The Kundalini Process

Ancient Egyptian View of male/female Balance, the Chakras and the Senses

2011-06-24T19:21:00.000-07:00

Two segments from a very good documentary series about Egypt.
Click here to access all segments.

The Kechari Mudra

2010-05-09T21:24:00.000-07:00

The Kechari Mudra - natural or artificial *

The Kechari Mudra can set-off immense spiritual / physical bliss
It is described in one of the earliest Vedic writings.
This mudra was (and still are) traditionally practiced by the original yogis.

As distinct from the artificial application of the Kechari Mudra, what happens during its natural occurrence is not only that the tongue reaches behind the uvula and above the soft palate or roof of the mouth**, but that it can do so because the soft palate can retract on its own, thus enabling the tongue to naturally curl back upwards in order to reach up to the bottom of the base of the skull at the location of the sella turcica.
In the natural form of the Kechari Mudra the soft palate spontaneously 'pulls in' or retracts in a physical manner for a short period of time (from seconds to hours) thereby making the space (Sanskrit 'akasha') above the soft palate accessible to the tongue.
When that happens, the tongue then tends to want to touch, vibrate or lightly massage the bottom of the bony support of the brain. The resulting vibration, which also can be brought about (although more lightly) by snoring, humming, Tibetan chanting, singing, sounding the AUM mantra and sounds made during sexual intercourse can lead towards experience of:

Ecstasy,
Orgasmic feelings in the upper part of the body and head,
Exalted rapture,
Fully integrated physical, erotic, volitional, emotional, expressive, inspirational, conscious human/divine bliss,
Conscious participation in human-divine reality and human-divine activities,
Acute awareness of the immortality of one's being,
The experience of human-divine glory.

The application of Kechari Mudra as described in Hatha Yoga Pradipika (chapter III, sloka 32 - 53) is an artificial (but effective) way to bring this about by gently and over time severing some tissue underneath the tongue in order to enable the tongue to reach behind and above the soft palate and to bring about results that are nearly identical to the experience of amrita and rapture (the experience of immortality and highly ecstatic states) that come with the natural Kechari Mudra.
There are some challenges with the 'forced' Kechari Mudra: one can come close to suffocation, fall into a state of mortal fear and... there might be manipulative tendencies involved that can lead to 'self-absorption' and 'exclusivity at the cost of others'.
The natural Kechari Mudra is, if one can say so, unconditional, it flows from or goes hand-in-hand with unconditional love. The forced version is more masturbative. ("Not that there is anything wrong with that!" ~ Seinfeld)

When the Kechari Mudra is brought about naturally, there are no dangers. So far I know of four people, including myself, who have experienced the Kechari Mudra in this natural way. I believe that there must be quite a number of people who could be ready for this***.

After Kechari Mudra experiences, which may happen just once or more often (there is no great significance as to the quantity of occurrences), bliss eventually becomes irreversible, as a physical change is taking place in the integrated human being.

The Kechari Mudra and Samadhi

Part of the dynamic of the Kechari Mudra is that the spine, pelvis and shoulders will curve and move differently, almost always in a gentle curvy/wavy motion, and one's muscles and nerves seem to be breathing. The nerves feel very vibrant and 'candy-taste' like.
Sexual intercourse may be less sought after or, if one wants to maintain it, it will take on an enhanced functionality leading into the various different levels of samadhi with... one's partner.

By the way, samadhi states can of course also be brought about by practicing advanced meditation, yoga and tantric techniques. I suppose what we have here is a total integrated human/divine love, at once from the most gross and physical to the most subtle and spiritual realities.

The Human Aura, the Kechari Mudra and the Uddiyana Bandha

The aura (the subtle energy field that surrounds the human body) is very much affected by the effects Kechari Mudra, as 'blobs' (so to speak) of the auric energy field part themselves off like parts of a flame, (similar to how flames can part themselves off from a burning fire) and are emanated into subtle energetic realms of possibly higher dimensional extensions. In myself this creates a sensation as though angelic or soul-like entities are produced. If that sounds far-fetched, just bear with me. Traditional Hatha Yoga literature (all too often unfortunately poorly translated and understood) I believe, describes this when it deals with the Uddiyana Bandha (Hatha Yoga Pradipika chapter III, sloka 54-59). In Tibet there were monasteries specializing in the 'creation of souls' through these techniques.
(If I won't be ridiculed I will write more about this, but it is possibly a sensitive issue to some. Hint! It has to do with the conception of children, the embodied soul or 'en-souled body', the male and female role in the conception of a human being. There is more to the sperm and the ovum than meets the eye!!!)

Kechari Mudra and Nectar, Soma or Amrita

Something else that can result from the Kechari Mudra experience (but this can be effected by different dynamics as well) is the production and flow of nectar (soma, amrita, ambrosia, elixir) in the oral/nasal cavities.

There is very little physical separation between the third ventricle in the brain and the space (akasha) below it. In fact, when there is enough cerebro-spinal-fluid (CSF) pressure built up in the spinal canal, the meninges and the other ventricles (by the way, these ventricles are not the same as the nasal cavities) some of this CSF will eventually drip through an aperture from the third ventricle into the back of the mouth cavity often onto the back of the tongue that, and when swallowed, it produces a sense of sweetness.

An animated view of the flow of bliss
This flow is related to Cerebro-Spinal Fluid or Amrita.
Source: http://www.healtouch.com/csft/csf.html

This liquid sweetness is called soma, amrita, ambrosia, nectar, elixir, food of the gods, etc.
Not everybody though who experiences this sweetness, senses the nectar drop, those who do experience a light drip of a phlegm like liquid substance. (It is often mistakenly diagnosed as a post-nasal drip or just phlegm without cold symptoms.)
The nectar flow usually results from a perfectly well aligned spine, when the hips, pelvis, shoulders and shoulder blades are moving, undulating and rotating unhindered and... a healthy, very loving life.
(In my experience and that of three other people I know (one female), sexual fluids take on a different role in the functioning of the male and female body.)

* This segment is an edited version of a discussion-group contribution from January 2000.
** Some yoga teachers and martial arts masters (e.g. Mantak Chia) direct their students into that direction.
*** A useful link.

Corpus Callosum

2010-04-20T19:03:00.000-07:00

The Corpus Callosum is related to the main topic of this blog.
To discover how, click here and scroll down to the end of the article.

Amrita, Soma, Ambrosia, Nectar, Elixir - Personal Experiences

2009-12-17T22:13:00.000-08:00

(Click here to read a blog entry on the Kechari Mudra or here on Soma Rasa)

There is internal experiential evidence (corroborated by people with similar experiences) that our physical and subtle energy body contains five major chakras that can be represented by colorful circular patterns.
In addition there is internal experiential evidence that we also have two major chakras that are localized in and around our head and which originate in and/or from the brain.

Crown Chakra
(drawing by Kelly C. Anderson)

The seven main chakras
Nepal, 17th Century

As this entry deals with some of my own intimate, internal experiences, I trust that you will see the information provided in its proper context and light.

I have been able to make 'myself' so tiny (imagine a form of internal astral travel) that it enabled me to travel through my central spinal canal and the organs and glands inside my head, to observe the presence of these chakras in all their glorious vibrational colors with patterns that very much resemble the illustrations in C.W. Leadbeater's book "The Chakras".

To help you understand the descriptions that I will offer here, see if you can follow me with the help of some simple and initially quite ordinary visualizations.

To start off with, imagine having one of those long thin balloons that clowns use to make animals out of. Take one of those balloons and blow it up like a tube but with a large more expanded top part. When done, hold it up vertically like a snake raising its head, bobbing a bit.
(See the second illustration in the picture below.)

Now picture that this tube has the flexible curvature of a healthy, well maintained human spine.

Imagine that gentle gyrating movements of your pelvis (following a three dimensional path) activate a syringe that inserts a clear liquid substance into in your tailbone area, injecting the slender tube-like structure of your spinal chord.

(The balloon would explode of course, but... your spinal canal won’t.)

Now visualize that your spine's gyrating movements act as a kind of internal pumping mechanism in the spinal canal.

Suppose that these movements pump and circulate that clear viscous fluid (where this substance comes from will be explained a little later) into and through the already present cerebro-spinal-fluid (CSF) in the central spinal canal and meningeal structures of the spinal cord and the brain.

The whirlings or vortices resulting from this inflow and mixing of fluids create multidimensional interference patterns that vibrate in an upwards direction through the tube. (Illustration four in the picture below.)

Illustrations 1 through 5

Where this begins (at the very bottom of the spine) colors can clairvoyantly be observed: usually magenta/red, the assigned colors of the Coccyx and Root chakras. (As well, energetic vibrations can be heard internally as a low hum: the lowest C of the western musical scale that we as humans can be internally aware of: the sound OM.)

This clear liquid in men and women may well be part of their male or female ejaculate, which, when could possibly become a glandular excretion that does not get ejaculated outside the body but processed (as though injected) as described above.

When semen is held warm in the testicles, living sperm may not develop and part of the remaining fluid may play a role in 'urdhva reta' - a Sanskrit term for the upward movement through the spine of generative related fluids. There is no reason to assume that 'urdhva reta' does not occur in women, I suggest that the clitoris is also involved.

Back to our visualization now.

(Please see the second and third illustration in the picture above.)

While this, let me call it, "earth energy", moves up our slender spinal balloon, it is first claivoyantly sensed as magenta/red energy, then as orange, then as yellow.
At the same time, but now from the top down, through our fontanels (or at least where they used to be when we were still a baby), ultraviolet energy, let me call it "sun or universal energy" is being sucked in, which then turns violet, then indigo and then blue as the energy slow down in its vibrations.

These two up-and-down flows of coarser and subtler energies mix and interfere with each-other in a multidimensional way, forming those special interference patterns like the ones that Leadbeater so well depicts. Five of those patterns stand out as more harmonious, they are the lower 5 chakras (6 when the Coccyx chakra is included).

The Heart chakra, where the two flows meet and balance each other out, is sensed as green... Of course! It is the mix of blue and yellow, the color of our green nature. (chlorophyll, photosynthesis)

To get the right picture about the chakra locations and their mix of colors as seen inside the tube (remember I made myself so very tiny in order to see that), you have to visualize them as horizontal trans-sections within that colors/vibrations filled spinal tube.

Maybe all this can also be described in terms of a musical instrument, an organ pipe or one of those Tibetan horns, as internal sounds can also be clearly discernible.

When compared to the chakras that originate from or in the spine, the Brow chakra is of a different kind. Its usually assigned two large petals, not only represent the two sides of the brain, they also represent the two lobes of the pituitary body to which this chakra is directly connected. Thus, this chakra not only represents the two sides of the brain in a left /right manner, but also the pituitary gland in a front/back arrangement.

One spot particularly, at the bottom centre of the cranial base just above the uvula at the rear of the soft palate (just where the ''sella turcica'' is, inside which sits the pituitary gland) is the location of ''the nectar drop''.

When the supply of cerebro-spinal fluid exceeds the volume of the cerebro-spinal canal, the ventricles of the brain and the meningeal structures, it seeps out and bathes the nerves, resulting in the experience of an intense sense physical/spiritual bliss.

Animated view of the flow of bliss
The flow is related to Cerebro-Spinal Fluid or Amrita.

Source: http://www.healtouch.com/csft/csf.html

When the supply is even more than that, small drops of this liquid come down the back of the throat: amrita, soma, ambrosia, nectar, elixir... what is sometimes called the ''food of the gods''.

This process is also mentioned in the ''Hatha Yoga Pradipika'' an ancient scripture on yoga.

(Click here to read the section on Kechari Mudra and Soma Rasa, slokas 48-50)

(By the way, the tongue procedure with the Kechari Mudra is not necessary.)

The pineal gland is the physical recipient of the full force of the solar, divine, spiritual, inner and outer light and energy and as such is not a chakra in the traditional sense, more on this elsewhere.

Now what about the chakras as felt at the front of the body?

(Please see the first, fourth and fifth illustration in the illustration above.)

Again Leadbeater has given us the right depiction with his treatment of nervous plexi. This man was truly amazing (if somewhat odd later on in life). The word solar "plexus" says it so well.

What we feel in the frontal chakric areas are indeed complex networks of nerves and nerve ends as they emanate from the spinal column at exactly the same locations as where the above described chakric trans-sections and their harmonious interference patterns are located.

A vision by Hildegard of Bingen 1098 - 1179 AD

What I feel now in 2010 (this article was written in 1999 when I was just about completing my own Kundalini process) is a totally glorious body/soul unit. A, so to say, ''one-grand-chakra'' entity, I experience myself very much as a being as depicted by Hildegard of Bingen's visions and pictures: sometimes like that blue person, sometimes like that egg-shaped universe with all its glorious radiation... Nectar totally, and continuously.

A vision by Hildegard of Bingen

A Tantric Meditation

2009-12-17T22:12:00.001-08:00

The Size of our Soul

2009-12-17T22:09:00.000-08:00

During the spring 2009, my wife and myself visited a large and beautiful baroque castle in Germany from the Age of Enlightenment (Frederic II, Voltaire, Rousseau, etc.). Imagine huge rooms and exquisitely inspired baroque paintings and sculptures throughout. We were in awe.

While enjoying this we overheard a 6 year old German child asking her father (it sounds so special in German):

"Papa, why are the doors so big and the ceilings so high? Were the people who lived here taller than we are now?"

"Ach nein, mein Liebchen, vielleicht die Menschen waren... "
"Oh no, my dear child, people were probably a little smaller, but they had 'v e r y' large souls!"
"What's a soul Papa?"
"Your soul is what you feel love with. With your soul you see beauty... you feel happiness!"
"Do I have a big soul, Papa?"

"Aber natürlich mein Liebchen!..."
"Of course, my dear little one!"
"Then you and Mommy have big souls too!"

Nectar, Soma, Ambrosia, Amrita, Elixir of the Gods, Love Potion, etc. and Cerebro Spinal Fluid (CFS)

2009-12-14T15:56:00.000-08:00

A discussion about the sweet sensorial culmination of the Kundalini process. *

At some point during the male Kundalini process (I have inquired with women and received some very hopeful, concurring and parallel responses) semen production does not include sperm anymore, which makes semen turn into a glandular secretion.

I suggest that one way or another** a portion of this glandular secretion goes up into the spine through a tiny orifice and is propelled up by reverse pelvic rocking. The reverse pumping, if I may say so, is directed more backwards-and-up than forward-and-up.

The flow of bliss.

This additional glandular supply increases the cerebro-spinal-fluid*****inside the cerebro-spinal-canal inside the spine, the meninges and the ventricles that are dispersed throughout the brain, from 125 cc to a possible 250 cc.
Much of this is actually minutely documented, although very poorly translated, in original Sanskrit yogic literature. Nevertheless, the Hatha Yoga Pradipika is quite clear on this. (See the picture above and references in another article on Amrita/Soma.)

When the amount of CSF (cerebro-spinal fluid) gets over a certain threshold, some of it drips down on top of the soft palate and/or on the back of the tongue. The sensation of the pressure release and the dripping is extremely sweet.
This is what is referred to as:

"nectar", "soma", "ambrosia", "amrita", "elixir", "love potion", etc.

Not that the taste of this liquid is sweet, it is not, it is actually salty, quite alkaline. It's consistency is like watery Jell-O, or more properly stated it IS the consistency of liquefied jelly fish.

Could it be - and I suggest that it is - that at the veriest inside of us, at our very core, that the physical structure that is anatomically described as our CSF system, that it is actually still that primordial immortal sea-creature that we (primordial jelly fishes that we were - billions of years ago - and ... still are, started to surround with calcium accretions, etc. and eventually a variety of appendages?***

For a blog article on this subject , click this line.

The following video clip is quite extraordinary, especially after one realizes that behind it's prankish-but-amazingly-spirited delivery, there is a science story about jelly fish with far-reaching implications, implications that should be considered quite seriously especially in light of the suggestion I made in the paragraph above.

Enjoy

When the CSF pressure is high and the spinal column is in excellent shape as to curvature and flexibility in the "three degrees of freedom" (this seems almost a prerogative) the fluid seeps from the spinal cord's central canal into the nerve pairs that extend from the spine around and forward to the front of the human body, the various nerve plexi or chakric energy centres.
I postulate, that the soma substance ("soma", I like that word because of its "somatic" connotation) gets transported in minute amounts of stuff/vibration/energy along the nerval dendrites underneath the myelin sheathing.

When the energy pulses reach the front of the body the sensation initially felt as sweetness but it can increase in intensity to the highest states of ecstasy. Orgasmic ecstasy as by nearly everyone is one-sevenths of the (at least) 7 ecstasies that can be experienced. Each ecstasy having a slightly different ring (vibration) of sweetness and intensity.

"The nectar phenomenon that you describe may actually have to do with saliva and the salivary glands, or, if not that, than with the production of phlegm in the nasal area." ~ Tony Syndrome

The nectar phenomenon has nothing at all to do with saliva and the salivary glands...
and also... 'Snot it's not!"

The taste of the "material of nectar" is saline (salty). When you collect and taste it with the tongue it tastes and smells like a light kind of sea-water. (Watered down sea-water so to say.)
It is very clear, no color, brightly transparent.
The consistency is that of liquefied jelly-fish.The stuff is in no way the same as phlegm that one gets from colds and that comes from nasal passages.
Nor is it the same as phlegm that one might get from dairy allergies or the like.
The place of exudation is at the back of the mouth just above the soft palate, from the bottom centre of the skull.
The physical feeling when exudation takes place is like a sweet release from some subtle muscular structure.
The spot where it drops, with that sweet feeling, is often on the very back of the tongue or can be felt while swallowing.
Where / when the drop(s) touches, one can feel a sweet erotic light touch.
It feels like having a sweet taste, but the word "taste" is not accurate. The sweet sensation resembles the taste of quince jelly.
When in a meditative visionary state one can actually see a beautiful fiery glowing orange red conglomeration of droplets.
In my case I can regulate the amount of release with spinal movements. Also manipulating certain spots on the spine affects the amount of release.
With the nectar release, the spinal movement is at the bottom of the spine, a gyrating 3.5 turn, clock and counter clock wise is sometimes taking place. Most often however, simple backward tilting of the pelvis will do.
The mental state one is in does not affect the release. I experimented with that a lot. I can be angry (have to work hard to get angry though), I can be sad (have to work hard at that too), I can be neutral, make myself despondent, it makes no difference, the nectar drop is always there. The only thing that can negatively affect it, is when the spine is not aligned properly.
Tiredness does not affect the release. I purposely created headaches, even though neck induced, the nectar drop is still there.
One can regulate the amount of the nectar release.
It seems an unconditioned response to "nothing", (however strange that may sound.)
I used to think that one should not be sexually active to increase the amount, or to affect the exudation. Although initially that may have been the case, now I'm sure there is no strong relationship.

The Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama) had the same experience. In a visionary meeting with him nectar and unconditional bliss phenomena were discussed:

It was noted that this nectar release and the concomitant ecstasy was UN-conditional.
That it also came with the realization that morality is an acquired set of behavior and mental patterns.
That a realized person is indeed "non-moral". (Not to be confused with "immoral".)
It was found though that, what we now call psychopathic behavior can indeed come with the same nectar and ecstasy release.

To safeguard un-social, a-social or even anti-social behavior, rules were set up to make sure that the "prospective practitioners of this yoga" (not the right word at all, but it will have to do) had to go through rigorous pre-training. Hinayana and Mahayana approaches resulted from this. Loving kindness became an absolute prerequisite "behavior" as to ensure that when the un-moral, non-social, non-god realization came through that no social harm would result.

This may sound strange and almost contradictory.

When one, at one point, near the end of the kundalini process of "re-origination", tackles fearless-ness and non-morality, one goes through a final test.**** This test is not in any way like an academic test. It is totally non judgmental. One actually gives up judgmentalism radically. It is the scariest and free-est of realizations, the test of all tests.

One eventually gives up on the whole idea of God as .... fill in any and all of the usual attributes.

That's why final (if there is such a thing) realization is non-theistic. Non-theistic realization is not the same as or does not lead to atheism.

Ah... nectar, ambrosia, soma, elixir of the gods, amrita or.... the taste of immortality!

* This article was originally in response to Tony Syndrome's questioning of Dan Winter's: "I tried to explain how large scale harvesting of human glandular juices, uv blue fire aura / ecstatic/sex juice, was the raw material Sai Baba needed for Vibuti production.

** Dan Winter spotted the same process, he refers to it in one of his web pages.

*** I brought this idea forward at an introductory lecture in Hartford, Connecticut in 2001.

**** I recall that in the "Aquarian Gospel" Jesus goes through similar tests. Whatever one thinks about channeled (re)sources, this book is very inspiring and may be authentically vision based.
"Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ" by Levi, Devorss & Co isbn 0875161685

***** An important article that gets more and more interesting by the end: http://www.healtouch.com/csft/CSF_stasis.html

A Picture Essay Kundalini, Tantra, Hatha Yoga, Prehistoric & Art Relationships

2009-12-08T22:26:00.000-08:00

*Svayambhu, Self-generated

Shiva Shakti
The unified and unifying dynamic of reconstructive and recreative kundalini energy.

Kundalini is all about
balance, integration and wholeness...
and if not that, then it is about
re-integration, restoration and reclamation...
...becoming again who we would have been
if we would not have been
- inadvertently -
made to forget, early after our birth,
our originally intended wholeness.

Embryo
Why does this come through as feeling so perfect?

Birth, Self-Generation and the symbolism of the Conch shell.
Etymology of the word "conch":
Aryan/Sanskrit/PIE root "konkho-"
Sanskrit: śankhá-, mussel.
Classical Greek: κόγχη (konche), mussel,shell
Latin: concha, mussel, shell.

There could be an etymological connection between the term
kundalini ("coiled") and the spiral shape of certain shells, even snail shells.

Conch Symbols
Tibetan Conch, one of the eight (or seven) Tibetan Auspicious Symbols.

New Age Chakra Conch Shell Pendant

Vishnu's Conch

Ammonite - fossil, Jurassic/Cretaceous, 160 million years old.
Note the spiral turns in this fossil and 3.5 spiral reference in the opening quote of this article.
Recall that it is said that Kundalini, before it is 'awakened',
lies coiled and dormant at the base of the spine 3.5 times.

"Svayambhu"
"Self-Generated"
Expanding / Growing by itself
Self Originated? Hermaphrodite.

Geoduck - mussel like shellfish
"Svayambhu"

Kundalini
"Meditator Seal from the Indus Valley Civilization"
Self Originating and Reconstructive Energy.
(Notice the snakes.)

This meditating figure is sometimes called
Pashupati - "Protector of the Cattle"
From the Indus Valley.

"Svayambhu Lingam".
(The bracelets on the arms are made from conch shells.)

Unfinished conch shell bracelets in an Indus Valley shell workshop, Gola Dhoro.

Same as the Indus Valley seal above.
(Shell bracelets again!)

Again as above, Indus Valley seal.
Evidence of fertility symbolism.

Male Torso
Indus Valley, Harappan 2100-1750 BCE, New Delhi National Museum.
Red sandstone or jaspis, height 3 ¾ inch.
(The shade of red of the sculpture is an average of the above pictures.)

Indus Valley, Dancing Male Torso.
Harappan, grey stone.
(Notice the insert cavity for a lingam.)

Traditional Hatha Yoga depictions of the Muladhara or Root Chakra.

(Notice the erect lingam in the central triangle. The triangle symbolizes yoni or vagina.)

Sacral Chakra - Swadhisthana
Clairvoyantly seen. (Leadbeater)

The Svayambhu Linga,
"one which rose up and came into existence by itself"
~ Kamillagama

Tibetan Svayambu Lingams

Svayambhu Amitabha
(Nepal)

Yab Yum - Tibetan Tanka

Detail Yab Yum Tanka

Something similar?

And why would Canova's "Eros and Psyche" not qualify for comparison?!

And is "Putti Love" not a similar expression?
Male/female congruence starting playfully!

Another intimate meeting of Psyche and Eros.

Spiritual and Physical Love in Embrace.

Kameshvara and Kameshvari
in the Soma Chakra.
(From "The Chakras" by Harish Johari.)

Shiva/Shakti

Shiva Shakti Shiva Parvati

Overcoming Dualism
A contemporary depiction of Two-Oneness.

YinYang

3D YinYang

Dan Winter's illustrations on my Kundalini website

Click the picture for a more readable illustration.
(Image from the "Igniting Innovation" edition of
The Braindancer Series of bookazines by Dilip Mukerjea

The Bilateral Brain

Yang (masculine) Yin (feminine)

The bilateral brain's Corpus Callosum deep inside.

The two sides of the brain brought together in the Corpus Callosum.
Bilateral information merging - facilitating communication between the two hemispheres.

When our acculturated, so to speak, "masculine" and "feminine" characteristics merge,

the limitations and obstructions to a greater universal integration disappear

and unconditional universal love will reestablish itself.

keep moving your cursor over the graphic to rotate it

Kundalini is all about Balance, Integration and Wholeness,

and if not that,

then it is about

Re-integration, Restoration and Reclamation...

...becoming again

who we would have been

if we would not have been made to forget

- inadvertently -

our originally intended wholeness

during the early moments of our birth.

Yes, one can do this sitting down...

2009-12-07T17:02:00.000-08:00

...and, by the way, one can do this lying down as well,
and... while standing up!

Interestingly, when I stand 'at attention' so to speak - the military pose - the energy flows tremendously!
Who knows how much Samurai training made use of this to get at the extra energy needed in combat...?

What follows is definitely not what Kundalini is about!
Considering the "bilateral" brain - the masculine use of it
... or rather its masculine abuse...
Is it still bilateral or has it become abusively single-minded when the following happens
What can happen when only the left half is used!

(Click here for picture source)

Chakra Color Consultation Chart

2009-12-03T01:27:00.000-08:00

Click on the image above or click HERE to get a
clear and readable image.

To help activating and balancing your chakra energies, this chart advises you on the use of:

essential oils,
incense
herbs,
supplements,
food,
gemstones

In addition the chart shows
specific affirmations to
strengthen your intent.

Note the two extra colors
pink and turquoise
that do not get mentioned often when chakra energies are discussed.

*Do not hesitate to:

dress in colors,
take colored baths, (food coloring works well)
add a few drops of essential oil to your bathwater
use colored candles and/or lighting.

If you like this chart, I'll send you at no cost a nifty wallet size fold-out version.
Send request by email, phone or skype me at 1-250-479-0001

Sweetnes, the mark of Kundalini

2009-12-02T22:48:00.000-08:00

Eros discovering Psyche

Physical love discovering spiritual love.

Click here for a meditational YouTube video on the butterfly: Psyche

With Kundalini... look for, recognize... sweetness in all parts of your being and personality, physically as well as emotionally.

Not sugary, syrupy sweetness, that is not what is meant of course, but an energetic sweetness that you may have felt when you first fell in love with maybe a young girl or boyfriend... yes, even in puppy love:-)
Or the sweet, almost... horny, longer lasting mix of physical / emotional feelings.
Or the erotic feelings one recognizes in more adult experiences of intense love making.
Initially people recognize or remember that sweet strong energy only in or from one particular physical area of their body...
Women are luckier than men in that respect, being able to get lost in ecstasy easier and over a wider range of their body.

Eros and Psyche

Physical love and spiritual love embracing each-other

No matter what, it is an energetic sweetness that you are looking for, always first on the physical side. It is the ''feeling dynamic'' of that energy that is supposed to run our nervous system... all our various nervous plexi are supposed to be bathing in it.

Unfortunately (it's what usually ordinary life does to us) that energy usually gets dramatically disturbed, even shut down almost, in parts of our being, just like the impact of negative human endeavors on the earth's climate that affects the distribution of moisture throughout the earth's system negatively: flow of rivers, droughts, floods, forest fires, etc.

When Kundalini starts running its ''energy restorative processes'' through the body, it encounters remnants of ordinary life's blockages and disturbances and attempts to flush them away.
This may then result in the dramatic accounts that you hear from people. (I had plenty).
Not that one can or should bypass that, but rather than dwelling on the emotional drama (which is of course very OK for a while and rather interesting) when we understand the process, we can promote ''better working mechanics'', we can help the Kundalini process along a less treacherous path.
It's like hydro-dynamics.

The end result of the Kundalini process is that the original life energy (whatever that may be) permeates the whole being continuously, constantly, evenly, irreversibly and eventually unhurtably (cannot find the right word here). That energy is actually what we had one time as babies, but may have lost along the way by having been ''robbed'' of, or having gone through the ravages of in-humane encounters.

Kundalini restores in all kinds of ways, depending on the kind and amount of violation and hurt that we underwent.

But back to that energetic sweetness.

Once recognized, one can direct that sweetness as though it is a cloud or a spiraling energy throughout the body. Use your imagination and visualize what works best for you.

One is getting successful when one can reach as many parts of the body:

from the tip of the spine to the top of the cranium, and vice versa,
from head to toe and fingertips, and vice versa,
from left to right, and vice versa,
from the front to the back of the body across its full length, and vice versa.

Of course breathing, yoga, grounding exercises, intense ''yawning-and-stretching'', Qi exercises are excellent aids. But it is the sweetness one is looking for...

That is why the ancient yoga or spiritual literature always at some point talks about nectar, elixir, soma, ambrosia, mead, amrita.
When one can locate these energy sensations throughout ALL the various parts of the brain and simultaneously throughout the belly and chest area one is getting there.

Do you sing or hum?

Can you weep or sob?

That is good.

Do you dance, like belly-dancing on your own?

That would be good.

You do not have to expect the outrageous things that I went though. My early life was very difficult, that causes the healing to be a bit more dramatic.

You do not have to underrate the power of the mind, rationalization, (it did in fact work for me) as long as in addition you can be sad or happy or at times mindlessly crazy.

But always, even while you are sad, look for that certain sweetness (it is always there). There is actually nothing wrong with self-pity or sorrow. Al our normal human reactions have been so negatively judged and used against our selves, that we hardly dare to use any of them anymore and thus we expect that liberation has to strike us from nowhere... That is impossible of course.

Go with what you get, your own feelings. If they are packaged in judgements that come from others, discard the judgement and accept the feeling whatever it is. Even anger is OK, being fiery is, being over-enthused is, being rational is, being emotional is, being abject is, being bored is, being tired is... It is all good...

It is the commentary that surrounds any of those sentiments from an non-compassionate world that is not useful.

We have all the tools, the toolbox, even the key (although seemingly hidden) to the locked up secrets to our freedom. We are allowed to use it all.

The key (although possibly still under the doormat) still works, but there might still be rust in the lock.

That rust is the judgmental garbage, the refuse (the refuse that refused free existence) that crept into us, that seized and ceased us.
The sweetness is the DW40 that dissolves that corrosion. (Don't you like the smell of that aromatic oil that DW40 is, like sweet almonds?!)

By the way, you will notice in these blog articles that I do not use words like "The Goddess", "Karma", "reincarnation" and the like, overly. Nothing wrong with them, but we may get into visualizations that may not fit you... I'm trying to bring it down to the more elementary feeling of energy, what our senses sense without cultural or spiritual embellishments...

You will find your own... your own beauty... in all forms!

In the autobiography of Teresa of Avila (a Renaissance Italian monastic, 1515–1582) Teresa describes how her being was touched, impregnated even, by sweetness, an immense sweetness that brought her into the full liberation of human divine reality:

Ecstasy of St. Theresa

Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 1647-52
Cornaro Chapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome

"The two central sculptural figures of the swooning nun and the angel with the spear derive from an episode described by Teresa of Avila (Wikipedia), a mystical cloistered Discalced Carmelite reformer and nun, in her autobiography, ‘The Life of Teresa of Jesus’, Chapter XXIX; Part 13." (Wikipedia)

She describes her experience of ecstasy in an encounter with an angel:

"I saw in his hand a long spear of gold, and at the iron's point there seemed to be a little fire. He appeared to me to be thrusting it at times into my heart, and to pierce my very entrails; when he drew it out, he seemed to draw them out also, and to leave me all on fire with a great love of God. The pain was so great, that it made me moan; and yet so surpassing was the sweetness of this excessive pain, that I could not wish to be rid of it. The soul is satisfied now with nothing less than God. The pain is not bodily, but spiritual; though the body has its share in it. It is a caressing of love so sweet which now takes place between the soul and God, that I pray God of His goodness to make him experience it who may think that I am lying."