All Life Phases Have Karmic Meaning For Kundalini

Each kundalini instance is different from every other instance, just as every human being’s metabolic, somatic, anatomical, psychological, intellectual, and cognitive characteristics vary.
 

Find a Lake and Walk Around It

I wouldn't worry too much about God, faith and other religious tropes; kundalini is first a physical transformation that ultimately does lead to the metaphysical and to higher consciousness.

All life phases have karmic meaning — what you were, what you are, and what you will be involved in before, during, and after awakening are equally significant. Wise men and women know the journey is just as important as the destination. You didn't just make kundalini happen. Something led you to it. Ask yourself: Did I find kundalini or did it find me?

Whatever its origin, when the kudalini process started, I gradually realized there were no religious overtones. I didn't need to believe in some dogma or faith. If I was to succeed, I needed proceed as a scientist.

I read other people's accounts, not because they applied to my particular struggle. Some did; some didn't. The ones I identified with offered methodological insights into the kundalini awakening process. In turn, when I wrote an account of my kundalini experience, I provided only such information as I myself had been able to verify, information about the challenges and the choices one makes as the process unfolds. I followed that book with two more books, in each instance seeking to clarify and demystify the process, making it more evidence-based than faith-based.
 

Are There Birds in Your Lake?

Your body is a laboratory; you are the subject in an experiment. How it turns out depends on your ability to observe yourself and make the right choices. You need to act like a detective, sifting the clues and the feedback you receive from your body — and they will manifest themselves.

PD Ouspensky stated:

"There is no question of faith in all this. Quite the opposite, this system teaches people to believe in absolutely nothing. You must verify everything you see, hear, or feel. Only in that way can you come to something."

Biology is an expression of consciousness. You started out knowing only your physical body and its surroundings. To advance beyond those barriers, you must apply Ouspensky’s precepts to your life.

Evolution and Kundalini

Evolution is a much scrutinized subject. I once saw an X-Men movie. Walking through walls, telekinesis, telepathy, magnetic powers, etc. were included.

The context was mutants. Of course, there would be no homo sapiens without evolution, or without mutations; it's the operating currency of DNA and genetics. Modern humanity is considered to be about 50,000 years old.

Human evolution reminds me of auto sales. New cars may have features, new devices like an MP3 player or lights on side mirrors, that soon morph into "minimum requirements." And those new "features" become old hat, and newer features are needed. Such is evolution.

Kundalini as evolutionary energy is really a wild idea! Inside us is a mechanism driving evolution? Gopi Krishna reckoned that this "evolutionary energy" was pushing us toward a predetermined future human being. Nietzche wrote about Man and Superman, which Hitler misunderstood to be his "Master Race." "In his posthumously published book, The Phenomenon of Man, Teilhard de Chardin wrote of the unfolding of the material cosmos, from primordial particles to the development of life, human beings and the noosphere, and finally to his vision of the Omega Point in the future, which is 'pulling' all creation towards it." Ouspensky wrote a book called The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution. Of course, it is a genderless idea.

My own version of this is contained in a poem called "Beneath The Surface of this World."

Beneath the surface of this world,

Invisible to the naked eye,

Exists an energetic framework,

The basis of both you and I.

A Brownian motion generator,

A quantum dynamic mold,

A thermodynamic continuum,

A multi-frequency spectrum of old.

It has a purpose, this sublime world,

A tendency to go from hot to cold,

A subtle yet definite cooling off,

A conductive, convective, radiative road.

A path, if you will, that all energy takes,

But Life defies this blasé manner,

Building structures and storing energy

With all the power of Thor's hammer.

Life's purpose is to grow, my friend,

Individual, species, and ecospheric biomass,

To convert the nonliving to the living,

The soil and water to trees and grass.

The whole direction of living energy,

Both universal and close at hand,

Is to increase its nature and its volume

While striving for the Super land.

Therefore the direction of human evolution

Must be to achieve the higher state

Of conscious living energy

That comes when spirit and matter mate.

A higher state of energy,

More concentrated and powerful,

This is the purview of the gods,

Of shamans, witch doctors, and monks of old.

A higher state of consciousness

Is simply life's purpose to fulfill,

To convert sunlight into gold,

The alchemy of the spiritual.

So freeing up one's energy,

Clearing the path for prana, chi,

Spirit, life's essence that circulates

Throughout the body is the key.

From Chinese medicine to Indian yoga,

From Egyptian meditation to Toltec Naguals,

From Nordic runes to Lakota totems

Life's purpose to fulfill is the ultimate goal.

The universal pursuit of higher states of being,

Religions of the masses and philosophies all

Are part of life's process of self-preservation,

A means to an end, a guide to the far.

So think not that there is an evil in life,

Evil is the absence of life, the self-destructive mode

That occurs when living energy falls short of the need

To bridge nature's gap, and continue the road.

We all do our best to live out our purpose,

To grow and to prosper as organic beings.

Some fail it's true, but no one is perfect,

Death's part of the cycle that gives life its meaning.

Continue to pursue the path of improvement,

Of self progression, of achievement of excellence;

The curve spirals inward toward an infinite center,

Unreachable it's true, but always intended.

As for the condition of society, ecology, and such,

It is all part of our living romance,

To fight the good fight when fighting is called for,

These are just steps in the cosmic dance.

Have faith in this bedrock of spiritual design,

This underlying world of energy,

For suffering is longing, the desire to grow,

There is nothing wrong with wanting, desire is holy.