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 |  |  | The Darkness ReviewA News Letter for Universal Healing Tao Darkness Retreat Participants
| | All spiritual traditions of the world have used Darkness Techniques in their pursuit of enlightenment. In Europe, the place for practicing Darkness Techniques often appeared in underground form as a network of tunnels, in Egypt as the Pyramids, in Rome as the catacombs, and by the Essenes, near the Dead Sea in Israel, as caves. Buddhism shares in this tradition, with famous Yogis like Milarepa and Padmasambhava, whose caves are still visited by pilgrims and tourists alike. Thailand has many caves that are used by Buddhist Monks for Vipassana Meditation. In the Taoist tradition caves have been used throughout the ages for higher level practices. In the Tao, the cave, the Immortal Mountain, the Wu Shan, represents the Perfect Inner Alchemy Chamber Meditating and fasting in the cave is the final journey of spiritual work. The caves are the Earth Mother and its energy lines. Like the hollowing bones, caves contain the earliest information of life stored inside the Earth. Caves contain the vital essence of the Earth Power. The Tao says: 'When you go into the dark and this becomes total, the darkness soon turns into light ' In the Darkness, our mind and soul begin to wander freely in the vast realms of psychic and spiritual experience. When you enter this primordial state you are reunited with the true self and divinity within. You literally 'conduct' the universal energy. You may see into the past and future, understand the true meaning of existence, and begin to understand the order of things. You return to the womb, the cocoon of our material structure and Nature's original Darkness. | | http://www.universal-tao.com/TheDarknessReview/TheDarknessReview1.1.html |      |
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