Q: As my practice with the AYP techniques has advanced, I have found kechari mudra (putting the tongue up into the nasal pharynx) to be sexually stimulating, to the point where I enjoy doing it just for that. I read in a yoga book that this kind of stimulation is a block to spiritual progress, and can take us back down to lower chakras, a lower birth in the next life, etc. It said that getting to the higher chakras, #6 (ajna) and #7 (sahasrar), is the only way to avoid a fall back into ignorance. Yet, the connection I find in kechari between my genitals, throat, tongue, nasal pharynx and head seems so natural and ecstatic, and I don't want to stop it. Is this wrong? Am I risking a fall?

A: This is a very good experience with kechari mudra (see Lesson 108), indicating the natural advancement of ecstatic conductivity in your nervous system. It is a "second puberty," and it will gradually evolve to become a far more ecstatically blissful and radiant presence in your life, moving beyond being purely sexual. If you came to the present condition through the practice of deep meditation, spinal breathing pranayama and other practices we have covered in the lessons, then you have nothing to be concerned about. This is because you have laid a foundation of inner silence and ecstatic conductivity that is stable and abiding in the whole-body, not short-lived and narrowed in on one particular part of the spiritual anatomy. In fact, it is unlikely that the kind of ecstatic connection you described can be achieved without an integration of effective yoga practices being well-established in the daily routine. In that sense, your experience is self-validating, and progressive.