Part I
Foundations of the Dragon’s Path
As The Dragon Beckons
You stand at a crossroads, the echoes of ancient drums and whispered mantras still lingering in your heart—while the world keeps moving around you: work and love, grief and appetite, habits that repeat.
Perhaps you have walked paths of mysticism, studied the mind, or trained in embodied practice.
Perhaps you have tasted transcendence in meditation, met your shadow in the friction of relationship, or sensed an unnamed longing—an ache for wholeness that words cannot hold.
Breathe.
Yet something calls you in.
Not toward another idea, another belief, or another escape. But toward the raw, untamed truth of your own being.
This is the call of the Dragon.
The Dragon is not a creature of fantasy. It is the symbol of awakening, the embodiment of paradox, the force that both destroys and creates. It is the fire that consumes illusion and the wings that carry you beyond the boundaries of what you think you are.
In ancient traditions, the Dragon has been many things: the serpent of Kundalini rising through the chakras; the alchemical flame that transforms lead into gold; the guardian of sacred thresholds; the fierce protector of wisdom and truth. In this book, the Dragon is all of these—and more. It is your inner guide, your shadow, your liberation, and your becoming.
This is not just a book.
It is a portal—a living transmission.
An invitation to step into the paradoxical dance of creation and destruction, to bridge primal and transcendent energies, and to awaken the Serene Center within the storm of transformation.
This, my fellow traveler, is the Dragon’s invitation.
First, an invitation. Then, a map.
We begin at the threshold, where certainties loosen and potential beckons.
The Dragon may first appear as primal fear—not an obstacle to avoid, but a mirror of the becoming it conceals.
Raw survival turns sovereign when stewarded with steadiness.
Your raw, amoral, rising life force—and with it your mistakes, your wounds, the choices you regret, and the choices you celebrate—arises from the same source. We call this the Serpent.
Integrated with ethics, wisdom, and the Sage’s mind, the Serpent becomes Dragon—power moving through body, heart, and mind, gaining the wings of embodied, non-dual awareness.
This path spirals inward rather than running straight, blending direct experience with conceptual inquiry, and always returning awareness to the body.
Each turn adds capacity. Patterns return, and you meet them with a little more steadiness each time. Let your readiness cues set the pace. We loop back with more capacity instead of sprinting forward.
You already live through layers of experience—sensation (Form), charge (Eros), values (Soul), pattern (Archetypal), and spaciousness (Void). Your Serene Center is the steady place in you that can learn to hold all five without abandoning daily life.
On this path, the Dragon is not a distant myth but an inner orientation toward integration over intensity—an invitation to let grounding, consent, and embodied practice hold the fire you are waking up to.
The Dragon stirs, fire flickering on the horizon.
Will you step onto the Path now?
Pause & Ground
- Feel your feet on the ground—contact points, weight, temperature.
- Breathe softly through the nose; lengthen the exhale and let the shoulders drop.
- Pause. If intensity rises, pause or stop and return when steadier; you set the pace.
Why this matters: Grounding lets these concepts land in your body, not just your head.
Let the journey begin.