Abstract
This study had its origin
in the 1970s when the Personal Development Center (PDC) began
teaching meditation free of charge to the public in exchange for
their participation in reviving ancient exercises such as claimed to
have given increased mental, physical and spiritual powers to the
early soldiers as well as the builders of society. Once the ancient
methods were verified, they could then be identified as being
intuitively practiced by modern heroes and leaders facing the
challenges of the modern world. However, it was also evident that
the mental and physical exercises for self-development were
suppressed within the rise of cities requiring social conformance
and law obedience.
The PDC volunteers were
taught what was assumed to be the universal fundamental exercise for
developing access to higher inner powers. This exercise starts with
duplicating the method used by young children who have an
unquestioned intention of changing themselves into some form of
play. This intention is followed by the very quick, near violent
actions of their bodies and breathing as they do in fact become
different. It is these very actions of children which are suppressed
in order to control them.
In 1989, PDC participants
were tested after 20 minutes of an exercise consisting of : 1)
concentrating on the rise of their inner energy by increasing the
intensity of a whistle or roar in the ear and 2) while rocking as a
child feeling the pressure of their cushion and 3) being as a child
becoming ready to play. The testing was then able to prove a 30%
increase in the efficiency of both body and senses after only one
month of such daily exercises. (See Table 1)
Obviously, all heroes and
leaders do not sit, breathe, concentrate and rock and so research
began to update the old practices into viable, almost automatic
responses such as can be used today.
The ancient battleground
was the laboratory of the ancients with survival being positive
proof of the value of their practices. This suggested a study of
survival in the ghettos and then the hidden modern battleground of
our inner city schools, out of which a close comparison to ancient
battleground practices seemed to emerge.
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