Kundalini Awakening - Spiritual Signs And Symptoms

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Various visual depictions of enlightenment and/or awakened chakra or subtle energy system function. See more pics here.

This page presents links to entries regarding kundalini awakening and other signs and symptoms of spiritual awakening.

Note that this is an autobiographical website describing the various experiences and perceptions of one person. It is not meant to be an exhaustive accounting of what characterizes "spiritual awakening." For broader, briefer, and more inclusive treatments of this pheonomenon, I refer you to the writings of El Collie posted at Kundalini Gateway (*) and Zone of Fire (*) and to lists of symptoms at Namaste Cafe, Gaia (*), Our Light Body (*), Thought Catalog (*), and Spirilution (*).

For an even better overview of this complex topic, let me offer some additional resources: Wikipedia's pages on Kundalini (*) and Kundalini: The Evolutionary Energy in Man (*); Shalom Place's forum on Kundalini Issues and Spiritual Emergencies (*); Advanced Yoga Practices' (*) forum page on kundalini (*); Knowledge of Reality's page on Historical Sources & Knowledge of Kundalini (*); Lawrence Edwards' Answers to Kundalini Questions; my mirror of Bob Boyd's page on kundalini complications; and my spiritual links page (presently offline) for a broad range of spiritual topics and websites, with personal commentary.

Some classic texts in the field of kundalini are: Arthur Avalon's The Serpent Power - The Secrets Of Tantric And Shaktic Yoga (*); Georg Feuerstein's Tantra - Path Of Ecstasy (*); Lama Thubten Yeshe's Introduction to Tantra - The Transformation of Desire (*); The Yoga Tradition - Its History, Literature, Philosophy and Practice, also by Feuerstein; Kundalini, Evolution and Enlightenment, edited by John White; Gopi Krishna's Kundalini: The Evolutionary Energy in Man; Mircea Eliade's Yoga - Immortality And Freedom; Kundalini Tantra by Swami Satyananda Saraswati; and Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa's Kundalini Rising - Exploring the Energy of Awakening. In the months preceding my own awakening in the fall of 1985, I read Eliade's and Krishna's books listed above, taking their words very much to heart.

If you are pursuing the "kundalini experience," then you need to make sure your emotional and mental discriminative faculties are sharp, as there are many charismatic "teachers" in this area who are potent -- but un-enlightened -- "subtle energy channelers." Such teachers are still beholden to the subtle ego (cf. Wikipedia [*]), and frequently act abusively -- sexually, financially, emotionally, and spiritually -- toward their students. See also M. Alan Kazlev's (*) pages on Abusive Guru Phenomenon (*), Guru Test (*), and Intermediate Zone (*). The fact that they transmit spiritual force only heightens the danger and abusiveness of their behavior. The damage these incomplete would-be masters cause is longer lasting and harder to heal from than mere physical injury, because the damage is intertwined with your understanding of -- and relationship to -- "God" itself. As to how someone could be a vehicle for the Holy Spirit, yet have such a problemmatic impact is chastening, to say the least. It points to the subtle realm as being potentially just as dangerous and challenging to navigate as the material realm itself.

To help you unpack all the "the-world-is-going-to-end," "worship-our-leader-as-God," "surrender-your-children-and-money-to-our-Enlightened-Master" cultic garbage being sold to people as authentic spiritual revelation, please check out the following sites before joining any particular group. The Cult Education Institute (*) has some brilliant moderators who are well acquainted with many of the kundalini awakened spiritual predators out there. Their links page (*) has an alphabetical listing of hundreds of destructive cults with references for further investigation; groups range from Daism and Amway to Mormonism, TM, and Scientology. Even if a group does not rise to the level of full-fledged "cult," there is often a dark side to the organization's history and practices that won't be revealed in its glossy introductory literature. The participants do a thorough job researching and posting information regarding the often untold story of a particular group's controlling and cultic behavior.

Please also do a web search for "religious cults." You will find numerous articles and exposes of various groups selling their own brands of spiritual knowledge and the often complex (and controlling!) organizational structures that attend them. For example, here is IndieWire's piece, "13 Cults and Secretive Religions, and the Best Documentaries About Each" (*), and The Atlantic's "The Seven Signs That You’re in a Cult" (*).

Having stated that you must exercise caution in the realm of the "Divine," and that religious groups can impede rather than facilitate spiritual growth, it is important to stress that maintaining the qualities of openness and trust are critical for success on the path. In my case, however, this was mostly with respect to the interior workings of the Holy Spirit / Kundalini, rather than an external Father Figure or Guide. Still, discernment is needed in all areas, so the whole affair is a tricky matter. I've always had a basic mistrust of groups, but a strong connection to my own intuition or "inner voice." But if you've had yours buried by years of neglect or abuse, what do you do? If you join a group, you will likely reproduce the same suffering you experienced before. My suggestion is to focus on books, videos, and audios; and combine this with a life aimed at interior inquiry, emotional and spiritual aspiration, and good works. Eat, live, and treat others well; and seek to maximize your spiritual conductivity or, as I like to call it, vital force. A healthy body is an essential foundation for high realization. This whole endeavor is energetically taxing, so you must be prepared. You will become wiser, more healthful, and perhaps even "enlightened" in this manner.

In proceeding at this website I assume that you've already acquired a broad understanding of the various forms through which Kundalini/Holy Spirit is awakened in the human body, and that you will be able to locate my own experiences within this wider context.

I suggest your reading three particular experiential accounts of mine before delving into the many other posts at this site. My thymus gland speaks is a good introductory piece. After that, perhaps you should check out my heart chakra opens essay; then, for a good example of my daily logs, please read my post for October 31, 1994. After familiarizing yourself with these experiential accounts, please take a few minutes to consider my more involved electromagnetic field/ kundalini/ spiritual transfiguration argument contained in the website summary on the home page, as well as the guide page [make link].

If you would still like more information, please read the chapters in my spiritual autobiography which are entries pulled from pages throughout this site, and which I feel provide a good overview of my beliefs and experiences. It may be the case that some of the better and more optimistic posts are my tape transcriptions from 1994, a period prior to my path's hitting the serious turbulence posed by manmade EMF.

Please note that though electrical sensitivity is becoming an increasingly well-established condition, there is little consensus among authorities -- apart from El Collie in her essay Supercharged (my mirror here)-- that it is associated with kundalini.

Please also note that though I am "kundalini awakened," I am not "enlightened." For two explanatory posts, please check out a sample symptoms description from 2003, and my response to someone who desired to relate to me as an authentic guru.

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Good Introductory Blog Posts

November 17, 2002 (Heart Chakra Opening - Kundalini's Descent - Kundalini Awakening - Descending Force / Current -- or The Awakening of Kundalini's Descending Force - The Heart Chakra Opens)

March 14, 2002: Kundalini's Awakening (Kundalini Awakening - Spiritual Yearning - Heartfelt Desire - Manifesting Aspirations - Love Versus Asceticism - Heat - Vow Of Service)

February 8, 2003 (Central Nervous System Irritability After Kundalini's Awakening)

December 4, 1996 (Why I Don't Discuss "God" With People)

October 8, 1997 (Thymus Gland - Spiritual Voice - Peace - Sublime Feelings --- or The Thymus Gland Speaks -- My First Contact with a Transcendent Peace)

August 20, 2002 (Spiritual Intuition - Good Judgment - Inner Voice - Critical Thinking - Aspirations - Mind - Clear Connection - or Thinking Critically, Thinking Spiritually)

September 6, 2002 (Inspirational Development - Transcendent Bodymind - Human Capacity For Limitlessness - The Spiritual Imperative Of A Fulifilling Childhood -- or Protective Sheath -- The Product of a Safe and Fulfilling Childhood)

September 23, 2002 (Energy Fields - Subtle Energy - Spiritual Communion - Tangible Relationship - Physical Validation --- or A Tangible Texturing of Energy Fields)

November 3, 2002 (Pituitary Gland - Endocrine System - Harmonization - Tuning Fork - Spiritual Vibration - Thymus Gland - Kundalini --- or Harmonization of the Pituitary and Thymus Glands -- The Tuning Fork)

November 8, 2002 (Spiritual Transfiguration - Creation's Purpose - God's Intention - Duality - Pure Consciousness - Evolution - Fulfillment - Divine - Universe - Explosion - Dark Matter - Life)