How kundalni awakening has benefited me, in a nutshell, would be the awakening of the two energies together in my awareness that served to be the very essence of kundalini itself. At the time I did not know that this thing had a name like kundalini. I had even read up on this phenomenon many years previously, but when it came it went over my head. This was not something apart from me, not something I had “caught” but that was rising up from the very depths of who I was. Kundalini, before I gave it a name, made it quite clear to me what it was. For me, I was aware of two energies inn union throughout my entire being. This was like a libidinous force wherein a presence was released in me, set free from the cage of the root to flow freely throughout my entire being. My whole body had become bathed in the energy of this thing, these “two” energies in this tight embrace, this constant unstopping embrace of pure bliss. I was aware that a third energy was created, though, and I saw this as a triadic form of three pillars of energy rising through me. The two pillars were like two lovers in full embrace, and out of their union there emerged this other powerful transcendent presence and energy and this was what I called for a time “the child.” This was the fruit of their union. It made perfect sense to me to label it in this way. This was what it was. However, this child was something different from its parents, and yet was also connected deeply with them. NONE of them could have existed without the other. Their existence was somehow defined by their context TOGETHER.
I did not feel the masculine rise without the feminine. The very power of kundalini was in the immediate and constant embrace of the two together. “The child” seemed to develop in my awareness after a number of weeks and months, however. I found myself lost in the reverie of this embrace within me, my mind soaking it up and feeling into it. The energy was itself highly intelligent. Wherever my mind was directed, I seemed to apprehend the meaning of whatever it was I was curious about. I felt hooked into a kind of inner network of energy. People who had died who came back spoke of having instant knowledge of anything they put their mind to. I wondered if this wasn’t all that different. I felt hooked into something….something vast. The energy seemed to contain information within its “DNA” that I could unlock and see and feel and know.
Searching to see if I could find anything that described this experience, I found an exact description in early Christian works. The Gnostic texts spoke directly to my experience of the Mother and Father and the “perfect seed” being the Christ or “child” I had felt moving through me. The Mother, though, would be the Holy Ghost in later works, an attempt to perhaps hide her reality. I realized that there were those who could not, for whatever reasons, recognize the feminine side of this experience perhaps because it would put women on par spiritually with men. What a contraversy to have a feminine power so alive within yourself that it is undeniable as to the nature of spiritual experience! So it has gone.
But today, we are open to the necessity for a balance. I know that for me, I experienced this balance alive in me, and continue to do so. It is the divine feminine that I felt from the very moment that kundalini awakened that gave me such rich insight into women, into myself as a man, and about how the two fit together both in the day to day and on a cosmic level. It became clearer and clearer to me that in order for them to fit well here on earth, we had to learn how to mirror them in ourselves in order to align to a “destiny” and mate who would most perfectly fit this part of ourselves which is already ascended and is not showing us the way.
Kundalini, I knew, was a time traveller, an advanced stage of consciousness looping back into its past to help raise itself up. I have since had some interesting experiences with going back into my own past to bear messages and help to my younger self and I have come to the conclusion that time does not stop us from doing this. Only our bodies that have mass may keep us planted in our own river of time but the mind is free to roam as it has no mass. And we do. And we will continue to do so, leaping back and forward to repair and heal and boost ourselves from a variety of different time lines. Sound impossible? My dear, there is nothing that is not possible. The stories I could tell you about time and traveling within its many varied currents!
So the saving grace has been in awareness. This inner beloved, called the bridal chamber by the Gnostics for the libidinous bliss that it confers, is the fire, the catalyst that actually bears transformation. In the beginning, it was a hard thing to deal with. It was almost too much. But in time, I learned to develop ever widening capacities for it, to become the vessel for it that I had to be. Resistance is futile. In this are lessons to the feminine aspects of the self as well as the masculine.
I think person by person, we are being shown a way to be, a way to feel, a way to become that is entirely personal and individual. Instead of conquering nations, individual hearts will be conquered by this, piece by piece until the world is a giant patchwork of this light. Perhaps it will continue to spread. My first sense was that this energy was doing just this. Spreading. It is no accident that you are now reading this!
I always wonder how to speak of this experience (kundalini awakening) without sounding like a pervert. You use the word “libidinous” which makes me smile. No one uses this word. No one in my family would even know what it means.
As it was happening, my old Christian mind kept harassing me, saying things like: “You’re just having sex with yourself; it’s spiritual masturbation; you’re in fantasy land you twisted pervert.” But I just couldn’t help it. Kundalini awakening is pure bliss, better than any physical orgasm, but so similar that sometimes it’s difficult to distinguish.
It was also out of my control, sometimes it almost (I said almost) felt as if I was being raped by a spirit. I would beg to Him: “Stop, stop! … no please don’t stop.” After a couple of months of this, I also got the strong impression that I was pregnant! My Partner was delighted but I was confused, wondering “What the hell is happening to me.”
It all makes sense now, because I spent thousands of hours researching what all of this meant. When you have no knowledge of Hinduism, it’s difficult to find any reference to this type of experience in Christianity.
Break every taboo so it lies broken for you so that spirit can now shine in less cramped and confining ways in us. There is no way to heal without diving into the root of all of these things. Taboos lead to distortions of our energy, and ultimately to its misuse. By just making something forbidden, people want it all the more. And most often what gets expressed as sexual can be transformed and routed into love, compassion, and incredible creativity and inspiration. When I learned how to channel this energy into the creative I lived in an incandescent inspiration that lasted for a month. As an artist I was dumbfounded! I always had to “find” inspiration, but I was living it 24/7. And the secret was in not trying to throttle my sexual energy. By healing blocks that placed so much through the sexual, I found that by just letting it be as bright and powerful as it wanted to be, but not trying to do anything with it, it filled me with a wildly creative energy that was the result of letting that flame burn bright. This was sublimation pure and simple. By being able to handle incredible energy like this, a new dimension in the creative emerges. I just remained still with it even though my physical instinct was to act on it. I glowed, I felt more alive than I had ever been. I was filled to the brim…and what resulted was a rarefied firm of creative energy and creative output. I now have more art in my head than I could hope to make. When we feel shame, it is the death of our natural authentic selves. It is shame that kills the spirit. The wonderful thing is that now, this emollient NRG doesn’t need to be used for sex….it can be used for such fulfilling work full of purpose, juiciness, wonder, and joy.
“emollient NRG” ha! ha! Careful, you’re brushing against political correctness. But I get it, it is a taboo subject.
So I guess my next step would be to become a professional artist. I’m just a plain guy on disability, married with children. I tried sharing my experience with my Christian family, but this turned out to be a disaster. Now they think I’m possessed. Blogging is much better, total strangers are more receptive to what I want to share. I need an outlet to express all this juicy wonderful joy trapped within my own inner world.
Thanks for listening to me and talking to me. I appreciate it, I have no one around to discuss these things with. … Shit, my eyes are starting to cry… stupid eyes.
This is the Holy Ghost for anyone wanting to understand. The tradition of accepting Christ got misconstrued….the Christ is in each of us….same as Cosmic Consciousness of the Hindu and Cosmic Mind in Zen. But of course, try to explain that to anyone.
Well, if you don’t have a background in art, is there something you are good at so you don’t spend years just getting up to speed? Just a thought. There are so many ways to adapt this…heck, I once thought about doing retreats that involved as part of the experience, doing a walking meditation…basically being with nature while going deep into feeling and the self. I’m wanting to do re-visioning work with men to help bring awareness about who we are at our core as men and then how we can change old learned behaviors to better match that essential core….and that has no art involved..except the art of holding space so a group feels comfortable enough to work through these issues. But still, art is therapeutic no matter HOW you stack it….music, dance, sculpting, painting…even drumming. Did you know certain rhythmic cycles of sound were used to assist people to enter alternate states of awareness? Music moves us, and the rhythm of a drum has been a shamanic tool since forever.
When I awoke, I lost family members. They were quite abusive emotionally. So hard. And yet, I have found more and more peace…they just weren’t there….how could they be. It’s a great teaching when you can embrace it all with compassion and mercy and love instead of hurt. But I don’t need to tell you, you already probably know this. It’ll come in time if it hasn’t already. This is a lot of change in a very short period of time. It’s far too precious a gift to use it dwelling on hard things. I know it’s not easy.
When I was young I played the piano, drew and built houses with my Legos. When I turned 19 I started my spiritual journey and I’ve been keeping a journal ever since. Writing is the art I am most familiar with. I love playing with words.
My brother was a drummer, so drumming just irritates me. But I flirted with binaural beats a few years ago and yeah, I experienced altered states of awareness with that.
I always feel like running away from my loved ones. My biggest challenge is staying with them. I cannot say that they are emotionally abusive, there’s just not receptive to anything spiritual (outside of church). They even frown at the word “consciousness” because it sounds New Age therefore it’s evil according to them. So I keep to myself. My time and energy is spent trying not to forget who I really am and acting accordingly, keeping my mouth shut as much as possible.
I wrote a lot since my awakening and played video games to escape physical reality. Today I blog and at this moment I’m writing to you.
Thanks for listening. I’ll be okay, I have very close transparent friends in a nearby dimension. 🙂
I feel ya! Totally get what you mean. Great leaders ruffle feathers on the path to shifting awareness. You aren’t alone.