**Hello,
I would like to give a brief background of my experience with kundalini energy and then ask the community a question.
Over twenty years ago I had a Kundalini bombshell open up all my chakras at one time. Since that time I have been worked up to the third eye level which is now bridging into the crown chakra. Although there are always modifications to the lower chakras as I move upward, they are basically set. Once my crown chakra is established who knows what will happen. Will the white light continue to circulate through my body and/or will it blow out of the top of my head? Time will tell.
My question is if this experience is definitely not a state of awareness because it is working intelligently and caringly 24/7 in my body. On the other hand, if it is part of a line in my particular psychological structure, where does it fit? It doesn’t seem to be spiritual intelligence in the normal sense of the word because it has a mind of it’s own and is conscious to my ego.
Anybody have any ideas?
Be well,
Scott Berger
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Perhaps prana could be viewed as the upper right part of AQAL, that is objectively like the heart, liver, stomach, etc. It has become essential to my body but can be examined independently of my body. I think that is a good start.
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Good advice Sidra! I am not worried but was interested in this theoretical model and where something like prana would be put. Then I came up with my own tentative solution that dawned on me and that’s all I need. What I am finding with this energy I have been experiencing is I am losing more and more ego and am literally being constantly adjusted to the present moment. It’s nothing the ego likes and is at times disconcerting because I can’t use the false self to fall asleep and wonder off. Pain and pleasure in the moment, a kaleidoscope of images that do not coalesce into a label, an awareness that the present in the only place to meet God. I would call this a special form of happiness and I would not trade this experience for anything. Be well and thanks for your wise observation. I have read Sri Ramana Maharshi, a rare person literally grounded in nature.
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Not to long ago I read “Maharishi’s Gospel” and a few other relatively smaller works. I was so impressed with his simplicity and clearness. He seemed to be archetypal sage, one of those rare spirits who seemed seemed to effortlessly blend mystic insights from both East and West as simply as breathing air. All of his insights resulted from direct experience. If I remember correctly, there was some resistance to his abilities when he was younger, he was arranged to be married but ended up being a monk?
So he had to withstand the burden of the spiritual sun from being a small child and reminded sane and became well known. Very rare. I had a “kundalini bomb” dropped on me as a middle aged adult and all my chakras opened at once. I was doing weird things like starring into the sun for long periods without harm and doing a flip off a chair in a public space. Not cool.
What did you most appreciate about Ramana?
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Hi beatificvision, welcome to the community!
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I’ll take it. Thank you Sidra. Maybe we will meet sometime again.
Hi Namal,
Thank you for your warm welcome. This is an unusual occurrence newly entering a site and I find it refreshing. I have been studying Ken Wilber’s work for over a year. What initially drew me to him was both his world class mystical, philosophical, and “integral” mind. Some of the books he refers to by James Fowler, Arthur O. Lovejoy, Plato (Plotinus), Thomas Kuhn, among others are works that have enriched my life. I am sort of a Western Culture guy, really only taking the time to study Buddhism. I do, however, participate in kundalini yoga.
Thank you again and may the light shine upon you. Scott Berger.
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Hi Namal,
I received a beautiful acknowledgement about contributing to the community as a new comer. I don’t have to be Sherlock Holmes to know there is a great probability that it originated from you because you welcomed to the community.
This a civil community from what I have seen so far. I belong to other communities which I will not name but, to me at least, are like dealing with the ancient sophists. For example, many of them don’t seem to have a principled, integrated outlook and their answers are really nihilist. They seem to be seeking attention rather than a sustained dialogue. I am like that too but I would prefer to think I am ignorant of doing what I am doing rather than trying to provoke rhetorical flourishes that sometimes end up being bizarre.
I look forward to checking the older threads simply to read them and not participate if the thread has already run it’s course.
Anyway be well and thank you!
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Too many typos, I need to slow down. (:
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the Kundalini is spinal energy made of organic ions, for instance if you affirm “I am a positive ion” it immediately provokes positive feelings.
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the problem with my affirmation is not that there is negative energy in you, but that you would even try at all.
okay the haphazard idea that I left you may need explanation, what my statement about ionic energy does mean, is that your entire nervous system is ionically charged by organic ions and the better you feel the more you flow which is a scientific wording for how high vibration feels.
the process of waking up has plenty to do with how you feel, and that has to do with how you think, and although thinking is caused by flashbacks and past and future, it is also provoked by non-acceptance, which is sometimes difficult to get through if you have no chance of accepting your situation, though within that notion I believe most people can find a way through or out of their problems, or in other words, their suffering.
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My experience has been because I learned it over 1000s of experiences that my mind might think, oh the energy is going to move to my right shoulder because there’s a knot of energy that needs to be dissolved, but this flash of thought was produced by the energy itself before it moved. So now I just let the energy, my energy, move in whatever way shape or form it wants to. I believe that’s untying knots or digging out bodily sensations trigger negative thoughts, images, and emotions embedded from the past. At other times it’s a blissful feeling, Pure bliss just rolling through my body in waves. Also, I have now stabilized at the sixth chakra and the energy has been moving for some time to the crown chakra. Every time I have moved up a chakra, all the proceeding chakras have to be readjusted which can be a pain.
So for my experience, my energy flow has its own intelligence above and beyond what my rational mind thinks might be best. In other words, there is no way that my rational, emotional or imaginative mind can direct the energy the way it moves, it just moves with it’s own intelligence. I would also add its caring and obviously personal nature is also evident. I haven’t really studied kundalini theoretically and I am Interested in knowing how my specific experience of healing white light is connected to a Universal Energy or World Soul or Logos or The One or The Ground of Being. etc.
If the energy is Initially at the base of our spine until it is awoken, how does this particular energy match or participate in universal energy? I’m not sure if ionic fields are the answer or not I just don’t know.
Hi Namal,
I saw something about taking an introductory “course” about integral theory. I don’t know where to find it.
Thanks!
Scott
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Hi,
If you’re talking about the “Build Your Integral Life” free ecourse, you’ll find it under courses when you go to the site and click site navigation.
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Thank you Namal. If this isn’t the course that was mentioned I am sure it integral to integral. I look forward to viewing the video. Again, thanks for you help.
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