This morning I submitted a comment to Vivek's recent blog post
about a certain famous guru who has made claims about
Kundalini he couldn't possibly make if he had actually experienced
Kundalini. After I read his post, I was inspired to comment, so I chimed in
with my own opinion.
Feeling justified after I posted my comment, I went to my kitchen and was looking out of the window when the words of my Kundalini Yoga teacher came to me: "Understand with compassion, otherwise you will misunderstand the times."
What do these words mean?
After pondering a while, I think they underline the fact that spirituality in the Piscean Age was about accumulating knowledge and understanding spiritual writings. So many gurus learned this literature and used its theories to inspire the people who sat at their feet. They knew what the mystics and saints had written. The emphasis was on knowledge and knowing in the Piscean Age, what I dare to call left brain consciousness. There wasn't that much emphasis on experience.
Now we are in the Aquarian Age where seekers tend to express their spiritual longings thusly: "I know I want to experience and I want to experience from someone who has experienced, not someone who simply knows." This desire for experience is a function of a shift of consciousness from the left to the right side of the brain.
I have limitless compassion for these gurus because I don't think that they set out to deliberately mislead. What I do find completely unacceptable is when they still claim to have experiences which they haven't had and which it is obvious they haven't had as soon as they open their mouths.
My feeling is that this Aquarian Age is going to demand a level of honesty and authenticity unprecedented in the last age. Not just in spirituality but in every area of life. We are moving to being more authentic and I for one welcome it.
Feeling justified after I posted my comment, I went to my kitchen and was looking out of the window when the words of my Kundalini Yoga teacher came to me: "Understand with compassion, otherwise you will misunderstand the times."
What do these words mean?
After pondering a while, I think they underline the fact that spirituality in the Piscean Age was about accumulating knowledge and understanding spiritual writings. So many gurus learned this literature and used its theories to inspire the people who sat at their feet. They knew what the mystics and saints had written. The emphasis was on knowledge and knowing in the Piscean Age, what I dare to call left brain consciousness. There wasn't that much emphasis on experience.
Now we are in the Aquarian Age where seekers tend to express their spiritual longings thusly: "I know I want to experience and I want to experience from someone who has experienced, not someone who simply knows." This desire for experience is a function of a shift of consciousness from the left to the right side of the brain.
I have limitless compassion for these gurus because I don't think that they set out to deliberately mislead. What I do find completely unacceptable is when they still claim to have experiences which they haven't had and which it is obvious they haven't had as soon as they open their mouths.
My feeling is that this Aquarian Age is going to demand a level of honesty and authenticity unprecedented in the last age. Not just in spirituality but in every area of life. We are moving to being more authentic and I for one welcome it.
