Kundalini Energy Awakening
Kundalini energy awakening cannot be escaped.
In 1932, Carl Jung told his colleagues the awakening was rare
in the West. But he believed the knowledge and use of the
force was paramount to understanding the nature of man. Much
has changed in the decades since
Jung's bold hypothesis.
Now, as we stand at the threshold of a new millennium, we
see evidence that the awakening is indeed happening. Even
in the West, the nature of the kundalini energy awakening
and its purpose is being revealed daily as science and religion
begin to overcome their long-standing enmity and enter a more
peaceful coexistence.
Ironically, the kundalini energy awakening is an extension
of the oldest and most basic function of any life form --
the ability to reproduce self. Even as we profess to understand
the reproductive process, our twentieth-century scientific
knowledge must turn to spiritual philosophies for a deeper
understanding of the awakening. This kundalini energy awakening
is not the sexual awakening rooted in the physical maturation
process. Rather, the awakening is spiritual, and it is rooted
in an inner urge to create with thought.
In the East, they speak of Kundalini, a word that is not yet
a part of the American vernacular. It derives its name from
a Hindu goddess, Kundala, which means coiled, which is why
she is often symbolized as a serpent. Kundalini is the creative
energy that initiates puberty. It is the energy
required to create and manifest a physical body, or a child.
Procreation, however, is not mankind's destiny
in the use of this energy. Instead of the energy being channeled
out into the physical to unite a sperm and an egg to create
a physical body, the Kundalini energy can be directed toward
Enlightenment of the spirit. When used for this purpose, those
energies, those creative juices, are channelled up the spine
and to the head, producing a spiritual awakening. In the Vedas,
this flow of chemical juices is called soma; in the Bible
it is referred to as Euphrates; for the alchemist, it was
the rosa.
Channeling the Kundalini down the spine creates a physical
body for a newly incarnated child. At its zenith, when the
Kundalini is channeled upward toward the highest centers of
the brain, it creates the birth of the mystical child. This
is the Greek story of Persephone and the serpent.
It's the Biblical story of Mary and the virgin birth. It's
the birth of Horace, conceived by God and borne by Isis. The
birth of the mystical child is described in all spiritual
literature throughout the world and it is the quest of all
spiritual devotees who choose physical celibacy, be they Catholic
nuns or Buddhist monks.
This metaphysical birth is the awakening.
The mystical child's arrival is foretold in experiences of
the spirit. These mystical experiences are extraordinary,
spiritual in composition and far beyond the psychic. They
portend the awakening of the Kundalini energy. You might have
had such an experience during your life without knowing its
significance. For instance, there may have been moments when
you had a sense of urgency. This urgency was not about something
that you needed to be doing at a certain time. It was a sense
of urgency within you that arose, perhaps compelling you to
speak to someone, or to touch someone, to go somewhere for
a purpose that you didn't consciously know until you actually
arrived. Or perhaps you've experienced a sense of duty, a
sense of obligation, a sense of having a mission; something
very important that you are here to accomplish. And a great
desire to give to something larger than yourself, your family,
your neighbors, even your country.
Mystical experiences are characterized by
new awarenesses which are universally applicable. They touch
our hearts, our minds, our souls, and transform our entire
spirit. From that day forward nothing is ever the same again.
For many women, the birth of a child produces this. There's
pure ecstasy accompanying the pain of the arrival of a child.
At that moment the consciousness is aligned, the entire being
is filled with love, and a mystical experience arrives. Because
the Self is consumed with love during the mystical experience,
the awakened state is highly valued and devoutly desired.
Beyond spontaneous and unpremeditated stirrings, Kundalini
energy can be understood and it can be directed at will. However,
it cannot be bought or bestowed, and it will not be forced.
For the ill-prepared, the rising of the Kundalini brings states
of disorientation and confusion, even madness whether temporary
or prolonged.
Some people try to force the awakening through
the use of drugs or by chemically altering the physical body
so that the brain is affected, thus producing hallucinations
or visions or an altering of consciousness. But as soon as
the drug wears off, the body reaches to restore its natural
chemistry. Many times these chemicals actually cause disconnections
in the nervous system of the brain with lingering and sometimes
permanent effects.
Drugs are not a means for inducing mystical experience. Others
believe a mystical experience can be prompted by hypnosis.
Though it can be very effective for therapy, trying to produce
a mystical experience with hypnosis is to the mind what a
drug is to the body. Hypnosis, at best, depends upon some
type of intervention for what needs to be a direct experience,
and at worst is artificially influenced pretense. It is not
an effective way to stimulate the Kundalini energy.
Some people use mantras, and although mantras give the mind
a focal
point and cause the whole Self to vibrate at a certain level,
there is a
time for stillness in the mind so that a complete experience
can be received. Focusing the mind prepares it for the awakening;
stilling the mind IS the awakening. Guided meditation is very
similar to the mantra experience because, although it can
influence you to have a certain kind of awareness and a certain
attunement with the Self, the true mystical experiences are
the ones achieved when alone, totally in solitude. Jesus instructed
his disciples to go into their closets and pray. He didn't
say to pray out in the street or in groups. He said go into
your closet; go into solitude. Just as the sexual awakening
arrives relative to but independent of external factors, so
it is true of the spiritual awakening.
The kundalini energy awakening is an enlightened state of
consciousness, a sacred state of being, arising from within
the Self. For this reason, during the mystical experience
there is a sense of an altering of time and space. Often what
springs from this is the ability for precognition. This foresight
may arise in visions or through inclinations; sometimes it
is revealed in nighttime dreams. Precognition is one of the
advantages, one of the rewards, of spiritual transcendence.
