What is your personal practice for raising kundalini?

[Shivani Devi]

Then again, because I am autistic, have an underdeveloped amygdala, reduced functional connectivity with the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, and my brain being totally wired back-to-front across my corpus collosum just could have something to do with all that now, couldn't it? LOL

[Shivani Devi]

Originally Posted by django

This happened to me once when someone was interfering with my energy, kundalini energy was built up and released out through my arms/hands. at the time my throat chakra was still closed, and the energy release was appropriate, flowing through chnnels that were already open, and doing me no harm. If that energy burst through your throat into your brain, I suspect there might be serious damage. I think you should be grateful that your energy system is releasing the excess energy and keeping you safe. The little bit that does make it through is then maybe the amount you can handle? (I think my kundalini was going up through pingala then as well, as it was before I had entered into sushumna.)

Actually, thinking about it a bit more, the throat is a gate, and ideally it opens and closes when necessary. Allowing that little bit to flow through can be your throat gate acting perfectly to keep you safe regarding the amount of Kundalini energy flowing through.

Either which way, I think your subtle body is doing exactly the right thing.



Agreed you have to cool it down, maybe your energy system is just doing what it needs to do to deal with the energy situation you find yourself in. Something like there are a few ways to skin a cat. Indirectly your question and theory lead me to understand more clearly why I am being led to fill ida and pingala with cool watery energy before kundalini is raised in the most central channel, where ida and pingala will act as cooling insulation during kundalini's inevitably fiery ascent.

Okay, I get that there are many ways to skin a cat here and I'm skinning my own cat...however I still don't get something here.

How many times can Kundalini rise from the base chakra?

Also, as an aside... I am confused if I honestly and truly ask myself 'have I have attained Samadhi?" and it seems the jury is out on that one...there's a 50/50 split. Because if I have, I must have attained it at least a dozen times now....you know, the whole 'one with the universe' thing...

[django]

Originally Posted by The Necromancer

Okay, I get that there are many ways to skin a cat here and I'm skinning my own cat...however I still don't get something here.

How many times can Kundalini rise from the base chakra?

Also, as an aside... I am confused if I honestly and truly ask myself 'have I have attained Samadhi?" and it seems the jury is out on that one...there's a 50/50 split. Because if I have, I must have attained it at least a dozen times now....you know, the whole 'one with the universe' thing...

These guys seem to know what they're talking about and this page might answer some of your questions, I'm not a kundalini expert, but it makes sense to me - http://kundalinicare.com/kinds-of-kundalini-risings-2/

[Shivani Devi]

Oh...my...dear...sweet...jesus!

I was about to go where no man, woman or child has gone before and write a blog; "Kundalini Awakening in The Autistic Brain"...but first, I wanted to see if I was going into unchartered territory...when I came across this:

http://www.the-unscripted-self.com/autism.html

Theory of Mind (revisited)

We saw the role the parietal lobes play in theory of mind, which some autistics may be deficient in. Now, there’s something interesting about this part of the brain. It is the region where we have our sense of ‘self’ in relation to things, and to space and time, in other words, where you have the experience of there being a ‘you’, and an ‘other’. But the strange thing is people who practice mindfulness, or some form of loving kindness, often show lower levels of activity in the parietal lobes. Correspondingly, their acute sense of separation, or of an ‘other’ seems to diminish.

On the spiritual front, if someone has high levels of activity here they probably experience God as outside, or separate from them. The experience can be one of a loving God or a malevolent one, it makes no difference. On the other hand, low levels of activity in the parietals means you are capable of feeling God as an expanded part of you. People who pray ‘to a God’, however sincerely, may experience the former, whereas those who meditate are more likely to veer towards the latter. fMRI scans on the brains of Buddhist monks and Franciscan nuns who had spent long hours in meditation and contemplation found very low activity in the Parietal lobes (see Newberg.)

Of course the context is different, I understand that. But isn’t it curious that those with autism are born with a brain configured in a way not dissimilar to someone with awareness? The world can be a scary place to people with autism. Their condition may be innate, but the communication and socialisation difficulties they encounter are aggravated by the expectation that we place on them, i.e. to experience the world in the same way as “normal” people do. As a child I always ‘knew’ the world wasn’t the way people said it was (turned out I was right!)

And, you know, in their own way, although obviously there’s a whole different dynamic at play, those monks and nuns are also withdrawing into themselves!

Of course the condition of Autism Spectrum Disorder is widely complex, and there’s more to it than just this feature. But maybe what we call abnormal may be nothing but our own prejudices when confronting a situation we don’t fully understand.

Which is why I am always wary of any talk of a cure for autism. I am in favour of neurodiversity all the way. Autism, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and such like are variations in the genome only and don’t mean there’s something wrong with you. And while we should certainly look for ways to help people with these conditions, to suggest we need to cure them is both misleading and arrogant. After all, both Albert Einstein and Steve Jobs were said to be AS.

In autism, as in those other ‘disorders’, we find not an obstacle, but a gift.

Seems I have overcompensated in the 'parietal lobe dept'. LOL

There is no way while ever my backside points down that anybody will ever convince me that 'God is Me' because I have totally experienced, saw, heard, felt otherwise. It would be exactly the same thing as saying that another person is me. I cannot 'Love God' and 'Be God' simultaneously...something wrong with that whole picture and of course I can love myself spiritually for who I am inside, but that ain't God because I can still see God, hear God...interact with God...I have attained Savikalpa Samadhi.

http://www.nevernotpresent.com/satsa...understanding/

[Shivani Devi]

Originally Posted by django

These guys seem to know what they're talking about and this page might answer some of your questions, I'm not a kundalini expert, but it makes sense to me - http://kundalinicare.com/kinds-of-kundalini-risings-2/

Ooohh...interesting. So it seems that the 'basic model' isn't a 'one size fits all' thing...but I'm going to require a few days to fully digest that one. Thank you for the link.

[Shivani Devi]

Originally Posted by django

These guys seem to know what they're talking about and this page might answer some of your questions, I'm not a kundalini expert, but it makes sense to me - http://kundalinicare.com/kinds-of-kundalini-risings-2/

GOT IT!!

Deflected Rising (Vajra and Saraswati nadis)

At the time of her initial release, Kundalini Shakti, deflected from entering Susumna nadi, enters either Vajra nadi or Saraswati nadi, whereupon she rises immediately up to Sahasrara, the Thousand Petaled Lotus, and opens brain centers there, only to swiftly descend back to Muladhara, which becomes her base camp. From there, she intermittently goes up and down within the nadi she has entered, making these risings unstable. Saraswati nadi has three granthis (knots) that must be opened, and Vajra nadi has five bands in women and two bands in men that must be aligned. Due to brain center activation, various talents and remarkable experiences might result from deflected risings, but there may be some strain also, as Kundalini Shakti cannot reach the pinnacle (Bindu) from either of these cul-de-sac nadis and so becomes frustrated in her efforts to unite with the One. Such a rising must be diverted into a culminating nadi, usually Susumna, and then must be elevated from there to Makara point in Upper Ajna chakra in order to access the Upper Process nadis that lead to Bindu.

Perfect...explanation...this is it!

[Shivani Devi]

One thing...one thing I dun get...one thing..

If Kundalini deflects, goes up Vajra Nadi into Sahasrara and opens up brain centres there...then moves up and down within that nadi...

How can she be in a cul-de-sac nadi beyond Makara point if she has already reached the Sahasrara Chakra?

Of course, I understand that certain centres within Shushumna have been bypassed on the way up there, but she has still made it up there...

I guess those centres she bypassed in Shushumna are the ones that actually keep her up there so she doesn't go back down again, like a one-way gate...

however, seeing as how the nadis converge at Makara point and then flow out through the nostrils, wherefore is this cul-de-sac she gets stuck in when she can make her way up to Sahasrara any time she wants? Doesn't make sense...

...but I have Lord Shiva here saying "Make your Anahata Chakra her base-camp instead of Muladhara Chakra and it will right itself in no time".

[django]

Originally Posted by The Necromancer

GOT IT!!



Perfect...explanation...this is it!

Great

[Shivani Devi]

Now, I am lost in the effects a kundalini awakening has on parietal lobe function...

https://www.amazon.com/Kundalini-Ris.../dp/1591797284

The very next book on my 'to buy' list.

Suffice to say, if anything involves me losing myself in juxtaposition to my Lord, that one is gonna have to wait for a few more lifetimes, unfortunately.

[Shivani Devi]

...and then God chimes in with a "you meditate, you have low parietal lobe function, yet I still exist as being separate from you. Does this tell you anything? *laughs*"