Kundalini

Superfluidity And Kundalini 
In my opinion kundalini awakenings are associated with a tumescence of the blueprint of the body mind. Within this amplified morphogenic field the cells set about reorganizing themselves to convey the upsurge of consciousness or Spirit. During this period of increased spiritual field there is greater vibration, rhythm, correspondence and communication between atoms, cells and organs. This is tacitly undeniable to anyone going through a kundalini awakening. In fact it is this intensification of sensation and function coupled with the abrupt breakthrough into expanded states of awareness that is most disturbing about the experience of kundalini, for we are so used to living in the half-death of collective conditioning. This higher integration is concurrent with increased psychic, extrasensory abilities, such that as we integrate our internal organism, we delve more deeply into the collective interiors of the human race and the globe. Through the elevation of the personal we access the transpersonal and tune into the Global Brain.

A good word to describe this amplified of being during metamorphosis is super fluid. We can assume that cell membranes become more permeable, including the blood brain barrier. Polarities become more pronounced, increasing the ion exchange and current flow between them. The fields of the organs, plexuses, brain and the body must be greatly expanded and magnified. There must be increased nutrient and waste product exchange coupled with greatly increased enzymatic action and oxygen usage. ATP and glucose metabolism must be at an all time high, as on every level we become more alive and awake.

The cavity within the center of the spinal column itself both makes and contains cerebrospinal fluid. The super-charged body and expanded heart-field must act like a cyclotron on the spine. The cerebrospinal fluid probably becomes supercharged with ions and laden with neuropeptides, during awakening, accumulating to crescendo point with the inner-conjunctions. At the height of the awakening I imagine that all the cerebrospinal fluid becomes Amrita, or nectar of the Gods as it is saturated with ions, endorphins, glutamate, NO and various neurotransmitters.

Along with circulation of this fluid up the spine and around the brain cavities, the increased permeability between the cerebrospinal fluid and the blood following histamine release, could allow the elixir to flow within the bloodstream as well. After it bathes the brain and spine CSF is reabsorbed into venus sinus blood via arachnoid villi projecting into the superior sagittal sinus.

The amrita in the blood then would hyper-relax the entire body mind and thereby energy is conserved and accumulated for the inner-conjunction. Supplanting the normal laborious flow of energy through nervous tissue this spark, reminiscent of lightning, zaps many volts through the organism. Like lightning the spark could comprise of wave pulses of energy between the positive and negative poles, but moving so fast as to be perceived as one ongoing current.

Changing the voltage across a neuron membrane can open channels that allow various kinds of ions including calcium ions to enter and leave the neuron. The membrane's conductivity to ions is voltage dependent. The movement of ions which constitutes an electric current cause further changes in the membrane and so onthus perpetuating a superfluid, supercharged state. There are references in the texts, especially those on Tantric Kriya Yoga on the magnetizing and ionizing of the cerebrospinal fluid . This ionized fluid then awakens and transforms the brain and broadens the range of conscious and sensory prehension.

Apparently breathing itself ionizes the CSF. According to Ipsalu Tantric Kriya Yoga a technique called the Cobra Breath pulls magnetic energy into the spine, ionizing the spinal fluid and allowing the kundalini to rise, bathing the brain in magnetized fluid and transforming consciousness.  Most breathing techniques will aid in elevating and integrating consciousness.

Besides changes in the cell receptors other changes in the cell membranes would fuel the conflagration of superfluidity. Changes in the physio-chemical and EMF environment of the cell, along with increased temperature, hydrostatic pressure and osmotic pressure would lead to changes in the lipid composition of the cell membrane. This change in the cell membrane would in turn contribute to an upsurge in the rate/activity of cellular energy generation and metabolism. Thus creating a feedback relationship that would maintain hyperactivation until the resources necessary to perpetuate this contagion are depleted.

Hydroelectric Energy kundalini

Hydroelectric Energy

Since raised kundalini means an activation of the sympathetic nervous system the demand for energy generation goes up, just as it does with the fight flight response. Besides the use of amino acids, glucose and fat for energy, Dr. Batmanghelidj says that that body uses water for the generation of hydroelectric energy, especially in neurotransmission. Thus the demand for plentiful water increases during kundalini. If however we do not drink extra water, we may read the cues for thirst as the desire for the energy to be obtained from sugar and carbohydrates. If we take in simple sugars instead of water, we will get a temporary energy boost, followed by a depletion of energy reserves. Plus since the immune system is compromised by hypertonal sympathetic activation, this means the sugar is likely to feed yeast and pathogen growth. With recurrent blood sugar spiking from excessive carbohydrate intake our insulin and leptin receptors down-regulate leading to glucose intolerance and insulin resistance.

Even though water is a polar molecule, it is able to pass through the lipid bilayer of the plasma membrane, via transmembrane proteins that form hydrophilic channels; but even without these, water is still able to get through. Water passes by diffusion from a region of higher water content to a lower concentration. Water is never transported actively; that is, it never moves against its concentration gradient. However, the concentration of water can be altered by the active transport of solutes and in this way the movement of water in and out of the cell can be controlled. For example the reabsorption of water from the kidney tubules back into the blood depends on the water following behind the active transport of sodium (Na+).

94% of the blood and other extracellular fluids are water. The extracellular fluid of mammalian cells is isotonic to their cytoplasm ie: where there is no net movement of water in and out of the cell. This balance must be actively maintained because of the large number of organic molecules dissolved in the cytosol but not present in the extracellular fluid. These organic molecules exert an osmotic effect that, if not compensated for, would cause the cell to take in so much water that it would swell and might even burst. This fate is avoided by pumping sodium ions out of the cell with the Na+/K+ ATPase.

Osmosis is the diffusion of water through cell membranes from low concentration solutions to higher concentration solutions. The osmotic pressure between the solutions inside and those outside of the cell causes osmosis, which in turn, generates hydroelectric energy inside the cell. Osmotic pressure also called turgor pressure is apparently driven by the heat of the water molecules. This energy is harnessed as Adenosine Tri-phosphate ATP, the energy fuel of the body, which is used to fuel the transmission of information within the nervous system. Lack of hydration will then reduce overall energy and consciousness levels through insufficient hydroelectric energy generation.

Dr Batmanghelidj asserts that the osmotic flow of water through the cell membrane can generate hydroelectric energy that is converted and stored as ATP or GTP. He says the cell membrane filters and separates water from its solid content as water molecules have to be in single file before they can go through the membrane. When there is inadequate extra cellular free water for easy diffusion into the cell vasopressin is released. When vasopressin reaches its specific cell membrane receptor, the receptor turns into a “shower head” structure that allows water in through its holes. Important cells make vasopressin receptors in greater quantity, enabling them first priority during water shortage conditions; for example nerve cells have more vasopressin receptors than other cells.

According to Dr. Batman the energy derived from food is less than that produced by the hydroelectric energy inside cells. The bulk of the energy used by the human body comes from hydroelectric energy produced at the cell level. Dehydration means there is not enough water flowing across the cell membrane to produce this hydroelectric energy. Another problem is the build up of acidity in the cells without the presence of ample free water; the cell cannot maintain its pH balance and it becomes too acidic. Once the acidity reaches a certain level pain producing kinins are released, in order to immobilize the area so that the process of repair can begin. Thus dehydration is a major cause of pain.

The body tends to begin dehydrating around age 20; and with increasing age the thirst signal is gradually lost, leading to chronic dehydration. Reduction in free water means there is inadequate diffusion through the cell membrane and a lack of hydroelectric energy to perform active cation uptake. Then the histamine H1 activated Ca2+ dependent K+ pump becomes operational. Dehydration creates increased cytosolic calcium turnover for cation regulation. Since the active transport of cations requires energy, histamine also liberates energy for this function. The conversion of the energy fuel ATP to its spent cAMP produces both energy and Ca2+ release.

Whether cells do actually generate hydroelectric energy or not is rather a mute question, because anyone can tacitly verify the immediate increase in energy that comes from drinking several glasses of water and by generally upping their daily water intake. Since all transportation and communication in the body happens via the matrix of water, it stands to reason that increasing the volume of free water in the body will synergize all metabolic processes including energy generation and consciousness itself.

Kundalini is an amplification of Spirit in flesh

Kundalini is an amplification of Spirit in flesh

During periods of accelerated spiritual growth when there is a rapid shift in the sense of self the main adjustments we need to make are adaptation to the:


Loss of a rigid sense of the known
Loss of the sense of sure identity
The sense of infinity, space, groundlessness and emptiness
Loss of routine habits
Amplification of sensory acuity
Magnification of or loss of appetites
Increased psychic and subtle abilities
Greater range and depth of emotion and feeling
Changes in one's sense of energy and embodiment
Distortions in the sense of time

Kundalini scares the shit out of the safety addicted conditioned self because there is no place to hide from truth, for the brightened eye of God is within us. Depending on ones ability to let go of the past, and to be restructured in each moment cellular forgiveness this determines ones progress via substantiation. However the irony is that, super sensory ability withstanding, one has to become mega adapted to a spiritually corrupt world this is the challenge, to not react negatively to negativity, or in other words to fear no evil. If we listen very carefully Kundalini teaches us how to do this, but we have to be willing to experience earth shattering bliss and the full implications of our higher purpose and place in the whole.

Unfortunately kundalini has been associated with symbols such as the serpent and so non awakeners might relegate it to the mere physical domain. But one is never so close to Spirit than during a kundalini awakening. Kundalini is an amplification of Spirit in flesh. This is one of the reasons why post awakening life seems so lack luster for the tide of Spirit has nearly returned to the socially conditioned acceptable level. And the individual still feels the echo of the calling to a sense of humanity that is beyond our wildest dreams, but there is nowhere to put this in our consensus fallen world. On feeling the depths of ones fear and helplessness there is less need to prevent these in others, one realizes that it's all good and it's all ok.

To the degree that we get rid of the parasite of the defense system the safety addicted conditioned self that we created from day zero, this is the degree to which we can access our higher self. Kundalini is involuntary parasite killing, for it dissolves our pupael defensive self, yet it doesn't automatically mean that we suddenly have the skills to deal with our world in a higher fashion, we essentially have to grow those through deeper insight.

To not be identified with our egoity is not about existing in some impersonal state bereft of idiosyncrasy and individuality, but rather is about being present both as our unique somebody  and as self-transcending Being. Even at the same time. The point is not to negate or minimize our self hood  which is less a noun than a verb selfing  but to permit it such rich transparency relative to our fundamental nature that it cannot help but colorfully and fittingly represent us, however superficially.

However, when we let I do the driving, we usually end up wandering like hungry ghosts through the I gotta be me malls of distorted or overfed desire, shopping until we're broke, sated, or diverted elsewhere. Even so, it's crucial to not prematurely cease such wanderings. It's so easy   as when we are in the spineless throes of spiritual correctness  to make an ideal out of being good or spiritual and a villain or scapegoat out of our darker impulses. To transcend yourself, be yourself." Ð Robert Augustus Masters, Darkness Shining Wild, p. 179

We can endure anything if there is a goal and a reason. This belief in a larger purpose is the most important factor in people keeping it together under crisis. In the dissolution of the ego, bliss too is sensed as a kind of hell. Kundalini awakenings are the burning away of the pain-body and the creation of a new template. What we do with that template constitutes our spiritual attainment or not. With kundalini we get a second birth, a second chance. But without skillful means, we could very well just create another pain-body in replace of the old.

During the flux of kundalini the holy Presence witness rises up and the little ego would like to pop in and give running commentary and inane musings. And we notice the drop in energy as we put on the ego's cloak for a sentence or two, just to see if our old self is still there, and we feel the loss of the Beloved that we are, when we stoop down that way. We can't get rid of thought, getting rid of thought is not what is called for. It's becoming an observer of one's thought, master of one's thought, and pointing one's thought in a larger direction than self-defense and ego-survival that is really the key to spiritual attainment.

The spiritual gains of equanimity, detachment and disidentification resulting from a kundalini awakening, comes about through years of being strung all over the emotional map, having ones archetypal images and psychic material blown up billboard size and in ones face. By having our interiors so radically heightened and exposed and having to live intimately with our projections, obsessions and demons. After about 3 years of this, when the chemistry starts backing off, the suspicious, mythic, grasping bodymind is clearly transparent to us. The risen lifeforce of kundalini creates an amplification and heightened sensitivity to both our interiors and our external world. Thus we have no choice but to face into our condition because to avoid doing so is tantamount to spiritual suicide. The bliss and Grace of kundalini make it almost impossible to deny consciousness and love and forfeit our existence.
CHANGES IN SELF-ORIENTATION

DISSOLUTION: Mental confusion. Difficulty concentrating. Old anchors and safety nets no longer hold. Freefall in surreal limbo. Disorientation in sense of self. Sense of fading, of not really being here. Loss of coordination and motor control during the shock and inner-conjunctions. Loss of affective memory, a flattening of memory. Loss of egoic self-continuity and focus. Preoccupation with symbols, archetypes and myth. Panic in those with no meditation experience who feel they need to control rather than surrender. Emotional outbursts, rapid mood swings, unprovoked episodes of grief, fear, rage or depression, all within a background of bliss. Desire for quiet, meditation, baths and solitude in nature. The symptoms and experience of kundalini are also so preoccupying as to make all else disappear in one's perception.

Leading up and during the peak there is a sense of one's life coming to a nexus; a convergence of dream and daily experience by breaking through of the walls of one's conscious "I" to experience more of the sub and super conscious levels as well.

SUBSTANTIATION: Eventual loss of cyclic reactive mental patterns that dissolve along with the body armor. That is the mind becomes more silent. The body holds less tension and is calm and relaxed. Loss of compulsive and self destructive habits. After the blocks are cleared and the structures changed to convey more prana flow there is a permanent equanimity of the transcendental state. Less ambivalence, more centered. More single-mindedness of purpose. Clearer, deeper perception of reality. Distance from symbols, myths, stories and superstitions. Increased ability to embrace paradox, concreteness with abstractness. Able to unify focal and peripheral perception. Sense of seeing with an inner eye. More spontaneity and openness to experience. Increased gratitude and appreciation. Increased integration and wholeness. Increased autonomy and uniqueness. Increased detachment, objectivity an

Thyroid Metabolism And Kundalini

Thyroid Metabolism And Kundalini 

Thyroid hormones are derivatives of the amino acid tyrosine bound covalently to iodine. The thyroid gland secretes two principle thyroid hormones thyroxine T4 and the more physiologically active triiodothyronine T3. A healthy thyroid is intimately linked to a balanced endocrine system. The health of the endocrine system will reflect our overall health. The thyroid is a major player when it comes to hormonal health since it stimulates and synchronizes all metabolic cellular functions. All tissues in the body are stimulated by the thyroid and the level of cortisol at the cell level controls thyroid hormone production.

The hyperthyroid condition of peak kundalini will automatically eventually lead into a prolonged hypothyroid condition, so it is imperative to take adequate kelp supplementation during an awakening. Depending on what the primary socio-psychological triggers to a particular awakening are, this will determine the hormonal mix and whether the overall awakening serves to be more anabolic building or catabolic breakdown. First awakenings tend to be more adrenalized in general as a fear response to the unusual chemistry. If the death of a loved one is a trigger then this may greatly reduce sex hormone production making the overall awakening more catabolic. Conversely if it is a great love that triggers an awakening then sex hormones and growth hormone would promote a more anabolic awakening.

What is burning in Kundalini? Glucose mainly, but also fat...in ones first awakening it appears that a lot of muscle is burnt.that is converted to fuel,I lost 30 lbs my first awakening. The second one I didn't really burn body tissue like that, the mix of thyroid to growth hormone must have been different.I was hotter in the second awakening but the increased growth hormone sex hormones made the second awakening more conservative regenerative than the first.

In my experience kundalini awakenings can disrupt menstruation. Especially during the first awakening when we have no knowledge of what is happening to us, the stress hormones will essentially cease menses by lowering progesterone and thyroid. Perhaps after the shock of the initiation and the boost of hyperthyroid activity the thyroid simply burns out from the stress. The first awakening represents more of a shock as our thyroid, adrenals and nervous system go from an uninitiated to an initiated state. Thus the first awakening is more on edge, wildly swinging, unintegrated and extreme, even if subsequent awakenings are actually more intense. The shift from the uninitiated to the initiated poses the largest jump for both the body and the mind.

In addition to T 3, there are two additional active metabolites of T3 3,5 and 3,3' diiodothyronines, which they collectively call T2. T2 acts on the mitochondria directly, immediately increasing the rate of mitochondrial respiration, with a consequent increase in ATP production. T 3 on the other hand requires a day or longer to increase metabolic rate by acting at the nuclear level, inducing the transcription of genes controlling energy metabolism, primarily the genes for uncoupling proteins.

There are a number of supposed mechanisms whereby T2 is believed to increase mitochondrial energy production rates, resulting in increased ATP levels. These include an increased influx of Ca++ into the mitochondria, with a resulting increase in mitochondrial dehydrogenases. This leads to an increase in reduced substrates available for oxidation. Also if there is an increase in cytochrome oxidase activity this would hastens the reduction of O2, speeding up respiration. Scientists looking for the mechanism of increased ATP production in kundalini might like to consider the influence of T2.
HYPERTHYROIDISM

Catabolic  During fasting or when carbohydrate intake is reduced the conversion of T4 to the physiologically active T3 is reduced in order to lower the basal metabolic rate to preserve fat and muscle. Long-term hyperthyroidism with excessive T3 production is catabolic to bone as well as muscle.

Overworked heart  The increased work of the heart puts the greatest single demand on ATP usage, with increased heart rate and force of contraction accounting for up to 30% to 40% of ATP usage in hyperthyroidism.

Increased Oxidative Energy Metabolism  T3 and T2 increase the flux of nutrients into the mitochondria as well as the rate at which they are oxidized, by increasing the activities of the enzymes involved in the oxidative metabolic pathway. The increased rate of oxidation is reflected by an increase in oxygen consumption by the body.

Hyperthyroidism increases ATP production and thereby increases metabolic activity in the following ways:

Increased Na+/K+ATPase: This is the enzyme responsible for controlling the Na/K pump, which regulates the relative intracellular and extracellular concentrations of these ions, maintaining the normal transmembrane ion gradient. It has been estimated this effect may account for up to to 10% of the increased ATP usage.

Increased Ca++-dependent ATPase: The intracellular concentration of calcium must be kept lower than that outside the cell to maintain normal cellular function. ATP is required to pump out excess calcium. It has been estimated that 10% of a cell's energy expenditure is used just to maintain Ca++ homeostasis.

Futile cycling: Hyperthyroidism induces a futile cycle of lipogenesis/lipolysis in fat cells. The stored triglycerides are broken down into free fatty acids and glycerol, then reformed back into triglycerides again. This is an energy dependent process that utilizes some of the excess ATP produced in the hyperthyroid state. Futile cycling has been estimated to use approximately 15% of the excess ATP created during hyperthyroidism.

Heat Production: T3, has the ability to uncouple oxidation of substrates from ATP production. Resulting in reduced ATP production and an astounding production of heat. Such uncoupling occurs in skeletal muscle, contributing to T3 induced thermogenesis, with a resulting increase in basal metabolic rate. To make up for the deficit in ATP production "more" substrates (fat and muscle protein) are burned for fuel, resulting in weight loss. Muscle glycogen is also more rapidly depleted, and less efficiently stored during hyperthyroidism, which may create muscle weakness.

Increased Lipolysis  The catecholamines, epinephrine and norepinephrine, bind to the beta 2 adrenergic receptor in fat tissue and activate Hormone Sensitive Lipase (HSL). T3 results in an increased ability of catecholamines to activate HSL, leading to increased lipolysis or fat mobilization. Besides increasing beta 2 receptor density in adipose tissue, T3 upregulates this receptor in human skeletal muscle. Due to excessive T3 in more catabolic awakenings such as the first one, supplemental growth hormone might be necessary to avoid loss of fat and muscle.
HYPOTHYROIDISM

The exhaustion phase of the stress response and kundalini awakenings occurs when the body's ability to cope with stress becomes depleted. At this point, adrenal hormones plummet, from excessively high to excessively low. It is this latter phase of adrenal exhaustion that sometimes accompanies, or is mistaken for low thyroid. Some scientists believe that even the entrance of thyroid hormone into our cells is under the influence of adrenal hormones. Thus, if your adrenals are exhausted, you might do well to take both adrenal and thyroid hormone together.

Where do low thyroid and adrenal stress intersect? If you find yourself in the alarm phase of adrenal stress (high levels of ACTH and high levels of cortisol), one result might be altered conversion of T-4 into T-3, or thyronine.

The level of cortisol at the cell level controls thyroid hormone production. The enzyme that is used to convert T4 to T3 is inhibited by stress, acute and chronic illness, fasting and the stress hormone cortisol. Thus a hyper-adrenal situation can reduce the availability of biologically active thyroid hormone.

When the thyroid hormone is deficient, the body is generally exposed to increased levels of estrogen. The thyroid hormone is essential for making the 'protective hormones' progesterone and pregnenolone, so these hormones are lowered when anything interferes with the function of the thyroid. The thyroid hormone is required for using and eliminating cholesterol, so cholesterol is likely to be raised by anything which blocks the thyroid function.

Thyroid disorders are more common in women than men. In women, adequate binding of T3 is dependent upon sufficient progesterone. A low level of progesterone is a common experience in both young and older women. When women stop ovulating anovulation this means they are not producing adequate progesterone each month, leading to progesterone deficiency. This is also a similar condition that occurs for perimenopausal women. The main causes of the cessation of ovulation include an poor diet, nutritional deficiencies, skipping meals, emotional and physical stress, and over-exercising. Thus low progesterone levels in young women interferes with thyroid efficiency and is also one of the most frequent causes of infertility. One study showed that 94% of women with PMS were hypothyroid. Progesterone deficiency in perimenopause or menopausal years can predispose a woman to hypothyroidism during this time of her life.

Estrogen dominance, that is an excess of estrogen in relation to progesterone, inhibits thyroid function and can result from taking birth control pills, hormone replacement therapy, or exposure to environmental estrogens. A poorly functioning liver, exhausted adrenal glands, insulin resistance, compromised digestion and candida can also contribute to estrogen dominance. There are receptor sites for estrogen and progesterone in every cell throughout the body. Thus the immune system, the nervous system, the circulatory system, the digestive system the vascular system, the respiratory system all are effected by the flow and proper balance between these two hormones. Thyroid hormone is required to convert cholesterol into the vital anti-aging steroid hormones, pregnenolone, progesterone, and DHEA. Pregnenolone converts to progesterone and DHEA in the body. Progesterone and DHEA are precursors for more specialized hormones, including estrogen, testosterone, and cortisol.
HEAT SHOCK PROTEINS

Heat shock proteins HSPs, or stress proteins, are a group of proteins that are present in all cells in all life forms. They are induced when a cell undergoes various types of environmental stress like heat, cold, oxygen deprivation, poisons or signals from nerves or hormones. These heat shock proteins are sometimes called molecular chaperones, because they protect and usher other protein molecules around in the cell. They play an essential role in regulating normal protein equilibrium, that is the balance between synthesis and degradation.

Research has demonstrated that prior heat shock protects the nervous system at the functional level of neurotransmission and that specific stress-induced heat shock proteins are created tailored to elements of the synapse. This might suggest that the heat of kundalini actually protects synapses whose functionality must be preserved during stressful conditions to prevent breakdown of communication in the nervous system.

The heating of the nervous system by kundalini could increase the production of heat shock proteins which would protect the nerves and protein synthesis. Heat shock proteins are also present in cells under perfectly normal conditions. They act like chaperones, making sure that the cell's proteins are in the right shape and in the right place at the right time. They also shuttle proteins from one compartment to another inside the cell, and transport old proteins to garbage disposals inside the cell. Cells produce high levels of chaperones only briefly, even if stressful conditions persist, because too much HSP can straightjacket the cell into necrosis or cell death.

Inside the cell, heat shock proteins take the peptides and hand them over to another group of molecules. These other molecules take the abnormal peptides that are found only in sick cells and move them from inside the cell to outside on the cell's surface to help the immune system recognize diseased cells. These abnormal peptides are called antigens -- a term that describes any substance capable of triggering an immune response.

As cells age, the heat shock response doesn't function properly, just when it needs to be most efficient, but inducing extra heat shock protein has a neuroprotective effect. Stimulation of various repair pathways by mild stress has significant effects on delaying the onset of various age-associated alterations in cells, tissues and organisms. Spice and herbs contain phenolic substances which have potent antioxidative and chemopreventive properties. In particular, curcumin, a powerful antioxidant derived from turmeric, is a strong inducer of the heat shock response.

Oxidative stress has been implicated in mechanisms leading to neuronal cell injury in various pathological states of the brain. Brain seizures start cascades of cell death as the nerve cells in that area release toxic chemicals, including oxygen radicals and excitatory amino acids such as glutamate. Seizures no doubt induce a heat shock response to protect neurons from glutamate-induced excito toxicity. Studies show protection due to heat shock requires new protein synthesis, since it did not occur when protein or RNA synthesis inhibitors were added.

Kundalini Through the Diaphragm

Kundalini 

Through the Diaphragm,

The Primal Release Pose, and the Cardio-Muscular Release technique will help take contraction out of the diaphragm and rewire the vagus,,, nerve medulla area. Besides these any emotional release work would help, and breathing techniques such as Holotropic breathing. 

Also you could try what I call flying, which is to lie on your back on a bolster about 8" thick put under the back of the chest put your arms out and relax your breathing into the pose.

A consistent practice of singing, toning, chanting, mantra, humming and growling will help to loosen the diaphragm and detoxify the brain as well. Running and other aerobic exercise will give you more lung volume and give the diaphragm mechanism more energy to relax itself with. The Healing Way and The Belly and Its Power. 

Eros Muse Ma Libido Drinking Lightning

Drinking Lightning

MA

Pan  the flute player of the Muses, was the herald of wisdom. That wisdom of Omphalos, the World Navel, was his to bestow. This shows us that the ancient Greeks knew that an internal celestial music is heard in the highest states of consciousness. Pan the musician playing to the tune of Eros, can be heard when one crosses over the threshold into the sacred zone of the Universal Source. The herald of the Muse accompanies the numinous pristine luster of divine revelation the ecstasy of Union or non-separation.

In the painting entitled Ma we see this threshold, the gates to the Void, guarding the ancestral realm of knowledge. The pearl within-this mouth of Ma, represents Prajna wisdom Grokking that is achieved in the 9th Samadhi. When one has transcended the pairs of opposites in the one and only Universal Void suiiya.

The immanent transcendent Ground of all being, or the Real is suddenly seen One Taste, like a flash of lightning. At the 9th Samadhi there is a breaking through of conditioned reality to Grok the Eternal Present riunc stans. This sense of Timelessness is experienced when the central axis of the spinal cord sushumna becomes activated, marrying heaven and earth, the sun and the moon.

And with this experience of the Eternal Now there is a Stopping, Enlightenment, or Realization of the amplitude and majesty of one whose Spirit is stable. On breaking through the threshold between conditioned reality, to the sacred or unconditioned Reality, we find that the Safe Ground of the Unknown is constituted both by Maya and Absolute Spirit, by the illusion and the Real, by time and Timelessness. Thus realizing the interdependence and non-separation of the inner and outer worlds.

Spiritual initiation beyond the threshold involves a literal death and resurrection of the neophyte, or the descent into hell immanence followed by the ascension into Heaven transfiguration. With this initiation there is a dying off of the old self, as the plane of conditioned reality and its associated defense structures is ruptured.

The soul ascends the stairway of the mountain axis mundi, Earth navel, Kabbalah, Pyramid, Chakras entering the Beyond through a cave at the Summit of the mountain. Symbolizing the way to Absolute Reality at the numinous summit bridging heaven and earth.

The vulva cave signifies the Threshold, the alchemical vessel, the womb where this rebirth and redemption takes place. It is an analogue for the Grail, and we know for whom the Grail serves. The Grail serves Love, Eros, Libido the life-wish that animates the Universe.

The anima mundi, the indwelling soul of the earth, spontaneously opens to evolutionary creativity, driven by the inexorable lightning fires of Eros.

Having died to our former nature through the initiation of non separation, or the Rite of the Center there is a reanimation of the senses and a cleansing of perception. The vasanas or woeful memories of the collective unconscious are burnt off in purifying fires of Kundalini  Freeing us from the emotional pain of Karrhas, thereby allowing a Kosmic lucidity or transcendental perception. This scintillating transcendental perception is simply the true state of our Being that we are collectively blocking with our sin and ignorance.

The two, in-tensions that drive the living world are the life wish Eros, Libido and the death-wish Thanatos, Destrudo.

Whether we are climbing up the mountain or falling down it, the Universe constantly reminds us to remember our Divine State and raises us up from the sleep of the anarchic or non-meditative level.

The memory of the return to Center of Self is inherent in nature. The spiral journey of the soul is the Rite of the Center. The sacred mountain represents the bond or the highest point between heaven and earth. A return to Cosmic Center, the Navel of the Earth, the pure point at which creation spontaneously gives birth to itself, auto poetically arising from the Void in perpetual genesis, to the Cosmic music of Pan.

Of course the Void is prior to division of the sexes poles and therefore is not really feminine Yet from ages immemorial the great masters have observed that tati which is the creative power of the Universe behaves like a mother and manifests worlds out of its own womb like essence. It fosters life. It creates. The Indian sages refer to this action of "actionless being  in one of the most beautiful, primal and maternal of Sanskrit words, Ma. Drinking Lightning, Philip Rubinov Jacobson

Healthy Hormonal Foundation

Healthy Hormonal Foundation 

If the foundation of kundalini awakenings and life in general is sex and growth hormones, then it stands to reason that to both fuel an awakening and to prevent its premature end and burnout we need to strengthen our hormonal system.

L-Arginine a non-essential amino acid commonly found in the diet, is an oxidative precursor of nitric oxide (NO). Arginine is a safer and cheaper way to support NO production than Viagra. Like Viagra, the amino acid arginine increases blood flow to the genital area, potentially increasing sex organ sensation and enhancing the pleasure of sex. The concentration of L arginine can be a limiting factor to both our NO metabolism and the production of Human Growth Hormone. Arginine plays an important role in cell division, the healing of wounds, removing ammonia from the body, immune function, and the release of hormones. According to beyond-a-century.com L-Ornithine is about twice as effective at releasing Growth Hormone as L-Arginine.

Arginine synthesis mainly occurs via the intestinal Ðrenal axis, wherein epithelial cells of the small intestine, which produce citrulline primarily from glutamine and glutamate, collaborate with the proximal tubule cells of the kidney. These extract citrulline from the circulation and convert it to arginine, which is returned to the circulation. Consequently, impairment of small bowel or renal function can reduce endogenous arginine synthesis, thereby increasing the dietary requirement.

Warning  Until we are informed differently by science I strongly suggest that Arginine, Ornithine, Histadine and possibly Glutamine supplementation be avoided during peak kundalini to reduce nitric oxide toxicity and prevent excessive histamine metabolism. However supplementation of these amino acids may be very important during the exhaustion phase and after. Also because of its ability to increase human growth hormone HGH people with any kind of cancer or herpes infection  e.g., cold sores, chicken pox, shingles), or a history of herpes, should not take L-arginine supplements and avoid food sources of arginine including chocolate, beer, grain cereals, meats, seeds, nuts, and beans.

Choline It is the neurotransmitter acetylcholine ACh  that carries the sexual message in the cholinergic nerve transmission of sexual response. ACh also seems to control sexual behavior through its activity in the brain. Increase ACh levels, and sexual activity goes up granted the availability of partners that is). ACh is involved in the build-up toward orgasm and the urethral and vaginal contractions that occur during orgasm as well as orgasm intensity and duration. Acetylcholine is also the primary chemical the body uses to transmit signals from nerves to skeletal muscles, so this chemical is needed for muscular control and proper muscle tone, and will enhance energy and stamina. Supplemental choline is taken along with vitamin B5, for the manufacture of more ACh in the body.

Vitamin B5 pantothenic acid  enhances endurance by its role in creating ACh from choline and its role in the energy-producing Krebs' Cycle, which is vital for all living cells.

Black Cohosh Cimicifuga racemosa acts at the hypothalamic and pituitary level, resulting in a decrease in Luteinizing Hormone (LH). LH in women promotes estrogen and progesterone secretion, and maintains ovarian tissues. In men, LH stimulates Leydig cells in the testes to secrete testosterone. With aging LH levels normally rise with age in both men and women as hypothalamic estrogen receptors become less sensitive to feedback inhibition. Black cohosh suppresses LH to more youthful levels, perhaps by improving estrogen and progesterone receptor sensitivity. Black Cohosh targets serotonin receptors which are used to regulate body temperature, so might be useful during the peak heat of kundalini.

Chaste Berry Vitex agnus castus helps to restore youthful gonadotropin levels in both sexes by acting at the hypothalamic level to increase secretion of LH and decreasing FSH, also causes a relative increase in progesterone and a relative decrease in estrogens.

Forskolin Coleus forskohlii activates the enzyme adenylate cyclase is incorporated into all cellular membranes which in turn, increases cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) in cells. Cyclic AMP is essential to synthesize and regulate thyroid hormones, growth hormone, cortisol, DHEA, testosterone, melatonin and other hormones.

Ginkgo Biloba for improved blood flow, enhance oxygenation of tissues, protect blood vessels from free radical damage, and restore elasticity and tone to the entire circulatory system. Researchers suggested that ginkgo worked to increase sex function by stimulating the release of nitric oxide. Nitric oxide is the primary messenger molecule that signals the blood vessels to dilate and sends blood to the corpus cavernosum to achieve and maintain an erection.

Ginseng As an adaptogen Ginseng's use in treating sexual dysfunction may be through direct improvement of the central nervous system and gonadal tissue. And through significantly altering the activity of hypothalamic catecholamines involved in sexual behavior and hormone secretion. There is increasing evidence for a role of nitric oxide in ginseng's ability to facilitate erection by directly inducing the vasodilatation and relaxation of penile corpus cavernosum. Increased levels of prolactin cause impotence studies show ginseng treatment decreased prolactin secretion and suggest a direct nitric oxide effect of ginseng on the pituitary.

Tribulus terrestris leads to increased production of the luteinizing hormone (LH) levels by 72%, and free testosterone levels by 41%. When LH levels are increased, the natural production of testosterone also increases along with sex drive. Protodioscine is a component of Tribulus that converts to DHEA, thereby improving sexual desire and enhances erection. The enhanced erection and aphrodisiac effects observed with tribulus are due to increases in the release of nitric oxide (NO) from the endothelium and nitrergic nerve endings. Tribulus may be the best resensitizer of the hypothalamo-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) axis of both men and women, reducing the requirement for hormone replacement therapy. As well as its receptor-sensitizing effects, it is likely that Tribulus can enhance the effectiveness of hormone replacement therapy, while reducing adverse effects and receptor downregulation.

Mucuna Pruriens is a natural source of L-Dopa. the chemical precursor of the neurotransmitter dopamine, which in turn is a precursor of norepinephrine. L-Dopa stimulates the dopamine and norepinephrine systems of the brain, boosting libido. It appears that higher levels of dopamine are associated with increased sexual interest. The natural L-Dopa in Macuna has been shown to convert into Dopamine in the brain. Dopamine stimulates the hypothalamus and pituitary to release growth hormone. Dopamine also regulates motor control, sex drive, immune function, fat gain and loss, lean muscle gain, bone density, energy levels, and the ability to sleep soundly. L-Dopa and Dopamine are also effective inhibitors of prolactin. Increased levels of the pituitary hormone Prolactin is a hormone released by the pituitary gland is considered responsible for 70Ð80% of erection failure in males.

Muira puama (Ptychopetalum olacoides) also called "potency wood," is a small Brazilian tree used as an aphrodisiac and sexual tonic for promoting virility, fertility, treating impotence and increasing libido. Other benefits include protection of brain cells, reduction in fatigue, improved sleep, and increased morning erections. Native people use the stems and roots from young plants as a tonic to treat neuromuscular problems; a root decoction is used in baths and massages for treating paralysis and beri-beri; and a root-and-bark tea is taken to treat sexual debility, rheumatism, cardiac and gastrointestinal weakness, nerve pain, menstrual disturbances, dysentery, depression, menstrual cramps, PMS, nerve pain, and central nervous system disorders.

Yohimbe is supposed to be the most effective herb for erections, however it is equivalent to 20 cups of coffee so it will trash your nerves. Heart palpitations and excitation with insomnia for up to 30 hours can happen after ingesting even a small amount of yohimbine (the alkaloid extract of yohimbe). Note that yohimbe does not increase testosterone and most yohimbe supplements contain "none" of the active ingredient yohimbine.

Long Jack  Eurycoma Longifolia The safest & most potent herbal aphrodisiac in the world. It is rare to get the genuine item.

Red Flower Flos Catharmi Activates blood circulation to genitals, removes blood stasis and relieves pain.

Rhizoma Cucurmae Longae  Helps to eliminate blood stasis, promote the flow of energy to genital areaandrelieves pain.

Horny Goat Weed Herba Epimedii A well-known herb that has been used for centuries to treat impotence,reinforce seminal emission, strengthen tendons, bones and limbs, relieve rheumatic conditions and for diabetes and Parkinson's. The way that horny goat weed works remains unknown, the plant has long been employed to restore sexual fire, boost erectile function, allay fatigue and alleviate menopausal discomfort.

Rou Cong Rong Herba Cistanches One of the most popular and potent tonic herbs that enhances sexual function, treats impotence and strengthens the back and knees.

Huang Qi  Astragalus Membranaceus To reinforce "qi" and strengthen the superficial resistance; also helps to accelerate new tissue growth.

Other supplements for sex function include

Dong Quai, Damiana, Forskolin (Coleus forskohlii), Dodder Seed, FoTi, Gotu kola, Licorice root, Maca, Oat Grass Juice, Sarsaparilla, Saw palmetto. Fish oil (Omega 3) increases NO, papaya increases Arginine, Histidine, Vitamin B-6, Niacin, zinc, 

selenium, magnesium.

Top 10 Foods That Increase Sex Drive
Do you feel like your sex drive just isn’t what it used to be? You aren’t alone —many people feel that way at some point in their lives. In some cases, a decrease in libido may be due to a medical issue. For many people, however, the situation may be remedied without resorting to dangerous medications or other harmful supplements. These foods are natural, safe, and effective libido boosters.

1. Oysters - Oysters have long been suspected as a love drug. Cleopatra and Casanova had one thing in common, they loved oysters. Legend has it that Casanova ate dozens of oysters per day. The Venetian romancer once seduced a vestal virgin by seductively sliding an oyster from his mouth to hers. If that doesn’t get you in the mood, I don’t know what will! In fact, current research proves our suspicion. Oysters improves dopamine levels which boosts libido in men and women. Oysters are also high in zinc which is vital for testosterone production and healthy sperm.

2. Watermelon – Some experts have called watermelon the new Viagra. Bhimu Patil, researcher and director of the Fruit and Vegetable Improvement Center at Texas A&M University, stated eating watermelon delivers Viagra-like effects on blood vessels throughout the body and may increase libido! This cool refreshing fruit contains citrulline amino acid. Citruline is good for the cardiovascular system and helps relax the blood vessels that increase sex drive. 2 If you want to get in the mood, make this Watermelon Sorbet and share it with your partner. I’m all about the easy delicious recipes!

3. Chocolate - All chocolate comes from cacao bean. In its processed form it is known as cocoa. The Aztecs referred to cacao as nourishment of the Gods. Modern day foodies know raw cacao in its pure unadulteratedform is a superfood. It has more antioxidants than green tea or red wine. It also contains a stimulating chemical known as phenylethlamine, that stimulates the sense of excitement and well being. The Journal of Sexual Medicine published a study that found, women who enjoyed a piece of chocolate every day had a more active sex life than those who didn’t. I get my daily dose of raw cocoa with my Raw Cocoa Coconut Fudge Recipe. I eat it every day, and it’s literally a five minute recipe.

4. Asparagus - Known for its suggestive shape, asparagus is high in a B vitamin known as folate that aids in increasing the production of histamine. Histamine is important for a healthy sex drive in men and women.3 The most delicious asparagus is just picked, it is so sweet! Grow your own or buy it fresh and organic at your local farmers market.

5. Avacado - A recent report stated organic Sicilian avocados are taking Europe by storm. Apparently the Europeans can’t get enough of them. The ancient Aztec’s nickname for avocado was “ahuacatl,” or testicle because of the fruit’s shapely form. The Catholic Spanish priests found avocados so sexy, the forbade them to their parishioners.

6. Maca - Is known by many as Peru’s natural Viagra. Apparently this natural root has been known throughout Peru’s history as a sex enhancing root passed down by the Inca. According to Discovery Health’s medicine hunter Chris Kilam, the maca plant is used by the Peruvian culture to increase strength, stamina, energy, fertility and libido. Wow this sounds like a winning combination! Maybe I’ll start adding it to my morning smoothies.

7. Pumpkin seeds - Like oysters, pumpkin seeds are high in zinc which is essential for healthy sperm production and preventing testosterone deficiency in men. They are also loaded with libido vitamins and minerals like vitamin B, E, C, D, K and minerals including calcium, potassium, niacin and phosphorous.4 Next time Halloween comes around, now you know what to do with those left over pumpkin seeds, roast those babies.

8. Chiles - The stuff that makes chilies hot, capsaicin, can actually rev up your libido. Have you ever noticed a natural high when eating chilies? Capsaicin promotes the release of chemicals that can raise your heart rate and trigger the release of endorphins that give you a natural high, which pumps that libido!

9. Figs – Legend has it figs were one of Cleopatra’s favorite foods. According to Dr. Nalini Chilkov, L.Ac., O.M.D, figs have been prized as a sensual food for their resemblance of the female sex organs. The ancient Greeks valued figs more precious than gold and many cultures associated figs with fertility.

10. Garlic – Eating raw garlic may make your partner turn the other way in bed, but it can certainly stir up your sexual desire. The heat in garlic is what stirs up your libido. Garlic contains allicin, which is thought to increase blood flow to sexual organs. This trick doesn’t work overnight however, apparently you need to consume it for about a month to reap its rewards. If you can’t stand the raw garlic go for the capsules found at your local natural food market.

Kundalini Exploring the Symptoms

Exploring the Symptoms 

The unconscious nervous system is the autonomic nervous system which yogis do have some control over. Many of the Kundalini symptoms arise from the brain stem, which consists of the medulla, pons, cerebellum and mid brain...that is the majority of Kundalini symptoms originate from areas of the brain that are beyond our normal control. Hence many of the symptoms and feelings arise directly from physiological events triggered by specific neural circuits. The ultimate outcome of Kundalini awakenings is a reduction in background fear, body armor and emotional volatility.
Over the period of peak awakening sex hormones and other pituitary hormones are raging  the heart is radically expanded and engorged with blood, and the digestive system venting due to parasympathetic hyper tonality skeletal muscles are ready for action and hyper vigilance is up due to the flight/fight activation of the sympathetic nervous system. Thus during a Kundalini awakening there is a simultaneous hyperactivity of the 4F-Responses censored freeze/fight/flight. It is not all tongue in cheek when I say that this 4 F Response Theory basically explains all the Kundalini symptoms and health consequences.

In response to threat, the organism can fight, flee or freeze. These responses exist as parts of a unified defense system. When fight and flight responses are thwarted, the organism instinctively constricts as it moves toward its last option the freeze response. As it constricts, the energy that would have been discharged by executing the fight or flight strategies is amplified and bound up in the nervous system

If the organism is able to discharge the energy by fleeing or defending itself and thus resolve the threat, trauma will not occur In humans, trauma occurs as a result of the initiation of an instinctual cycle that is not allowed to finish. When the neo cortex overrides the instinctual responses that would initiate the completion of this cycle, we will be traumatized. Peter A. Levine, Ann Frederick, Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences

The fact that the freeze response occurs during the hyper tonality of both sympathetic and parasympathetic NS has profound implications. I used to think the paralysis that occurs during extreme events was due to overloading of the sensory motor cortex with Kundalini energy. This may play a part in it, but now I think the paralysis is due to the brain stem stimulating an extreme parasympathetic response to meet the extreme sympathetic activity that is occurring thus both on and off switches are at full bore. To prevent any further escalation of this duel between the on and off systems the body turns on a massive freeze response via the dorsal vagal complex. The dorsal vagus complex DVC is a cluster of connected neurons in the brain stem medulla that slows down the energy-expending processes. It is the primative unmyelinated vagus related to the conservation of metabolic resources.

This freeze response is experienced as paralysis and as far as I know the paralysis only happens during inner-conjunction events when the energy is pouring at maximum voltage up the spine itself. One of the reasons why paralysis occurs during the full flux up the spine is that the spine must be straight at this time people always talk about their spine becoming as rigid as a stick during the spinal inner conjunction. This might be a similar thing to sleep paralysis that prevents the body moving during REM sleep, and also to the state of immobilization without fear that occurs during sexual activity in the female mammal.

During the peak heart expansion event Heart Nova or Solar Heart again the sympathetic and parasympathetic are dueling at their maximum and the dorsal vagal complex again kicks in bringing on a freeze response. But in this particular situation instead of paralysis a Dive Reflex occurs, essentially pulling the individual into the ground and making them lie flat. That way the heart that is already laboring at max due to the expansion doesn't have to work at pumping against gravity to get the blood around the body. In other words the intense grounding where the body is forcibly pulled into the ground during a heart expansion event, may be due to the dive reflex stimulated by the dorsal vagus complex DVC during a freeze response. The DVC governs the dive reflex in reptiles, where they remain submerged for long periods of time to pursue prey or escape predators. Research on the human dive reflex suggested that it does involve concurrent sympathetic and parasympathetic activation.

Perhaps both the heart expansion and the dive reflex will always go together as the body tries to tone down the expansion of the heart. For this hyper expanded heart may stimulate the vagus to initiate a dive reflex to prevent the organism from overexertion when the cardiovascular system is so engorged, dilated and overworking. By lying down the heart does not have to work so hard against gravity to pump blood. Since the blood vessels and the heart itself are hyper dilated blood pressure would fall, so lying down would both reduce the toll of low blood pressure and having to work against gravity. Low blood pressure reduces oxygen in the brain and this would force the body into a faint, with acute fatigue and bring on the compulsion to lie down.

The heart expansions themselves might occur when the parasympathetic gains dominance in the cascade of Kundalini activity. They occur during periods of intense bliss, right brain consciousness and are associated with intense grounding and extreme lethargy. This dive reflex makes more sense than my first explanation, which was the extra grounding needed by the hearts field pulling one into the ground during the massive heart expansion periods that occur. Whatever the cause of the grounding, it must be noted that the extreme pull on the body is relieved by lying for half an hour on the grass or bare earth with ones spine on the ground. This is no doubt a key to understanding the phenomena.

The gravity warping sensation could be a fluxing in the nerve sheath between sympathetic and parasympathetic dominance. Since they are both in a highly activated state this shifting might be more noticeable than usual and give the sensation of gravity crushing sympathetic or gravity expanding parasympathetic. The expansion/contraction sensation would arise mostly from the heart, and blood vessels and relate to the level of Nitric Oxide generation. Increased vasodilation would give an expanding gravity effect, while a turn toward vasoconstriction would give one the sense of gravity crushing, or implosion.


It is apparent that when both sides of the nervous system are radically hyper activated then the freeze response automatically comes on to modulate the over activity, essentially to protect the brain from excessive stimulation and damage by nitric oxide, glutamate, adrenaline, norepinephrine and cortisol. Thus there must be a freeze in effect throughout a Kundalini awakening to varying degrees, culminating in total paralysis during the inner-conjunction.

Given the right circumstances stress could trigger a full-on Kundalini awakening. It appears that the awakening of Kundalini means the prolonged hyperactivation and dance between both sides of the nervous system with periodic dominance of the freeze response during extreme inner events. It could be that after a certain period of this extreme nerve activity the immune system goes into a radical catabolic condition, what I call a die off. Part of the function of a die off could be the resetting of the nervous system equilibrium, breakdown of axions and restructuring to a more mature/advanced functioning. It does seem that the sense of being overwrought and out of our depths disappears after a die-off for we have assimilated our metamorphic progress to date and have a new lease on life. The timing of the die off must correspond to both the intensity and duration of nerve activity. A more acute phase of neurological chemistry is followed more quickly by a die-off to help bring the rest organism up with the refinement or growth that has occurred in the nervous system.

Sleep Paralysis with its complete or partial atonia, most likely is the result of hyper-para sympathic activation of the DVC. Sleep paralysis is experienced when the individual bypasses directly to REM dream sleep with its Beta-wave cortical activity. The REM sleep phenomena is associated with the inhibition of certain motor neurons; inhibition of sensory input; rapid eye movements; activation of brain stem neurons that control the movement of facial muscles; and important to the hallucinatory experiences associated with sleep paralysis, the activation of visual pathways. These events normally occur when neurons in the pons a medullar structure become active after a period of non-REM sleep (slow-wave, synchronized sleep.

Sleep paralysis is an evolutionarily old function to keep animals still while they are sleeping and prevent them falling off cliffs, trees or attracting predators. Certainly it must have emerged simultaneous with REM dream state to prevent motor response to dream imagery. The most obvious neurotransmitter agents to sleep paralysis would be inhibitors GABA and glycine, but it probably more complex than that. Those that become "aware" of being paralyzed descend to hypnogia Theta without going through the normal phases that kick in the loss of consciousness, so they are conscious while paralyzed, usually with amazing visions to account for their journey. The lucid perception of sleep paralysis can give one the sensation of compression on the chest and suffocation as energy is removed from the diaphram. It is the sympathetic side of the nervous system that stimulates breathing activity and thereby raises blood oxygen.

Besides Robert Scaers idea of the dorsal vagus complex causing freeze paralysis another possible cause of paralysis during extreme spiritual energy states could be the hyper activation of the limbic system and brain stem and its consequent effects on incapacitating the motor-sensory cortex. Rhawn Joseph at Brain-mind.com says that freezing is brought about by both the overload/overwhelm of the motor and frontal lobes and the consequent burnout of dopamine and serotonin in these areas. Freezing is a life preserving reaction in nature that is apparently mediated by the amygdala and striatum. He writes the amygdala under conditions of extreme fear and arousal, can induce catatonic-like frozen panic states--resulting in a inability to initiate a voluntary movement, and the Will to move or vocalize may be completely negated. Given the extensive interconnections of the medial frontal lobes, corpus and limbic striatum with amygdala, it appears that when exceedingly aroused or emotionally stressed, the amygdala is able to inhibit by overactivation the frontal-striatal motor centers. When this occurs, the organism may fall and cease to move, blink or even breathe, thus appear to be dead and in a state of rigor mortis.

Rawl Joseph suggests the numbing during the fear response is caused by a massive secretion of opiates within the amygdala and basal ganglia, while the rigidity and loss of Will is a consequence hyper-amygdala influences on the medial frontal lobe and corpus and limbic striatum. The amygdala is able to induce these catatonic states, via interconnections with the basal ganglia, brainstem, as well as the medial frontal lobes. Under extremely stressful conditions the striatal, frontal lobe and amygdala, are simultaneously undergoing dopamine depletion, which in turn results in hyperactivation of these areas.

In the Eastern traditions there is a catatonic deathlike state called Nirodha meaning prior to the arising of ignorance and volitional impulse. Like deep Samadhi, Nirodha is a very high non-meditative meditative state. During Nirodha there is no time sense, heartbeat and metabolism are slow and practically cease so very little energy is burned, and body temperature drops well below normal. In fact this spiritual catatonia is so deathlike that there is the danger of being mistaken as dead and so buried alive. It is said that Nirodha is a precursor to Ego Death. Nigredoin Western alchemy is the death-like withdraw of the soul from the body.
"The Gnani (he Enlightened)continually enjoys uninterrupted, transcendental experience, keeping his inner attention always on the Source, in spite of the apparent existence of the ego, which the ignorant imagine to be real. This apparent ego is harmless; it is like the skeleton of a burnt rope--though it has form, it is of no use to tie anything with. Sri Ramana Maharshi

Tingles are felt especially on the left side of the body from the base of the foot up, and bubbles like champagne in the pelvis. Tingles and bubbles are always associated with increased Kundalini flow, heat and bliss, so this phenomena is probably an effect of the nervous system and opiate receptors. There is some indication that the tingly feeling of Kundalini may be associated with an increased amount of nitric oxide, perhaps in the nerves themselves.


The left brain freeze is one of the first radical symptoms to arise . This symptom includes a pressure-clamp and numbness covering the left side of the scalp that extends down the forehead and into the eye socket. This numbness started peaking 3 days before I met my initiator, so my body-soul already knew exactly when the meeting was to happen. Or rather the alchemy was occurring despite the temporal and geographical distance between us. And my condition proceeded in direct response to when we would meet and be in each others presence, though my conscious mind had no idea we would meet at all. For me the left brain freeze continued in varying intensity throughout the 3 years that Kundalini was highly active, though it was most severe during the 6 month apex. Since this neuro inhibiting clamp only occurs on the left side of the brain, this is another factor leading to the conclusion that the over excitation of nerves by Kundalini energy mostly occurs in the left hemisphere and left side of the body. Although why this is I do not know.

I assumed that this numbing clamp was due to the neuroinhibitors GABA, Glycine and endorphins. In the google video by Robert Sapolsky Stress, neurodegeneration and Individual Differences, he said the neuronal defenses against over excitation by glutamate include substances such as adenosine, GABA and taurine. The neuroinhibitor Adenosine plays an important role in biochemical processes, such as energy transfer as adenosine triphosphate ATP and ADP as well as in signal transduction as cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP). Caffeine's stimulatory effects are primarily (although not entirely) credited to its inhibition of adenosine by binding to the same receptors. This reduction in adenosine activity leads to increased activity of the stimulatory neurotransmitter dopamine. Adenosine also acts as a vasodilator of the arteries through the relaxation of smooth muscle, thus might be a factor in both the heart expansions and the red eyelid effect. By blocking adenosine receptors caffeine on the other hand is a vasoconstrictor; 250 milligrams of caffeine can decrease central blood flow by 20-30%. With the information currently available we can assume that the leftbrain freeze is caused by both vasodilation and neuroinhibition.


One can see that the left eyelid is droopy, the pupil is dilated and a strange new consciousness is apparent in the eye itself. During sun meditation as I looked at the sun I found my left eyelid was lit red from the increased blood supply due to dilated blood vessels.  Understanding the experience of the red eyelid capped off my entire investigation, for once I understood the presence of increased nitric oxide during kundalini and started reading about the freeze response. I realized that the paralysis, the left-brain freeze and red eye lid were not accompanied by the "contraction" of tissues but by their dilation, even if the numbing clamping effect feels like a contraction. And that the paralysis during the inner-conjunction may not be due to the over stimulation of the motor-sensory cortex, but due to the freeze response that operates on the brainstem and the dorsal vagus complex.

The neurological cause of the left brain freeze is probably rather simply explained. Since most of the electrical activity is experienced on the left body and left brain I assume that the numbing of the scalp of the left side of the head is simply the result of massive beta endorphin opiate production in an effort to inhibit the excessive nerve firing in the left side of the brain.

This left-brain clamp crab gives new meaning to the term numb skull." Doing mathematics in the head is almost impossible. One has to watch out that one doesn't do silly things, or rather one watches oneself "do" silly things. The effect of having the left-brain function suspended results in the body-soul claiming its own time and space for metamorphosis to occur. The ego and one's life becomes subordinate to the metamorphic crisis as it totally takes over one's existence. With these awesome forces the ego soon learns that it is not in the drivers seat, that it is Kundalini that is living us. The numbing effect of the left-brain freeze can reach such acute proportions that I was reduced to a radically right-brained consciousness on the day that I met Mr. Universal. On that day my left-brain freeze reached its zenith and right-brain consciousness became more prominent in general during the entire period of the awakening.

The night after leaving my initiators presence I had the most ecstatic divine experience of my life. I had lapsed into a paralyzed, rapturous trance as soon as I had gone to bed. Although time is incalculable during such events, it seemed like for perhaps half an hour or more a blissful electric penis was entering me while ecstatic energy poured upwards through every cell of my body. I call this experience Sex with Eros. , but with this Sex-with-Eros thing, I was God his-very-self and she was a woman. Sex with Eros involves spontaneous prolonged full body orgasm during an inner conjunction, without a partner or any stimulation. However orgasm in no way describes the sense of divinity and absolute unity that occurs. I think this is what mythic traditions might have interpreted as having sex with the Gods, or with angels. It might even correspond to the idea of being impregnated by God and consequently the virgin birth. Stimulation of these contractions is probably due to a combination of vasopressin, oxytocin, prostaglandins, nitric oxide and histamine; within the context of generally upgraded sex hormones that occurs during the heating and peak Kundalini stages.


As night follows day, the morning after this complete opening I woke to find myself in its opposite. A massive autonomic shock that I call the White Death. This involved an involuntary contraction of my entire body. The skin turns white as adrenaline causes blood to leave the surface tissues and into the vasodilation of the skeletal muscles to be ready for action. My face was white and my hair stuck out like I had been electrocuted and my intestines, liver, spleen and other viscera curled up and were contracted for days. Motor control was impaired and the freeze response, endorphin numbing, and possible nitric oxide damage leaves us with the dissociated feeling of "not being in our body." In fact I was so disembodied that morning that I had a Hakomi session body-centered psychotherapy to try and put myself back in my body. The Hakomi exercises worked to a degree, at least to help me feel less like a car crash victim or dissociated robot. After any such autonomic shock it is imperative to shake, dance, run, to push against walls with arms, back and legs and make expressive noises to eliminate the stored tension of the freeze response from the body. Dr. Robert Scaer's book The Trauma Spectrum is a great source of information on the freeze response, trauma and PTSD.http://www.trauma-pages.com/scaer-2001.htm
(See Nitric Oxide in Septic Shock of the White Death for a biochemical explanation.)


After this radical expansion and contraction the full conflagration of Kundalini heat came on, along with intense heart pressure and mystic ecstasies. My left-brain continued to be so contracted that my left scalp, extending into the face and neck was radically numb. The numbness becoming more prominent when the flow of Kundalini increased during its monthly progressions. I didn't experience a lot of pain but I did have discomfort and intolerance for the overpowering intensity of the energy. Of course going "with it" rather than resisting or running from it is the answer. To breathe into it and raise the energy up, without fear.

Philip St. Romain in "Kundalini Energy and Christian Spirituality," says that his kundalini symptoms of the crab, the pincers and the sword on his head, became more painful when he deviated from spiritual alignment into various things like TV, reading, writing, certain foods etc...This pain kept him on track to more fully enter his surrender. Philip St. Romain attributed great significance in the tucking in of the chin to facilitate the free flow of energy between the body and the head, and thought his symptom of the Crab was due to not practicing this neck-lock posture during prayer. He assumed the Crab effect was the result of pressurized cerebrospinal fluid in the ventricles.

Vasoactive Amines, that is nitrogen containing substances that dilate blood vessels, include histamine and serotonin, which are strongly vasoactive; and tyramine and dopamine which are also quite vasoactive. Mood elevating Ginkgo Biloba increases the brain uptake of serotonin. Serotonin 5-HT is a vasodilator. A deficency of serotonin would therefore decrease blood flow due to relative vasoconstriction. Amines are normally rapidly deaminated after they enter the body by monoamine oxidase (MAO), which is present in many tissues. This mitochondrial enzyme catalyses oxidative deamination of almost all vasoactive amines. So normal consumption of such amines not normally a threat. Banana peel is richest source of dopamine 700 mg/g, while the pulp has much less at 10 mg/g.

Since the left-brain freeze always occurs along with radical heart expansion, the numbness might be related to the vasodilators: histamine, nitric oxide, serotonin and acetylcholine. But whatever it is it must be pretty substantial chemistry to exist for more than 3 years at varying intensity. As I mentioned, since the left eyelid was redder on looking toward the sun, suggesting the vessels were dilated, this leads me to assume that the expanded state of the heart and associated dilated blood vessels is a major contributor to the left-brain freeze effect. Could the lowered blood pressure caused by the expanded vessels create this numbness, and why only on the left side if the effect is neurotransmitter based. The numbness actually occurs along with what feels like pretty intense head pressures especially in the prefrontal lobes. The logical answer is that the numbness is endorphin based, but there again why only on the left side of the brain.



Initially I thought that the Left-Brain Freeze the Crab, Philip St. Roman was due to the increase in the Heart's electromagnetic field, because the heart expansion is such an overarching, omnipotent affect. But another cause could be related to initation of spleen and immune activity, from the hyper-activation of the sympathetic nervous system during the acute phase of the awakening. In which case histamine would factor into the mix. The left-brain numbness and contraction probably starts at the same time that the spleen contracts releasing its store of blood. Thus the spleen, bone marrow and the immune system reboot to change from normal function to metamorphic mode, in order to break down and dissolve the pupael body. It could be that as long as the spleen is functioning in its metamorphic capacity there may be some left-brain freeze.

If indeed the spleen and macrophages are set into hyperdrive by the expansion and contraction of the nervous system rapid flipping between hyper-sympathetic to hyper-parasympathetic then the white blood cells would be producing a lot of nitric oxide (free radicals) and this liberal dosing of vasodilator would keep the hyperactivation of the nervous system going, coupled with the radically increased heart expansion and associated amplified heart electromagnetic field. Within the heightened heart field the entire body would be dissolved and reformed in alignment with the higher template of the expanded heart. The end result of the effect of sustained heart expansion over many years results in the dissolving of body armor and traumatic memory in the brain thus reducing neurosis, tension and body pain.

During fight flight first the inflammatory response is activated, then when acute danger is over the immune system is activated. This stimulates the spleen to contract, releasing much of its blood into circulation, as well as the liberation of glycogen stores from the liver. It seems all the visceral organs go into a major contraction at the onset of the acute Kundalini phase in preparation for the shift to the self-dissolution work. Thus blood leaves the spleen, liver and digestive system and travels to the skeletal muscles to prepare the organism for action in the face of danger and possible injury. At this point histamine metabolism in the bone marrow probably sets off the mechanism of using energy stored in the Calcium bonds in the bones. This provides extra energy for the Kundalini conflagration and produces heat.

The acute phase of Kundalini seems to largely consist of both fight flight response and freeze response. That is the body is in a state of hyper-vigilance go coupled with a freeze stop and this burns a lot of energy without any work being done, thus we can loose a lot of weight this way. People often report rapid weight loss during their first awakening especially when this radical shock is more in effect than in latter awakenings. Remember this shock is autonomic, we have no control over it, except perhaps if we are an advanced yogi.

The brain is a hologram of the body, so the condition of various tissues throughout the body is reflected in the nature of the brain. An occluded dead pelvis for instance would have its corresponding occlusion and deficiency in the brain structure and chemistry. Thus when we have Kundalini moving through the pelvis it is simultaneously moving through a particular pathway in the brain. The end result of this chemistry seems to be an unlocking of connective tissue, a loosening of the entire body armor and reduction in the pain of the painbody.

Kriyas are seizure type impulses related to certain neurotransmitters and areas in the brain. Traditionally it was thought kriyas were purifying movements or cleansing actions revealing blocks to the flow of kundalini. They say that yoga arose through observing the various spontaneously arising positions asanas created by kriyas. I think this might be partly the case...whether a voluntary complying with the way the energy wants to go, or involuntary compulsory asanas.

It was assumed that kriyas, or the spontaneous convulsions and contorted movements produced by kundalini are stress being released in order to unblock and restructure the tissue to convey greater consciousness. However kriyas are best explained in terms of neurochemistry such as the "overexcitation or disinhibition" of the body's glycine and GABA-producing neurons in the brain centers that coordinate movement. So that the nervous system is all go and the inhibiting off-switch is incapacitated. I think they are probably convulsive discharges of the letting go of the freeze response and from spontaneous firing through the motor areas in the brain. The convulsions are more likely to be the result of kindling type brain chemistry that perpetuates itself and slowly changes nerves, brain and cells until the whole body is transformed to a higher rev state.

Kriyas might be painful with the spontaneous contraction of muscles, not everyone experiences kriyas though. Mostly Kundalini is not associated with pain because of the extreme levels of opiates produced. Traditionally the spinal knots that kundalini penetrates are called grathis. In the East they say the root chakra, heart and third eye charkas are the greatest obstacles to the rising of Kundalini  However, the process is not linear, it moves with the seasons, returning again and again to the same spot to work at a deeper level each time.

Visual acuity transcendental vision goes up in the heating and peak phases of Kundalini due to stimulation to the occipital lobe where the visual cortex lies, and to increased pituitary hormones, nitric oxide, histamine, phenylethelamine, dopamine, norephinephrine.and increased blood flow to the brain. Because transcendental vision is very much like being on the drug Ecstasy, which is a dopamine drug, I suspect that it is phenylethylamine and dopamine that gives us the radical shift in vision as though every atom were scintillating and super-alive.ie: the eyes of love. Whatever the neurotransmitter mix one can assume that more energy passing through the optic brain center leads to scintillating transcendental vision. Kundalini itself is not hallucinogenic, so although there is a high level of opiates being produced, endogenic euthogens are probably not in affect as a general rule.

The increase in psi and telepathy is harder to explain but is probably something equally as simple such as nonlocal primary perception or super conduction of consciousness. The EMF of the human body is probably greatly magnified during kundalini and the brain might be able to pick up the radio signal of a significant other. The other alternative is that consciousness doesn't "travel" in any kind of wave, but that it is a nonlocal phenomena; but I think we need new physics to explain that one; especially as it relates to precognition.


Psychic and bioenergetic phenomena doesn't actually mean anything other than the meaning we give it. It is only we humans that apply meaning to thingsPsi, subtle and causal effects are simply a revelation or confirmation of the way the universe is put together. However because it is extrasensory and transcends the mind we tend to think that it is more important than the consensus reality that is based on the cognitive interpretation prefrontal lobe of information from the five senses. Just because something is beyond the five senses we think it has greater holy significance and we tend to be drawn hither and tither by our spiritual ambition to get more God.

Preface

Preface 

I have worked out a preliminary protocol to support the fire of Kundalini without getting fried and to prevent the years of depression like fallout that often happens after an awakening. As the science of Kundalini progresses such a protocol for adaptation or higher homeostasis will be refined and expanded.  the research that will give us the definitive answers to this mystery has yet to be done. In the past we have had no scientific understanding as to what was actually happening to us during Kundalini  Now in with modern science we can begin to understand what is really going on.
The Biology of Kundalini, long overdue. It will change the way we look at spiritual evolution, medicine and ourselves. With this book I offer a theory of the biology of Kundalini  which explains all the symptoms, suggests a protocol of adaptation, and encourages research into a new branch of medicine.Evolutionary Medicine. It is part Self help book and part notes for scientists and medical minds with an interest in consciousness. It also honors the often difficult process of spiritual crisis in a way that hopefully will reduce the suffering for those undergoing the cruxification, and for those around them watching. This information will be invaluable for anyone going through an awakening, for their family and therapists both medical and psychological.

I recommend you pass over areas you find dry on the first couple of readings. If the subject of metamorphosis in anyway inspires you then eventually even the dry areas will become juicy   program that is personally suited to you and your symptoms. . When I am hot on the Kundalini trail Spiritual Presence is heightened, the muse is tangibly potent and the pieces of the puzzle formulate themselves around the pull of the Holy Spirit.


It is very important to grasp the distinction between damage pathology and disease and the trans formative process of metamorphosis. Certain phases of metamorphosis include cellular necrosis and catabolic breakdown, for the new cannot grow without the removal of the old. Kundalini with its amplified metabolism and nerve activity, and increased oxidation will tend to down-regulate neural and hormonal receptors and rewire the nervous system. However even if we are in the between slump, when the hyper-functioning has backed off, but our receptors have not yet regrown, we cannot really consider Kundalini as being brain damaging. We must see all phases of metamorphosis as necessary all ostatic changes in the transformation of our organism and the human collective. Once we understand this and intelligently adapt, we can avoid burnout and regression, and thereby learn to keep the gains made through heightened Kundalini.


I don't recommend that anyone should pursue the raising of Kundalini energy I recommend detoxification, super nutrition, strengthening, plus self discovered spiritual practices and adventures. I recommend following your Muse and working on giving your greatest gift for the widest distribution. If you do these things then an awakening is likely to occur. If you don't do these things then you will not be prepared for a Kundalini awakening and so it probably is not going to serve you. So I don’t tell people directly how to raise their Kundalini . However if you cannot find them, then you are not really ready for an awakening.Home page

Preparation FOR Kundalini

Preparation FOR Kundalini
Following the way of Yoga a man must reach the state of Samadhi, that is, of ecstasy or enlightenment, in which alone truth can be understood.

Our modern cultural conditions such as sedentary lifestyle, removal from nature and cooked clogging diets are not conducive to Kundalini flow or awakening. This means when we do pop it tends to be explosive rather than an ongoing thread of alchemy throughout our lifetime. Still I don't think it should be the aim of spiritual practices like yoga and meditation to have a nice smooth calm awakening. Safe growth is translation not transformation. It is the machination of the ego to want to control the process of evolution, either through balance or through exaggeration of the extremes. Spiritual practices however can tend to tame the ego's resistance to the process so that less friction and damage to the organism occurs, thereby making the metamorphic process more thorough and enduring. If one wants to establish a Kundalini practice then I personally think that fasting, a raw diet, overt-generosity, compassionate action and adventure to be a better method of popping than preoccupation with yogic practices.

 Jumping in a cold stream then putting hot rocks on my body, juicing, running in the hills, and hanging. If WE didn't do these things chances are YOU would  popped so richly. We have to prepare ourselves to meet the Beloved. This is the essential work of elevating the vehicle to receive the Self.

It is the unusual nature and intensity of metamorphosis which forces respect, awareness, awe and faith. Fear is unavoidable with the hyperactivation of the sympathetic nervous system and the unknown quality of what is happening and where it's going. But in the end passing through this fear leaves one with such an altered perspective and physiology that one essentially transcends the collective fear. Only then do we have any power to dispel consensus fear and increase love in the world. We become karma eating machines, offering cellular forgiveness.

Whether rocky or calm one always has the awakening specifically designed for one's own needs. Each individual is different. Some nuts are harder to crack than others and so take more force or unusual mechanisms to open. Kundalini herself will guide the way if we listen intently to be informed from within and hold lightly to our should s and known concepts.

During Gobi Krishna's major cycle he was having severe problems with extreme energy, aberrant mental states, heat, fear and pain. Although there was very little help available for him even in India at the time, someone did tell him that if the energy goes up the right sympathetic trunk pingala that his could result in the symptoms he was experiencing, and possibly end in death. During the height of his suffering he had the intuition to concentrate on directing the current up the central channel of the spine. After success at doing this, his torturous symptoms abated and he entered a more gentle, blissful and illuminated awakening, which lasted the rest of his life.

Those who have had a childhood of abuse, neglect of dysfunction, tend to have more catastrophic awakenings because their systems are built for repression and dissociation. This is not always the case but it is a pattern. One can imagine that the more loving-touch and self validation, the child receives the more efficiently wired their nervous system will be, and the fewer psycho somatic and emotional blocks they will have. But consciousness will out no matter what the formative structure.

The nature of one's individual awakening not only depends on one's past history it is also determined by one's future history. That is, what one is to become and experience is already at play in one's present. In forming us trans temporally in ways the rational mind cannot perceive. The tree is already inherent in the seed. The future magnetically draws us toward it. One could call this, the karma of the future.

It seems like the more open, surrendered and evolved one is, then the more challenge one is faced with in incarnating one's soul. So here's the rub...the more spiritual preparation one does, the larger the flow of Kundalini coursing through one. But if we don't have some form of yoga and meditation, then we are upstream without a paddle and are battered about on the rapids with no sense of control over our boat. Traditional spiritual practices were developed to both bring on an awakening, give one the strength and skills for navigating the awakening and to substantiate the awakening in the life of the individual and his her relationship to the world.

Pranotthana is Sanskrit for intensified, uplifted life-energy. I find it endlessly ironic that the hardest thing we will ever have to face in life is the pranotthana of our Self. Fortunately now with modern science we can largely understand the unusual and disturbing symptoms, raise our homeostatic coping ability and avoid a lot of the dangers posed by radically increased life-force. Although they had traditional medicines and intuitive wisdom, the amazing Realizes of the past did not have the comfort of scientific rationality by which to understand and accept what was happening to them.

Ramakrishna told his disciples that after several samadhis, he actually feared that he would no longer be able to look after himself. Because the old has to die before the new emerges, there will always be this feeling of being completely out of our depth during some leg of the journey. However through rational understanding, self-inquiry and reassurance from the experience of others, we can greatly reduce secondary stress, resistance and negative coping mechanisms, such that we can learn to flow with the evolutionary force, rather than fight against it.

Our attitude toward being out of our depth, and toward the death of the old and how well we can accept the Great Unknown, will largely determine how well we weather our kundalini journey. If we fight with kundalini it will harm us, but if we learn the cosmic ways of metamorphosis and fall into sublime relationship with it, trusting the very force of the power itself, it will transform our frog-self into our Royal being.The yogic traditions that were developed in response to the evolutionary urge include:
Raja Yoga--The development of consciousness


Jnana Yoga--The refinement of knowledge


Karma Yoga--The science of right actions


Hatha Yoga--Power over the body


Bhakti Yoga-- Right spiritual action, devotion, surrender.


All of us need to develop and integrate these various sides of ourselves to support a positive awakening, however we will likely be drawn more toward one or another at various times of our lives. Of course this rounded development is none other than taking care of the three domains of Being: I, We and It, which is outlined throughout Ken Wilber's work. He gives Integral Practice suggestions in Integral Psychology on page 544; and One Taste page 130; and also in The Essential Ken Wilber on page 105. The Integral Institute has put together a Integral Life Practice Starter Kit to help with establishing ones own integral spiritual practice. Integral Spirituality: The Role of Religion in the Modern and Postmodern World by Ken Wilber, Aug 8, 2006. For a porthole into the Wilber World go to: Integral Institute

Integral lifestyle is essential to balance body, brain function, emotions, intellect and spirit. If we do not apply ourselves to developing our lives integrally then we tend to narrow our focus and become habitually lopsided real fast. Then any self-realization our awakening has given us is undermined by the lack of balanced foundation to our lives. The amplified energies and awareness of awakening will tend to exaggerate the inefficiencies in our lifestyle and being, making it easier to see where we need to apply ourselves.

During a Kundalini awakening we are at a lifetime peak in pituitary potency, this raises our center of being to the psychic level, through which we have access to a vastly higher vision and taste of reality. While at that level we cannot fit our larger being down into the consensus flatland reality,thus when in this higher operational mode we become acquainted with our essential lonesomeness.

As well as the endocrine glands, the spleen, liver and stomach-brain, heart brain are radically important to the metamorphic process. We can assume that the reserves in liver and spleen are being used up during the peak, and this along with exhaustion of neurotransmitters, hormones, enzymes etc causes the classic burnout effects. After the 3 year peak is over the pituitary hormones drop off and we can fall into a slump, losing our psychic abilities, inner-navigation, motivation, attractiveness and attraction to others, purpose, meaning, drive, zest etc From the heights of Everest we may drop back down to crowd consciousness and forget the power of our visions.

One thing we must be aware of while at the height of our psychic function is that as the awakening leaves us, and as we go into the exhaustion phase we might become less psychic than we were prior to the awakening. As a culture when we learn to manage Kundalini without excessive organic damage, we should be able to grow in a fashion that prevents horrendous slumps in our functioning. But we should anticipate and be prepared for a loss of physic ability so that we do not become soul sick from our apparent loss of depth.

Integral practice prior to awakening will deepen the integration and integrity of our hormonal base so that when an awakening occurs we can use the peaking energies and hormones to productive effect, rather than have them wasted in resistance, dysfunction and coping mechanisms. Integral practice will permanently up our baseline pituitary hormone levels so that we do not fall quite as low after an awakening.

To illustrate the need for preparation I will quote a very important passage from Ouspensky's A New Model of the Universe.

Hatha yoga prepares the physical body of man to bear all the hardship connected with the functioning in him of the higher psychic forces; higher consciousness, will, intense emotions etc These forces do not function in ordinary man. Their awakening and development produce a terrific strain and pressure on the physical body. And if the body is not trained and prepared by special exercises, if it is in its usual sickly condition, it is unable to withstand this pressure and cannot keep up with the unusually intensive work of the organs of perception and consciousness, which is inevitably connected with the development of the higher forces and possibilities of man. In order to enable the heart, brain and nervous system and also the other organs the role of which in the psychic life of man is little, if at all, known to Western science) to bear the pressure of new functions the whole body must be well balanced, harmonized, purified, put in order and prepared for the new and tremendously hard work that awaits it.

What is the motive of the need to kindle Kundalini  I question the soundness of trying to initiate Kundalini via yoga practices. I think just to have a yoga/meditation practice for its own sake is the correct way to go about it. In my experience kundalini sparks up spontaneously in the course of one's life through the interplay of stress/release, pain/pleasure, trauma achievement. Going after Kundalini is like going after orgasm for its own sake, it's masturbation. Saying that however, I think that only the raising of kundalini or various extreme life experiences that facilitate neuronal dissolution and regrowth can free us from the pain body, neurosis, trauma and the miasmas of past history that we have recorded in our tissues.

We can never know what Kundalini is like until it sparks up and in our unbalanced western bodies the fire is going to pretty much dismantle our existing life. You have to be spiritually advanced or supported in order to keep up productivity and function during the height of the flame. Everyone is going to get some downtime, some crisis, some death this is unavoidable during a full on awakening. Yet to be afraid of kundalini only amplifies the dangers, for it is like being afraid of one's own soul. Realizing that kundalini is the very process of incarnation itself, we can devote the very best of ourselves to learning all we can, and respecting the process with the same devotion we would apply to God. A triumphant, successful kundalini awakening is reliant on our potential to surrender to illumination, our Self and love.

The adventure of Self discovery takes us to our edge, puts us in various life and death situations that quicken our spiritual metabolism. Through adventure we evolve by facing challenge and so real life skills are learnt. We grow by living out our hero's journey. We discover the various characters, heroes and antiheros within.

How does spiritual practice fit into the Hero's journey in the making of soul? Spiritual practice won't make a soul, only the Hero's journey will. However, practice will prepare us and give us resources for the journey. At times a left-brain methodical approach might be what is needed to build strength, energy and hope. Kind of like, build ones inner resources and the journey will come! Spiritual practice helps us maintain our core and ballast as we are going on our adventure, but it's not the adventure itself. Our adventure is nothing other than following our Muse.

Of course it's helpful to have a guide or friends on the path, but if one wants to be an independent researcher one needs to do it alone, for the amount of misinformation and distraction out there is infinite. Also, through having to guide oneself, one finds the inner guide whom is infinitely intelligent. If we feel the need to rely on outside sources, we may remain dependent instead of discovering the source within. The progression of maturity goes: dependent self-survival self-actualization. The more we fail and have to pull ourselves up, the further we get in the process of self-actualization. The beauty of having a teacher or master is that through state-resonance we can stabilize ourselves faster, and have less secondary symptoms and fear. But for an investigator such as myself, I have to go it alone, it's my duty in consciousness, for only then can I bring "new" riches into the world.

Meditation leads to a balancing of the neuronal activity of left/right hemispheres, overall brain syncopation, balances the sympathetic/parasympathetic nervous systems, and reduces the stress hormones cortisol and adrenaline to provide a deeper rest, relaxation and recovery period. The inhibiting neurotransmitter GABA increases in the blood during meditation. Regular meditation will permanently reduce the baseline activation of the Hypthalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal axis.

Some of the factors that play into meditations beneficial effects are perhaps magnetization of blood and economy of enzyme use. It probably leads to growth of neurons, increased dentrite connections, regeneration of receptor sites, conservation of neurotransmitters, plasticity of brain function, hence enhancing learning and memory. Not to mention the potentization of the hormonal system through maximizing the health of the pituitary gland. Also with increased ionization of the cerebral spinal fluid, the action potentials of the nerves are stronger. Thus the body is able to substantiate the structure of the Higher Self, essentially incarnating a deeper more profound human experience. So this is like amplifying ones neurology such that the governing host has more conscious control over the body mind. Only that which is made conscious can be dropped.

The way I see it is that meditation reduces friction, strengthens, detoxifies and regenerates. With the balancing of the autonomic nervous system there is a removal of excess energy from reptilian defense system, thus allowing brain function to become more contemporary rather than ruled by past trauma and reptilian mechanisms. This obviously gives us more prefrontal control over our amygdala fear center and limbic brain, and this could be described as a maturing or enlightenment of the mind. Thus new energy and consciousness is made available for higher human capacities rather than being wasted away in reactive animistic responses to our environment and autonomic coping mechanisms to the stresses and traumas of life. The orbit of Frontal regulation that our mother originally provided to the degree that she engaged in primal mothering is now taken over by mediation and spiritual practices in the individuating aspirant.

Only that which is made conscious can be let go.Is kundalini a Divine or God Energy? Basically it is love. That is the easiest way to describe it...what Joseph Chilton Pearce calls the Intelligence of the Heart and Teilhard de Chardin sees as the next revolution in harnessing the forces of the Universe. It is the intelligence within the atom, cell, organ, brain, organism lit up, integrated and resonant with Love energy. It has the bliss component that anaethetizes former structures so the larger order can transform the being. It is what we mythic humans have tended to call God, and all the various names of God. You could say that it is the butterfly self emerging from the cocoon of the conditioned self a socialized being into a Universal Being born unto himself. This miraculous force is truly the most phenomenal process.

It takes an enormous amount of energy to receive our higher self. It is Nature that calls us toward awakening. It is Nature that initiates us. It is Nature that eases the burden of awakening. It is Nature that allows our awakening to be successful. And it is Nature that gives us the power to extend our awakening out into the world. It takes an enormous amount of oxygen to birth ourselves, so exercise and breathe in Nature every day. The more you do so, the more Nature will be your ally. We want Nature to work for us, not against us, thus we must comply with Nature’s dictates

Thanks Jana great work
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