I'm reading through the Secrets of Wilder and am completely enthralled, but am curious as to real life application of one technique in particular which I've not yet encountered in any of the material on this site or within the books... namely, breastbone tapping. Was this something written into the book to give the passing on of the spiritual essence of the techniques from one to another a sort of point of focus? Or is there something more behind it?
It was a literary device used at the time. The truth is we are all tapped from the inside by abiding inner silence.
The rest of the practices in the Wilder story are real, if not applied with the precision and balance we have come to know in AYP in later years. John Wilder's ride was a wild one. Pioneering we could say, in more ways than one.