The more I move along in this, the more I come to the powerful conclusion that what we call awakening or kundalini (that’s a verb, you know) is in fact what we are wired for. See, in the not-so far-past, this “thing” which someone like U.G. Krishnamurti had, or that Gopi Krishna experienced while seeking to raise it at home, was once a very rare event or phenomenon. There were very few people on the planet who “had” this elusive, perhaps esoteric thing going on. Now, we are absolutely in a new day. People by the thousands, literally, are awakening in what I determine is nothing short of a watershed event. And it is none too soon! What is happening, though, is what I observe to be what the ancients talked about with a good degree of aplomb using their vocabulary-set of the times. Jesus and his disciples spoke of “the left and the right” in context to the trinity, the force of the two who joined to create the third. While mainline Christianity deemed these texts that spoke so clearly of the awakening experience heretical, they persist as excellent examples of what Jesus spoke of as being The Kingdom. And I don’t mean to suggest something tentative or thinly laid, but rather a whole series of documents, most of them lost for centuries and recently rediscovered by scholars. The Taoists, the Hindus as well as the Mystery School initiates were all on to the same thing. And what was this? With my own voice added to the mix, it was nothing short of a top to bottom merging of both consciousness and physiology, all of which serve to support awakening.
The secret is dissolving what divides you. Its less a science as poetry and art. Art is not easy, but does bring grace, and this makes it all effortless. So a little backstory, explanation, of what I now call an “epiphany talk” I had with the force that was is in me and “talks” to me since my awakening. It is more that I merge deeply into its presence, deep into the energy, and find that anything I am interested in arises into my awareness with an amazing vividness, much like a movie or dream- while awake. In an odd sort of twist, I came across the words of Edgar Cayce who described how he “did” what he did, and while he went into trance, I found that my perhaps-lighter trance state was similar in how he described it. It was, in fact, what I had been doing whenever I found myself in the grip of a great inspired moment when making art. Okay….
When I sat on that late August night two years ago on my porch, I felt the presence of this familiar force alive in me, a force that has what I often feel is a consciousness all its own but that I know is an extension of myself, the higher self. And on that night it wanted to show me something because I had been puzzling over the linkage between body and cosmic consciousness. What it showed me was that the force of energy that is beyond the body yet also within it coheres to the electromagnetic field in the body. Think of this as like how we beam signals and information using radio waves. Talk and text and images, all travel astride this energy which our devices then decode. Our bodies, our nervous system and brain as well as our bodies are amazing devices of a soft sort that are expertly capable of decoding information that travels within our bodies and even beyond it. Our heart, which pumps iron rich blood, is creating electricity through this activity in the same way the earth generates electricity when the molten iron rich core moves within it. In fact, physicists have discovered that we can generate massive amounts of electricity by circulating molten metal within a cavity. So it is not so strange to see how the body is creating a much lower level of energy which is expressed as electricity that the nervous system uses to convey information throughout the body as nerve signals. It’s all electricity and it is all being expertly decoded by our brains and felt by our bodies. Electromagnetic fields are the result of this electricity as electricity and electromagnetism are two sides of the same coin! Cool, right? But hang on! These fields also have a polarity. Our bodies also have a polarity. Even the Chinese observed this and called it Yin and Yang. Just like a magnet, just like the sun and earth. For us, this field shields us from life killing plasma from the sun. We would be dead within weeks without it. It is also why Mars is a dead planet; no more molten activity in its core (although it has the largest volcano yet found in our solar system!). So I was pondering all of this and I was shown in the usual fashion what this force in me wanted to show me or reveal, which is how in our bodies RIGHT NOW there is a current of energy moving in us that moves from one polarity to another. Where this energy merges is where the Hindu describe as being the crown chakra, the placed that is supposedly where cosmic consciousness flowers (so they say; I have a different opinion and experience….but for now, its good enough for what I am trying to get across). In the body, there is this flip that happens, where one energy pole merges into the other. This is union. It is also, this presence said, what explains why one hemisphere controls the other side of the body. It was, it said, this way to ensure that the two merged. The left and right brains are mirrors of the yin and yang energies. They cohere closely to aspects present within both. Some call this the divine masculine and feminine, but in a larger scope, these are aspects that are within each person and is not in any real way aligned to our sexuality or sexual orientation. In fact, the idea that there is a man and a woman within us might seem a little silly. This is simply that there is a higher order energy that is not so focused in our physical operations that is focused at this slightly higher dimension. It carries qualities that COULD be called masculine and feminine and DO most certainly connect into those archetypes for people so focused, but it’s not a rule as far as I can tell. It just can help you to relate to these opposite ends of yourself……which is itself a mirror of all the things that are in the universe. The yin and yang are themselves a reflection, I say, of the Tao, that formless thing that is within everything. It is in the atoms (neg and positive) it is in energy (neg and pos. poles) and it is in us….in the atoms in our bodies, and in our electrical field you can also call the aura. This energy can be seen or perceived even by those who have caught on to how to do it. I have been reading fields since I was 18 and there is simply no doubt that our consciousness rides upon a very real and perceptible field of energy. In fact, it really isn’t so hard to learn to see auras. You can find the simple exercises all over the net and they are all about the same.   I first saw them when my mind was emptied….which led me to being open to my natural present ability to pick them up. Seeing this field before you can be life changing in the sense that it creates a tangible sense of awareness that we are more than just bodies, atoms, and mere electrical activity.
This energy does this flip, and this is where union takes place, so they say. What I experienced was that this union takes place at the atomic level and happens the moment awakening takes place. SOme will say they did not “raise” their kundalini correctly, but my experience was that the very force OF kundalini WAS defacto union. It is like trying to raise only positive energetic force; the positive does not exist without the negative as its counterbalance. They are, like electrical fields and magnetic fields, two sides of the same coin. So knowing all of this, what is the difference between one who is awakened and one who is not? Simple; division cognitively and emotionally. When you can remove enough competing material within you, you literally remove the blocks in your field of awareness and your field of energy that allows for a greater flow of energy to happen. Question is, where is the tipping point where awakening will happen? It could be that childbirth could spark it, with its rich bed of hormones helping to mirror many of the cosmic elements that take place in awakening. That could help support awakening, and this has been known to happen. Sometimes a stressor happens that can stir it. Sometimes a simple meditation, or a series of meditations can do it. For me, I triggered awakening by simply resolving a long-standing issue that had me tied up in knots. By letting it go, releasing it, awakening began to gather force. How my awakening unfurled, though, was by no means text book. it is why I write; there are many ways we can awaken and you ought not be put off by what others have to say about it. You KNOW something has been triggered and is a horse of an entirely different color! For me, I was able to observe this force in me without knowing it was kundalini. I was able to see it for what it was before doing reading on it.
What I know now is that our bodies and our consciousness itself coheres to a model of energetic polarities that will take me beyond the body and into the body of the universe, into cosmic consciousness, a kind of vast network so unbelievably complex that it boggles the mind, but delights the soul. By moving beyond concepts of the self as separate, we can begin to glimpse and then embody greater volumes of awareness here and now. It is nothing less than knowing heaven on earth. And for an earthling like me, that is a pretty huge inspirational experience!
So dissolve division. What divides you is what keeps your awareness from settling into the natural pattern of the left and the right, the yin and the yang…..the left side of the body carries the yin and the right carries the yang. They are constantly merging and commingling all throughout their current-journey through your body. And they move with the speed of light, so the idea that kundalini “rises” is itself merely an effect the body registers as a result of this realization, most likely the potentiating of the energy in the body so that more cosmic juice can now flow. And how it feels? If you surrender to it, it is pure bliss. This very fine energy called Qi (Chi) or Prana is bliss when we strip ourselves of notions and beliefs that do not serve a direct approach to it. In fact, beliefs can serve to distort it, and over time, the energy will tend to show you a better way (to the degree that you make yourself available—note: some of us are notoriously hard-headed!). I do know that the action, the verb that is kundalini, is itself a churning effect in my being and it shakes out the chaff. Bit by bit emotional blocks are dissolved that have impeded the flow of energy. The less I have in the way, the more it flows. Perfect. And if you are blocked and kundalini rises, the force will help to clear you (again, to the degree that you make yourself available!).
So what stands in your way? What bothers you? What irks you? Realize that something in the world is just what it is; what bothers you is not because of the thing you see, it is because of YOU. I know, great injustice bothers us, as it rightly ought to do, but what I mean is that too often, what gets at us is less about another as what is in us. You may not realize this at first, but in each instance where something bothered me, it ALWAYS led right back to….you guessed it; me.  And it is up to me to simply see the thing AS IT IS. When I do that, I realize that it is because I expect it to be different than what it is. Someone who has a crazy outlook about the world is simply working their life where they are. They are a work in progress, and why should I make an argument about that. Wasn’t I at a place similar to that at one time, too? So then I am free to be more neutral and realize that this is how the world is. Otherwise, its just a bunch of energy wastage. Let it go. Find your peace. If you have guilt, resolving that guilt or that shame is a huge issue. In one of the lesser known early Christian books that didn’t make it into the mainstream Bible, Jesus was asked how one is able to know this kingdom. He explained that when you can trample the cloak of your shame like a child naked, then you can see the kingdom. ANd this is perfect, really, because shame and guilt all serve as anchors that weigh our souls down and keep us from being able to embody the incredible lightness of being that is part of this experience. One very good way of coming face to face with your energy is through stillness of mind, turning inward (not looking outward) and concentrating on your breath. Prana is coincident with your breath, and when you focus on breath, you are also focusing coincidentally on your energy. If you stay with your slow and steady breath, you will find yourself feeling very different. This is the leading edge of something really quite big.
While some will caution about awakening, as if it is some dangerous thing, I take a different view; this is our native state which we have fallen away from. What gets in the way of our awakening is NOT kundalini but ourselves. Us! When you learn the art of surrender, it becomes much easier. When I was ready for more, kundalini obliged and poured it on….so strong in fact, that I went into a kind of spiral that was very difficult for me, but ultimately led to a place where I felt something crushed in me. Once this took place, a kind of cognitive collapse, I realized I had experienced what was described (very poorly I must admit) as the much-feared “ego death.” It is a real misnomer, because what took place was more a rearranging of my inner landscape so ego was not front and center. Also, while I know that the psychological community has their own ideas about it, I have observed that ego corresponds to that part of ourselves that observe objects as separate within space. This level of cognition corresponds, I will point out, to the left brain. I have reached a place where I have observed that when I am most creative and working in my right brain (being an artist, this has not been hard to observe many many times!), that I have a corresponding suspension of ego as I feel myself move into this large space where what I am is…different. I am more fluid and the idea of ego is less important. Ego is still there, it is always there, but its just not rigidly held within awareness. Anyone who claims to have killed ego is just kidding themselves. Even the most known of people who have gone through this all have ego after. In the Gospel of Phillip Jesus even describes this collapse of the self, a kind of “destruction” after which the self achieves an uncanny power to make mountains move. And of course, this all makes sense, because by letting the ego step aside, we are embracing the waveform, not the particle side of our awareness. The left brain is focused on individual things, like particles, while the right brain can focus on the wave. The left brain is a linear processor of information, which makes it limited, while the right brain, we now know, can process vast amounts of information in nano-seconds! People who have had their left brains impaired have discovered savant-like abilities. And this all makes perfect sense, because the right brain can take billions of particles, ideas, or visual information and process it very quickly. We have needed both sides of this coin in ourselves in order to deal with reality. The problem for us is that we have tended to be very left-brained as a species. This, though, is changing, and as this changes more, the merging of the left with the right will result in more awakenings. This is what we call divine union. It exists within yourself! Here! Now!
So. As I said in the last post, I do not get to write much lately. I am getting this off just so you know I am still active, I simply am doing other things and concentrating on myself. It is so easy to get caught up in what is “out there” and forget the work that one needs to do…..and you would be surprised how much more clearly the picture resolves when you do that! The compass is within each of us. Each of us must find it ourselves. But it IS within you. And while kundalini yoga might seem the way to go, the way is far more simple than all of that. Your belief, which will govern and control your actions and what you choose to do, can keep you from discovering just how simple, how foundational, actually, this experience is. Perhaps it is because it is so simple that it has evaded our notice. That, though, is changing fast!
So you made it this far; one word that needs to be kept in mind because without it, this can be empty words: LOVE. Seeking the highest, you will tend to find it. Love to you.
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