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Recieved: 1999/11/29 04:57
Subject: Various personality disturbances (was Re: Re: [K-list] Hospital
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On 1999/11/29 04:57, a list member posted thus to the K-list:
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, BreadCasters wrote:
> I am concerned that attempts to distinguish between 'actual psychosis'
> and 'kundalini-related effects' may be misguided efforts to place the
> 'k-enlightened' in a special group, somehow apart from and perhaps
> better than those suffering from 'actual mental illness'. In my case, I
That is just what people do. When you have gone through the heap of shit
that is the first stage of kundalini, you like to think that you are over
it, you have "transcended" it, etc. When the path unfolds, one's brain is
changed permanently (in a more fundamental manner than how it changes
every millisecond or so).
Any deviation from the norm is commonly labelled as insanity (a negative
thing), not recognizing the possible positive outcome. They say that
insane people can "recover", and be "almost as well off" as previously...
if someone seems to be better off when "insane", it must be delusional as
nothing can possibly be better than being normal.
> had a spontaneous and overwhelming K-awakening in 1981 (which cured my
> panic attacks), nearly eight years before my hospitalization for acute
> psychosis. There is no question that the two were related. But that
It seems that k seems to more readily awaken in people who have some
personality traits that seem to predispose one to psychosis. A notion
about this is in the translated article about kundalini I posted a while
back
An example: I used to be quite unsocial, shy, perfectionist geek with
interest in psychedelics. Additionally, my grandmother is schizophrenic. I
guess that could serve as a textbook example of a personality type that is
vulnerable to psychoses.
Excerpt from "Kundalini for the whole Family - the Friendly book":
"I used to be like this, but now I'm totally changed. Now I have realized
what a drag dealing with people can be, and prefer to avoid other people
whenever possible. Nowadays my ego is tiny, and I don't really have any
ambitions at all. I don't want much, what I need I already have. The idea
is to be insane, but with style. Thank you, Kundalini." <The glossy color
picture of a smiling face deleted>
</sarcasm>
> doesn't mean that I wasn't mentally ill - clearly, by definition, I
> was. I view all mental illness, whether obviously K-related or not, as
> spiritual illness. Awakening of K is a vital and necessary part of
I don't believe in spiritual illness. When one's brain is feeling unwell,
it's just that. Spirit (in the sense I understand it) can't possibly be
ill, since it is not dependent on our bodily frame, or our existence (or
the existence of universe, for that matter) at all. This is the "eternal
spirit". There is no "soul" that could be ill. It's the brain all the
time.
Insane people have no less "value" than normal people, because all life
that exists has the same value: zero (hello, you conscientious vegetarians
;-). Giving any value to any form of life leads to a pile of philosophical
garbage that collapses with a mere glance.
> overall healing and return to the Source. In some, it happens suddenly,
> with the potential to overwhelm the psyche; in others, it may happen so
> gradually that they are not even aware of it. Regardless, I am
I wonder what kind of K leaves the person unaware of its existence...
> convinced it will eventually lead all of us (whether in this incarnation
> or another), including those diagnosed with 'actual mental illness', to
> discover who we really are.
And, equally importantly, to face the realization without fear.
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