Kundalini Activation Goes Mainstream?
Or are people playing with (watered down) fire?
In response to a Vice article.
It's difficult for me to accept that what many people are calling Kundalini activation is really that. Like paying a couple thousand dollars and taking a course for a couple months to become certified, as thousands of people around the world have now done, is real.
Look, in India people would seek a guru and serve them for years to prove themselves before they would be initiated. And even then there was no guarantee that anything would happen for them. And certainly the years of effort didn't mean they could then share with others.
I practiced yoga for 18 years and then had a near death experience that tore apart my life and took years to recover from, and in some ways I will never be the same, and that's what started my Kundalini awakening. It was painful and vicious and indescribable and illogical and and and...
And I can see how that Kali energy (destruction) was changing all the things, habits, beliefs that needed to change. Abruptly despite my struggles and stubbornness to not want to change.
I was prepared for the experience but also I wasn't.
I didn't even know what Kundalini was until I was deep in the process, and having a "spiritual experience".
To think that someone would go to a class and pay $40 to start that kind of process is insane.
And yet I can also believe that everything is energy. And Kundalini awakening is a actually a natural and healthy process. The pain comes from the removal of what isn't healthy.
I can also believe that we are at a point where consciousness is ready to be tipped past the point of normalcy. That the insanity of politics and health care and food systems and other systems of control have gone far from what is healthy.
I see Kundalini as a framework that describes and assists with the natural flow of energy and elevated consciousness. And my experience, and what I often hear from others, is it is not something to be approached casually. Because big shifts can occur.
That's why it's important to have a solid foundation before approaching any powerful energetic practices such as Kundalini. And ideally to have a support system in place.
I was taught how to awaken Kundalini in others. What is known as Shaktipat. I didn't learn this from a course. It came to me from a master, a direct transmission, from a lineage, in a rather surprising way. I set the intention and then the circumstances came together.
Still I'm hesitant to awaken Kundalini for just anyone. There is an intake process. You must be ready for anything.
