Namaste Open,

I feel a little confused by your latest addition to this thread. Maybe I am being over sensitive (or paranoid) but I feel your comments to be contradictory to your own teaching and are designed to be critical and judgemental.

Let me explain why I feel this. You seem to have an issue with my practise of Tantric Kriya Pranayama (Cosmic Cobra Breathing) yet your own foundation practice of Breakthrough Breathing is based on this very technique - minus the anal and abdominal locks. So, why the problem? All your guided meditations are also based around this same technique and I find them very effective (I engage in them during some of my spare 22 hours most days ;). I also am in the enviable position as a retired person to be able to spend some of those 22 hours as the silent witness amongst the beauty of the natural world that surrounds my home.

Also, yes I did mention Archons, a word derived from the Greek for "rulers" and adopted by the early Gnostics. I believe these Archons to be no different from the implants and Entities that you encourage us to remove in one of your meditations. In my view they are representative of "Opposing Consciousness" and originate from the Intervention by those the Gnostics call the false gods, possibly the Annunaki. You ask me if I have ever encountered one, and the answer is yes, as an implanted entity that can influence both my mental and emotional behaviour. This is why I use your guided meditation to exorcise the little boogers, or at least try to LOL.

As for being influenced by other people and adopting a dogmatic belief system - you could not be more wrong. I have no belief system but I am always curious to find out what others have learned or experienced. I realise you have an issue with David Icke but I also disagree with some of his ideas. As somebody who has written 5 books and thousands of website pages, I imagine you would be hopeful that some people will be influenced by your efforts and possibly gain benefit from it - otherwise, why bother? You have become an "influencer" and I am fairly certain that some people will see you as an infallibe guru even if that was never your intention. This is how a dogmatic belief system is seeded. Maybe Chris Bourne was the historical Yeshua - I bet he never imagined the carnage and corruption that would grow from the mistaken dogmatic belief in his "divinity".

Last point. I feel that maybe I touched a raw nerve with my original question regarding the remastered books. This was not meant as any sort of criticism, it was purely for me to try and decide whether or not to invest my meagre pension in purchasing the new versions. I apologise if you felt I was getting at you. Maybe our previous relationship at the Tashi Llunpo monastery was not a harmonious one, maybe even antagonistic in some way? Unfortunately I have no memory of this life experience - maybe you could expand on your own recollection of our time together in Tibet?

Much love and blessings, Shantiram