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helplessness and hypersensitivity to threat. The antidote to this is the attainment
of self-empowerment, freedom (responsibility), completion of freeze-discharge
through exercise or catharsis, building inner resourcefulness, reintegration and
strength or conscious incarnation rather than dissociation or dispossession.
This increased incapacity in the face of threat can be stopped through a cellular
forgiveness and reprogramming of the threat remembering mechanisms in the
amygdala and hippocampus—the heart you see has direct unmediated neural
connections to the limbic brain. This entails a completion of the shock response,
resolution of the threat in the heart and cellular forgiveness of the uncontrollable
vagrities of mortal existence. That is holding the charge in the expanded heart
with breath/meditation/toning until all traces of the original “harm” have been
transformed, forgiven and released at the cellular level.
I think this biological discharge of tension is the larger vision of forgiveness,
and it’s what Jesus was actually taking about when he said “fear not evil.” I call it
cellular forgiveness...letting go of every bit of fear that every person has directed
toward us throughout our life. And forgiving them because they know not what
they do. This act of somatic-forgiveness reinforces the stabilization of our Buddha
Nature. Understanding clearly the notion of collective karma, we realize that
forgiveness is fundamental to rising beyond the ego and our normal animal threat
remembering mechanisms.
I spoke about losing abilities through burnout effects, but we also loose
pathologies as well, or at least the intensity of the hold the pathologies of our
childhood had over us and so we can be variously reborn in our own image. Scaer
suggests that kindling might be a way that PTSD symptoms are perpetuated and
worsened over time. Kundalini is quite different in that it generates a sequence of
alchemical events and background of bliss such that much of our primary matrix
wiring is “loosened.” If the scalar energy of the body rises during an awakening
this would cause persistent spontaneous nerve transmission, which in turn would
increase scalar energy. This explains the long duration of kundalini awakenings and
how they are quite different from seizures or kindling in that kundalini generates
transformation and awakening.
Within this self-perpetuating field of heightened kundalini the body is dissolved
and resurrected, our true voice found and our soul redeemed. Kindling is proposed
as a possible means for the long-term entrenchment of PTSD symptoms and to
their progressive worsening. But rather than increasing the symptoms of past
trauma kundalini tends to result in a reduction of pain, tension, negative emotion,
stress and mind chatter. Thus kundalini awakenings which turn our lives upside
down and affect every cell and system in the body, cannot be said to be simple
brain seizures. They can for all practical purposes wipe the slate clean offering us
some distance from what the past had made of us.
A kundalini awakening with its spontaneous autopoietic (self-manifesting)
firing of neurons must lead to the erasing of patterns held in the procedural
(unconscious) memory. This leads to a reduction of the effects of the past on the
bodymind, effectively overcoming PTSD. Some of the more notable effects of this