To: K-list
Recieved: 2001/12/05 04:10
Subject: [K-list] kundalini?
From: Nick Sandberg

I'm only an occasional visitor to this fascinating group, but I thought I'd
share a bit of my own personal k experience, as I found a rather different
way of looking at it than from the traditional Hindu perspective.

I had a pretty full-on k awakening in Thailand in '94 which went away,
unrecognized, for a number of years then kind of progressively re-asserted
itself in my life.

I read all the regular books once I'd realized, through a series of chance
meetings, that I was probably experiencing the effects of kundalini -
Sannella, White, Gopi Krishna, Woodroffe - and tried meditation and hanging
around ashrams. It was very interesting stuff - learning about enlightenment
and devotion - but it didn't seem to really make my daily life any easier.
One real problem I had was that my ego loved all the stuff that was going on
with me - I was experiencing major internal energy shifts and mini
explosions of light in my head, not to mention psychic channels being
switched on like radio stations - but all this stuff just sent me more and
more into my head.

I had a lot of "issues" from childhood (I was separated from my mother
shortly after I was born) and the effect of my so-called kundalini
experience seemed to be to bring all this stuff to the surface where it just
made my day-to-day life a hell. I eventually worked out that I just needed
to do therapy where I could just work on my issues and forget about
kundalini.

I started doing different therapies in London, from trad, talking stuff to
the more New Age colourpuncture and Tibetan pulsing. This seemed to have
some effect but I still felt myself overly burdened by all the emotions I
was repressing inside and the spiritual experience I seemed to be undergoing
was still merrily bringing stuff up en masse. After a fair bit of searching
I eventually came upon the approach I'm still with - a therapist training
programme in Dorset, England. They do a lot of in-your-face group work, esp
bioenergetics, encounter and primal.

Things are going pretty well. I have good relationships with people. I still
get up to psychic stuff and can merrily spend hours in bed watching all the
fireworks and fractals whirling around my visual field, but I don't need to
focus on this stuff.

Anyway, I'm posting all this just to point out that whilst the Hindu
perspective is great, it's not the only one. You don't actually need to say
' this person's having a kundalini experience' to help them move along,
though for sure it can be reassuring to be able to put it in a box when it's
coming on and you're scared.

Kundalini seems to just brings one's stuff to the surface, you can go at it
with meditation and subtle body stuff at a higher dimensional level or you
can do it with encounter therapy and bioenergetics in good old 3D.

all the best

Nick

http://www.kundalini-gateway.org

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