Kundalini - Awakening

Kundalini initially awakened for me spontaneously at about the age of 21. It was a remarkable and life changing experience.

It was early in the morning, before 6 am and I was in a deep meditative state, allowing myself out some stillness before going to work. Early morning is best for meditation for me, because it's like recharging the batteries. It stays with me. At the time I was going through a particularly difficult patch in my life and needed to maintain a great deal of inner peace to balance the outer turmoil.

I suddenly felt a powerful fire in the core of my physical being, not quite at the base of the space placement they give for the root chakra. It was in the general area, but deeper and a bit lower than that.

I could not observe the sensation and let it pass. It demanded attention. It was as if a force of nature had grabbed hold of me. The fire then shot up the path my spine, with a slight undulating motion. It felt as if it was in the very center of my being, and outside of my as well.

As this fire-force burst through the top of my head, my crown chakra it felt as if I too had broken through some invisible barrier. The sensation was truly indescribable. The only thing I can compare it to is something like a mental/spiritual orgasm, though the experience was completely non-sexual. It was very powerful, like a reunification with the god-force of the universe.

I was transported. I forgot the world entirely. I have no idea how long it lasted. It seemed like an eternity and it seemed like a split second. The notion of time had lost all meaning. I was showered in bright white light. I became the light. All manner of now erroneous, and now strange thought was wiped from my mind in an instant. Then I remembered the world again, but saw it in a completely different way than I had perceived before.

It was not only painless, it was beautiful, eye-opening, and life transforming. There was no Kundalini sickness, and certainly no madness. I went to work when I was done and life continued as usual, only I was different, very different.

Kudalini - The Fiery Serpent

Kundalini is the life energy that lies semi-dormant in your root chakra, at the base of the spine. It is associated with Shakti, the life giving force of the universe, that which gives rise to action and movement. It rises and reaches up to Shiva. In this aspect Shiva is stillness, or energy in potential rather than the destructive force. The two, Shiva and Shakti, are in truth one.

When Kundalini rises it flows up the spine thorugh your various chakras to the crown chakra. If the energy hits a blockage it will stop there and you may experience some discomfort, sickness, or a general ill effect. This used to be my understanding.

More recently I have read that awakening Kundalini can be very dangerous, lead to madness, terrible sickness, an even death. Many so-called experts say you need to submit yourself to a professional guru to ensure against these catastrophic results.

I don't personally believe this. I have an inherent distrust of anyone who tells you to be afraid, particularly in spiritual matters. Still it may be important to pass on the warning, as my personal experience may not be true for others.

Attempting to force Kundalini to awaken is considered very unwise. It will happen on it own when you are ready. If you open your chakras correctly, and have proper energy flow Kundalini will rise along its designated path automatically.

This is what I was taught long ago, but these gurus do not say this. They seem to say they can make it happen for you with prolonged meditation and yoga sessions. They will have you do up to 16 hours a day of yoga and meditation. I think this may be the source of the troubles that have reported.

There is a style of yoga named for Kundalini, apparently dedicated to helping this vital life force awaken, and perhaps maintaining a healthy flow thereof. I honestly know very little about it at this time. I'm not convinced that one type of yoga is better than any other at regulating your energies.

My only long-term experience is with old-fashioned Hatha yoga, which I've practiced since I was eight years old or so. It's a kind of moving meditation made up of various poses that are held with a focus on the breath and a clear mind.

The practice harmonizes mind and body, and there is some purification of thoughts associated with it. You simply can't have a clear mind for 20-30 minutes a day and think ugly the rest of the time. In addition to relieving stress and stretching muscles, the asanas actually massage the internal organs. If I don't do my yoga regularly I actually feel kind of sick, stiff and strange.

I don't know that the physical practice of yoga is required for Kundalini rising. It's hard to be sure. I would more associate it with a meditation practice, chakra clearing, and the related release of those things which don't serve you. From my perspective, habits and attitudes tend to either lift you up or weigh you down. So you have to choose where you'd like to be, floating or fixed, whichever you choose that is your experience. Either experience is valid, most of us have a mix.

For Kundalini to rise, however, I think you have to choose the floating side. I don't think you can have your attention balanced toward the negative experience of life and have the positive life force rise within you simultaneously.

Machine Aided Telepathy

Japanese scientists are working on a dream recorder. This technology recreates images onto a computer screen from the test subject's brainwaves. It's a potential mind-reading device. Putting aside the ethical questions this may bring up, the implications are really amazing.

I can't help but think that perhaps in our organic computer-like brain we have something comparable to receivers for the frequencies of other minds. Something of this nature would explain the strong telepathic connections that sometimes happen between twins, parents with their children, and so on. The unaware sender and receiver may be in the same frequency range.

The whole thing is certainly food for thought.

On the Falcon's Wings

To enter the upper world you select a flying creature you've seen recently. Any creature will do, a bird, a bee, dragonfly or other insect. I would suggest not choosing a wasp or similarly stinging thing, unless of course you have an affinity for them.

You may also choose a whirlwind or tornado if you've seen one recently, but I would personally expect strange results from such a conduit. It might works well for others.

Consider the question or problem you want to resolve at length, don't judge just try to get as clear as you can on the matter. Lay down and relax as much as possible, and get a vision of the conduit you've chosen vivid in your mind. Feel the feathers, or the humming if you've chosen an insect, the swirl of sand and earth if you've chosen a whirlwind, then begin the drumming.

As the drumming starts allow yourself to be taken up into the sky with the conduit. You need to place your faith in mother earth to care for you, as the conduit could very well take you anywhere. Not to worry, though, the upper world is much more gentle than the lower one.

Just let it carry you and really let go, you will soon feel as if you've broken through some sort of barrier, and you should begin to see things clearly with eyes closed. Truly you should feel transported. If you do not see anything, you have not relaxed enough and need to work on that.

When you've reached your destination, you can step away from the conduit. If you've chosen a bird or an insect the creature will happily wait for you while you explore. If you've selected a whirlwind it will return to take you back down.

Look around and take mental notes of everything you see. Try to commit to memory even small details, if you can. In the Otherworlds communication tends to happen in symbols, so do keep that in mind. When you have finished go back the way you came in and from there you can fly/fall back down into the everyday world.

The upper world is a much gentler, and also less complex place than the lower world, in my opinion. As an example, recently on a trip to the upper world I was feeling out of place, off track somehow, and I couldn't see exactly where I was going wrong. So I took that problem as my question.

On my way up I passed a group of men with shields. They were painted brightly from head to toe, and their shields matched their body paint. They were apparently guarding an area I wasn't permitted to enter. So I continued on, appreciating how brightly colored and interesting the were.

I finally landed and almost immediately met myself, but it was not the me I see everyday. This me was quite radiant, and appeared to be very open and kind, not lost, or conflicted, or anything of the kind. I suppose this is the me I want to be.

Then I turned to see a step pyramid to my right, and it was pointed out to me that I could see the answer to my problem from the top of it. So off I went. Before I got to the base of the pyramid I met my grandmother, who left this world quite some time ago.

Suddenly I was overcome with guilt over things I'd said to her as a young teenager. As an adult I'm extremely careful about what I say and do, I have an evil conscience that will torture me for years if I don't obey its every command, but most teens have that moment of unbearableness, I think. I was no exception.

Anyway, it was nothing I would find unforgivable if it was said to me, but it tore me apart upon seeing her and I apologized. I didn't realize I carried this kind of guilt around. She couldn't figure out what I was apologizing for. She also seemed very radiant, and much younger. It was good to see her.

I went to ascend the steps of the pyramid and found that about halfway there I could not get a leg up, each step was getting progressively more difficult and higher as I went. With a great deal of effort I finally made it to the top and saw my destination.

So off I went. I arrived at my destination and found myself again, asking me "Do you have faith? In yourself? In anyone? In anything?" I've never seen myself as a person lacking in faith, so I have questions about this statement. However, at this point it was time to go back, so I returned to the falcon and he took me home again.