The Staff of Atman

Making the Staff of Atman

1. To make the Staff of Atman, both left and right, you will need two Double Pyramids. Glue them together from heavy white drawing paper, which is the simplest method, or make them from another material, such as wood, glass, clear plastic and so on.
Make these pyramids and send me a request to attune them.

2. Next, make two cylinders from two different kinds of wood. I suggest oak and birch: birch for the left one and oak for the right.
These particular woods are not essential. You may choose others according to this principle: the left cylinder should be made from a yin wood, and the right from a yang wood.
Use the following information to determine this:

• The wood of the left cylinder should be lighter in colour than that of the right.
• The wood of the left cylinder should be softer than that of the right.

If you find it difficult to choose the woods, use the simple option I have suggested: oak and birch.

3. Cut two reasonably straight cylinders from branches, or preferably trunks, of oak and birch. Allow for removing the bark and finishing them, so that their final dimensions are:

Diameter: 4-4,5 cm.
Length: 20-21 cm.

4. You can simply cut them with a saw, remove the bark and lightly sand them. That is enough. Alternatively, you can ask a woodturner to make two perfectly even cylinders. This is not difficult, and it does not affect how the Staff of Atman works; it is simply an optional way to give the Staffs a more attractive appearance.

5. You now have two Double Pyramids and two cylinders. Join them together as follows. Find the centre of each cylinder and make a hole at least 1 cm deep with a needle or a thin nail. It can be deeper. You can simply hammer in a thin nail and then pull it out with pliers. Insert copper wire into the hole; the central conductor of an aerial cable will do. Insert it so that 4–5 mm protrudes from the cylinder.

6. Next, find the centre of the base of each Double Pyramid and make a hole there with a needle, if the pyramids are made of drawing paper.

7. Join the Double Pyramids to the cylinders so that the copper pins fit into the holes in the pyramid bases. Try to ensure that the pins fit firmly in both the cylinders and the pyramids.

The Staff of Atman Practice

1. Take the left birch staff in your left hand and the right oak staff in your right hand. Hold them roughly in the middle, wrapping your palms firmly around them.
2. Ideally, sit in an armchair with the bases of the cylinders resting on the armrests and the cylinders perpendicular to the floor. Other arrangements are possible, provided the cylinders remain approximately perpendicular to the floor.
3. Then relax as fully as possible and, if you can, think of nothing.
4. Imagine that your Staffs extend downwards, continuing infinitely below you, but that this extension consists of dense, intense Light rather than wood. It is as though you are holding infinite staffs made of Light.
5. When you finish practising, stand the Staffs on a flat surface about 10–30 cm apart. Ideally, leave a clear space of about 30 cm around them too. Do not lay the Staffs down: they should remain upright.

If you need to lay the Staffs down, for example to transport them elsewhere, simply remove the Double Pyramids from the cylinders and transport them disassembled.

Another Way to Make the Staff of Atman

1. Make a cylinder from heavy white drawing paper, 4–4.5 cm in diameter and 20–21 cm long. Glue the ends securely to make a sturdy construction.
2. Next, roll up two lengths of any paper so that they fit tightly inside the drawing-paper cylinders you have made.
3. Pay particular attention to this: the roll in the right cylinder MUST be tightly wound clockwise, as shown in the diagram viewed from above:

And the roll in the left cylinder must be wound anticlockwise, as shown in the diagram viewed from above:

(Or simply clench your hands into fists with your thumbs wrapped around your four curled fingers, and look at your fists from above. You will see the same spiral lines as in the diagrams above.)

4. Place a piece of copper wire, about 3–5 cm long, in the centre of each roll. Make holes in the bases of the Double Pyramids and join the cylinders to the pyramids.

Notes

1. Get used to this powerful new Energy gradually. Do not hold the Staffs for longer than 10–15 minutes until you feel ready to hold them longer.
2. Hold the Staffs so that the corners of the pyramids do not point towards you or anyone else in the room during the practice. The faces of the pyramids should be facing you, not their corners.
3. Do not let another person practise with your staffs. If this happens, separate the cylinders from the pyramids for 2–3 days and do not use them during that time. Likewise, do not use another person's staffs. A husband and wife's staffs are interchangeable.
4. You can combine the Staff of Atman practice with the meditation in Part Five of the second Opening the Third Eye course: "Meditation: The Ajna Channel". Or simply place a Double Pyramid on the crown of your head, at the sahasrara chakra. You may also listen to the composition: 1Hz.

I have written far from everything about this practice. Nor will everything ever be written down, shared by me in personal correspondence, or communicated in any other way.
I ask anyone who discovers more than I have written on this page to use these abilities only for good.

© Author: Sergey Veretennikov (Om Shanti)
(Practice given on 14 February 2006.)