Maps of Awakening

The paths to awakening… awake, imagination, dream, dreamless sleep and beyond.

Taoist

Internal Alchemy & the I Ching

Taoist map of awakening: ten stations from Foundation (10,000 things) up through Yang returns, Refining self, Observing mind, Original spirit, True intent, Nurturing, the Infant, Still witness and Communion to Return to One (Taiji), within Wuji and the nameless Dao. Each station is linked to an I Ching hexagram, the Tao Te Ching and the Zhuangzi, coloured by neidan stage: essence into breath, breath into spirit, spirit into emptiness.
順則成人，逆則成仙 · Going along makes a human; reversing makes an immortal. Neidan stages with the trigrams and hexagrams of the I Ching, the Tao Te Ching and the Zhuangzi. Open full size
Tantra

Nāth

Nāth map of awakening: the body-egg (piṇḍa) with the cakras from Ādhāra to Brahmarandhra along Suṣumnā, Iḍā and Piṅgalā, the three granthis, and the states jāgrat, svapna, suṣupti, the Śūnya threshold and turīya, opening out through Nirañjana and Śūnya to Parampada.
As in the body, so in the cosmos. After the Siddha Siddhānta Paddhati, in the Nāth / AMOOKOS current of Dadaji Mahendranath. Open full size
Qabalah

The Tree of Life · A∴A∴ Hybrid

The Tree of Life with the A∴A∴ grades, from Malkuth (1°=10° Neophyte) to Kether (10°=1° Ipsissimus), with Da'ath as the threshold, the Babe of the Abyss. The sephiroth are coloured by state: awake (Malkuth, Yesod, Hod), dream (Netzach, Tiphareth, Geburah, Chesed) and dreamless (Binah, Chokmah, Kether), within Ain Soph Aur, Ain Soph and Ain.
The grades of the A∴A∴ on the Tree of Life, coloured by state: waking, dream and dreamless, opening through Ain Soph Aur and Ain Soph to Ain, the Tao that cannot be named. Open full size