Higher consciousness and sexual sublimation (diverting sexual energy to the brain) are inextricably linked in most of the world's meditation methods. So where does seminal retention fit in? Seminal retention techniques can be used by male practitioners who want to continue sexual relations without the deleterious effects linked to ejaculating.While best meditation practices dictate renouncing ejaculation and sexual relations, seminal retention techniques do provide a compromise for...

The backward-flowing method is a process with a beginning, a middle, and an end. And like any process, it has to proceed step-by-step in proper order, like a scientific experiment. The first step is to reverse the breath. Reversing the breath triggers step two: drawing the distilled seminal fluid up the correct channel in the spine. It ensures that the process will unfold correctly, without harming or frightening the practitioner.When you detect the sensation of movement in the low...

When 15-year-old Gus Mazur leaves his Oklahoma birthplace to live with his aunt and uncle in New York City, he narrowly escapes the blame for getting a girl "in trouble." In the Big Apple, a whole new life opens for Gus—from boarding school to university to Marine Corps duty in Paris to a career at the WBN television network.It's the dawn of civil rights struggles; WBN needs reporters with insider access to events off limits to their white counterparts, which enables Gus, as the ne...

The Biology of Consciousness: Case Studies in Kundalini examines the notion that consciousness exists outside the body and actually drives evolution by what Gopi Krishna called "the evolutionary impulse."The book examines the arguments for and against God, making clear that there is very little evidence to support either side, but there is a large body of evidence that supports the notion of an energy continuum brought into being by an all-pervasive consciousness.The nouvea...

Since the publication of Deciphering the Golden Flower One Secret at a Time in 2008, readers have asked for an in-depth guidebook on using The Secret of the Golden Flower (SGF) to awaken kundalini in a manner, and with the same results, as described in JJ Semple's Deciphering the Golden Flower One Secret at a Time.This is that book, a much-anticipated companion guide to the SGF as well as a sequel to his autobiographical kundalini memoir.A treatise on Chinese kundalini medi...

Like many seeking spiritual knowledge, I started as a novice, looking for truth that didn't exist in the material world. Religion hadn't worked for me, neither had higher education, nor specializations such as law, medicine, business.I wanted to take an active part in my development. I wanted to be the creator of my own Being. As far as career paths, I felt that everyone around me had already figured things out; all they had to do was learn the ropes, keep their mouths shut, and th...

Kundalini Musings (Life Force Books, 2018) is a compendium of kundalini knowledge and experience, consisting of 82 essays written over the past seven years. Each essay has been edited and updated to reflect the latest findings across a broad spectrum of kundalini research — a wide assortment of kundalini-related topics and writings under one cover, all of JJ Semple's 40 plus years of kundalini experience contained in this one book.Kundalini was first disco...