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It is to my understanding that by applying locks, purifying your nadhis with breathwork, and by keeping your spine straight
with your mind you can move kundalini upward through your chakras.
I've been meditating on this daily for almost a year now and the closest I've come is a feeling like I'm about to float away . .
Feels quite nice. Although it's nothing compared to the psychedelic blasting reports I've heard from people.
I know I need to keep up my work, and I have a long journey ahead of me,
but I'm very curious how you all go about raising your kundalini, what it feels like, what to do...what not to do...et cetera.
I've never been trained by anyone (except for martial arts) and it would help a lot to hear your techniques and wisdom.
I plan on studying it when I move back to San Francisco soon. Until then, your words are greatly appreciated.
peace :]
with your mind you can move kundalini upward through your chakras.
I've been meditating on this daily for almost a year now and the closest I've come is a feeling like I'm about to float away . .
Feels quite nice. Although it's nothing compared to the psychedelic blasting reports I've heard from people.
I know I need to keep up my work, and I have a long journey ahead of me,
but I'm very curious how you all go about raising your kundalini, what it feels like, what to do...what not to do...et cetera.
I've never been trained by anyone (except for martial arts) and it would help a lot to hear your techniques and wisdom.
I plan on studying it when I move back to San Francisco soon. Until then, your words are greatly appreciated.
peace :]
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Re: Kundalini rising
Sat, September 29, 2007 - 6:48 PMIf you've been trained in the Martial Arts you may know the same process {Kundalini} refered to there as "The Grater Kan And Li." And from that perspective I can't recomend highly enough books by; Yang Jwing Ming ~ Mantak Chia, and Dr. Glenn J Morris {he has some of the worst titals to his books, but some of the best info} -
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Re: Kundalini rising
Sun, September 30, 2007 - 2:41 AMi believe we have read alot of books.now we must experience it.afterall if we realise this then its our birthright since all of us are purusha(sons of the cosmic spirit).
i don't have any idea about the psychdelic things that the books says.but if anyone does say something like this then it means we are tempted by the unknown.perhaps just doing what we do without expecting anything is probably the best meditation. -
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Re: Kundalini rising
Sun, September 30, 2007 - 2:58 AMnever do I expect.
I've had people talk to me about their experiences,
transcendental ecstacy shooting up their spines, communion with god, oneness, bliss.
that, to me, sounds very psychedelic.
I would like to achieve samadhi naturally.
is there anyone on this forum that can actually do that?
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Re: Kundalini rising
Sun, September 30, 2007 - 9:06 PMfirst let us remember that each individual is different and therefore is going to personify and egocentrize every expereince just a little differently... i know for me the words transendental ecstasy is a little too much: as in it's hard to be open to an experience when you're comparing it to your ideas of what transendental experience is like and all the places yer mind likes to take you on those fun rides...
Not only practicing Pranayam, applying different locks and your posture; you need to be incorporating Kriyas as well... what yoga sets have you been doing and have you done any of them for 40 days? these are great steps to take when really seeking out what your true goal for experience is... I know that you want to "feel" it, your Kundalini energy rising, but what are you going to do with it? what do you want to accomplish with it? what patterns should be broken? what habits are to be left behind?
Sat Kriya is a wonderful kriya for every student...
Sit on your heels with the arms overhead and plams together. Interlace the fingers except for the index fingers, which point straight up. Men cross the right thumb over the left, while women cross the left thumb over the right.
Chant "SAT" and pull the navel point in, chant "NAAM" and relax it. You are naturally breathing when doing this correctly but it may take a little time to build up to the intensity ment for this kriya... So "Sat" breathing in and "NAAM" breathing out...
Continue this for at least 3 minutes (or whatever time is specified in the kriya). Then inhale deeply and apply the Muhlbandh (the Root Lock) and squeeze from the buttocks all the way up your back and continue past the shoulder blades... Mentally, allow the energy to flow through the top of the skull... hold this inhale as long as you can without struggling...
Now Exhale slowly applying the Mahabandh (locking all Roots), hold the energy out for as long as you need to... then Inhale and relax...
I really like this kriya as it is a major mover... Yogi Bahjan says we should at least make this part of our day for at leat 3 minutes if we can't do anything else... you should read more about this Kriya and others at www.3ho.org lots of good info there, including a teachers list from all over the world... I know that when I feel energy move there is no just way to describe it... nor do i want to... but there is no mistaking the energy flow! you are part of it weather you feel it or not! Hope that helps in someway! peace and light~ Ranjeet -
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Re: Kundalini rising
Sun, September 30, 2007 - 11:14 PMYou know I never really got into doing yoga I was way too busy either helping ppl, working a job, or chilling out in the woods shooting guns& puffing as well as drinking the occasional beer... For the last two years this has been shifting... Like today I was "popping" so much with that energy racing up my spine, woke up this afternoon doing what my friend calls the bridge... My body is jonsing asanas... I never willed this to happen, but it is... When I woke up in this position, I stopped in went into orgasmic bliss, which looked on the outside probably alot like some sorta seizure(went on for about 20 min) til I could get some deep breathing going. I wake up sometimes chanting Om shanti, this shit is kinda scary... The funny thing here is I have never been all high holy... sure I'm a Deadhead, but much more of the tourhead type, extremely grounded and street smart... I'm sitting here now swaying back and forth uncontrollably...
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Re: Kundalini rising
Sun, September 30, 2007 - 11:25 PMwell i commend you on your discipline.. i'm sure you'll find your groove..
my advice.. is much of what i give to young artists... don't focus so much on technique.. of course it's important.. but the spirit .. it's essence is what will carry you into the next level of your practice.... that's my experience and conversation with others.. I the key in your description is the light headedness you feel... which may be something.. hard to say... it's also hard for there just be an exchange of words here.. maybe wehn you get back into San Fran.. you can be shown some things... Yoga to me is a very experiential thing.. especially kundalini.. easier to show then to say.. anyway.. blessings to you on your journey.. -
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Re: Kundalini rising
Tue, October 2, 2007 - 12:29 PMkundalini awakenings? isn't that what you guys call this experience?
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Re: Kundalini rising
Tue, October 2, 2007 - 12:53 PMWell since its difficult to describe, im not sure if it was a kundalini awakening. But after about 3 weeks of solo cultivating(masturbating) without ejaculating(aka drawing) I was meditating as usual and i started to feel this orgasmic energy entering my sacrum area and buzz in my lower spinal region. I could move the energy around my spine and up to my head with attention. Felt like i could almost aid people in opening their kundalini(if thats what this is) or at least send good energy. Lasted like a week until i drank two beers with a buddy which is unfortunately when I felt it dissapear.
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Re: Kundalini rising
Fri, October 12, 2007 - 4:10 AMi have had numerous experiences of kundalini arousal and awakening, some brief, others lasting several months. but as other people have mentioned it is very personal and does not happen as a result of some technique. sure techniques such as mantras, bhandas or pranayama are useful tools but not necessarily guaranteed to produce lasting or genuine experiences. kundalini arousal can also come as the result of drugs, intense bouts of sex or occasionally physical accidents and psychological traumas.
there are numerous descriptions, so i won't bore anyone with them since i understand they really are quite personal to that individual who enjoys them.
"what is recieved is largely in the nature of the reciever"
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DMT
Fri, October 12, 2007 - 7:20 AMvery helpful, thank you.
what can you say about the reports of people feeling a buzz at the top of their head, having out of body experiences, feeling the energy shoot up their spines, seeing visions, etc.
I've had that happen to me but I was on LSD.
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Re: DMT
Fri, October 12, 2007 - 7:58 AMNatural.
Don Miguel a wise shaman relates using ethogens to pouring a cup of coffee onto a computer. Your brain and your computer both are running a program, if you pour a cup of coffee on your computer its really not going to help it. He teaches that same can be said about these psychadelics. The best way to learn is by using your own mind. -
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Re: DMT
Fri, October 12, 2007 - 8:03 AMYou already told me that, remember?
And then I said: psychedelics are like giving my computer the internet.
Just an analogy.
That doesn't answer my question at all.
I said people are experiencing things that REMIND me of DMT.
I know they are doing it naturally.
I want some of these people who can to come forward and describe to me their experiences, because as of yet I havn't talked to anyone who can confirm these claims. They sound amazing. And I know it is tantric and possible.
Are you aware that there is DMT in your body?
And the fact that seratonin is almost chemically the same as DMT?
The science here is yet to be explained. I am working toward a link.
Put psychedelics aside, and talk about your experiences with Kundalini.
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Re: DMT
Fri, October 12, 2007 - 9:28 AMtalk about your experiences with Kundalini
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'words' often don't do the experience(s) justice
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Kundalini
Fri, October 19, 2007 - 2:45 PMSo out of the thousands of members of this tribe
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Re: Kundalini
Fri, October 19, 2007 - 2:50 PMIs there some reason you are obsessing on it?
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Re: Kundalini
Fri, October 19, 2007 - 3:10 PMYes there is a reason I am obsessing on it.
I've researched kundalini, talked to people who do kundalini, do kundalini,
and NO ONE I've talked to has been able to personally confirm the transcendental ecstacy that everyone talks about.
I described this in this thread already.
I've reason to believe that Kundalini is poetic as much as it is yogic.
It's great for the body and the mind, that is certain.
If just one person would come forward and explain to me their divine experiences with Kundalini shooting up their spines leaving them in a state of samadhi for days, I would believe it.
All I've seen are tons of people worked up about their own awakenings, and it never happening like they say it does.
It's kind of funny.
I like Kundalini yoga,
but it is nowhere near as psychedelic as people describe.
MAYBE IT IS!
It's supposed to be.
Can any of you confirm?
So far, no one.
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Re: Kundalini
Fri, October 19, 2007 - 3:14 PMit's very personal
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Re: Kundalini
Fri, October 19, 2007 - 3:18 PMMary,
that doesn't help at all.
I know it's personal,
so personal that NO ONE can describe it to me.
All meditation is personal, yoga too.
Even if we do it in a group
we do it for ourselves.
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Re: Kundalini
Fri, October 19, 2007 - 4:29 PMI'm just waiting for someone to come along with experience . .
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I'm guessing that the only person's experience that will mean anything to you, in practical terms, is your own
love all-ways,
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Re: Kundalini
Fri, October 19, 2007 - 3:43 PMWell Ik, If you hunt back a few months into some threads, there are a couple of links to external sites that offer info on such awakenings and risings and "support" in experiencing these things.
However, reading through them, it would appear that any physiological phenomenon one might experience or any mental or emotional aberration that is distinct from some plodding, sheepish and pedestrian sort of existence and consciousness must of course be a Kundalini awakening or rising of some sort.
Now, what should be implicitly obvious in my previous statement is that I largely believe such projections are very well-intentioned but a bit naive, but I guess if one chooses to believe what they do, they will, regardless of whatever anyone else might say. There are innumerable species of said creatures all over Tribe. There are some who believe that anything that is different than the status quo or that transports them out of their "normal" state of awareness must be Magic, and/or God talking to them, or some variation thereof.
Then of course there any number of gurus who would be happy to explain it all and guide our respective sorry asses into a higher level of awareness....................for free if you are a good little dumpling a spread the word, or, for several thousand dollars if you can be persuaded to part with it as part of some "Love Donation."
Could be: maybe the gods are magicians and tricksters and jokesters and we're just silly lumps of clay being duped into doing weird and silly things like work for a living.
One of the first things my first teacher told me was to not become overly consumed with all of the audio-visual, physio-mental-emote fireworks displays that are often invariably part of practicing KY. I haven't.
Speaking as someone who has been doing KY for 6 years, well, it is a personal journey, and one I don't feel inclined just now to be poetic about. I will say that it has been extremely beneficial to me in largely sublime ways over the years and greatly "informs" my ever deepening understanding of my Self, Ms Universe, and the relationships between phenomena percolating everywhere beneath the surface of the Matrix we slum about in, in our daily toil.
Find a good teacher and be committed to your practice...and finding your own way in your own time in the manner best suited to you.
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Re: Kundalini
Fri, October 19, 2007 - 3:52 PMThanks for taking the time to reply.
I've been following this tribe for over a year now
and what you just described to me sounds like any yogic practice done with dedication.
I know how good Kundalini yoga is for you, it's an amazing way to scramble your unconsciousness and attune your body in harmony with the rest of the universe.
Yet
still
there's no evidence of samadhi.
Just a little taste.
To achieve such a saint-hood state,
you're going to have to go into a cave for days.
I thought Kundalini yoga was a pathway to this natural samadhi
but...I've yet to talk to anyone who can confirm so.
I don't believe it or disbelieve it,
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Re: Kundalini
Fri, October 19, 2007 - 4:11 PMMaybe it's like a "Secret Samadhi" to borrow a rose by another name?
Ironically, the few people I have met that genuinely "reflect" or "possess" the qualities you would think one might "have" on some rarified and golden road have not really been committed to or identified with one tradition or another. I'm sure that there others who believe otherwise. They have also been very down to earth humans, with their own quirks and flaws and eccentricities.
I have no interest in living in a cave, at least for an extended period of time, unless it's with some megagoddess in a tropical island paradise cave away from the riff raff of humanity that appears very intent on destroying itself in which case she and I will have to repopulate the planet.
It seems that ideally, KY helps you go through the day, the week, the year and your life in the right way (whatever that may respectively mean to any one), or at least in the best way you can. And in many respects, that is a golden road.
Living in a cave isn't really living IMO: I think it has as many illusions and allures as living in the wind and the weather.
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Re: Kundalini
Fri, October 19, 2007 - 4:24 PMApparently one is supposed to set aside about 5-7 years to prepare for the awakening of the kundalini, make sure all routes are cleared away and you have a higher purpose for such practice. I don't think that is true for everyone, but I have heard those numbers before.
When I started to feel a completly physical and energetic sensation of a orgasmic type energy in my spine, I wasn't even aiming for it nor did I know exactly what kundalini was about. So I wasnt expecting anything, I was just playing around with warm currents in my body. Theres no real way to describe it, but it seems to enhance all senses.
So maybe a good idea would to assume nothing, and stray away from practice that is completly goal oriented. Also don't waste energy.
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Re: Kundalini
Fri, October 19, 2007 - 4:19 PMI am certain that the goal of kundalini yoga is not psychedelic experiences but rather the total integration of the Self. In my own experiences, yes there are fireworks along the way, but these can be a distraction. They are mileposts along the way but certainly not the end. It sounds to me that because you are seeking these as the ultimate aim of kundalini, that Shakti integration may continue to elude you. In addition, kundalini rising through the chakras is not necessarily the same thing as samadhi, which also arrives in various stages. Kundalini rising is not a guaranteed ticket to samadhi, and can cause a lot of problems if one isn't properly clear and ready to receive the energy. In fact, some eastern nonyogic energy practices believe kundalini prevents one from reaching samadhi.
Have you ever checked out www.swamij.com? He outlines very practical descriptions of both phenomenon: kundalini and samadhi.
There is a lot of evidence of samadhi experiences, and I know many people who've acheived this state. It is not something most people post about in detail on the internet. And it takes a great deal more practice than some basic 3HO classes or beginning hatha practices. I'm not saying this is where you're at, but I'm saying it's where many people are. Kundalini rising is a fairly advanced phenomenon, and only in rare cases does it rise to the crown right away. It takes years and years of concerted and dedicated practice to acheive this. Sometimes this work happens in one lifetime or over many. So spontaneous awakenings are really not spontaneous at all. The work was just done in some earlier life.
I can tell you from my own experience that you don't need to go into a cave to have psychedelic meditations or a first-hand taste of kundalini (although a cave might certainly help; then again, for some people it might hurt). I live in a city of millions, and have had my most intense energy experiences so far in crowded, bustling places. When the time is right, with regular practice, we can receive the grace of kundalini, if we're lucky!
And any expectations are sure to be blown by whatever experiences you do have. It's best I think to let go of these, because they can interfere with the actual flow of what 'is' happening. I am guessing that your seeking of a psychedelic experience may be obscuring your actual now experience, which is to be certain, the slow unfolding of the Self, since this is inevitable with yoga practice. Why not drop the expectations and just be where you're at happily?
Namaste,
~claude.
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Re: Kundalini /psychedelic experiences
Mon, October 22, 2007 - 7:49 PMSince someone was asking about psychedelic sexual experiences, I thought I might as well contribute, since I sometimes get these spontaneously.
I actually came here to check out this tribe since I was reading Strassman's "Spirit molecule," and he mentioned DMT's possible release during sex.
His descriptions sounded like the visions I sometimes experience (totally straight) during sex. I didn't use any particular technique per se, except to say i t would usually happen when I was most relaxed. I used to call it "sexual synesthesia."
The visions I get vary: psychedelic paisley designs (jewel-tones), visions of gems/treasure or flowers taking up my entire field of vision; and sometimes a silk room, like an opium den, vaguely occupied by shadowy figures who were expecting me. The silk room would occur pre-orgasm, and I would have to enter the room, and then it would vanish; while the other visions happened during. Oh, and once a vision of my lover lit-up, glowing, and other-worldly, something like an Alex Grey painting (which I was unaware of at the time.)
I explained my experiences once to Dr. V. Ramachandra, the brain researcher, when I later met him at Mind States. He said he has only met one other person with such visions, also a woman. He said he hadn't believed the other woman, until he met me; but now he felt the phenomenon was real, since our stories matched (i.e., sexual visions.)
I really had no idea this happened to other people, nor had any idea this might be an intent of yoga. I'm not sure it can be done intentionally; I think in that case you might just chase it away. But if yoga or meditation relaxes and focuses you, that might help in itself.
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Re: Kundalini
Sun, January 27, 2008 - 4:03 PM
some clarities, and if you find this helpful, I write from my own direct practices, experiences, and awakenings
1.) Awakening has nothing to do with Kundalini or any of these experiences. It can happen to you if you never had any such experiences. Once awakening happens, it seems like it was a very simple thing, and I wonder why aren't more people waking up? It will happen whenever someone really wants to and is ready.
2.) Kundalini has many aspects. Even the Kundalini rising is very different for many people. It is really best to have a really good teacher... personally I can't recommend one good teacher unfortunately; though I've met many. And I personally really don't care about kundalini experiences anymore... they are not much more than masturbating for me. In fact, masturbating will wake up my kundalini too.... and rising my kundalini is also very orgasmic... they are one and the same for me.... except, yes, when the kundalini is rising, as it goes from chakra to chakra, my entire aura changes colors, as it rises through the sushumna and the mind's eye opens, I see literally even with my eyes open the two 4-petal chakra's of the ajna chakra... and my breath becomes perfectly equal from both nostrils... if I stay focused on my ajna and leave my eyes open, and I look at someones head, I can zoom into their brain and see it like an MRI machine, I can see the blood pumping etc, and I can zoom in and zoom out. There are many many many psycic phenomena... but personally to be in that state, I'm very neutral... I don't get excited about any experiences... it is really no big deal at all, any of these experiences... and if I get excited or feel they are big deal, I know I wouldn't be in that state in the first place. So, this stuff happens naturally with maturity. And after some years of playing with my kundalini, I'm throughout satisfied and have moved on beyond all these chakra, astral traveling, out of body, la lala stuff. It's just like when you are a child and you learn to play with your genitals... at some point you are done... and ready to move on with your life and journey.
3.) Samadhi... I'm really sick and tired of hearing people talking about samadhi and that they had this experience etc. My feeling is the 99.99999% of people, including even the spiritual teachers who claim to have the experience have not really had the samadhi experience. I can say I've been unfortunate enough to have had it, and it's something I avoid. Imagine just sitting and being tired in my bathroom, I'm looking at a spider crawling up a wall... all of a sudden I am the spider, looking out of its eyes and feeling its heart beating, feeling its intense energy.. and now I"m wondering how do I come back to myself? or sitting on a bench outside, holding a cup of coffee in my hand, relaxing while just gently gazing out towards a tree... all of a sudden I feel this intense upward pull... then I realize I'm having the experience of being the tree... the roots are sucking up all this water... and now I got to step out... or another time I'm sitting in front of an old man who seems very sweet, I feel very open with him... we are in a coffee shop... some music is playing in the background... all of a sudden everything in my surrounding appears to be coming from that old man... even the singer's voice in the music of the background seems to be him singing... I'm having the experience of being him and feeling everything through him... or meeting and talking with a friend... constantly having to remind myself who I am and realizing which experiences are of mine and which of others... It has taken so much practice for me to just experience myself as this local identity.
Now I've also experienced the big samadhi experience... they call it the Nirvikalpa Samadhi... this was really a true blessing I felt... one day I was sitting in my apartment in front of my laptop, my friend Simon was visiting and staying over night. All of a sudden I felt this spaciousness opening inside of me, inside my stomach I began to experience and infinitely expanding emptiness... as it began to expand I began to see and feel all of the planets, and further out universes, and kept going so far that the entirety of existence was just not even a spec particle. I looked out and noticed that "I" was really different. I said out lout "this is my laptop" and I noticed there's something missing... I said it again "this is my laptop"... I realized there was no difference inside of me of any of these words... no longer could i relate to the word "I" or "my" ... I fully felt like no body. I looked at my friend simon and I realized he is inside of me... he is part of me... I said to myself I am simon... and I realized this was as equally true as anything else. From then on, I was unable to feel embarrassed, unable to feel offended, even in a conversation where someone was upset with me about something, I felt unable to defend myself... who is there to defend? I was in this state for over 3 months constantly... I felt the oceanic energy of everything... the shakti of existence was flowing in and out of me orgasmically all the time. Though in my state of expansion it was such that, I could not care if I'd walk in front of a street and a car hit me... my expansion was so far beyond existence that existence meant nothing... eventually I was able to reduce my expansion to just within existence itself... here I experienced what people call "Brahma Vidya" i.e. reduced my expansion to match that of the existence, and hence I experienced the mind of Brahma... in this state I "KNEW" that every movement I made was in perfect harmony with the entirety of existence... no longer I would be careless about walking in front of a car and getting killed... there was a great order... and here I experienced what I called the "flow of consciousness" which I think the word for it is "vinyasa"
I had access to infinite knowledge about anything... if someone would just ask me any question, an answer would just be spoken from me... I had "FULLY" realized that I do not know, and will not know... I was completely sure of this... and hence my mind was like a mirror having realized it is empty, hence reflecting the consciousness/flow.
There was a BIG problem with this state... I could no longer work... I couldn't do analytical things... I made it through those months somehow and survived. I worked the next 2 years to just contract my consciousness... i.e. return to my precious ego-consciousness so that I could work and make a living and continue with life
I am SO GRATEFUL to be back in my ego-consciousness... except having all these experiences and realizations... I may appear to be in similar states as others... but when something happens.. my reactions are different... I truly have no fear of death, no fear to express my love, or risk my life... I'm calm inwardly always... and I'm quite enjoying the human experience... the body experiences...
In terms of other people having such experiences.... I do not have any words of guidance for anyone... I know that whomever really truly is willing to go there, they will... and NOTHING will stop them. And those that just wish to read books and talk and talk and talk and talk and fantasize, they will only do such much as window shopping.
Another thing... when these experiences where happening to me... they truly felt so insignificant, that I didn't bother telling anyone until it was really noticed by others and people began to ask and keep asking me... so i began to explain how I got to where I was
the ultimate goal is to just 'be', to just 'be' yourself... in a normal state... I guess sometimes we need to go and climb to mount everest and climb back down... that way when we are down on ground level... we can feel content... hence I have a feeling of 'no goalless" 'nothing to do' 'no where to go'... just experiences happening... and of course constantly learning
though I've also realized there is another interesting journey aside from this spiritual/samadhi/kundalini type of journey... that is the psychological journey... as human beings we need mother's love, father's love, lover's love, acknowledgment, etc etc... to learn to be self-sufficient and give yourself/myself all of these things... and also do this while in relationships of all sorts with people... that's something that also causes for a lot more growing up and learning to be clear with one's own energy
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Re: Kundalini
Fri, October 19, 2007 - 3:03 PMIk, you should visit the Shaktipat tribe. I'm certain you will find more answers you're seeking:
tribes.tribe.net/shaktipatsupport
peace,
~claude.
ps. I still haven't had time to sit and sort out thoughts to email to you. Sorry, I'm still integrating. Hopefully this weekend it will solidify.
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Re: Kundalini
Fri, October 19, 2007 - 5:15 PMOne additional thought is that you should read Patanjali's Yoga Sutras if you haven't already. And if you have, it might be a good idea to go back and reread or try another translation until it clicks. There are many variations out there with different perspectives and interpretations, so it might take a few versions before you find one that resonates.
Simply put, the Yoga Sutras are a very plain and practical roadmap to samadhi. If you follow the practices outlined, you are sure to acheive it. (But it takes effort and time; so just enjoy where you are now and keep practicing, too.)
Hope this helps.
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Fri, October 19, 2007 - 7:38 PMyes, that is true, but it never happens against the flow of infinite universal intelligence. it has its own will, which we can only surrender to. we cannot force it to arise (without great problems anyway). -
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Sat, October 20, 2007 - 2:50 AMthe mind can never understand something beyond it and the visceral experiences of drug induced psychosis pale into insignificance when compared to a natural high from kundalini arousal. they are in fact incomparable for several reasons. i could never adequately convey to you in words some quality that is irrefutably beyond words or that lies beyond your rational mind, emotional intelligence, memory or logic. when pure consciousness is experienced there is really nothing that can be said to illuminate it further.
the two sides of the coin are the sun and moon - the paradox of experience:
"we do not percieve the light of the sun by the light of the moon.
yes even the sun is itself illuminated by its own radiance."
furthermore a drug-induced experience although a welcome sign post to any student is nothing more than that, it is not the destination. whenever i encounter this type of debate it reminds me of the person with a spliff in their hand sitting under a signpost saying san francisco 1,000 miles. although it would be true to say that religion per se began as a direct result of man's experimentation with psychedellic substances and perhaps a strong desire to understand the primordial nature of one's existence. but people will react differently to any drug and this reaction may not be conducive to their well-being. others may react positively and see the experience as a finger pointing towards a more sublime state.
i can assure you that states of consciousness that defy description and rationalisation are attainable to those who are prepared to follow the right path and undergo the trials that are accompanied by rigourous self-examination. i am not sure that simply desiring an intense experience is synonymous with having a true experience.
knock and the door shall open, seek and ye shall find.
leonidas
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Re: Kundalini rising
Fri, January 25, 2008 - 1:43 PMOne can cultivate sexual energy through kundilini, but you have to be careful. If you focus too much energy in your lowest chakra, it can get stuck there, which will make it harder for you to get all the way to the top chakra. Also, you just don't want too much energy down there because it defeats the purpose of doing any types of techniques that raise your kundilini. -
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Fri, January 25, 2008 - 3:15 PMSwadhisthana is not the lowest Cakra.
in any case, as represented by many schools, including an interpretation of the striking Icon of Chinnamasta, sexual energy can be a means to the rise of Kundalini.
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Sun, January 27, 2008 - 4:17 PM
It's not so will power driven...
Yes, fill each chakra with as much energy as possible! yet remain desire-less!
then naturally once each chakra is full of energy, vibrating, then it _naturally_ moves on to the next..
it's kind of like building up an orgasim...
but don't start at your chakras... or where you think they are...
start at the tip of your toes and move up... there are INFINITE chakras... only different schools break down down to 21, 14, 7, or 4 chakras... you can create more chakras if you want, or less... you can aggregate them or split them up...
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Sun, January 27, 2008 - 4:31 PM
Regarding Samadhi... I'm pleasantly surprised to read a very accurate description of the life-changing events that occur after Nirvikalpa Samadhi to people, those who reached via meditation practices and those who reached spontaneously. For me, it was triggered as part of a 3 year Raja Yoga sadhana on strict died and 3 to 7 hours of meditation every single day... eventually after the heart opening, I gave up meditation, and few days later this samadhi happened... though I've met those who have woken up without every having done such practices... there have been many super-natural things which have occured around me... such as when I was at star bucks and I though to myself I don't feel like spending money... once my turn came up in line, the cashier's machine frozen and it wouldn't reboot. They tried the second machine, that one also froze. The person at the counter said you get it for free and yelled at everyone behind me in line that drinks are free... when next person got in line, all the machines began to work again. many such experiences have happened, and still continue to happen around me... though I'm always puzzled since I have no idea to make them happen willfully.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samadhi
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Re: Kundalini rising
Fri, October 26, 2007 - 11:10 AMMy wife finds it easy to raise kundalini. She had a great teacher in the States, now we are together in England.
A few hours ago she explained that purity of intention made it easy. If we have the intent to connect with the Divine it will come.
So keep focussing on the Divine if you want to speed it up, don't do it with "lust of result", I guess. Focus on one aim, the right one.
I think the disturbing extreme experiences can happen to people who get kundalini moving accidentally (among others). Best to have a teacher.
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Sat, October 27, 2007 - 1:02 AMHi Ik.... Been a while dude.... Just a quick one.....I've not read every single response here thoroughly yet but one thing you mention often is the word psychadelic....
Now straight up man.. Anyword beginning with the prefix ........... "psych" .............. psychiatric, psychology, psychosymatic and so on
obviously only deals in mental realms
and therefore will only relate to the upper chakras and upper senses. (visual, imagination, hearing, perception etc)
Be sure......... Kundalini and other related experiences described differently by various religions and cultures is a FULL BODY experience or should I say a FULL BEING!!! experience.
You understand how the same quantity of drug intake can affect you and your friends quite differently right?
So too will kundalini be very different for each individual who experiences it....from something subtle to a friend of mine who needed some proffessional attention afterwards...
Correct me if I'm way off track.
Sometimes I get the impression you're perhaps hoping to recreate natural experiences that are similar to in part to drug experiences.
A well known author on the subject Anodea Judith states her belief that kundalini expereince is very attainable by everday people doing everday things so long as their energy centres are all open and balanced in there level of activity.
For of course we all have these centres but not all of us are conciously aware of them.
As for experience I can tell you of an experience I manifest sometimes.
I can't always do it at will.
But it can be done anywhere...walking standing sitting
it actually begins with my conciousness of everything around me.. I mean everything, it all came from the earth and there for carries intelligence and energy.
All this energy comes toward me through the ground and travels up my body through my feet and legs all the way to my crown and then out again. Similar in form to the ripples we see when a stone is thrown into calm water except in reverse - coming towards me. I am the centre.
...but .... at each joint in my body and other areas so... ankles knees groin area navel heart elbows wrists throat mouth eyes ears and crown, this energy leaves my body, rippling outwards - reconnecting with all things.
So it's a recipricol energy cycle.
People respond to me in very happy positive ways when I am with this energy.
I had a woman in a store come up to me and ask if I prayed... she said...because I feel you are close to god.
some pictures by Alex Grey may help you do understand what I'm describing here... There's a tribe called Alex Grey if you've never heard of him.
This energy manifestation practice makes me feel energised, peaceful aware & wise.
And most of all it makes me "Be at one with all things"
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Re: Kundalini rising
Sat, October 27, 2007 - 1:06 AMSorry, just remembered. I also practice methods as advised by Mantak Chia in his book, The multi orgasmic male...and I must state absolutely clearly that I believe this is a completely different experence to Kundalini -
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Re: Kundalini rising
Sat, October 27, 2007 - 5:35 AMI agree with you to a certain extent.
When I think psychedelic I think all chakras harmonized and activated.
Body buzzing, mind open.
I've never experienced Kundalini, so i can only speculate.
From reports it only sounds like it's psychedelic.
I AM psychedelic, so i use the word quite often. oi. ;]
thank you for chiming in !
I think I might be too young?
Also from what I've gathered is taoist sex practices work with moving energy through the body and the environment, while Kundalini is an inner circuit, no?
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Sat, October 27, 2007 - 6:58 AMyes, that's it exactly. kundalini rises through an inner circuit, sushumna nadi the central channel, and it helps to illuminate your outer circuits.
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Re: Kundalini rising
Sat, October 27, 2007 - 1:37 PMalso, mantak chia refers to sexual energy as the more easily accessable kundalini energy.
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Re: Kundalini rising
Tue, October 30, 2007 - 10:51 PMHave you tried Chakra Dhyana? Powerful and quick, you will definatley feel your Kundalini rise the first time.
Here is a description www.onenessmovementflorida.org/Ch...htm
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Sun, November 25, 2007 - 11:03 AMYou might be interested in checking out the Kundalini activation that is given in Keylontic Science. This technicque, especially if preceded by the prerequisite techniques given on this site, can safely open specific seals and conduits that allow for a balanced ascent of kundalini and related energy currents.
www.azuritepress.com/techniq...ning.htm
Wish I'd worked with these processes prior to the Kundalini experiences that I had before finding the energy techniques in Keylontic Science, these techniques were about the only thing I found that really helped my body to integrate. My experiences included an almost 2 year period of daily spontaneous movement in the spine, chakras and throughout the body.
Awakening Kundalini before your body is ready to handle it is *not* necessary a good idea (take my word for it!), yet sometimes that is the path we have chosen for this lifetime, and you deal with it! In fact, Kundalini can really fry your nervous system and create a variety of health and emotional/psychological issues. As a few people here have stated, the point is an integration of these higher energies comprising all aspects of Self -- emotional, physical, mental and spiritual. I personally believe that, to the degree we are not able to integrate higher spiritual frequencies while in a body here on this planet (i.e. Kundalini and even higher energy currents), these currents will damage the body causing aging and decline, leading the body to it's death ultimately.
Namaste'
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Re: Kundalini rising
Thu, December 13, 2007 - 6:44 PMOK IK, I will tell you some of my experiences, because I don't see why not?
It started with mushrooms. I had the full on break through into the astral plane and stayed there for about 3 hours. That began the path. I took psychedelics (lot's of different kinds) for a few years and recently had some mushrooms again. I remember saying to myself, that was a nice easy way in. But it isn't always so as you should know by now.
The psychedelic visions are a distraction. When you lose focus, the ego kicks in with a bunch of energy. Thats why patience is important, because there are lots of techniques to speed up the process to reach a threshold, but the best technique is patience and awareness of your own reactivity.
I sometimes wonder where I am at with my own spiritual path, but that's when I am not meditating. When I am meditating, I know I have work to do for full integration. I don't mean integration as in top to bottom, I mean from outside in. I don't consider these chakra's just energy points. They are minds of their own that can be manipulated by the ego, as if the ego is a salesman trying to scam us into physically stimulating them from the outside world. Watch your behavior and patterns of thinking, that will tell you where you are at outside of meditation.
My teacher has told me a little bit about Kundalini, but the idea of a specific practice to raise up that energy doesn't sound right. The idea of controlling energy it's self is an act of ego. That's why I was taught to yeild to the breath and not to control it. You can't let go if you are clinching to life. He also told me that one out of every 500,000 students are ready for the kundalini awakening. He didn't say that to discourage me, but just to ilustrate the intensity of that type of experience.
I would suggest reading book four by Aleister Crowely. I think he has some sincere advice on approaching meditation. I have read a few books about spirituality, but Love is the strongest catalyst. When you become conscious of what you are projecting, love it with all of your heart. -
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Fri, December 14, 2007 - 12:51 AMawesome man thank you for sharing that it made a LOT of sense to me.
I recently started engineering for this sax player who I found out has a guru who gave him shakti pat with touch.
His stories blew my mind and well, I'm no longer skeptical to say the least.
You're right about control...and the ego...
just let the breath yield...I love that...
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Re: Kundalini rising
Fri, December 14, 2007 - 12:52 AMWhat can you tell me about the astral plane?
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Fri, December 14, 2007 - 11:03 AMI have lot's of speculation about what the astral plain is all about and what samadhi is, but the truth is that I don't consider myself an authority in anyway on these topics and I am probably in the same boat as you are. I have been stressed from every angle of life lately and my head isn't clear enough to describe these experiences vividly right now. School will be over for me tommorow and that will start to lift worldly burdens off of my chest and allow me to focus more on self-developement.
I know of two main methods of ataining these experiences. The hindu practice of super consciousness, and pranayama. These practices together can make healing very fast, but the extent of how much time it takes to reach higher states of consciousness is relative to your current state of mind you know? Just stay centered and forward. Be content with the experience regardless of what happens and be aware of your behavior and thought processes. Your envioronment also plays a large role in psychological healing.
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Re: Kundalini rising
Mon, December 17, 2007 - 1:39 PMIMO I think astral is when you invert your dreams outward.
An outer dream-like dimension that doesn't necessarily have to be a dream...
most people dream inward. you can go both ways.
same with smoking DMT. heaven and hell. roots or crown.
jumps from the heart.
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Tue, December 18, 2007 - 9:27 PMI feel my energies flare up the most when i look inside from the outside, like acknowledging its a reflection of my wholeness and just an illusion, like the solidity of my own exsistence kundalini is transcendent energy, and fast heavy breathing while pushing on my peritoneum.. so to trancend in the moment twords a higher truth brings you closer to your true self and more aware. i had one kundalini experience a week after i had a few hours of samadhi on mushrooms my first time, i was looking at alex grey paintings and listening to lateralus by tool, id felt like id had an ephinany about what the visuals meant energetically and got rocked into the full body orgasm, only lasted a minute. id say drugs are worthwhile, its more like getting the answers to your homework and still having to work out the logic but its a foothold. it may not be as gratifying to get there naturally afterwords although much quicker when you do try. some people say dmt puts your chakras in an imbalanced state that allows your energy to flow upward, still just as knotted, but im going to give it a shot. -
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Tue, December 18, 2007 - 9:29 PMoops^
meh.
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Re: Kundalini rising
Tue, December 18, 2007 - 10:55 PMI believe that when a human smokes dmt they can go in two directions.
Through the root chakra, or through the crown.
Down or up.
I've found if I turn on my heart chakra I can leap upwards.
When I don't do this I fall through my root and have a very skull-like near death experience trip that gets sexual toward the end.
When I go up I can peer thru my third eye through my crown.
Well that's just been my experiences with it.
Everyone experiences chakras and dimethyltryptamine differently.
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Re: Kundalini rising
Tue, December 25, 2007 - 1:49 AMMy kundalini awakening occured for me a few months ago for the first time when I was "experiencing" in the city. I was walking down Times Square on a Saturday when I came across "sahja yoga". Maria basically told me to say certain mantras in my head while my intention was to come to this self realization. I felt a cool breeze and felt a surge of energy shoot up my spine penetrating my different chakras and than I felt energy in my fingertips. After that I felt such a oness with everything and smiled and engaged everyones eyes. It almost felt as though I were communicating with people telepathically while engaging their eyes.
After that intense experience I went to Sahja Yoga center in NYC. This time I had not taken any "entheogens" and I once again felt my kundalini rise. My spine was erect and I felt this orgiastic energy once again rise up my spine and coursed throughout my body, while I was breathing from my core and I felt it in different fingetips. Ever since than I have randomly felt a sharp orgiastic surge of energy go up my spine while I am sitting in a certain position and in tune with my body and breath. Sometimes it is annoying as it randomly happens. This breeze that I have felt and people often feel is described as the "holy spirit" in christianity and noted in other religions as your inner divinity becoming awaken.
The most intense kundalini rising I experienced was after a Shamanic Drum Circle in NYC. It was my first time attending and I bought a doumbek just for the event. After drumming and movement when everyone was about to leave I stood up and at the time I did not realize what had happened to me. My right leg would violently start shaking because the resonance of the drums mixed with my kundalini made my leg uncontrobally spasm.
I turned and faced Joe who has been practing shamanism and has drinken ayahuasca at the Daime church in Brazil. I tried to speak words to him but no words would come out. He felt my energy and saw my leg shaking and asked if I was okay. I later realized that I had awoken this dormant energy that I had not felt since my "kundalini awakening" when I experienced LSD in NYC.
The fourth and last time I felt my kundalini rise was after I was OMing at an event I performed at the Seed galery in Newark and when I stood up I felt my entire body coursing with imense amounts of energy. I really felt grounded as I closed my eyes and recited a poem.
It's funny because everytime except this last time I have felt my kundalini rise I would lose language and could not communicate verbally because instead I would just engage people's eyes and usually communicate with my energy. However, after expressing my inner most creativity after meditating and oming, essentially tapping into my body I was able to articulate my experience and dialogue with people immeadiately afterwords.
I have been researching kundalini for a while now it makes sense that it rise up your spine like the cosmic symbol of the serpent-double helix just like our dna.
In all religions suffism, hinduism, all the mystic religions, and even in shamanism-icaros it's all about the breathe and sound vibrations mixed with intentions that allows you to awaken this sacred divinity that has been lying dormant inside of us. There is an ancient hindu legend that talks about the "godhead" and it is relevant to kundalini because we realize that we are all god and apart of the divine spectrum.
FOr me kundalini has really altered my being and allowed me to come to my "self realization" In fact it started earlier for me at the COSM earlier this year when I experienced LSD For my first time. I took it as a sacrament and with that intention I viewed sacred art and communed with it. I experienced complete ego loss and language and while I was communicating with the "cosmic christ" it spoke to me and told me that this was meant to happen. Later I realized that it was just my inner voice. Kundalini is very sacred and we basically are vessels(our body) and kundalini is our spirit.
Gopi Krishna talks extensively about this Kundalini experience in several of his books. Yoga definatley increases oxygen to your brain and gives you more clarity even if you never do experience your kundalini rise. -
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Re: Kundalini rising
Tue, December 25, 2007 - 7:08 PMDear Asad,
thank you for chiming in.
I am here because people like you are here as well. I too ingested the lysergic key@COSM and his paintings revealed new perspectives to me.
To see them in the acrylic flesh,
his sacred mirrors morphing into ever possible human,
is indeed sacred.
I can't even describe what happened to me the night of the masquerave not this halloween but last.
Check this out. You just reminded me. I even had an out of body experience dancing @ COSM that night.
I was playing with photon lights attached to a string attached to my middle finger.
this creates an orb of light that you can feel gravitationally in your hand. It's amazing. Green. White. Blue.
I was just dancing tripping on acid all by myself but there were so many people there and you know it was as if we were one and we are but that's not the point right now
While meditating to the awesome trance (the guy in the baseball cap with the goatee who was hella into it. whoever you are. I Love you)
gazing into my photon orb
I had the most incredible out of body experience of my life.
I could see myself down there....
I was in the ceiling, or above and I could see through....about 20ft above EVERYONE ! I could see you all dancing wave-like underneath my perspective. All I could think was WOW WTF
the music was more distant,
but I could still see myself down there in my ridicuous orange longsleeve polyester hippy shirt with those blue huge glasses and I laughed but I wasn't I I was just my third eye slipped through my crown my "Energy body" or whatever you want to call it.
The higher octave of myself, there I was.....
for less than a minute.....
All it took was LSD + Dance @ Cosm = the most intense OBE of my life.
So hard to explain.
It taught a lot about me and the way I work with divinity + the universe and how I am everything we are et cetera.
I know for a fact LSD gets your kundalini flowing full force.
I also know that you DO NOT NEED LSD to feel this.
That is the purpose of this thread.
The psychedelics taught me something about our divine nature,
and it seems the hindu have been on that for a while now.
All over the world everyone interprets differently the same.
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Re: Kundalini rising
Thu, January 24, 2008 - 10:58 AMIm very confused about how you can be so sure about lsd inducing kundalini forces when you are asking about how to attain such a state? No doubt, psychedelics are known for producing intense experiences that break down our artificial concepts, but I am not sure of the same things you are, and I feel that some careful examination of these ideas should be considered before anyone reads this topic and assumes that what you are saying is true.
I would give up on the drugs and start sitting man. There is no need for analyzing reality, let us just sit and experience it. Stay alert, and rest your body, this is the vigilance that the Buddha has taught us. -
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Thu, January 24, 2008 - 11:04 AMthat isn't my website, just a website.
i'm sitting here experiencing,
analyzing reality.
I'm no buddha
just a monkey.
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Fri, January 25, 2008 - 4:33 PMi just joined this tribe but i have been practicing kundalini activities for 14 years. i have had my kundalini awakened through 4 different human masters, many trips through psychedelics. i have had many kundalini mystical experiences and the most powerful one was the one that never went away. through studying with non-dual teachers like adyashanti, gangaji i realized that kundalini is the doorway but not the territory and that its original purpose is to lead people to the experience of themselves as pure awareness. once i realized that i am that pure awareness and their is nothing separate from my deepest sense ofself....everything i do is a miracle of kundalini...whether it defies the law of physics or not doesn't interest me anymore. kundalini is the source energy of the entire world of form. as far as my personal kundalini at the base of the spine goes, all i have to do is use intention to bring the energy up to my head and v can go into bliss most of the time unless i have a karmic block that needs attendvng to but once its complete then i just feel the base of my spine and bring it up. the idea that we need to do some complicated technique, to me, is just programming that attaches you to a teacher or path. all of you everyone of you can tap into kundalini energy with your intention. all power to you. -
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Sun, January 27, 2008 - 2:33 AMOne of the reasons why I am so intruiged with discussing kundalini, is that my teacher told me that 1 in every 500,000 students are ready for it. Seems like a big deal, and yet I hear of people say all the time that they feel the kundalini. I certainly don't feel it. I have experienced what you described of course, one-ness, and I know what it is like to feel all the awareness run from your feet to your head culminating in the mystical experience, but I feel no chakra's.
Perhaps I just don't pay attention to these points, but I mainly feel all energy, not just my spine, but inside and outside the boundaries of my body. It's just interesting.
One thing I will say is that I am also a psychedelic driven meditator. I wouldn't started meditation if not for my personal once a week experiences in the mushroom church, and although I feel that it has prepared me for handling intense amounts of energy, I would not reccomend a psychedelic path for anyone who is not a regular meditator. It's just too unpredictable. I really don't take them anymore. They are great for an automatic meditation session, but it wears off after a while, and all that insight is excreted through your urinary tract.
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Sun, January 27, 2008 - 3:28 PMor give rise to a false belief about what you actually experienced.
but then again, one shouldn't close oneself off from the possibility of such experiences occurring.
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Wed, February 20, 2008 - 1:13 AMhi,
seems good to hear from you.it is good to read books but better to go to master/guru who will show you the practical aspect of awakening of kundalini.you may contact me as i am master in kundalini shaktipat/ transemission of energy for awakening of kundalini.
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Mon, June 23, 2008 - 4:33 AMMy friends please take this in the utmost humility, I know for certain my kundalini awakened in July of 2006 for it has never left me since... and trust me I am no ideal yogi.... Thus, you need not be anything special... and i don't think it's necessarily evidence of advancement for I am quite the fallen one.
Don't be mistaken though!!!, you will NOT be unsure when this happens to you, there is no way you could doubt it. If you are unsure, then you have not had the experience.
Most importantly, don't worry about it... Seriously my life has not improved dramatically because i live with currents following up and down my spine, we all get what we need as soon as we need it. And none of you would ever want to trade places with me, if you knew me and knew what challenges i face.
This is all i can say about it... I am sure there are those out there who have had the experience and many who haven't. Doesn't make us any different, I am no master, I just followed my master's techniques and magnetized my spine like he taught me. You all have so much energy stored down in your loins you just need to create a polar opposite magnet in your brain. Once that magnet is strong enough the current will find it's up on it's own, just like a snake coming to greet the morning sun (the brain) from far beneath the rocky depths of a cave.
In short, find a true Guru who can give you REAL PROVEN techniques, he can be living or dead it matters not if he is a true master. When the time is right he will give you what you need. But you need to give him your undying devotion....
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Mon, June 23, 2008 - 4:15 PMHi Ik,
I am a buddhist monk and have been studying with a liberated teacher for almost 10 years. During that time, my essential practice, as taught to me by my teacher, has been chakra meditation and kundalini yoga. I haven't often had particularly visual experiences that I often hear described either, but in my training, I have come to understand visions of colors, lights, astral dimensions, etc. as secondary distractions and not the primary focus of practice. So if you are not having overwhelmingly visceral or visual experiences, it does not mean you are not practicing correctly. I practice chakra meditation for between 15 minutes and an hour twice a day. When I focus on each chakra, I feel powerful waves of energy in the area of the chakra I am focusing on. It feels different at different times, sometimes it feels something like going over that first hump on a roller coaster, when the ground suddenly comes out from beneath you and ou start dropping. Other times it just feels like there's some kind of warm fluid swirling in my body in that area. Other times there is tremendous heat in the area, and others it actually feels like burning.
I find that some people are more timid in their practice than others, and sometimes it takes some time to even acknowledge or admit that they are experiencing the effects of their meditation, but after you train more, you begin to notice that the effects are very strong and very powerful, and that definitely *something* is happening.
After a year of practice, I would say, don't worry too much about having these fantastic psychedellic experiences or samadhis or anything like that. Experiences come and go in meditation, but the important thing is to practice regularly.
Here is how I have been instructed, and how I instruct my students to meditate.
When you wake up in the morning, take a shower, have some coffee or tea if you need it to help wake you up, and before you go to work, or whatever it is you do in the day, meditate. Make a place in your room or in your house where you sit regularly, you may want to create a little altar with some flowers, incense, candles, or whatever you would like, and go to this place when you meditate. You can sit cross legged, on a pillow, or even in a chair. You're back needs to be straight though, and don't lay down. To begin, focus on the navel chakra, which is about an inch below the belly button. Just bring your awareness there--no need to visualize anything, just try to feel the area. After focusing on the navel for some time, bring the focus to the heart, in the center of your chest. Finally, bring the focus to the third eye, which is between the eyebrows and slightly above. Spend an approximately equal amount of time on each of these 3 chakras, between 5 and 20 minutes each. When yo meditate, you are trying to stop your thoughts, so during your meditation, if you find yourself thinking, try not to engage in that chain of thoughts. I would usually tell someone to really try to push any thoughts out of your mind and bring the focus back to the chakra. After meditation, it's a nice gesture to bow. You're not bowing to anyone, but you are making a gesture of humility and gratitude, whcih are nice things to cultivate in practice.
Again in the evening, do the same thing. Around the time of the sunset or right before you go to bed, meditate again. Same 3 chakras, same amount of time. Remember to make sure you are alert during meditation. Meditation is not spacing out or relaxing. You should not be sleepy when you meditate, you want to be focused and alert. Focus on the chakras, push any thoughts out of your mind, and ignore any visions or experiences you have in your meditation. Rather, don't ignore them, but no need to get excited or afraid of them, just simply let them come and go.
Avoid eating right before meditation, and also remember to turn your phone off. If your phone rings or someone IMs you during meditation, ignore it, so instead of having these distractions, it's a good idea to turn off your phone and/or computer before you meditate. It's also nice to shower or at least wash your hands and face before meditation.
Meditation for most people is a difficult thing to do especially in this age, so another thing that might help is music. My teacher's teacher made a number of albums for meditation and you can download some music for meditation for free at our website www.sfawakenedmind.org.
We also do free weekly classes at several locations throughout the bay area, so when you do move back, you are certainly welcome to come. Check the site (www.sfawakenedmind.org) for locations and times.
Good luck in your practice!
Cheers!
Ajna
