INTEGRAL IMMORTALITY

The Kundalini/Golden Embryo

Theory of Everything

BARCLAY POWERS

Integral Theory has not been able to translate the inner technology of complete chi or
energy refinement.

There are many different approaches to the spiritual transcendence of time, which is
a constant theme in the contemplative traditions that have inner illumination and
spiritual enlightenment as their goal. The triplex unity, trinity or Trikaya could be
considered to be a relatively accurate framework of ultimate consciousness evolution
when accurately translated from an esoteric post-metaphysical perspective. The idea
is that the cosmos and the human body are composed of three levels or dimensions
that are united by the union of the three bodies, which results in liberation or moksha.
If we assume that immortality or Buddhahood, complete spiritual awakening, has been
achieved repeatedly throughout human history, the basic postmodern narrative of
Western civilization changes completely. The great historian, Arnold Toynbee,
considered the introduction of Buddhism to the West to be one of the most significant
events in the 20th century. Although we take the concept of moksha or liberation for
granted, it is possible that Western civilization is actually in the process of what could
be described as tantric consciousness mutation at the level of the collective
unconscious. If we also consider the Philosopher's Stone to be a European secret
kundalini/golden embryo tradition, we can hypothesize that the ultimate result in the
21st century will eventually be a post-scientific explanation of Tantric Buddhahood and
the secret of immortality in the form of spiritual awakening.
 Golden Embryo

The most important Integral question is: how does a human being physically unite the
relative with the absolute in the 21st century using a perspective in which they have
never been separate - nontheistic nonduality? Postmodern spiritual enlightenment
does not necessarily require a theistic belief system. Buddhism, Taoism and Jainism
have lengthy histories of enlightened adepts without inner illumination being
dependent on a deity or creative intelligence. Since most science is atheistic Integral
Theory prevents a scientific explanation of Buddhahood by forcing nontheistic systems
into highly distorted theistic definitions of meditation and nonduality. Labeling
emptiness as God, and saying that your present awareness is nondual because
everything is spirit, has nothing to do with Buddhahood which is the union of the three
bodies - physical, subtle and super subtle. The spiritual teachers that have been
endorsed by Integral Theory have unknowingly prevented the spiritual evolution and
awakening of their students because of an incomplete understanding of chi/prana and
its connection to genuine enlightenment. Many theistic traditions also had genuine
three body alchemical esoteric systems based on the kundalini/golden embryo but
Integral Theory has rejected alchemy as pre-rational based on incomplete translation.
A philosophy that cannot explain the Philosopher's Stone is clearly missing something
since this realization is the original goal of science and many ancient religions and
contemplative traditions based on the Coniunctio subtle body union.

Tantric Buddhahood or immortality can also be defined as the rediscovery of the

Hermetic Androgyne or Rebis. These are other terms for the kundalini/golden embryo:
the Philosopher's Stone, the union of the three bodies (corpus, anima, spiritus),
(Nirmanakaya, Sambhogakaya, Dharmakaya), physical, subtle and super subtle. Calling
the Dharmakaya the Vedic causal body, and defining it as emptiness and deep sleep,
is a clear example of an incomplete understanding of the completion stage of
meditation the real original face, the embryo of enlightenment. Actually the Neidan
internal alchemical model of enlightenment uniting the pre-birth or pre-heaven chi
or consciousness with the post-heaven chi or consciousness - demonstrates that the
pre/post trans fallacy is the exact opposite of how enlightenment actually works. Pre-
birth or pre-heaven consciousness (prior to the fall which occurs at birth) can only be
described as pre-rational by the Integral Model, when actually it is post-post-rational
immortal Buddhahood, pure yang, when refined into the embryo of enlightenment.
The pre/post trans fallacy has literally reversed the real mechanism of enlightenment
within the human reproductive system.

The primary purpose of the human reproductive system is enlightenment from a post-
rational post-modern spiritual perspective. This has been proven in China over and
over for thousands of years and is the basis of the inner alchemical model of
immortality/Buddhahood. For this system to work there has to be an enlightened
point of origin in both the human body and the human species. The Neidan system has
worked successfully over and over again and still does. This means that both the
pre/post trans fallacy and the evolutionary enlightenment of Integral Theory are
reversed and incomplete.

Integral Theory has not been able to translate the inner technology of complete chi or
energy refinement. The translation has not been clear enough because of the language
barrier as well as the pervasive use of metaphor. As soon as the word immortality
appears in inner alchemical texts the Western scholar invariably labels it prerational
superstition. Immortality does not mean the physical body never dies. It means that
the subtle body has been transformed from yin to yang by the Coniunctio, the
conjunction of pre-birth yang and post-birth yin subtle bodies.

This means that if you accept nondual enlightenment, Buddhahood/immortality as

true, Integral Theory and science are incomplete and esoteric yogic and alchemical
traditions have always been right. Or at least since the enlightened point of origin,
which would theoretically have to have occurred somewhere between apes and
modern man from a highly speculative perspective. Eros may be unable to completely
explain this transitional evolutionary event.
 Rebis

What Buddhas and immortals have always taught is that the first chakra, or starting
point of the human body, has an energy charge, which can transform and awaken the
human brain when moved from the lower torso to the head. A partial version of this is
a kundalini activation. A complete version fully unites the three bodies, dissolving the
super subtle body into the subtle body, transforming it from yin to golden yang. This
is the Coniunctio, the legendary union of subtle and super subtle bodies, which results
in complete awakening, the transcendence or unification of time the Unus Mundus.
The fact that this experience is the original goal of modern science, clearly and fully
understood 500 years ago, is even more remarkable. Fortunately this firing process,
which results in spiritual enlightenment, has been preserved and further developed in
modern Chinese qi gong and meditation systems, which may result in complete
awakening like Yi Chuan and Neidan inner alchemy.
 The Neijing Tu is a Taoist "inner landscape" diagram of the human body
illustrating Neidan internal alchemy.

Integral Theory has so diluted the promise of enlightenment that it currently prevents
the complete evolution of consciousness, which is the goal of meditation and
awakening. None of the stages of consciousness that represent the highest states of
awareness come close to explaining Buddhahood, the Philosopher's Stone, the
kundalini/golden embryo or immortality, either scientifically or spiritually. The current
Integral definition of enlightenment oneness with everything combined with
evolutionary emergence based on pseudo-satori is incomplete, and has
misunderstood the human body's energy and subtle body systems. From a Bodhisattva
perspective, a map of consciousness evolution that is so distorted that it prevents
Buddhahood and destroys the promise of genuine enlightenment is not good karma
by any means.

Now let us work together to repair the map from a post- Buddhahood perspective
based on creating a post-metaphysical translation that restores the original definition
of enlightenment as the permanent discovery of ultimate meaning and the true
identity of human beings. Perhaps the most important idea is that enlightenment is
based on subtle body union and is physiological not merely psychological.

Chakras

The lost secret of immortality is that the first chakra, the starting point (bindu) of the
human body, is the dormant embryo of Buddhahood (Tathagatagarbha). The current
Integral definition of the three bodies - gross, subtle and causal has actually made the
same error that Jung did by using a psychological mistranslation of the three bodies
Nirmanakaya, Sambhogakaya, Dharmakaya, or corpus, anima and spiritus. Jung went
in circles for a lifetime trying to integrate Jesus, mercurius and the serpent within a
psychological framework based on the Coniunctio, the conjunction of yin anima and
yang spiritus, which he misunderstood as merely psychological integration. Because
the idea of chi/prana is not understood as the basis of the kundalini/golden embryo,
the goal of alchemy has become completely lost in translation, which has also occurred
in Integral Theory. It should be noted that Jung's error in assuming that the kundalini
or golden flower represented the unconscious is virtually identical to Wilber's dramatic
error in considering the Dharmakaya, which he incorrectly calls the causal body, to be
correlated with deep sleep. This mistake is based on incomplete meditation and
pseudo-satori.

It is important to remember that the theory of both Chinese and Indian medical
systems, which appears to be accurate, is that the origin point of the human body is
enlightened both now and in the origin of the species. This is why all human beings
have Buddha nature, and the pre-birth chi or energy of the human reproductive
system is still enlightened in a dormant form. The classical saying was that man is an
inverted tree; his roots are in heaven. Chinese theory is that heaven is the yang world
of the Buddhas and immortals, which can be united within the human being that has
achieved the goal of inner alchemy. The human being is a microcosm, which contains
the macrocosm holographically when the three bodies are united, which also
integrates heaven, earth and man, the three worlds or dimensions.
 Buddhist Three Bodies

The fact that Gebser had the insight of the presence of the ever-present origin, and
recognized it as spiritual is truly remarkable. Of course, since this means that the pre-
trans post-trans fallacy so cherished by the Integral movement is backwards, we can
expect silence in acknowledging this crucial error that literally destroys the promise of
genuine enlightenment. Real nonduality also destroys evolution, at least as it relates
to humans, which the Integral elite has somehow forgotten to notice. Nonduality
means that the origin of consciousness is enlightened. Apes are not enlightened and
cannot achieve Buddhahood, the Trikaya the union of the three bodies. Remember
Darwin saw a gorilla in the London Zoo. As any Buddha would tell you, if he had seen
his original face the story of evolution would be very different. If he had seen his
Integral pseudo-original face he might have told us it was Eros. Evolution does not rob
enlightenment of meaning, which is the flawed hypothesis of Integral Theory.
Buddhahood/immortality completely destroys evolution at least as it describes the
origin of the human species.

Fortunately it does appear that humans may be evolving into Buddhas, which would
certainly be a most desirable form of consciousness mutation. This is why Buddhas
have always said that the human body is necessary for complete liberation, the union
of the three bodies, the Trikaya.

Taoist Three Bodies

Integral Theory has not understood the completely false history of both science and
religion, which is accepted by the consensus worldview of post-modernity. As soon as
we take the concept of the kundalini/golden embryo as a hard science phenomenon
we find ourselves in an entirely new world in which myth is real and the origin of
human consciousness is enlightened. As soon as we define the Philosopher's Stone as
the embryo of enlightenment, which is the nondual origin and goal of both science and
religion, everything changes in terms of perspective. Imagine a world in which children
are taught that the first chakra is the dormant embryo of Buddhahood, a fully
enlightened Buddha is who they really are. If you are taught that the starting point of
the human body is the secret of enlightenment you may eventually end up with an
enlightened Bodhisattva world civilization. A Bodhisattva world civilization is the real
goal of Integral Theory, religion, science and democracy.

Philosopher's Stone
(Note the embryo of enlightenment in the lower abdomen.)

Integral Theory seeks to create a rational explanation of postrational authentic

spiritual experience but has misunderstood the ever-present point of origin. Although
conventional kundalini theory is relatively well understood, very few scholars have
suggested the kundalini as the most logical explanation for the Philosopher's Stone.
The complete version, the golden embryo, appears as the yang solar super subtle
body, which restores the Unus Mundus and reverses the fall of man when the
Coniunctio is completed. This was the core esoteric sacred science, which underlies
many ancient civilizations and could be considered the lost knowledge of the human
race, which is in the process of rediscovery. A neurotheological explanation of
enlightenment would undoubtedly explain the golden vision of the original face, which
could be called the template of the common ancestor, as the reason for the Western
concept of the Imago Dei, the image of God within man, the divine spark of light. The
best neuroscientific explanation of God creating man in His own image is this
experience of post-Coniunctio awakening.
 Hermetic Androgyne

Current Integral Theory has failed completely in understanding that the physical body
is not the real body in esoteric yogic and alchemical theory. The primary body is the
super subtle body, the kundalini/golden embryo that transforms you from a man to
what the Chinese call a real human being an immortal. At the very least we should
expect Indian classical realization to be defined as uniting solar and lunar energy
currents within the central channel of the body. The caduceus, the symbol of mercury,
represents this triple channel kundalini activation in alchemical art depictions. Many
spiritual practitioners have not understood that cross-legged sitting alone can block
the prana from travelling up the spine to the head. Both Jainism and Taoism often
emphasize standing meditation as a more effective method of taking the energy
chi/prana from the lower torso to the head than just sitting. Because of the Western
confusion about Tantra the initial period of celibacy, which creates a surplus of
reproductive energy, is often misunderstood as religious repression as opposed to
energy cultivation based on jing, chi and shen or nadi, prana and bindu, the Chinese
and Indian systems.

Unfortunately Integral Theory has completely ignored the classical East Asian
prescription for enlightenment. Jing or reproductive energy is refined into chi or vital
energy, which is refined into shen or spirit (kundalini/golden embryo in its complete
form), spirit is then returned to void and then to Tao (post-Coniunctio). The golden
embryo is also known as the original spirit, the original face, or Dharmakaya, the super
subtle yang solar body. The end result is the Unus Mundus, time synchronization based
on the complete integration of the upper world, middle world, lower world
dimensions, heaven, earth and man. Man, the microcosm, fully integrated with the
macrocosm of the universe, the three dimensions which are united by the three
bodies, which are united by the three treasures jing, chi and shen. The alchemical
perfection of the soul means that the yin subtle body has been transformed to golden
yang by the firing process, which results in the Coniunctio and the union of the three
bodies.

Microcosmic Orbit

Integral Theory has not understood the difference between theistic and non-theistic
meditation/enlightenment traditions. Simply saying that Eastern and Western
mysticism is the same and results in nonduality is not accurate when the causal body
is incorrectly defined as emptiness. For complete awakening to be achieved subtle and
super subtle bodies have to be united. Initially the Tathagatagarbha embryo of
Buddhahood is dormant and formless. It appears as the Dharmakaya, your original face
at the time of enlightenment, and then dissolves back into emptiness or formlessness
(post- Coniunctio). This process, the complete union of the three bodies, loops the
human timeline, permanently integrating the relative and the absolute. The end result
is that a Buddha both exists and doesn't exist simultaneously. This is the real meaning
of form is emptiness and emptiness is form. The dissolution of the original face at the
time of enlightenment erases the origin point within the human time line, and is the
reason for the concept of Anatman - non-self as your true nature.

Integral Theory makes the classical error of describing postenlightenment from a pre-
realization perspective, and then calls emptiness God. Pseudo-theistic satori is
undoubtedly the reason for this confusion. Buddhism has been plagued by the
apparent irreconcilable conflict between the embryo of Buddhahood and emptiness
doctrines. The actual enlightenment experience, in which the Dharmakaya, your
original face, is returned to void and completely negated, also results in the negation
of time. The end result of this experience is the nonduality of the relative and absolute
on both an individual and cosmic level, because they are inseparably entangled, and
the part actually contains the whole holographically. This is the mustard seed, which
contains the polar mountain - the real union of the microcosm and macrocosm. The
beauty of Buddhahood is that once one individual in a given time period achieves the
Trikaya the experience becomes possible for everyone who can understand the
translation and follow instructions. At this point in history all the necessary
information is available which is what is enabling you to read this right now. Chinese
Neidan inner alchemical theory actually explains Buddhist enlightenment more clearly
than any other source, although the Six Yogas of Naropa come close.

Embryo of Buddhahood

Integral Theory is highly distorted by its misunderstanding of corpus, anima and

spiritus, the physical body, the lunar subtle body and the solar super subtle body.
Wilber has made the same mistake as Jung in not realizing that Jesus, Shiva or Hermes
Trismegistus are often used metaphorically in esoteric alchemical and tantric systems
as descriptions of fully awakened human beings that have successfully united the three
bodies. It is not a great leap to assume that what is called the original spirit or golden
embryo in China is called the Holy Spirit in Gnostic Christianity. The serpent or dragon
is a virtual universal metaphor for the kundalini/golden embryo, the super subtle body,
which lies dormant within the first chakra of all human beings. Any religious system
that is based on three divine characters probably has had successful inner alchemists
within its history, and as civilizations influenced each other they often shared
foundational myths and characters.

Historically an individual within a culture that united the anima and spiritus within the
corpus is often considered to have become identical to the founder by recreating the
myth of origin Cosmic Man. The myth is not pre-rational by any means. It has simply
not been accurately translated into a post-metaphysical 21st century definition of the
Trikaya, the union of the three bodies, material, subtle and super subtle. The theistic
traditions have always defined the solar super subtle body as the Imago Dei, the image
of God within man. It is this vision of golden nonduality, which has repeatedly changed
the course of human history. When the serious errors of Integral meditation and subtle
body theory are corrected there is a very real possibility of an accurate postmodern
definition of enlightenment, which results in what could be called a tantric renaissance
in Western civilization. Since Western civilization is in the process of becoming global
this transformation could eventually be conceivable worldwide. The problem is
relatively simple - no Western psychological or neuroscientific model of the brain has
included chi/prana as the primary inner technology, which activates the
kundalini/golden embryo the super subtle body. Golden dragons and serpents are not
pre-rational alchemical mythology to be rejected by post-metaphysical modernity.
These are ancient metaphorical descriptions of the super subtle body, which lies
dormant within the lower torso of every human being.

Kundalini

The Uttara Tantra is one of the best classical explanations of the golden self within
man, which unites the relative and the absolute and returns consciousness to its
perfect enlightened origin. This is why Dzogchen, the great perfection, describes your
true nature as perfection itself. Conventional kundalini activations, based on uniting
solar and lunar energy meridians within the central channel, (the caduceus) are not
complete forms of awakening.

Oroborus

The oroborus, the oldest symbol of alchemical enlightenment, depicts the actual
looping of time, which occurs when the subtle and super subtle bodies are united
(Coniunctio) within the physical body. Integral Theory has missed the key point
completely in defining the kundalini (the caduceus) as legitimate, and the oroborus as
prerational. The oroborus is post-post-rational immortality, the complete
transcendence of time, the Unus Mundus, the reversal of the fall of man.

Caduceus

There are actually two different versions of the original face, which Integral Theory
needs to redefine. It should also be obvious by now that defining deep sleep as both
emptiness and the causal body is a mistake that destroys the validity of Integral
Theory. The concept of the witness, defining your present awareness as Godhead,
Dzogchen pointing out instructions, this present moment is enlightenment or your
original face, are all poetic pseudo nondual descriptions of reality which confuse pre-
realization and postrealization states of consciousness. Parroting poetic slogans does
not result in Buddhahood, the union of physical, subtle and super subtle bodies. The
goal of meditation is to unite the pre-birth and postbirth chi or consciousness. So while
it is true that the relative and the absolute have never been separate, the super subtle
body, the embryo of enlightenment, your real original face has to be reactivated by
inner heat to fully unite with the subtle body transforming it from yin to pure golden
yang.

This is the legendary triplex unity or Unus Mundus, the unification of the three
treasures (jing, chi, shen); three bodies physical, subtle, super subtle and three worlds,
heaven, earth and man, (upper world, middle world and lower world dimensions). The
embryo of enlightenment or original face is a composite of both adepts if sexual yoga
(karmamudra) is used for the firing process that unites the three bodies. Both the
Hermetic Androgyne and the Ardhanarishvara depiction of Shiva illustrate this as does
Samantabhadra and Samantabadhri in the Ati yoga tradition of Tibet. Zen, like Integral
Theory, has often confused pseudo-satori with the true golden vision of the original
face, the super subtle body. Tibetan Buddhism has often made this error based on
misinterpreting clear light experiences as liberation. Nirvikalpa Samadhi and Turiya are
other examples of confusing yogic experiences with real three body union
Buddhahood. Pseudo-nonduality, which characterizes current Integral Theory
definitions of higher consciousness, is a fatal flaw, which must be corrected by the
Integral elite that has completely misunderstood genuine spiritual awakening and the
synchronization of time.
 Ardhanarishvara

Integral Theory has unknowingly destroyed the real promise of enlightenment

discovering ultimate meaning as the deepest level of your self, and completely
evolving beyond postmodern definitions of what it means to be human immortality.
Taoist inner alchemy explains Buddhahood/immortality and the triplex unity, which
appears to be the basis of many religions, which have three central characters. The
promise of enlightenment, the union of the three bodies, is that any human being that
fully activates the original enlightened chi/prana of the reproductive system has the
capacity to transcend time by erasing its beginning. Alchemy has been disguised by
metaphor, which can only be translated by a real adept that has achieved the
Coniunctio union of subtle and super subtle bodies. Returning the Dharmakaya to
void, the goal of Buddhist meditation, which results in Buddhahood, was
metaphorically called slaying the dragon in Western occult science and believed to
reverse the fall of man. The staggering beauty of true spiritual awakening is that when
the third eye opens, post-Coniunctio, the divine spark within man is seen as a living
reality for everyone. The kundalini/golden embryo lies dormant within all human
beings as Buddhas and immortals have always taught. This ancient knowledge is now
available globally for the first time in the history of the world. In the 21st century and
beyond it may eventually awaken a substantial portion of the human race for the real
truth has always been within.
 The Goddess of Truth Holding the Mirror
of Reflection and Serpent of Wisdom

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(Oct 30, 2015)iDontKnow:) said:
@Anonymous,
I resonate deeply with this, All my life i dreamed of immortality its like it was ingrained in me..i
remember being obsessed with 'The Highlander' as a child...The thought of immortality in death is so
dumb as we already are immortal spirits..i would think that if there was a creator God he wouldve
been smarter than this.....lol.! The real path is rebirth of immortal spirit in physical form..my gnosis;)

(Mar 12, 2015)Anonymous said:

From my experience and personal point of view , the kundalini is there for burn the ego ...
"Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, But humility goes before honor."
There is no such things as immortality for humans.

(June 23, 2014)Anonymous said:

Great article....I can see we've had parallel experiences in our lives and have drawn similar conclusions.
I must say, the one thing that stuck with me after a kundalini experience 40 years ago is that
immortality through the migration of consciousness is more than myth or spiritual rebirth. From my
gnosis, I believe it is possible, and is the next stage of human evolution. It's as though the Universe has
programmed us with symbols representing archetypes that tell us a story about our path to
immortality.