into the feet and legs. If he or she, by concentration into the belly, brings about their conscious inner inbreak into that astral world, where they can identify the existence of divine powers and abandon themselves to their dominance, then they have sunken into an equally flawed world-view, as when they do not strive mystically and they hold on to a materialistic view of the world. Due to this reason, the good mystical schools recommend concentration on feet and legs; in them, during a sufficient increase of intensity, physiological substrates of their flesh will be released. These substrates then multiply, rise up through the body and, on their way, release everything that is hidden in the psycho-physiological nerve ganglia of the trunk and of the head. This releasing is of a different kind than that provoked by a direct concentration into these psycho-physiological and neural centres. It does not become a breakthrough into the sphere of these substrates, but it remains a more natural penetration into, and transformation of, the structure of these centres. Therefore a person then enters the astral world – which is, in the microcosm, linked to the abdominal region – with their entire normal inner “armoury”. By this, the moments of backsliding are ruled out and a person enters there as a traveller through the invisible spheres of life. What holds true about the penetration of a person into this psycho-physiological and neural centre, holds true, as well, about his or her penetration into the psycho-physiological centres situated above the abdomen. Let us, therefore, take notice of that most praised penetration of the consciousness into the pectoral centre – a centre in the chest, which is probably known by all mystical schools – the Christian, as well as the oriental ones. A concentration into this centre, which is accompanied by “raising the mind towards God”, brings about, with a high probability, the development of feelings which are considered to be mystical. However, from the psychological point of view, the mystical nature of these feelings is very problematic. Even in the everyday feelings, it is possible to find very ideal feelings, which can be easily mistaken for mystical ones, especially when imagination takes part in them. In such a case it is, as a rule, the sexuality that causes the mystics “concentrating into the heart” to suddenly find out that they are having a share in the divine mercy, in various states of ecstasy and the like. We must not forget that sexuality has countless forms. Those who, due to some reasons, do not discharge sexually in the physical way, can very easily discharge in the mystical way. In such a person, the imagination then paints for them a mystical world in the form of paradises, heavens, angels, devas and I do not know what else. Behind all of this, there is a fact that the psycho-physiological neural centre was not developed by a pressure of the vital forces, released from the flesh of legs, but by an inbreak of the mind which was concentrating into the heart – a mind, which is not able to reduce the “geyser” of feelings, related to the ecstasy of the mind, to feelings “on their own” that are, though, classified into various categories of feelings. However, yoga does not limit itself only to concentration into the heart. It is also familiar with concentration into the neck – into the psycho-physiological neural centre in the neck. It is claimed 68 Květoslav Minařík
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