Heat of the mystic

During a number of types of spiritual experience, it is possible to experience both heat and cold.  This change of inner temperature may be a by-product, an effect in other words, without any deliberate intention on the part of the person to have produced this heat or cold.  Here, there may even be quite prosaic physical reasons why it has occurred and it is referred to as 'inner heat' and 'inner cold' -  See heat and cold.

But there are some people on the spiritual path who reach a stage where they deliberately invoke an inner heat.  And this is known as the Heat of the Mystic.  The method by which it is most frequently generated is a form of meditation coupled with controlled breathing, which is now known by various names - one of which is Tummo.  The aim is twofold:

 - the person uses the method to learn and practise how to control the process of directing energy flows with a view to more advanced kundalini type experiences.  Because the generation of heat is so tangible, both the person and the person's teacher can see whether the process has been mastered or not

- the heat helps in getting the person fit enough to withstand the next round of experiences.  Viruses do not like heat, nor do parasites or bacteria and sweating can release toxins, so the practise in essence gets rid of all the things which produce illness and disease.  This latter process may take some time.

Observations

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• Andrija Puharich - Siberian shamans - The Tests of Bodily function control
• Beethoven - 5th Symphony
• Bernard of Clairvaux - The grace of going forth in spirit
• Coleridge, Samuel Taylor - Ode to the Departing Year
• Custance, John - Wisdom, Madness and Folly - Mind over Matter
• David-Neel, Alexandra – Lighting fires using the heat of the mystic
• Dr Ertzbichoff – Diagnosing insanity using temperature variations induced by powerful emotions
• Eliot, T S - Four Quartets - 06 East Coker IV
• Ibn El-Arabi - The Tarjuman al-Ashwaq - They left me at al-Uthayl and an-Naqá shedding tears
• Kepler, Johannes - The Daemon from Levania from Somnium
• Mary of Oignes - Body heat control
• Michaux, Henri - Towards Serenity
• Mircea Eliade - On heat and cold
• Mircea Eliade - The Heat of the Mystic
• Mirdea Eliade - Fijian fire walking
• Morrells, Luce and Shot!
• Motoyama, Dr Hiroshi – Has a kundalini experience and levitates
• Ossowiecki, Stefan - describes the process in more detail
• Richard Katz - Kung healer
• Rig veda - Frogs
• Rogo, D Scott - Leaving the Body – Heat, atonia and the fear of not getting back into the body
• Rolle, Richard - Incendium Amoris - And ghostly music
• Rolle, Richard - Incendium Amoris - Hears celestial music in chapel
• Rolle, Richard - Incendium Amoris - Mystic heat and music
• Rumi - Rubaiyat - Heat is not brought by fire only
• Saint Catharine of Genoa – Dying from the Heat of the Mystic
• Saint Catharine of Genoa – The Heat of the Mystic
• Saint Philip Neri – Heat of the Mystic … caused by broken ribs
• Saint Stanislaus Kostka – Heat of the Mystic
• Scottish fasting
• Six Dharmas of Nāropa - 10 Gtummo - The Manner of the Arising of the Four Blisses
• Socrates - Plato Symposium - Heat of the mystic
• The Marriage of Philology and Mercury - Maid 6
• Tibetan Buddhism - Monks and Tummo
• Tibetan Buddhism - The art of warming oneself in the snow
• Tibetan Buddhism - The art of warming oneself in the snow
• Venerable Serafina di Dio - She lost great quantities of blood through the nostrils or by the mouth
• Wim Hof - The Ice Man
• Xam bushmen - Num dom
• Zosimos of Panopolis - The Mushaf as-suwar - 5th Book of Magnesia picture 8 - Resurrection