About kundalini

[Everlasting]

I'm sceptical to the whole thing, I mean a ball of mystical energy at the base of your spine?. The idea you have to activate this energy to be able to have enlightening experiences is just lame.

[AstralGoat2008]

It might well sound lame..

but if you consider that these are experiences that would normally be nurtured and developed throughout youth in times long gone by; either through shamanic culture or other advanced yoga practices.

Sadly in today's society energetic and esoteric spiritual practices are largely neglegted in the west especially, which in my opinion accounts for the percieved extra effort to achieve say Kundalini activation as a goal.

[personalreality]

I feel you.

[pondini]

i don't know enough about the mechanism that activates the kundalini, so i cant disagree, or agree with your post. but i do know that the kundalini rising is real. those two little snake heads on king tut's crown weren't just put there arbitrarily

[personalreality]

that's all you got?  king tut?

caduceus, dna, "lucifer" in the garden of eden, ouroborus, any snake you can find anywhere.

*sarcasm

[Xanth]

i don't know enough about the mechanism that activates the kundalini, so i cant disagree, or agree with your post. but i do know that the kundalini rising is real. those two little snake heads on king tut's crown weren't just put there arbitrarily

Far be it for me to agree with PR... 
But, perhaps he just liked snakes?   hehe

~Ryan

[pondini]

a quick search...
http://www.crystalinks.com/uraeus.html









EDIT: lol, i noticed the 'sarcasm' note on your post. at first i didn't know how to take your post:P

[Ignazio]

I don't think hes being sarcastic

[personalreality]

not really, but people get uptight sometimes.

so i ease their mind.

[pondini]

that's all you got?  king tut?

caduceus, dna, "lucifer" in the garden of eden, ouroborus, any snake you can find anywhere.

*sarcasm

yeah, i wasn't sure until PR added his edit --above, in bold

[CFTraveler]

The snake had a few meanings in different places at different times- in the old middle eastern places (in the times of the old testament) the snake was a symbol of fertility- and in egypt it was used to denote nobility.  I don't remember much from school regarding snakes in egypt (many animals had different meanings, according to their mythology) but I believe that it had something to do with wisdom and eternity.
So, a pharaoh didn't arbitrarily use the serpent in their headpieces- it was a symbol of their kingship.

In India (where the concept of Kundalini comes from) the serpent nagas is a symbolic representation of wisdom also, and in some early buddhist literature, it gave the buddha some wisdom about reality.
It is my understanding that in Kundalini  the serpent was a description of the path the energy takes as it transmutes energies in the human body, and with time, as it happens with most forms of mysticism, the ideas became literalized and cults  formed around the symbol itself.  So what is just a symbol for one thing becomes important in itself.

So there you have it, the historical interpretation.

[pondini]

my comment was somewhat off-the-cuff, but i did see the two artifacts related to one-another in a documentary -which doesn't prove anything without a referenced source. the correlation might just be a loose theory or interpretation by a handful of people. i'll try to be more discerning from now on;)

[personalreality]

no no, you're absolutely right.  i was just telling you that there is more than just that.

[anelie.]

Hi everyone,

I would like to share with you my experience with what maybe can be called raising of kundalini.
First time it happened to me when I was about 15 years old - I went with my mum for a session of "sahaja yoga", which is basically about raising kundalini.
We tried a simple meditation there, with eyes closed, it was something like, now put your right hand on your stomach and think of (I don' t remember what), now put your hand on your heart and try to forgive everyone (in general, not thinking about a special person)...this kind of meditation. I was doing all of this; i was concentrated but not 'pushing' too much as I was at the same time trying not to laugh because my mum found all of this funny. In the end we were asked to put our hand 10 cm above our heads, and we were told that we should feel something, a kind of cold or warm energy, something like that. I remember that when I  put my hand above my head, I felt a force similar to the force between two magnets of the same pole, it was so strong that I had to completely raise my arm and this "force" was still continuing above my raised arm. I think it was kundalini that I managed to rise as this was the purpose of this meditation.  However, when I tried this meditation some 5 years later, it did not work.

Many years later (a few months ago) I managed to raise kundalini energy again without even planning to. I was at work and I had nothing to do, so I decided to write a letter to God:) So I was sitting at my desk and typing text, in which I was asking God al the existential questions for which I don' t have an answer. After some time I started just to talk aboud God how I would like to love him and I got quite emotional when writing it (I am sorrry I know it sounds very stupid when I write it on a forum as it is something very personal). After some time I realised that I was sitting with a spine very straight and my face was very relaxed and I felt the same kind of energy as I experienced during my sahaja yoga meditation. I was very surprised as this was not at all my intention, I was thinking what I should do know, shoud I use this energy to heal my thyroid gland?
 All this experience lasted about half an hour, after my colleagues started talking to me and it disappeared. But since then I felt a weird sound in my ears that I hear sometimes but this times it was quite loud and it disappeare only after a qi-gong class that I had a few days later.

So what I think had happened is that I have, without wanting to, activated during my "prayer" this special energy, but obviosly it wasn' t the best and safest way, because of the sound I heard in my ears. And it went away only after a qi gong class where probably my energies were put into balance again. So I decided that if one day I want to try raising of kundalini, I will try it with some yoga techniques.

So I think, there are many techniques for rising kundalini, but not all of them are safe. I also think that this energy can be raised without doing any special effort, just by living your life...

[Jarrod]

Hey Anelie.  About the noise that you felt in your ear, can you describe that more.  I get something like that pretty often.  It's hard to describe because it's not an actual noise, but something definitely changes for a few seconds, like my hearing changes somehow, not exactly clearer or duller I don't think, just different.  It might not be just my hearing, maybe my perception in general but I notice the change in my hearing.  That's happened randomly, maybe a few times a week, for as long as I can remember and I've always wondered about it.  So...sound anything like the energy imbalance you had?