ShaktiMama

A Blessing of Lucid Fire and Secret Grace May the being of the Universe breathe into you the light of blessing and ripeness, the fulfillment of health and balance. May it protect you from distractions brittle and bent with a sphere of lucid fire. May it enlighten the heart of your passion with the contemplation of living energy. May it uncover the hidden strength within you, insight gathered from the eternal now, and May it show you its face of secret grace and silent refuge in a communion of deep peace. Translated from Hebrew by A.M. Habermann from the Qumran (Dead Sea) Community about 100 B.C.E

Qi Magazine was founded in 1990 by Michael Tse as a means of helping his students learn more about Chinese culture. Often his students would ask the same or similar questions in class and so he felt he could benefit more people with his knowledge by offering the Qi Magazine to them and also a wider audience. The magazine grew from a small black and white booklet to a proper magazine that was distributed all over the world. Sadly Qi Magazine has now ceased production, but not after 18 years and 90 issues all packed with rare and unique articles covering all aspects of Chinese Qigong, martial arts, culture and philosophy. This wealth of information is now available to everyone as you can now download every single issue of Qi Magazine ever produced, in pdf format for free. Click on the thumbnails below to download. http://www.qimagazine.com/qimagazine00.html

One of the nice side benefits one has when the kundalini matures in a being is that one loses all or most agendas or desires or need to make other people wrong, interfere in their lives, or create conflict. Some might say one loses the desire or motivation to engage in any behavoir which creates Separation over Oneness and Unity. The Prime Directive (wikipedia source) becomes very real. "In the universe of Star Trek, the Prime Directive, Starfleet's General Order number 1, is the most prominent guiding principle of the United Federation of Planets. The Prime Directive dictates that there can be no interference with the internal development of alien civilizations." Kundalini has definetly made me into a "stranger in a strange land". I love my planet but my sense of being a part of All That Is has become unshakeable. It creates a center of deep, internal peace. The Inner silence that comes in maturity is refreshing too. It causes an increased appreciation and tolerance for self and others no matter where we are in their stage of development. May the joy of Shakti grow.

A short note: Since having been on and moderated kundalini forums since the mid 90s I have seen alot. Wanting to awaken kundalini for enlightenment purposes is ill advised. Enlightenment can happen to both non kundalite and the kundalite. It is not necessary. A caveat: anyone who say they are enlightened is probably not enlightened. No one who is while tell you they are. Why? Because it is not important. Kundalini activation to full mature kundalini development is only still the beginner's path. The real adventure begins after it has become mature. For some that development happens more early and for others it can take their whole lives to learn to dance with kundalini. The end result, IMO, is people learn to dance with the Tao with spontaniety rather than continue to live in a reactive state with Nature. Age is no guarantee of wisdom especially in Kundalini development. Unfortunately, people "believe" once it is awake they have arrived and can sit on the Couch of Enlightenment, put their feet up, and grab a beer and the remote. Maybe but most likely not but for a few minutes. People with mature development smile and laugh...a lot. They have no need to fix other people. Their inner light and development extends out beyond the central channel to beyond the barrier of the skin. They are filled with the kundalini down to their very cells and the spaces between their cells. They walk and talk different. You can feel them when they walk by or put their attention on you...if they want you too. Just from simple observation of people over the years I would say there is more awakening is happening of a spontaneous nature than I have seen before since the early 90s. Deep stress, whether it is positive or negative, can play a part in activation. Most people come to me not teach them how to awaken kundalini but to show them how to manage and enhance their relationship with kundalini and how it is changing their lives. Fun times. Smile, be happy, and keep your tongue up. Peace. Kundalini theme song

Love to have you in KAP classes with us. No one pays for kundalini but there is payment for the instructors time and over 20 years of knowledge and training that each of the instructors have. You can't buy kundalini otherwise you could get it at the grocery store down the street. We come from various backgrounds since kundalini is a universal phenomonen that occurs in all major spiritual traditions world wide. You will find an eclectic course that combines chi gong, Sufi, Yogic, Bonpo, shaman, Native American, Indonesian, etc approaches. No one tradition has the corner on what's going down in Kundalini development. Kundalini arising depends totally on the student, listening to your instructors, and doing your homework that is assigned to you. If you want to do it on your own: Secret Smile and Microcosmic Orbit, 20 minutes two times a day. Keep your tongue up to the roof of your mouth behind the front teeth to connect the front and back main meridians. Most everyone forgets to tell people that in internal cultivation practices. ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS IN THE PRACTICE! It will hold back the chi sickness, headaches, mental illness, general weirdness, and such. And ALWAYS stay hydrated. Eventually, once you get past all the chi/prana manifestations you will be on your way. Takes anywhere from 3-6 months of diligent practice without an instructor and you must possess a fearless heart. It can be really rough on your psyche and your body if you do it alone. An instructor will help you get past the tough times of pathological chi/prana that can happen prior to k starting to awaken. They will help you with keeping it safe for you and your body. That is all. Hey and love to all my TTB friends. Back to deep lurk.

Probably too much adrenaline running through your system. Secret Smile, Microcosmic Orbit, tongue up to the roof of your mouth during practice. Also do some heavy body weight exercise to help burn it off for 20 minutes otherwise you can fry your endocrine system.

Did you take KAP1? If you did, PM me and I will put you on the grads list that is on Facebook. There you can ask all the practice questions you want.

This book was written by a Christian mystic who had a full blown kundalini dramatic awakening int he 1990s. Phillip is a great guy. http://www.amazon.com/Kundalini-Energy-Christian-Spirituality-Philip/dp/0557372097/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_4 You can come and tell your story on the Kundalini Support Network which I founded back in 2003 or something like that. Please realize we are a lot different than the Tao Bums list. Make sure you read the intro on the front page of the site first. http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/KundaliniSupportNetwork/ Although I can't attend to eveybody personally and individually the list is full of Kundalini elders from many different traditions and backgrounds who will be helpful. The signal to noise ratio is very low and there is respect of all traditions. No azzholes allowed. "Come at me bro," is not appropriate. We have Tao Bums on the list too. The list is scholarly and supportive. It has a significant female membership and perspective which is a bit different than here. The KSN list is considered a virtual sanctuary and a temple. Any and all are welcome. "New members will be placed on moderated status until I am assured no spamming will take place. You must have a good sense of humor, be courteous, tolerant and a serious student of kundalini." What you say and are doing is normal for a lot of kundalites. it happens to many people going through the k process. Stop focusing on your own misery. That just makes it worse. It is the purpose of kundalini to make thing more apparent for clearing. "If you were an asshole before kundalini, afterwards you become wide and gaping." Dr. Glenn J. Morris There is much that can be done. Search the TaoBums for the Secret Smile and the Microscosmic Orbit. If you are not doing that you will be prolonging your misery. Start there as a basic. Then see what happens. Give it good effort over several months of consistent practice. Be well.

A Blessing of Lucid Fire and Secret Grace May the Being of the Universe breathe into you the light of blessing and ripeness, the fulfillment of health and balance. May it protect you from distractions brittle and bent with a sphere of lucid fire. May it enlighten the heart of your passion with the contemplation of living energy. May it uncover the hidden strength within you, insight gathered from the eternal now, and May it show you its face of secret grace and silent refuge in a communion of deep peace. Translated from Hebrew by A.M. Habermann from the Qumran (Dead Sea) Community about 100 B.C.E

Yes, kundalini is viewed by some as yang qi. Snowmonkey was recently writing about his view to me on this and on Bodri, whose view is somewhat one dimensional and according to his teacher, in error. Maybe he will share that view here. And yes, qigong will ignite Kundalini. KAP utilizes a lot qigong moves and principles. Also there is yoga and Bonpo Tantricism and other goodies we teach.

Kurt originally wrote that FAQ in the late 90s and the last revision he made I think is in 2002. We know more now. Kundalini is definately energy as is qi. Kundalini is not just qi. Kundalini has intelligence, some even say it is Supreme Intelligence, Qi can be moved by the mind. Kundalini not much mind moveable. It is more of a negotiation. Resistance is futile. Depends on which cultural lens we are looking through is how some people define K.

Old Green messaged me and asked if I would comment. I have been out and about, here and there, and don't come this way very much any more. I am pretty busy IRL. Of course this is all my opinion, based on real life experience, and working with hundreds of people since the mid 90s or so about kundalini. Most of this is empirical and proven to work in life and in my life. That means this sometimes will contradict written tradition. My basic premise about kundalini is it is normal. The body likes it and wants it to develop fully. It is not necessary to awaken but it is a great enhancement in life, like moving from a minivan to a starship on your path. The world is pretty comfortable with and has a lot to say about how to move through life in a minivan but not so much in a starship. You can just imagine all the differences, difficulties, and new awarenesses pouring in if some day you went from piloting a minivan and now you are the inexperienced rookie captain of your own starship. Minivan manuals are relatively easy to find and use. We usually pick those up from our families, our culture, and our spiritual tradition. We know in time which manual handed to us was really, poorly written and which manual we are grateful to have. Then a goodly portion of us get the manuals somewhere in the middle range of instructions. We find the same thing about starships but not too many of us find any manual in our families, culture, or spiritual traditions. It's there for some of the more fortunate but we rarely hear about those individuals because their life unfolds normally in a kundalini context. A lot of us end up writing our own manuals based on our own experiences and reading other manuals that have been written. Unfortunately, like a lot of things about life, you don't know you have been handed bad info until you have results that you don't desire or maybe even damage you. I often say people need to have intuition and training to choose a good teacher. Unfortunately, it is the good teacher who will train you to have the discerning intuition and those are hard to find. So must of us just blunder along until we learn enough or find the right people to show us who the good teachers are. To make this briefer, I go back to that Kundalini is normal and I want to stress the normalcy of the process. It is because it is unusual and people screw up is that it gets such a bad rap. If you go back to when you were going through puberty and how unbelievably alien that experience is for most people, the intensity of feelings and bodily changes, that is a reflection of what kundalini process is like. Doesn't make it abnormal, just another expression of who we are as we grow. I can see all human growth and development that we learn in psychology classes reflected in the Kundalini process. It is just at another more intense level but we were all kundalini babies and we all eventually become kundalini elders. The way the path unfolds is between you and Kundalini. I don't know if asking what is a good outlet is actually helpful. Any outlet is good. It doesn't really matter what you choose. Your personal, individual makeup will help drive that. "what do I want to be when I grow up?" is just as germane a question and exploration to a kundalite as it is to the minivan driver. What matters is are you at peace with yourself and the world? There are no judgments and there are no attachments to what you choose. Are you influenced by what you think other people will think or your morals or? It really does not matter what other people think of your choices. What makes you happy? Choose an outlet that makes you happy. Choose an outlet that you think best serves you and the world you live in. The outlets are as numerous as there are people. Consider the world may be best served if you just go to school or work in retail. Shine where you are at. In my personal world, when I am choosing something that is good for me then the Kundalini bubbles over with more bliss. So check within on your choices and see what happens to the quality of the energy as it moves through you. Blessings, Shaktimama

Hi Twinner, I only glanced thru the rest of the answers so I just wanted to share my POV. Some spiritual traditions and from my own personal experience speak of us having lived many, many lifetimes. I also have understanding there is more than one universe, more than one dimension, more than one space and time, more than one reality, more than one alternate reality. If I am pressed I would say there is an infinite number of these locations for us to have an experience. Now if we let this notion expand into eternity and that we are eternal beings this will show how many lives it is possible to experience up to this lifetime. Enlightenment is the beginning of an experiential understanding about this lifetime, not all of them. Not all beings have a remembrance or feeling of what it was when Consciousness first knew Itself. When one does this does not guarantee Enlightenement but comes a greater measure of self awareness. To give an idea of infinite worlds, look down at a nubby carpet. Count all the bumps of the material and then imagine each bump is a universe that contains worlds and living beings. Then realize that all those universes are contained in one plane. Then think about all the ways alternate realities can present themselves as I discussed above. To think one person can clear themselves of the negative energy accumulations, that which holds them back, is a bit...well....egoistic. One can clear a huge amount in a short amount of time it is true and one can die quickly without the proper support quickly because the body is accustomed to sharing it's space with the ego and all these other energies. It is not recommended. I would, based on a teacher of mine, offer that it takes two to three years of introspection, examination and clearing to get to a base line of understanding about Self and Other. In some of the more traditional process, maybe 15-20 years with a teacher if you are just using meditation and inquiry. Under all those layers of accumulated lifetimes is the True Self.(It is why when we look at people energetically they look muddy or shadowy.) The beings you are looking for will not feel the need to prove themselves as enlightened. It is not important and is a false thought form of the ego to prove oneself. And, you will have an understanding of their state when you walk into their Presence. If you can see auras, their auras tend to be gold or a brilliant yellowish white gold color. Like a halo but it surrounds their whole bodies. For those who really shine it is hard to look at them with your inner eyes. Auras don't lie so because it is an electromagnetic signature. So yes, that puts the Christ and the Buddha into that category. Desires and wants are of the ego. Becoming ego less is a process. I am personally aware of people who drop the ego and realize that death is just a leaving of this experience of living in the body vehicle on a planet. They realize : "Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity." Ecclesiaste 1:2 The newer translations of the Bible, vanity=meaningless. It's true. When people come to this realization that this is so they want to drop the body vehicle. Some do by killing the body, committing suicide after the realization. I totally understand that reasoning. When my ego was dying I was ready to go that moment. "Let me go. This is so silly. I will come back and make another body" was a thought process that was unfolding at that time and what I told my teacher. I had a person assigned to me to make sure that during this period I wouldn't do something along those lines. I did choose to stay and continue to release all these negative collections from lifetimes among lifetimes. Doing so reveals more and more of our True Essence within. We become more and more helpful in assisting others to gain liberation. Why do we have a body? To play here on this earth, to have an experience. To leave without fully understanding that is a negation of our purpose to be here, to gain liberation and become a play of Consciousness. This is why the good teachers laugh and smile all the time. This is why they treat themselves and others with kindness and compassion. Still learning, still evolving.

So simple but yet one of the most powerful exercises there are for internal energy development. Dr. Morris told me once a Buddhist Monk said to him, "why are you teaching this process to beginners? We make them wait several years before we teach this."

It's true having witnessed, done, and felt it myself. Have used it against a charging attacker. Hint: you unearth them is one way. There are others. Check also in Indonesian martial art called Silat. Most martial arts that are energy based have this at the higher levels. This is not something that will be discussed on this board for it needs a person present to teach you. It is all based on your internal cultivation practice. It is not a magical superpower but it is hidden from the public for obvious reasons. Letting people think it is stupid is one way it is hidden. If you want training, PM Vajrasattva (Santiago Dobles),who is a member here but rarely is on the board anymore. Be prepared to spend an incredible amount of time in training, training fees, and to show yourself of good character before those things are taught. If you have poor to average chi skills it's going to take you a loooooong time to pick this up.

Shaking can lead to inner stillness. Shake your heart out and then be still. Inner stillness can lead to shaking. Quiet your mind and let your energy arise. Not talking about any particular branded experience. I learned how to do it on my own before being exposed to yoga or qigong. It's all natural. Something to explore. Just speaking from experience.

http://kundaliniawakeningprocess.com/blog/category/kundalini-videos/ We have produced quite a number of informal, informational videos lacking in dogma. Here they are all in one place. Enjoy.

I was with a master shaman and we were using sacramental plant medicine. Much quicker than sitting with a guru. It was ceremonial ritual and we had to enter into that space with intent. My intent was for liberation, to become free. All the filters between what we think is and what is were almost instantly destroyed. It is the fast track and brutal. I do not recommend it for the general public or the dilettante. I don't recommend it for the beginner or even a moderately advanced student. It was beyond powerful but not all present had the same experience or paid the price of being brutally savaged by the hard light of Consciousness. There was no escape, no place to hide. The ego crumbled under the constant 3 hour onslaught of the diamond hard Awareness flogging my mind and my body. I will say again, it was brutal, cruel, and savaging of all and any of my beliefs about myself, others, and the Universe. Jai Kali Ma. I lay, curled in the dirt and dead leaves almost face down on the forest floor, flies buzzing around my body as my breath slowed to the point of stopping. I could not move and I barely breathed as my mind emptied of any thoughts. My fingernails and toe nails were ragged and torn from my body clawing into the dirt trying to find escape from the presence of Consciousness as the ego died. I even lost the desire for relief and help. Then came the realization there is nothing but That which cannot be named. The only desire I had left was to dissolve and be one with That and to lose all self knowledge and self awareness that was ever accumulated. It was a desire stronger than thirst, stronger than the desire to be alive. If there had been some way to end my life at that moment I would have done it because my life/body/ego was keeping me a prisoner in this false reality created by beliefs. The bald faced need to re unite in Oneness with All That Is was and is beyond description. No words exist to convey that force in that experience to return to where we began, where Consciousness first knew Itself. My teacher held my body as my soul wept to return to That. Nothing mattered. Not family, not friends, not career, the planet, not god, NOTHING. With a human teacher there is always the opportunity to hide or ask for mercy. Not with plant medicine. `````` as for the other inquiry. I am aware of, in the moment, of the irritation and the anger. I then chose whether to address it or not. Before I had no choice but was just swept along in the emotion. In my experiences of life, I know myself to be eternal and having lived in multitudes of dimensions and universes across space and time. I carry all those experiences, energetic imprints, agreements, decisions into this present life stream. Layers upon layers are revealed and dissolved as I place the light of Conscious Awareness upon these discordant energies we call irritation and anger. To think that freedom and liberation will be instantaneous is a trap of temporal thinking of this dimension. It is a process and there is no schedule. Progress is slow in context with what people desire but it's unfolding.

Shakti is Divine Intelligence, the energy of the Cosmos. She knows what she is doing. I can speak from experience since 1991 when my kundalini started to rise. Learning to surrender is so important and is the main reason my experience was so blissful and powerful and continues to be so. Shakti is a little bit like Chuck Norris. She meditates you. You have to meditate when she decides it's time. No excuses. No escape.

At any time we are where we are supposed to be in our journey. To get caught up in whether ourselves or others are not moving fast enough or too fast does us all a dis-service. To be concerned about the location of where we are on our journey means we are living in the past or the future which neither one exists right now. We will miss those teaching opportunities if we don't remain in the present.

I love the way you look at things. It always tweaks my mind. I have to get it first. That's all that's really important.

Philosophy has never worked for me. The human heart and the divine heart are actually the same because divine Consciousness exists in both. The human heart is just layered over and over deeply with judgments and beliefs about itself and others. The Divine Heart has none. So we worked on recognizing the dysfunctional beliefs and incongruency of the energetics to release and transform them so the True Essence of ourselves would naturally express itself. We are this divine heart. We have only forgotten it is there within us. I like what you are doing for your compassion practice. Awareness of when and why we are triggered is so important.Then we decide to respond differently instead of reacting in unawareness. Good on you. Yes, we all have the Buddha Nature within. This is what I refer to when I speak of the Divine Heart. If we practice seeing that within others it is a catalyst for transformation for both ourselves and them. Even just the noticing of a spark of that is a powerful tool. All beings have Consciousness within and have this spark no matter how dark or shadowed they may look to our conventional eyes. Determine for yourself to see that within another and watch it grow as you contemplate that. Yeah, it gets my goat, my sheep, and my freaking cat too. LOL! But in that reaction there is a clue. It is about a belief we posses that causes us to separate from the other and view them as idiotic. *raises hand here*-guilty". Once we follow back where that belief comes from, its source, then we can start releasing it. Our beliefs are hardwired, coded into our DNA. This is passed on through our ancestors and we as the end point have an accumulation of beliefs that we didn't even know we had. This is why I sometimes say that we don't even recognize that our thoughts are really not our own thoughts. We can influence our DNA and change it with our thoughts. http://www.heartmath.org/templates/ihm/e-newsletter/publication/2011/summer/you-can-change-your-dna.php ALL Beliefs are not real. Reality is what happens when we don't believe in it anymore.

No shared space. The ego crumbled and left me wide open. Fortunately, I had someone that was assigned to watch over me for a few days because I realized that I could drop the body at any moment and continue on without it. I lost my ego's regard for survival and comfort. I actually said to someone, "It's time to leave. There is nothing that exists. Nothing matters for it is all a belief. There is no death. Only the ego fears death." Our bodies are made of the elements of the earth held together by the mind and the survival needs of the ego. When the body dies to the earth it returns. The body is our friend but we are so often not friendly to it. When the ego goes it becomes very apparent the body is a vehicle for holding awareness/consciousness. When the ego dissolved I could not move or control the majority of my body functions. It became apparent quickly what was an ego run body function and which was a normal expression of a living vehicle. It is like driving a car and losing control of it. Nothing works. It is like the car lost all ability to be driven. Just pulled over to the side of the road on the shoulder and stopped. I am in it but I could not get it to drive. I learned to relax and the car started and began to drive itself. Autopilot on it's own wisdom. No, the attachments are not gone. I am just more acutely aware of how they are wired into my experience of myself and others and this planet. They are much easier to recognize. In that recognition of being able to discern between the mind which complements the body and our existence and the ego which was created for survival and run by power-sex-greed needs is precious indeed. So yes, anger and irritation are still experienced but just not on the level as before. I am not triggered by the same things with the same intensity. The energy charge has lowered considerably. I am acutely aware that those emotions are not who I really am but projections of the ego's belief systems. They are much easier to dissolve and then I can move on. It's a process. I work too on embodying my spirit fully onto this planet. It's not about leaving but about living and loving.

It intensifies internal energy cultivation quickly. http://developyourenergy.net/product/fundamentals/tai-chi-ruler-qigong/ Tell Sifu Dan I sent you. S

I know but I keep at it. Peace and deep blessings to you also.