ROBERT J.R. GRAHAM: Kundalini

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Wednesday, 3 September 2014

There is an important energy in each of us centered in the tail bone area. Usually this energy functions on a low level and we don’t notice it consciously. This energy is much stronger in case of certain peak experiences, life and death situations or periods of major change in our lives. What does this energy do? Combined with other energies (in our food and from the earth, sun, the air, spiritual realms etc.), it forms an essential part of our life. Without kundalini there is no life! It has an essential function in the formation, development and changes of our bodies during our entire life. It can both reinforce our emotions and mental concentration and also disturb these! On a spiritual level, it can lead to peak experiences and can help to realise moments of unity with our Self and the God within (the enlightenment experience). If we start developing the kundalini energy in a conscious way, ‘doors keep opening’ in our spiritual development and new areas for healing and spiritual attunement become available. Step by step the aura reader and healer will discover new possibilities in treating his or her clients.

Seven levels of awakening

In the development of kundalini in the body, seven levels or stages of awakening can be distinguished. In each level the kundalini has its own pattern of energy. On the first level, for example, the kundalini flows mostly in the energy body as a quiet and, if not disturbed, often pleasant energy. On the second level the kundalini starts flowing as fountains of energy. The fountain can flow in the body but can also flow out of our crown chakra and hands. Peak experiences in which we have the feeling that everything in us and around us ‘flows’ involve often this second level of kundalini activity. On higher levels of kundalini awakening the energy becomes more intense and also the flow pattern of the energy changes. By doing certain energy excercises it is possible to develop the kundalini gradually and to master higher levels of awakened kundalini.

Other levels of kundalini activation

Mastery of the seven levels of kundalini activation frees the way to other ways of kundalini arousal. One important way is for instance the “decurling” of the 3 1/2 winding in the kundalini centres. This too can contribute to a process of continuing spiritual development and exploring the ultimate source within.

New possibilities in spiritual development

One of the fascinating things is that during this awakening process new elements of our spiritual self become disclosed. Examples of these processes include: making the vital life forces more conscious, discovering the memory stores of this life and other lives, becoming aware of what happens during our sleep, the origin and functions of our subpersonalities, the role of kundalini in conception and gestation of the human embryo, the field of power we can radiate with kundalini energy, the causal energy bodies, the seats of the soul, experiences of unity and so on. All of them contribute to a deeper understanding and knowing of who we are. It allows also to meet our fellow human beings at a more deeper, more essential level.

Discovery journey

Someone who starts developing his or her kundalini energy in a conscious way with meditative excercises, aurahealing and, if possible, aurareading embarkes on a mystical discovery journey in the world of spiritual healing and development.

Kundalini Meditation

Sit or lie down in a private, safe space (bathtub is fine). Bring all your attention to your breath. As you breathe out, imagine waves flowing out of you with your breath. Breathe out waves of water, of energy, of color, of sound. Allow these waves to flow out of you. Notice where you are tensing, pushing, trying to make the waves happen. And let go, let the waves flow out easily with your breath. Feel the gentle pulsations of the waves deep inside yourself. Feel every cell of your being pulsing peacefully and joyfully with these waves. When you are ready, begin to draw in red vibrations with your inhalation. Envision yourself filling up with glowing, sparkling, swirling, hot, steaming red. Feel fast spirals of red boiling inside; feel slow vortices of red churning inside. Then breathe out and feel the red flowing out of you in waves. Dissolve into the waves as you breathe out. With each inhalation, increase the intensity, sharpen the sensation of red: let it be hotter, richer, deeper, more vivid, more consuming. Inhale sun-ripened tomato flesh, sweet cherry juice dribbling down your chin, a sudden flush of menstrual blood blossoming on your clothes. Inhale the seething red sun as it sets into a heaving red sea. Inhale the essence of red roses. Inhale the color of strawberries, the scent of raspberries, the sensation of red satin. Inhale red. Then breathe it all out. Pause. Feel the emptiness. Inhale red. Say, out loud or silently: “Sometimes I get upset.” Blow out any remaining air as though you were blowing out a candle. Pause. Breathe in red and say again: “Sometimes I get upset.” Blow. Pause. Inhale. “Sometimes I get upset.” Blow, pause, inhale, and say, in big red letters: “Sometimes I get angry.” Blow. Pause. Inhale. “Sometimes I get angry.” Blow. Pause. Inhale. “Sometimes I get angry.” Exhale forcibly. Pause in the emptiness. Inhale red. Say, with passion: “Sometime I feel furious.” Again: blow, pause, inhale, and say: “Sometimes I feel furious.” Blow. Pause. Inhale. And with intensity say: “Sometimes I feel furious.” Exhale strongly. Make a noise. Pause. Inhale bright red and say or yell: “I.” Exhale loudly. Pause. Inhale red; say/yell: “am.” Again, exhale with a noise, pause, inhale red. Say/yell: “enraged.” Breathe out for as long as you can and inhale very slowly. Be intense, be loud if you want to, as you say: “I want to scream.” Breathe out, pause, inhale. “I want to kick.” Breathe out, pause, inhale. “I want to beat my fists.” Breathe out for as long as you can and inhale very slowly. Sigh or moan as you breathe out. Breathe out with a long sigh. Inhale velvet red, and acknowledge: “Sometimes I only want to think about my pleasure.” Breathe out, pause, inhale satin red, and say: “Sometimes I have very sexual thoughts.” Sigh fully and pause. Inhale lipstick red and assert: “Sometimes I only want to think about my pleasure.” Breathe out with a long, slow, sound. Inhale blood red and say: “My entire being is nothing but waves of sensation.” Sigh, pause, breathe in tropical sunset red and say: “I am nothing but waves of sensation.” Sigh and become empty. Wait a moment before inhaling the fresh red of dewy rose petals and say: “I am only waves of sensation.” Breathe out with a loud sigh or moan. See how long you can sustain the exhalation. Breathe slowly and consciously for three breaths. Let the air you breathe be crystalline: clear, sharp, compelling. Let your third inhalation be deeply nourishing, your third exhalation completely freeing. Pay special attention to the energy in your root chakra (lower pelvis). When you are ready, open your eyes. Get up. Stretch. Record your impressions in words or colors.

Susunna & Udana Channels

Udana and susunna The central channel that runs along the spinal column is called the susunna channel. it is the susunna channel that the chakras ground to when awakened and it is here at the base of the susunna channel that we find the Kundalini energy it is golden in colour and the upper area of the susunna channel when awaken is called the udana channel or laser line. udana laser line grounds the aligns the upper three chakras together as shown in the image below

Udana Laser Line

Udana The udana line links the 5th,6th, and 7th chakras together. The udana line is the upper part of the susunna and the susunna is the cord that runs up and down the spine and links all the chakras together (from Chakra one to chakra seven), from earth chakras too human and planet and star chakras. The udana looks like a vertical cord where all the chakras pour their life energy of consciousness and information into it and that’s where they all collect. So all you have to do is focus on the upper part of the susunna or also called the udana: the reason it is call the udana is its a Sanskrit word for upwards flow of life forces. You see the udana is very important in that it helps the chakras to exist, integrate, and stay connected. The udana is responsible for swallowing, putting a person to sleep, and controlling hunger. It is also responsible for levitation, moistening the body, and helping the immune system, and is also responsible for dimensional travel like teleportation and walking through walls, rock, and other obstacles, etc. So just visualize a small cord the size of your pinkie (fingers) golden white and blue in color. Then visualize udana line forming the base of the throat and moving up through the ajna chakra the top of the head in the middle of your upper part of your body. Now just maintain that visualization and breath energy into it every time you breathe; you’ll see the udana line become more visible in form and in color and along with your visualization become more real and vivid along with every breath. I have always known the udana line to be the channel by which teleportation is perform. But it is only the first stage in teleportation. The second stage of teleportation is the kundalini which runs along the and the susunna is the cord that runs up and down the spine and links all the chakras together (from Chakra one to chakra seven), and is the grounding point to both the earth and the physical plain. the third stage is the ability of Clairsentience found at the second or sacral chakra. the fourth stage in teleportation is the rising of the kundalini energy at the base of the spine this is done by flashing pure white through the udana line down through the susunna channel to the base of the spine and drawing the kundalini energy back up into the body. The fifth stage in teleportation is that of disconnecting from both the the earth and the physical plain of existence. This is done by flashing pure white light through the udana line down susunna channel out through the base chakra down into the earth and drawing the earth star out of the earth. so disconnecting with the earth and the physical plain. at this point claisentience the ability of movement is the lower point as the earth star moves up the body towards the udana the three dan tiens activate and the body transforms into the light being. At this point movement through both time and space is possible. Warning but this technique on teleportation should not be attempted until you have mastered awakening all of the chakra and dan tiens and have learnt all you can about telekinesis and teleportation of physical objects. This technique can be dangerous if you are not ready. Physical Technique But it is advised that you use your visual body when starting with this technique this way there is no fear of being harmed in your practice and remember to record all of you finding with the visual body technique for future reference. before moving on to the physical body. Step One Get comforble and relax. Step Two Then open all of your chakras and relax feel the energy of each one of your chakra moving freely through your body and feel the meridians energies moving freely through you body. Step Three Now in your own time visualize the udana laser line between the throat, ajna and crown chakra and breath in prana energy through your nosie and see the udana laser line charging as you breath out through the nosie continue breathing in and out till the udana laser line is bright and strong. Step Four Now in your own time visualize a pure white light moving down through the crown chakra from the twelve chakra and see it moving through the udana laser line down into the susunna channel along the spinal collom towards the Kundalini energy center at the base of the spine. Step Five Once the pure white light reaches the Kundalini energy Blend both energies together and draw this energy back up into the udana laser line and hold it there. Step Six Now focus your mind on the intented destination and see the destination with your minds eye. Warning When starting out you should start with focusing on the here and now or focus on a destination about one to two meters away and make sure there are no obstructions around the destination point. Step Seven Once you have locked in the destniation in hold your focus on the destination and feel the pure golden white light moving down the through the udana laser line and into the susunna channel out through the base chakra into the earth and hold it there for a moment. Step Eight While holding your focus on the destination feel the earth star and blend the pure golden white energy with the earth star and when your are ready draw the earth star up from the earth and pull it into your body. You are no longer conected with the earth. Step Nine See the golden white energy rising back up through the body but this time see the dan tiens expanding and filling the body with light and in your own time teleport to the new destination. Step Ten once you arrive at the destniation see the pure golden white and moving back down through the udana laser into susunna channel out through the base chakra pulling the earth star back into the earth and hold it there for a moment. Step Eleven See the earth star grounding with the earth feel your corection with the earth. Step Twelve Then in your own time draw the pure golden white energy out of the earth and pull it back up through the base chakra. As it rises see the light body changing back into the physcal body as it passes through the three dan tiens. Take a moment to stablize your body on the physical plain if your need to. Step Thirdteen Once you have completed aligning with the physical plain and the earth open your eyes slowly in your own time. Remember Record all of your finds on this technique. And if you have teleported the visual or physical body with this technique then well done But practice with the visual body first and learn all you can before trying physical teleportation. Source

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Sunday, 31 August 2014

The Path to Enlightenment

by: Judith Pennington

It’s easy to throw around terms like enlightenment, cosmic consciousness, illumination and awakening. But what do they really mean? And when do we get there?

Throughout time, mystics, masters and saints have fascinated us with their spiritual adventures. In 1901, Richard Bucke ‘s classic book, Cosmic Consciousness, defined higher states of awareness as a natural expansion from “percepts” (sense impressions) to “recepts” (a group of sense impressions), to concepts which build intelligence and, at some point, expand into the intellectual illumination that fires the brain into cosmic consciousness.

It is a natural expansion, he wrote, from primitive sense consciousness to verbal self-consciousness to intuitive cosmic consciousness.

An Experience of Illumination

Bucke’s investigations were driven by a spontaneous awakening to cosmic consciousness. Near the beginning of this thirty-sixth year, he spent an enjoyable evening with two friends, reading the poetry of Shelley, Keats, Browning and especially Whitman, whom he especially admired. Riding home in a hansom cab in an English city, he was calmly and peacefully recalling the ideas and images in the evening’s poetry when suddenly, a flame-colored cloud wrapped itself around him.

When he realized that the red cloud was within him, exultation and joyousness filled him with bliss and opened to what he called intellectual illumination. He saw that the cosmos is not made of dead matter, but is a living Presence, that the soul of man is immortal, that the benevolent universe serves all things, that the foundational principle is love, and that the happiness of everyone is in the long run absolutely certain.

In the few seconds during which this illumination occurred, this Canadian-born farmboy and Old West adventurer, now a respected medical doctor learned more, he later said, than in his entire previous life, and more than anyone could ever have taught him.

The good doctor spent his professional life working in psychiatric institutions, where he observed and thought about the workings and development of the human brain and mind. He was never the same after his spiritual awakening. Until his death in 1902, he experienced many other “aha” insights and revelations.

Today, we know that these “peak moments” of insight evolved his consciousness by amplifying and increasing the frequencies of his brainwaves, potentially producing the kundalini awakening that builds brain power and opens to the bliss and joy of gamma-induced enlightenment.

Words of Caution

Bucke’s book and classics like The Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda and Play of Consciousness by Swami Muktenanda show that anyone committed to inner growth for self-transcendence can attain these higher states of awareness. That is, if they want to. Not everyone does.

And indeed, as an essay by Bonnie Greenwell points out in an excellent new book, Kundalini Rising, attempting to relive the bliss and joy of transcendence can create a sense of attachment that pulls us into the pride of ego and self-separation.

Although some yogic practices pursue kundalini awakening and cosmic consciousness, only the steady, natural expansion of the mind, supported by brain and nervous system structures, ensures the safe, lasting development of higher states. Spiritual literature is rife with stories of kundalini awakenings in people who were not ready to process these intense energies, as Martin Wuttke points out. The effects range from hallucinations and mental breakdowns to physical pain and injury, mostly due to unresolved psychospiritual issues and ego grasping in the immature individual.

What Is Enlightenment?

Still, it can’t hurt to measure our progress along the path, so that we can see how far we have come and how far there is to go, not to mention how to get there and what to expect along the way.

One of the most interesting roadmaps I’ve seen is an essay that plots the course in detail: “Final Integration in the Adult Personality,” by A. Reza Arasteh, a prolific author and formerly a professor of psychiatry at George Washington University who studied the lives of masters in the East and West. The article appears in a little book called Frontiers of Consciousness: The Startling, Mind-Expanding Guide to the Outer Limits of Human Awareness, edited by John White and published in 1974.

Arasteh defines the expanded consciousness of enlightenment as:

“a suprarational, suprasensory level of mentation whose existence, especially in the Orient, has been known since antiquity under a variety of regional and ritual terms: nirvana of Buddhism; satori of Zen; samadhi of yoga; unio mystica of Catholicism; shema of cabbalism; (Richard) Bucke’s cosmic consciousness; and existentialism’s kairos, to name a few.”

These descriptors – not in sequential order – by Bucke and Arasteh may remind you of your own journey or the characteristics of cosmic people you know:

* The radiant joy of the enlightened one touches and uplifts others. This radiance is an electromagnetic force that effortlessly draws to the master what is needed and wanted in any given moment. People are attracted to the master’s wisdom, kindness, generosity and warmth, as to the light of the sun.

* Experiencing sensations of light, the enlightened one and his/her followers are bathed in emotions of supreme joy, rapture and ecstasy that extend far beyond the ordinary. While resting in a peaceful, joyous state, an intellectual illumination comes in a lightning flash of identification and merging with creation, the infinite, the immortal: all opening to an understanding of the meaning and drift of the universe. Sensations of oneness and unity open to transcendental love and compassion. Fear of death falls away and physical and mental suffering vanish.

* The illuminist, reappraising the material things in life, considers riches and abundance unimportant now compared to the treasure of the ultraconscious, or superconscious, mind. There is something much greater: a quickening of the intellect, an uncovering of latent genius, an enhancement of mental and physical vigor and activity, and a sense of mission that is so moving, the person wants and needs to tell others about it.

* Finally, the enlightened one experiences an inner and outer radiance, as if charged up by some divine power with a magnetic force. This transfiguration of being causes the enlightened master to love each and every soul and to open for them a path of beauty and light to the Greater Love.

Milestones and Roadsigns

While reading Aresteh’s milestones, consider where you are and how far you might want to go.

Stage 1. We become aware of multiple realities and the existence of something greater than anything on Earth. Either your own inner knowing or an external event occurs to awaken you to the superordinary world of the spirit. Perhaps you are physically healed or experience a peak moment while in nature. Perhaps your rational mind expands beyond material reality for no apparent reason at all. Whatever the stimulus, you become aware of multiple realities.

Stage 2. Once we become aware of something greater than the material world, we are guided into a new relationship with reality. Sensing the presence of the divine in the ordinary world, we attune to our own deep intuition, through which we cleanse, purify and reconcile the heart, mind and body. Soon our values, interests and action all submerge into one and behavior becomes spontaneous: the function of insight – sudden awareness – is rooted in the creative force that man’s essence shares with the cosmic essence. In this state everything in the world comes anew and a succession of insights illuminates the mind and increases vision. These intuitive flashes cause the separation between subject and object to cease to exist, so that union and full integration take place. By this process we are lifted out of judgment and separation into oneness with all things.

Stage 3. We begin to live in an anxiety-free state of consciousness, able to enjoy positive feelings and express ourselves openly and spontaneously. Looking at life through the non-duality of transcendence, we know that everything is for the best and just as it should be. Trusting this frees us to live authentically and speak our truth.

Stage 4. Our sense of connection within ourselves and with everything else deepens now, and we expand into the infinite. In this advanced state, where all is one, we unite with cosmic consciousness to instantly access all love, joy, wisdom and knowledge. Time and space cease to limit us. As one soul living in no-time, we materialize and dematerialize at will, drawing on divine light to heal ourselves and others.

Stage 5. We become a constant creative attitude, finding joy in deeds that benefit others regardless of hoped-for rewards. We serve others as Mother Theresa, Martin Luther King, Jesus, Buddha and other enlightened masters (and mistresses) served humanity. No longer do we need to write, record or create in physical form. We live so completely in the present moment that divine energy travels into and through us to radiate outward and heal and transform those who come into our presence.

Final integration also gives the master:

* The insight to read the signs and symbols in nature and life

* The insight to write a detailed life history.

* The presence of enormous energy which enables the enlightened master to carry the burdens of others and the world without pain.

* Insight into human evolution, history and nature.

* The ability to endure solitude without boredom while living in any community.

* Recognition of the value and worth of the nonhuman environment.

* Perception of natural phenomena as symbolic of a universal communication. The master sees natural objects as units resembling life.

Arasteh points out, and you know from your own experience, that what is common to all of these stages is inner awareness, which intuitively points to the guideposts that lead us to each next step.

Wherever we are on this path, of course, is where we need to be. Progress into a new stage can be lasting, or we can slip and slide around while gaining the stability of mind and continuity of consciousness arising out of focused awareness and sustained attention.

Like a holograph, what is in the mind defines consciousness, life and world. Everything is a mirror of everything else – which makes expansion a simple path, at its essence. In the quiet mind, we look, see and correct our course by letting go of what we don’t need in favor of what we do.

Each step comes easier, buoyed as it is by the joys of self-mastery and radiant connection with the divine.

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