albums, guided visualisations, nature videos, artwork & songs by solo, multimedia producer Jay Moxham.

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