Lbrp, Middle Pillar, And Kundalini Options

I recently on the advice of this site purchased a copy of MODERN MAGICK: Eleven Lessons on the High Magickal Arts.

I have begun practicing the LBRP and found it quite useful, leaving me with powerful shielding, a banished and clean atmposphere, and also a highly charged magickal / spiritual energy.

I then moved on to the Middle Pillar Ritual which as it stated in the text is quite similair to Eastern practices having to do with the chakra and kundalini, which i have been practicing for years now.

I was wondering, is there any particular reason / difference in experience that i should know about when practicing these rituals or would it perhaps better to continue with my chakra / kundalini work as a "MIddle Pillar" sort of ritual since i already know the technique.

Overall, the style of Ceremonial Magick is more complicated then i'm used to, but i think that having set up my altar, gotten some rudimentary tools, and begun practicing that aspects of it will be quite useful to add to my repitoire of other magickal styles.

Any comments, thoughts, advice, as i continue my practice?
(See my entry in the profile piece if you wish more background on the type of magick i am used to performing.)

*bows*

Light and Darkness,

Velarius

Greetings Zosimo!

I am not an authority on Kundalini yoga, but, being one of the 'first two folks' that answered Velariuses post I feel abit put out to be lumped together with 'chakra-spinning/new agey' individuals in this case. No where did I allude to any such practice...nor did Krell, I do believe. My first taste of Kundalini yoga came from the lips of a yoga instructor at a local college about 50 years ago. At that time there was (just beginning) the movement towards the study of mysticism AND yoga in the USA. Coming from the NE we were still behind our Californian counterparts that benefited from all things Eastern. There were hotlines established throughout various parts in the USA concerning troubles encountered from people mucking about with Kundalini, this occuring sometime in the later sixties. I remember quite vividly a few rather startling occurences that happened with myself whilst engaged in the raising of the serpent power. I stand by my cautionary note...if you wish to practice Kundalini Yoga then do so with a knowledgable teacher. I have never, repeat, ever mixed the two systems(Western magic/Kundalini Yoga). Nor do I subscribe to the mountains of 'magic(k)al' drivel that has been showered down on us from every person to write a book on the occult. Have a care! You know absolutely nothing about my knowledge of chakra work nor of my personal meditative practices.