Kali-π-Mu (kali-pi-mu) by Troy Bernardo
Kali-π-Mu is a pre-Colonial spiritual healing ritual indigenous to The Philippine Islands, a ceremony led by tribal shamans called babaylan, who were mostly female. Keepers of ancient secrets and wisdom, babaylans brought people to higher states of consciousness by awakening the spirit, encouraging the Divine Energy to move through the body, consequently inducing spiritual ecstasy, healing, and the removal of mental, physical, and emotional blockages. The arrival of the Spaniards in the Philippines virtually wiped out the babaylans and their spiritual practices, replacing it with the more acceptable, non-pagan religion of Roman Catholicism.After centuries of suppression, the ritual has finally resurfaced.
The Unlikely Shaman Driven by an inner calling and an inexplicable spiritual hunger, a young advertising executive named Pompet Villaraza headed to the Philippine province of Palawan, where he spent two years going through his own personal catharsis on an uninhabited island. Living on bananas and coconuts, Villaraza flushed out both the toxins and emotional baggage off his body, until he heard the words: The Mother and I are one. It was then that he began to be moved by the Spirit, like electricity running through his system. He, then, realized that he had the power to heal. He changed his name to Pi. The Three-Fold NameThe term, Kali-π-Mu, has a lot of meanings. Kalipay Mu is Visayan for “Your Happiness,” while Kalipi Mu means “Our tribe.” Kali is taken from the word kalis, meaning “blade,” the word formed the basis of many Filipino martial arts such as Kalis-arnis. The syllable Ka represents the word kaalaman, which means knowledge or wisdom, while Li refers to lihim, or secret. Put these together and you find the source of the ritual: secret wisdom. Kali is also known as the Hindu diety who had the frightening form of the mother goddess Durga, represents the Benevolent Mother-Goddess, the Divine Feminine, as celebrated by the babaylans. Kalimata is known as the mother’s energy, the shakti or “life force” that enters the corpse or Shava. In pre-colonial Philippines, gender was never used as a basis for spiritual leadership unlike in Roman Catholicism; instead, it was the level of a person’s spirituality that determined one’s role in the hierarchy.PI stands for The Philippine Islands. It is also a mathematical symbol, π, called a transcendental (and therefore irrational) real number, approximately equal to 3.14159, or the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter in Euclidean geometry. It is also known as the divine number, since no human can ever calculate it precisely, thus putting the digits at the heart of the divine circle.The great Greek mathematician Archimedes, who was the first to approximate Pi, estimated the value widely used today. PI is the result of dividing the circumference (perimeter) of the circle (L) by its diameter (D), or π = L / D.Mu, on the other hand, represents the name of a hypothetical vanished continent (i.e., Lemuria) thought to have been located in the Pacific Ocean and believed by many psychics to have deep spiritual ties with The Philippines. Augustus Le Plongeon, a 19th century traveler and writer who conducted his own investigations of the Maya ruins in Yucatán (believed to be older than the civilizations of Atlantis and Egypt), first came up with the idea of Mu. He got the name from the mistranslation of what was then called the Troano manuscript by Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg in 1864, using the de Landa alphabet. While information on the lost continent has been turned into fables, which can be found under the New Age or Religion & Spirituality sections of bookshops, the Troano manuscript remains in the Museo de América in Madrid, Spain. It is part of what is now referred to as the Madrid Codex, created in the late Mayan period by eight different scribes, which documents the continent of Mu.Mu, in Zen meditation, also means nothing, yet everything. Scientifically, there are Mu waves, electromagnetic oscillations in the frequency range of 8-13 Hz and appear in bursts of at 9-11 Hz, which are detected by electroencephalography (EEG) or magnetoencephalography (MEG). Associated mostly with the motor cortex (central scalp), the wave happens when there is synchronous and coherent (in phase/constructive) electrical activity of large groups of neurons in the human brain. The wave levels include the Delta, Theta, Beta and Gamma frequencies. The Ritual People, who have undergone Kali-π-Mu gatherings, report an immediate sensation of bliss, intense happiness and spiritual ecstasy, and later on, rapid acceleration of spiritual evolution. Some go through an involuntary dance, mostly with heightened abandon in such elevated states. The ritual begins when a healer’s hands, guided by the Spirit, is drawn to the person’s body (perhaps areas that need healing), effectively tapping into the Kalimata, the mother’s energy that exists within each of us, and allowing it to express itself through visions, energy shifts or movement. The movement can be either simple or elaborate, depending on a person’s spiritual openness. Not all sicknesses are healed. Healing, as Villaraza explained, depends on the mindset, spiritual advancement, and the personal intentions of the patient.The movement, or dance, is brought about by Kalimata, the life force found within. It is the same energy that propelled Shiva to dance and Moses’ walking stick, which turned into Shiva’s dancing serpent in Sinai, to move. The ancient inhabitants of Mexico discovered an automatic flow within the body that redeploys energy for helping the initiate evolve. The modern Americans, who rediscovered this lost ancient heritage, called it The Magic Passes. The ancient Indians themselves called it the serpent Kundalini. The ritual of Kali-π-Mu can trigger the awakening of the Kundalini, the energy curled up in the back part of the root chakra in three and one-half turns around the sacrum (i.e., from Sanskrit: coiled up or coiled up like a snake). In yoga, the awakening is associated with the appearance of bio-energetic phenomena, much like a "pranic awakening," prana being the vital, life-sustaining force in the body. This energy is also interpreted as a vibrational phenomena that initiates a period, or a process of vibrational spiritual development.Scientifically, Kali-π-Mu takes people from the Delta phase (0.1 to 3 Hz), which has the lowest frequency (e.g., deep sleep, the unconscious mind) to the Gamma state (36-44 Hz), where high-level information processing occurs. This is the only frequency group found in every part of the brain. This is the frequency where Kali-π-Mu occurs. The Result Kali-π-Mu launches initiates into an acceleration of spiritual development, which includes processes of purification and profound transformation. It is much like the peeling of masks. Once the ritual is performed, the glue fastens these masks together is released, and so like crumbling walls, layer and layer of these faces fall away. We either hang on to them, a useless gesture, or simply let go, which sets us free.Only then can we reach the higher states of consciousness.

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oPaintings of Bong dela Torre (reproduced with permission)
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