Album Notes

If you think about it, success in anything comes from learning to rely on yourself.

I don't have a PhD from some "Spiritual Enlightenment" factory. But neither did Buddha, Milarepa, Gopi Krishna, or Lao Tse. They went out into the world and learned on their own. It's the only way — the empirical way, learning by practicing.

For me, it was working my way patiently through The Secret of the Golden Flower, a treasure store of secret techniques that most people give up on. Not me. I learned all the techniques and I've molded them into the world's first method for safe, permanent Kundalini awakening — Golden Flower Meditation (GFM). The key to GFM is the backward-flowing method, a technique so secret the ancients swore an oath never to reveal it. Diaphragmatic breathing is the requisite foundation for mastering the backward-flowing method. In fact, even if you're not interested in meditation, you owe it to yourself to learn to breathe correctly.

This CD provides the fundamentals of diaphragmatic breathing.

It's for people who've become impatient with other methods, or for self-learners like myself. I use it with students all over the world. Students who have bought my books and started corresponding with me. Many of these students had previously worked with other teachers and other methods, then quit. Some after studying for many years. They told me they weren't sure what they're supposed to be doing, feeling, or listening for.

I was able to guide them through the entire process, no matter how frustrated they were. Working with Diaphragmatic Deep Breathing and GFM allowed them to learn the self-reliance, self-monitoring principles necessary for true success in any walk of life.

Some students tell me, “I don't want something to believe in; give me something to DO, something concrete!” I know just how they feel. They don’t want riddles, word games, or kōans; they want practical guidelines. I give them specific exercises. They learn what to look and listen for as their practice moves forward. That's what this CD is about.

I don't charge for GFM, in fact, I give it away through my website, Golden Flower Meditation (www.goldenflowermeditation.com). My first book, Deciphering the Golden Flower One Secret at a Time, describes the method in easy-to-understand, non-technical language. My new book, The Backward-Flowing Method: The Secret of Life and Death takes the subject even further.

The goal of Golden Flower Meditation is to activate the Kundalini-Life Force. The Life Force has many names: sublimation, Kundalini, Tantra, alchemy, Serpent power, primordial energy, cosmic power, Qi, Reiki, or primal spirit; it has many names, but all the names boil down to the practice of activating the dormant Kundalini-Life Force present in every human being.

Diaphragmatic Deep Breathing represents the crucial first step of the Golden Flower Meditation method, a step each practitioner must learn before attempting the backward-flowing method. These diaphragmatic breathing exercises are set to Universal World genre music that I composed and arranged. The music blends seamlessly with spoken instructions that teach you to use the diaphragm in every breath you take.

For detailed biographical information, read Deciphering the Golden Flower One Secret at a Time, the first of many books dedicated to the meditation principles and practices involved in activating the Kundalini-Life Force and awakening the extraordinary autonomic self-healing powers of the human body.

What's Deciphering the Golden Flower One Secret at a Time about? One reviewer stated that it was like reading the description of a Kundalini experience written by Henry Miller. Henry Miller meets Gopi Krishna, he called it. Another reviewer simply stated, "I recommend this book to everyone. Truly, this is the best book I've read in a long time, both in terms of practical application of spiritual practice and market entertainment. This book is a riveting experience."

While exploring the secrets to successfully activating the Kundalini-Life Force, Deciphering the Golden Flower One Secret at a Time also appeals to readers on an anecdotal level. In other words, it's an easy, entertaining read!