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Ramakrishna says that a man’s spiritual consciousness is not awakened unless
his kundalini is aroused. Kundalini is the fire of individuation. Spirituality in my
mind is the transcendence of culture...it is an new-emergent added dimension
beyond cultural conditioning, through the building of the personal umbilical to
the Divine/Cosmos, via the initiation of the solar heart. Spirituality is creative
redemption...that is reclaiming the universal self from the abuses, stigmas, power
trips, seductions, manipulations and original sin of society at large. Certainly there
is no faster and more complete way of emerging from the separate-self-sense and
the pain-body that through the fires of active kundalini. Through allowing nature
to take her course.
The Christ Light—kundalini is said to burn away ones past sins (life-
harming trauma). But even though the body is more efficient after considerable
transmutation, if we maintain the normal eating and health habits of the standard
society, the body will continue to be aged and decayed via free radicals. One could
say that free radicals are the agents of sin, much of what we do physically, mentally
and emotionally in this culture just increases the free radical load...that is why
most old people look broken at the end of their lives. It doesn’t have to be this way
if we learn to master stress and free radicals.
It’s probably pretty common that we seek to run from pleasure into pain.
We are used to pain, pain is the German ethic, the white-man’s safety zone. In
kundalini it is easier to handle pain than extreme bliss, for pain is less “work” than
extreme bliss. If we don’t have the skills to open to pleasure we may try to clog up
our body to buffer ourselves from the bliss. In ecstasy we feel we have no “control”.
If we come from a trauma background we expect and want things to go wrong so
that we can stick to our familiar (family) mode of being.
Evolution requires us to learn to endure beauty and pleasure without closing
down and retreating. Also consider that you are the universe observing itself,
therefore you are big enough to handle all the beauty in the entire universe. Love is
merely going with the speed of evolution and fear is backing down from that speed
and Grace. Resistance to evolution is the fear of letting go of our former identity,
developmental level, worldview, opinions, sensoral sensitivity level and habitual
groove of consciousness. Growth requires the dissolution of all this before the birth
of the new. We must essentially “lose possession” of ourselves in order to provide
space for the repatterning of greater soul.
Dion Fortune says that “Consciousness is raised to a given plane by inhibiting
the thoughts and modes of consciousness of all the planes below it.” But I doubt that
inhibition ever leads to evolution, for you cannot evolve that which is repressed
and what is not called into consciousness in the first place. There must be a full
acknowledgement of the present self through which the neurotic anaesthetization
is then lifted by Presence naturally infusing and raising our being to higher levels.
So contrary to the old ascetic puritan ideas of sublimation and inhibition, we
evolve by fully inhabiting and utilizing that which we ARE without resistance
or rejection. The alchemy is thus quickened and the amplification of fructifying
tensions and stormy energies then result in the inevitable depth and calm of a