Age and Kundalini
Our entire lived experience prior to an awakening goes into the making and
riding of the wave of emergence. We undergo the kundalini process to bring about
substantial growth and change to the brain after full myelination has taken place.
One doesn’t have to be special or be a rocket scientist to go through a kundalini
awakening. Those with sensitive nervous systems, high energy, trauma damaged
nervous systems, highly stressed, and high psychic sensitivity are often susceptible
to the transformative fire.
Some kundalini activity is no doubt apparent in childhood and related to
growth in general. Children indeed do experience all kinds of psychic phenomena
and strange-body sense and energy phenomena. But for a full on awakening the
nervous system must be fully myelinated to avoid serious damage. For a high
degree of charge will not carry well in an un-myelinated system because the nerves
are still not yet insulated for “speed.” Full myelination occurs in the early twenties
and a lot of people have their first awakening at 27-29 years.
Approximately 7 years after full myelination at 27-29 years is time for the major
break-away from the family-meme. This is an enormously difficult period when
one is trying to workout who one is and what is reality is beyond the dicates of the
collective mind of family and society. This is an organic process that arises of its
own accord and is not necessary a process of “thinking” but of alchemical upheaval
and restructuring of the brain. The tensions involved in having codependencies,
enmeshments and family dynamics made conscious is enormous and often sparks
a kundalini awakening or schizophrenic-type breakdown at this time. There can
be an exaggeration of or rebellion from family patterns and beliefs as the matrix of
the family psyche becomes more available to conscious introspection, or childhood
patterns reach their zenith. Personally I don’t think true adulthood starts until
after this crisis. If the individuation crisis doesn’t occur the individual remains
predominantly a socially conditioned adult-child, with little self-will or Self-
realization.
This individuation crisis occurs around 7 years after full myelination of the
brain. Myelination of course is related to socio-emotional and functional “use” of
the brain, laid down mostly in response to the societal conditioning. So that when
this next 7-year-cycle of neuron pruning arises there is a physiological evaluation of
the brains neural networks to assess their validity and value. This is why “everything”
seems to arise out of the woodwork at this time, repression mechanisms are lifted
and the contents of our neurology seem to impress themselves on our minds. Since
neural pruning after full myelination involves a more extreme method of axon
death, a kundalini awakening might occur in order to create the massive oxidation,
apoptosis and self-digestion necessary for a brain overhaul. This is especially so if
the individual experienced chronic deprivation, rejection, abuse or developmental
deficiency of some sort during their first 27 years.
The kundalini cycle probably follows the 7 year neuron growth cycles that
Joseph Chilton Pearce pointed out, and this is probably attributed to the 11 year
sunspot cycle. Further research will probably find that we all go through a 7 year