Hi David,

Thanks for the feedback. Yes I realise Kundalini energy is to be respected. However, this IS the energy of ascension and needs to be mastered if we are to continue on our evolutionary path. That's what Openhand Meditation is all about. The energy is released and then channeled into the body rather than straight upwards. If the energy goes straight upwards, you get peak experiences which can also be very dangerous.

However, if the energy is channeled into the body, the effect is not nearly so dramatic because the energy 'illuminates our darkness' and catalyses it's transformation - so the power is used up. Only when the mind and body are pure and balanced does the energy flow straight through the body and THEN upwards. Hence the practitioner can deal comfortably with the kundalini energy and it becomes a part of daily life.

That's why I would encourage daily practice of Openhand Meditation or some other similar artform.

Cheers

Chris

Hi David,

I find it really interesting to hear of your experiences. When I was 20 years old I had a major spiritual awakening - no labels to define it, no one to talk to - so I just carried on with life as usual - except I was looking at the world with a completely different awareness. I experienced a bolt of light energy through my body, and shot right through my head as a fountain of light... my entire being became emersed in divine light, and the world literally fell away from me. The experience gave me a powerful dose of reality (erm.. as opposed to illusion that I'd been saturated in!), and a direct experience and connection with the truth. As you say - it is mind blowing... and integration in the world that we know can be somewhat challenging. I fully experienced the oneness of all things! I mean - yes this is most divine and beautiful, but it presents a vast array of challenges. It meant that my levels of compassion skyrocketed.. any lack of compassion on my part meant a torturous pain in my heart. I felt it with remarkable intensity - the suffering and pain of Mother Earth and the creatures and animals we share the planet with. My awareness of the 'oneness' was so prevalent that I fully felt the suffering of the planet and creatures around me with ferocious intensity. Eventually, I learnt to integrate this to the point where it became a most beautiful way of life.

It was an incredible gift, that has guided me to be of 'service'. Life is truly amazing.. but only when I allow the natural flow of the universe to guide me in each given moment (the degree of peace in my heart is always a great indication of whether or not one is flowing with oneness of all).

I wholeheartedly agree with you - it is not just always a pretty picture. The challenges of integration consistently brought me right in to the centre of my heartspace, and still do to this day.

In Love and Light
Trin

I agree with Chris, but I also realize that not everyone gets the choice on how to handle the Kundalini energy. For me, about a year ago I noticed that in meditation some power was forcing my head back. I began to regularly clear my chakras then one day the energy on its own flowed and stopped at all 7 chakras. It would expand in the chakra, contract and then expand again in a soft blossom of light. I began to initiate this every day in meditation. I think it helped to clear out a lot of junk, and one day I noticed that it wanted to stop at a spot between my heart and throat chakras, right around my collar bones. It opened up an 8th chakra there I never knew existed. Then after about 6 months of this I felt an inner need to move on. So I began a Kundalini meditation where my goal was to work the energy up to the crown chakra and to clear out any blockage along the way. It was what I am still doing, although I can feel most of the blockage gone new challenges await at every new meditation.

I have no one to guide me with this, so I pretty much do it all from an inner compass. I've heard people give all kinds of advice, but I think ones Kundalini experience is as individual as the person and there really is no one way to go through it.

Hi Tom,

Welcome to Openhand and thank you for sharing. Following our own inner compasss is the most powerful way of all! I agree that each experience is unique.

That reminds me of a sharing I made last year of a full blown kundalini awakening that I had a few years back here.
http://www.openhandweb.org/03_06_09_a_full_blown_kundalini_awakening_my_...

Warm regards
Trinity

Thank you, Trinity. I'm at an odd juncture in my Kundalini meditation these days. I get to a point where I've broken through the blockages and send the energy straight through the crown chakra, and gone through several levels. I cannot feel the top of my head anymore and it opens up into what seems to be a black vacuum. My consciousness feels bendy, like anything including the Kundalini energy loses shape and direction. there is no longer a way to feel or to direct it. It kind of expands out and goes to my heart chakra. I cooperate and open it up and the white light within goes off into the blackness. then I will end the meditation by calling on Omega to draw the Alpha energy I'd expanded out in meditation, chakra by chakra, beginning with the crown, and it is as if the top half of my head is being layered back on and all the rest of it goes to where Omega has determined it should.

this is alot different that what I expected. I thought I would break through to higher and brighter levels, maybe someday experiencing unity consciousness. I don't know. maybe it will change again to something else.

Tom

In essence kundalini energy is formless, so I not surprised that it is losing apparent shape or direction. Any concept of shape is illusionary in the first place.

Kundalini energy is everywhere. It is a flow. Many people believe that we can control it. The truth is we can't - our invitation is to simply align with it. When we are aligned with it, we experience the 'downward' flow of Unity Consciousness and the interconnectedness of all things as a way of being. It happens when we have gone into and unraveled all of those contractions in which we are identified.

My experience with this energy, is that if we 'move out of the way', it will flow wherever it is meant to thereby illuminating those aspects of ourselves that are holding back our journey.

It can be helpful to meditate without expectation or direction. Higher Consiousness will then guide us, move the energy and take us wherever we need to go. Simply watch, experience and surrender into the process. Contrary to popular belief, it's not always 'light and roses' either! If we have an idea that we should experience 'this', 'that' or 'the other' then we are mis-aligned with the flow of energy even before we start.

Yes I totally agree with you Trin. In any case, if we are truly connecting to Kundalini energy, the experience is of there simply being no one controlling or shaping anything. There is simply crystal clear clarity of the Seer and an experience arising from that.

Another mis-conception is that we can activate kundalini simply by meditation when in truth, we have to do much inner purification first and then true kundalini is activated as we strip away the conditioning of day to day life.

It's only when we've cleared the emotional body, gone deep into subconscious mind, and then dissolved the inner child and teenager identities that true kundalini activation can happen.

It is possible to circumvent this process with meditation and all kind of 'spiritual' process but this can be dangerously destabilising, ungrounding and diversionary if not aligned with a step-by-step inner purification and clearance.

During the elevation of our vibration in this way, it is highly likely that we'll feel shifts of energy up the spine, but it's not until ego identification has truly 'bitten the dust' that unfettered kundalini energy will flow.

Then it is simply the case of allowing the energy to move us as it will. All attempts to control it will simply lead to the embodiment of further shadow identities.

Chris