Most people are not aware just how dangerous their opinions can be. There are two types of opinions. The first type I refer to as an “egoic opinion” and constitutes the high majority of all opinions. The second type is “non-egoic” and is the opinion type of the self-realized.
I’m entering the cafe at Borders, the bookstore near my apartment, after feeling the need to be around other people, order an Evian water, then take a seat at a table near the center of the room. Sensing a tangible energy forming at the roof of my skull, I sink deeply into the chair and my body suddenly feels paralyzed, heavy as stone. I look around the room at the crowd, observe the people sipping their afternoon lattes, perusing through magazines, and reading books. I’m looking at college students studying, business people meeting, and they all seem completely oblivious to my company–as if I’m simply not here. After a long time of sitting motionless, the heaviness wanes and I begin to feel weightless.
Everything in nature evolves. Life was once a single-celled organism. In fact, for most of the past four billion years, life on Earth consisted of the microorganism and nothing more. After bacteria, algae, and fungi formed, evolution leaped forward, manifesting as the dinosaur which prospered for about 165 million years. The reptiles, turtles, and birds of today are all that’s left from the Dinosaur Age.
The current human species currently allows over a billion of its own people to live below the poverty level. It also allows for millions of its own people to die violently in ongoing wars. I believe that the success of a human species should be directly related to its ability to get along with one another in a cooperative state of peace and harmony.
Every soul has a life path, vocation, or special calling. Like an individual snow flake, each soul has its own unique design that acts a blueprint for its particular purpose in each lifetime. A life path astrologer can decipher this blueprint by doing an in-depth analysis of your astrological birth chart.
Some initiates into a Kundalini activation have no prior understanding or context of the spiritual path (at least in the current life) and therefore the experience can be shocking and somewhat debilitating. Adding to their confusion and bewilderment, health care professionals still regard phenomena associated with spiritual emergence as indicative of pathology because the signs are so easily confused with the symptoms of psychosis, mania, depression, schizophrenia or borderline personality disorder.
Get out of your head and into your heart. When you honor the present moment you become a channel for the will of the Source. The ego is taken out of the equation. It is only during this time when the heart is allowed to lead the mind. This is what I refer to as living with “heart-based intention”.
Is Kundalini awakening the same as Self Realization? Well, it depends. It does rapidly accelerate the initiate’s evolutionary journey but not everyone who receives a Kundalini arousal becomes instantly enlightened. If and when the Kundalini activates the crown chakra will determine whether or not the initiate becomes one with the divine.
Kundalini arousal offers a direct challenge to the control of the egoic consciousness and even though its intentions are to dissolve the ego, which it does eventually, at first, the ego will be dramatically bolstered because it will interpret the awakening as something that is intended specifically for it. It’s as if the ego says, “Woah, look at how important I am! It is I who have been chosen for a select group of enlightened ones, and so therefore I must conclude that I am very special indeed.
The ancient Sanskrit word for “vital energy” is prana. It begins to be unleashed into the body from the portal of the root chakra during a Kundalini awakening. Prior to this, the Kundalini remains dormant and coiled precisely three and one half times around the base of the spine. Accompanying the release of the prana, dramatic shifts in consciousness and psychological upheavals will occur in the initiate. A wide array of symptoms are associated with a Kundalini awakening. This is known as “Kundalini syndrome.”
