Heart-Chakra

[Siluan]

Dear Father,

after practicing the hesychast-prayer, about tree weeks after the start, the whole body went in flames, I couldn't sleep, I couldn't eat. My eyes were radiating so much energy that some colleagues in the work turned they eyes away from mine.
I had also another experiences but about them maybe next time.


Later I read about chakras.


I would like to know Your opinion about the connection between the Chakra System and Hesychia: Does this prayer technique maybe open the Heart-Chakra ?

What is a matter of technique and what is a metter of Grace ?

Yours, Siluan

[P. Joseph-Marie]

Il est certain que la prière de Jésus ne devrait pas provoquer d’ouverture de chakras ni autres phénomènes au niveau des énergies occultes qui traversent notre corps, tout simplement parce qu’elle n’agit pas à ce niveau. Cependant il est vrai que j’ai déjà rencontré plusieurs cas comme le vôtre. Je crois que la difficulté se situe au niveau de la pratique de la prière.
J’ai entendu un jour un prêtre orthodoxe se mettre en colère durant un congrès sur la prière, contre la manière dont nous pratiquions la prière de Jésus en occident, spécialement à partir de la lecture de l’ouvrage « Le récit d’un pèlerin russe ». Selon lui on avait travesti cette sainte prière en une forme de répétition mécanique d’un mantra, à la mode orientale. D’où l’éveil de la Kundalini et autres phénomènes au niveau des chakras.
Les starets orthodoxes qui enseignent la prière de Jésus, insistent sur l’importance de du caractère relationnel, interpersonnel, de la prière, dont le but est de garder - avec souplesse et sans tension – l’attention du cœur sur Jésus et de demeurer en dialogue d’amour avec lui. Nous répétons son nom afin de ne pas perdre un instant la conscience de sa présence. Une telle manière de pratiquer ne risque pas selon moi de donner le genre d’expérience que vous avez eue.

[Siluan]

Thanks very much, dear Father, although I don't speak french. But I will find someone who will translate Your answer.
As far as I understood, You don't agree with a Mantra-like repetition of the Hesychast Prayer, as described in "The russian pilgrim".

In the culminaton-Period of this "hesychast wawe", which dured about 3-4 weeks I had to fight extremely negative entities.
During 3 nights in the middle of this "wawe" I constantly felt extremely negative "energies" surrounding my heart, although I didn't saw anything or anybody.
I felt this energies mostly during the night, beeing forced to wake up shortly after I went to bed. Then I prayed to The Lord, almost shouting.
Regularly, after half an hour, I became so week that I started to cry.
But this was also the momet when the energies left me.

Some other aspects:

The start of the attac upon my heart was signalized once by a beautiful but evil ornament.

Also once I heard noise, some kind of drums, chaotic drums...
Then I read Antonius the great, and he also speaks about noise.


Questions:


1: Are daemons personal or not ?
2: are they personifications of my own fears ?
3: Are they independent of the human soul ?
4: Are they aspects of The SELF, in the Way Jung understands it ?
5: Are shamanic Totem-animals daemons ?
6: Are pagan Gods, which can be visualised with similar methods like the Ignatian exercises, daemons ?
7: Are the Energies of the elements, Water, Fire, Air, Earth, frequently used in ceremonial magic, daemons ?
8: Planetarian Energies ?
9: What about the tibetan method of creating durgas, and than destroying them, in order to lose fear from any kind of personal God ?

Thank You very, very much,

With respect, Siluan