Last Updated on September 5, 2025 by The Unbounded Thinker
The book, “Celibacy:The Magic of the Rising Serpent: Esoteric & Occult Teachings About the Accumulated Life-Force Energy” shares eye-opening esoteric and occult information about celibacy/semen retention. I noted down some of the best celibacy/semen retention quotes -from the book – that will open your eyes and result in a completely different perception of semen retention/celibacy.
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- “To be spiritually mature, you must completely free yourself from your lower animal nature by preventing lust from dominating your mind and body. You must ensure that your spirit-self gains dominion over your animal-self. You must conquer the serpent-fire and consciously guide it upward through the 33 segments of the spinal cord by attaining a state of purity in thought, word, and deed”.
- “Whether or not the serpent energy actually rises up the spinal cord, it is evident that prolonged celibacy causes an ascent from physical consciousness to divine consciousness. I experienced this first-hand when I practiced celibacy for 18 months. I always felt deeply connected to the Divine and noticed that my perception of life changed. My mind became extremely clear, and I started to receive ideas that were far beyond my normal thinking. I became so creative that I started a YouTube channel and continuously posted on my two blogs without ever running out of inspiration. Spiritual truths appeared in my mind effortlessly, as if a higher power was directly revealing them to me. I easily connected the dots of how life works, even without reading, and I eventually understood the true nature of physical reality”.
- “Anyone who desires to truly understand existence should not underestimate the power of celibacy. It is one of the most effective ways to purify the mind, bring clarity, and awaken higher perception. When one avoids sexual intercourse and masturbation, the mind becomes calm, and the life-force energy that is normally lost through sensual pleasure accumulates and begins to rise within. This inner ascent creates a state in which divine knowledge naturally reveals itself from within. You no longer need to search for truth outside of yourself because truth begins to emerge from your own consciousness”.
- “For most celibates, the serpent stops at the Solar Plexus Chakra. It doesn’t ascend up to the Heart Chakra and other higher Chakras. This is because the energy that awakens at the Solar Plexus Chakra is often associated with a strong sense of self, personal power, and worldly ambition. Many celibates feel satisfied with the confidence, discipline, and willpower that come with this stage, and they unconsciously direct the serpent energy toward strengthening the ego rather than transcending it”.
- “I realized that celibacy causes present-moment awareness through the accumulation of a present-moment energy, which is the life-force or serpent energy. This life-force energy is inherently present. It is the eternal animating presence that breathes the fire of life. It is the energy from which the eternal present moment unfolds. When you constantly have sex, you continuously release the life-force energy, making it difficult to experience present-moment awareness. You then become vulnerable to negative states of mind. Several studies support the fact that sex addicts usually experience chronic anxiety and depression. However, they seldom mention the esoteric reason for this state, which is the draining of the present-moment energy”.
- “Celibacy is the conscious cultivation of present-moment energy. The more this sacred energy gathers within, the more one discovers a natural freedom from anxiety and depression, and the more life reveals itself as a continuous unfolding of the eternal now”.
- “When I was on my celibacy journey, I had no time to fight against the sleep paralysis and the buzzing sound. As soon as they came, it was as if something greater had already taken over. I didn’t get the chance to resist or try to wake myself up like before. The moment the vibrations and paralysis showed up, I was already being pulled away from my body. It felt as if a mysterious force had already decided the outcome before I could even think of interfering.”
- “Strict celibacy ensures that you avoid sexual intercourse, masturbation, and sexual fantasies. For this reason, it reduces the amount of life-force energy flowing into the body. In other words, it prevents the body from using excessive life-force energy, allowing the energy to accumulate and be available to the soul. The soul, therefore, becomes powerful and is able to break the chains that hold it to the body.”
- “I have also realized that when you resume sexual activity and engage in excessive sexual intercourse or masturbation, your astral experience changes. When celibate or if you have moderate sexual activity, it is easy to float away into other realms while outside your body, and you decide when to get back to your body, but when you indulge in excessive sexual activity, your body starts pulling you back during astral projection. As a result, your astral experience is limited: you cannot stay in the astral world for a longer period, as the body ensures that you return to it just after leaving it. Moreover, you cannot float or move beyond certain places or heights because the body’s force is too strong. For example, when I indulged in excess sexual activity, I found that I could not move beyond my compound during astral projection”.
- “Another thing I noticed is that excess sexual activity makes it impossible to fly or float during astral projection. It makes the soul heavier and denser, and no matter how hard you try, you can’t float. It’s as if excessive sexual intercourse binds the soul to the earthly realm, making it difficult for it to fully experience higher worlds. I am sometimes tempted to think that this happens because the soul lacks the life-force energy it needs to gain buoyancy. Maybe the soul is like a balloon: when filled with life-force energy, it becomes light and easily rises. But when this energy is depleted through overindulgence in sex, the soul becomes weighed down, unable to detach itself from the physical dimension.”
- “While practicing celibacy, you might sometimes feel an intense urge to masturbate or have sex even though you haven’t exposed yourself to any erotic images, conversations, or external stimulation. In such cases, it is very possible that an earthbound entity is implanting lustful thoughts into your mind in order to trigger the release of life-force energy. The thoughts might feel like they are your own, but in reality, they are generated by an external influence that is trying to feed on your life-force energy.
- “Celibacy prevents you from becoming an earth-bound entity by reducing your attachment to the body in this life and after death. When you die, especially a sudden death, while still obsessed with the sexual pleasure that the body gave you when you were alive, it will be difficult for you to transition to higher worlds because you will still crave the body’s pleasure. This craving will create a desperate need to return to your body, and you will be frustrated once you realize that you cannot go back into your body. This strong obsession with the body after death is the reason why many ghostly beings appear in morgues and cemeteries. Such beings are the souls of humans who were strongly obsessed with bodily pleasure, and they want to slip back into their dead bodies. The more obsessed you are with physical pleasure, the more difficult it becomes to leave the earthly plane when you die.”
- “The soul awakens only when the flow of life-force into the body reduces, while large amounts of this energy are kept within the soul. This happens when someone practices fasting or celibacy. Fasting significantly reduces digestive activity, which normally consumes huge amounts of life-force energy every day. When digestive activity is reduced, very little energy flows into the body, and most of it stays within the soul. This is why fasting has always been practiced by ancient spiritual masters: it strengthens the soul by accumulating the life-force energy within it. It is also why fasting leads to spiritual experiences such as deep peace, a strong feeling of being connected with everything, strong intuition, and even visions or dreams that feel more real than ordinary dreams. Celibacy works in a similar way. It prevents the loss of life-force through sexual activity or masturbation, which force the body to constantly require more energy to replace what has been lost. It ensures that more life-force energy is retained within the soul.”
- “Anyway, as the life-force energy accumulates in the soul – when you practice celibacy – it strengthens it, ensuring that it dominates the body. This effect enables the soul to see the body as only a garment that it wears temporarily so that it effectively moves and acts in the physical world. This shift causes the soul to feel lighter, freer, and less attached to worldly illusions. When the soul feels lighter, it starts experiencing deep peace, joy that does not depend on outside things, and a clearer sense of purpose. Intuition sharpens, inner visions become stronger, and the soul feels connected with higher realms. It may also experience out-of-body journeys, prophetic dreams, or sudden insights into the mysteries of existence”.
- “Celibacy is, therefore, the secret to awakening the true nature of the soul. It prevents the soul from existing in a weakened state by ensuring that it accumulates the life-force energy it needs to activate its true powers and reclaim its true nature. It ensures that the soul remembers its eternal home, its divine origin, and its true potential. Celibacy is a sacred key that restores the soul to its rightful throne as a luminous divine being”
- “If you want to practice celibacy for a long time, you must replace the lower physical desire for sex with a higher desire that you are really obsessed with. Celibacy is not just about avoiding sex. It is about redirecting the life-force energy to something greater than yourself. If you are trying to practice celibacy without a higher ideal, you are not transmuting the life-force energy; you are only suppressing it. Suppression is harmful because the life-force accumulates inside you without direction. This accumulated energy makes you restless and vulnerable to negative emotions and states of mind”.
- “If your eyes open and you take a deeper look at the story of Jesus Christ, you’ll find that it secretly exposes the power of celibacy and the celibate’s journey. For instance, the fact that Jesus was born of a virgin exposes the power of celibacy. It shows that only a pure woman, who is not tainted by sexual intercourse, could give birth to a godly being like Jesus. In occult traditions, the virgin represents a vessel that is untouched by earthly desire. She is the symbol of a soul that is empty of passion, and because of this emptiness, it becomes full of divine power. Her womb is not tainted by lust, and for this reason, it becomes a temple where the light of God can manifest”.
- “A celibate’s dreams become vivid and prophetic because the accumulated life-force energy increases spiritual sensitivity, enabling them to clearly perceive the dream world. In such a heightened state, the dream world is no longer hazy; it feels alive and detailed, almost like an extension of waking reality. Conversely, the release of this energy reduces inner-sensitivity and leaves the subtle body less receptive to the impressions of the dream world. The dreams may still occur, but the awareness required to perceive them clearly is dulled”.
- “Celibacy is a spiritual technology that enables the clear perception of higher realities. Through it, the inner world becomes brighter and more meaningful, reminding us that the dream state is not just random imagination but a dimension where the soul can have a realistic experience and even receive guidance, knowledge, and prophecy”.
- “The reason I consider celibacy the most powerful ascetic practice is the massive effort put into making us obsessed with sex. It is as if there is a hidden force or group of people who understand the power of the rising serpent, the awakened life-force energy that comes with celibacy, and they do not want the masses to touch this power.”
- “Repeated exposure to sexual content from a young age makes it extremely difficult for individuals to practice celibacy once they become adults. In fact, many young adults today would consider it absurd if someone claimed that they could abstain from sex for an entire year. To them, celibacy appears impossible because their sex drive has been unnaturally heightened by years of conditioning through early exposure to romance and physical intimacy. What should have been a discipline of great spiritual power is now regarded as unrealistic or even foolish”.
- “I practiced celibacy for 18 months and experienced rapid spiritual growth. Celibacy enabled me to access the astral world. It also made it easier for me to surrender to the flow of life, experience present-moment awareness, and enter a stillness that I had never experienced before. It allowed me to receive spiritual truths – from the universal consciousness – that transformed my life. I eventually came to see the dream-like nature of reality as I noticed that physical reality is an illusion and consciousness is the only reality. Most importantly, celibacy helped me to experience myself as a soul: an infinite being temporarily living in a physical body.”
- “Even after resuming sexual activity, the spiritual effect of celibacy persisted. For instance, just before falling asleep, I sometimes experienced sleep paralysis, during which I was unable to move, but I could hear people talking, laughing, and even singing in my room. At first, I was confused, but I later realized that these experiences came from my own mind: my thoughts and imagination had turned into real voices, reflecting what had been on my mind during the day. My mind had created an illusory world that felt real. I have, therefore, realized that once the serpent energy has risen and activated the higher chakras, a person can never truly return to the level of consciousness or awareness he was before the serpent rose.”
- “The surest way to fast spiritual growth is by forcing the serpent to rise up the spine by accumulating its energy through celibacy. There is no other practice that brings rapid spiritual growth. All other practices, while helpful in their own way, cannot compare to the power of celibacy in awakening higher consciousness. This is why it was the basic requirement for all spiritual students in ancient mystery schools. The ancient teachers claimed that true spiritual growth is impossible without the accumulation of the life-force energy”.
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