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IT HAPPENED ONE DAY
March of 1973 was a magical time though I didn't know it then. Whirling along the roulette wheel, new experiences open before me. A new discovery. Again it happens. Wow! I am doing this! Goose bumps!
I was intrigued by meditation and whenever I came across a technique I would try it out for a while to see what it was all about.
The meditation technique that set in motion the birth control method which I describe in this book, I heard one Sunday morning on Jack Gariss' Bio-Meditation radio program on KPFK, and is taken from the Theravada Buddhist Tradition. Listening to Jack tell about his experiences and that of others, I was expecting images or whatever coming up in the mind. He asked for feedback. So with this in mind I began doing the meditation technique. What I got was a physical reaction that was extremely sexual. What a disappointment! I wanted movies in the mind, waking dreams, and all I got was sex.
And a very odd thing happened. Two or three days after doing this meditation technique my menstrual period started. . . and it was two weeks early! I panicked! Went to the doctor. I didn't have cancer. He asked, "What else have you been doing?" What could I say? I didn't know. I went home. I forgot about it. I had already forgotten about the meditation technique. Meditation was, in my mind, unconnected with the practical things of life. Was I in for a surprise!
I thought of the meditation technique a couple of weeks later and decided to try it to see what would happen. I wanted to see if I could create movies in my mind. I had no idea what they would look like, but with these desires and expectations, I began. What I got was a physical reaction that was extremely sexual. Again!
And in two or three days my menstrual period began. . . two weeks early! This time I didn't panic. I made a connection. My menstrual period came two weeks early, twice in succession and I said to myself ----- I AM DOING THIS!
Thoughts started rummaging around in my mind. . . 'my menstrual period does not come two weeks early. . . has never come early. . . I am not irregular in that way. . . if there is any irregularity at all it is on the side of late. . . hummm. . . must be my sexual reaction while doing this meditation that is causing it to begin. . . it is!. . . it has to be!. . .how?. . . how?. . . how?. . . how can that be?. . .'
I began to ask myself questions. I wondered what it was that I was doing? I began to look deeply into my feelings and the sensations I have while experiencing my sexual responses during the meditation. I narrowed it down to a few localized sensations. I would find my thoughts going there when I am in this very relaxed state brought on by the breathing process.
I began using a very pleasurable sexual experience as a means of birth control. It took me a year to figure out how the technique worked. It was a yearlong process of trial and error. I knew though, that if I could cause my menstrual period to come that I would not be pregnant.
It took me a year to figure out that it was the contractions of the uterus that was the cause of my menstrual flow beginning. This last word is most important. Because that is what the technique does -- cause the menses to begin. And that is all that it does.
The body has some logic of its own of which I am unaware. Ruminating on my past, I thought about my experiences of the processes of birth, labor and the uterine contractions that push the infant through the birth canal. I thought of my experiences of nursing my children -- my experiences of the cramps preceding menstruation -- my experiences of sexual intercourse. All of these experiences of menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, sex. . . there is an element of mystery surrounding them. I thought about them for a long time.
Reflecting upon these thoughts one day, they all came together. A switch flicked on in my mind. The dawn poured light. I realized that it was the contractions of the uterus that was causing my menstrual period to begin. And the contractions are caused by thinking of one single spot deep inside the vagina while in a very deep state of relaxation. Beautiful !!!
And I fell out laughing.
In Hindsight
I recommend the book, "Sex and Yoga" by Michael Volin and Nancy Phelan (available on Amazon.com).
Looking through the lense of hindsight I can see that the exercises in the above book contributed in large measure to the BCT. I first came across this small book in 1969. Doing these exercises over time was quite probably the source of my ability to do the Birth Control Technique.
The meditation technique was the spark that set off the BCT and is what I used each month to bring on my menstrual period. From doing the yoga exercises, I acquired the physical ability and control for the meditation technique to be so easily effective.
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