Kundalini and the Art of Being: The Awakening

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Kundalini and the Art of Being ... Gabriel Morris Ba r r y t o w n Station Hill ...

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To Mom, Dad and Christo; and to Jeffrey, and all my teachers ... ...

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c o n t e n t s introduction ix Part 1 ... Electric Shock 1 Part 2 ... Digging Deep 15 Part 3 ... Climbing the Canyon 83 afterwo ...

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ix i n t r o d u c t i o n I n the fall of 1994, I was twenty-two and leading a relatively stable life in rainy western Oregon, ...

x ... Gabriel Morris from which I found only temporary relief. I seemed to have, for no apparent reason, turned spontaneously sc ...

part 1 ... Electric Shock ...

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 c h aP t e r 1 L ate one December night, I lay meditating on my back at a friend’s apartment in Austin, Texas, though I was fa ...

4 ... Gabriel Morris enjoyed the feeling of drifting slowly down in quiet darkness and surrendered to it. The farther I fell, th ...

Kundalini and the Art of Being ...  My dad was furious. He marched up to him from the sidewalk, shaking a fist. “What the hell ...

 ... Gabriel Morris paused for a moment as it came to my neck and the base of my skull and then exploded into my brain. At that ...

Kundalini and the Art of Being ...  eventually, this can’t go on much longer.” Yet, even as I was tell- ing myself this, the fo ...

 ... Gabriel Morris already. My heart was pounding and skipping beats. I was now re- ceiving electric shocks at the tops of my ...

Kundalini and the Art of Being ... 9 As the light of dawn finally began to emerge the next day, I awoke from restless sleep to f ...

10 ... Gabriel Morris experienced a moment of panic as I remembered that I had a job at a nearby deli and I might be late for wo ...