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you certainly presume to know and have judged my motives. s

well said, thanks. s

was this really necessary? s

"Just like in Shaiva tantra where such imagery originated, the yoni and lingam have deeper symbolic meanings." Exactly, I agree. This is no different in my opinion. For clarity sake, I was talking about the mystical deeper meanings. So on one level he is accurate but there is so much more. But alwayson doesn't strike me as a subtle kind of guy. Maybe he has more to show us. s

He's actually right but he should do more than tell you to read three books.. It would be nice if he provided the pages. Vajrasattva (Santiago) teaches this in the upper levels of KAP. Aghora tantrism is also a specialty of his so best to pm him and have him explain. ~ As an example of "veiled" Tibetan language ("shadow-talk"), the famous Mantra, "Om Mane Padme Hum" (Om, the precious jewel is in the lotus chalice, Hum) has also a well-understood sexual meaning, in which the "jewel" (mane/vajra) is the male member and padma, the "lotus chalice", the female organ. . . - For an excellent, entirely a-mystical discussion of these subjects see Needham, Science and Techology in China , Vol. 5.2.!

Glenn told me that Hatsumi said warriors are like women. In other words, yin, soft, psychic. He said shaking hands with Hatsumi was like shaking hands with smoke. s

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profits me nothing. I Corinthians 13, Christian Bible We have all the siddis as potential inside of us. We can choose to cultivate them but they are like a circus or a playground on the side of the road. Just don't get stuck there. Many do. Is love the highest psychic power? We all have the capacity to manifest for it lives inside all of us. More seem to be interested in cultivating siddis than love. Susan

For those whose are on the kundalini awakening path I have observed over the years that men will get more yin and soft. I used to say they hang their balls up on a hook when they went into the yoga studio. Women seem to pick them up or sprout a pair of steel balls on their own that drag on the floor. Those who are more yin the continuum tend to get more yang and the yang get more yin for a period on the path. What it looks like is men feel and develop what we think of as more female behaviors. They cry more easily, feel things more deeply, become more intuitive. Dr. Morris used to call it "getting in touch with your Inner Princess." For those who are yin then start to develop what is thought of as more masculine behaviors: demanding, territorial, confronting, etc. as if they were starting to run on testosterone. I call it getting in touch with your Inner Warrior. This is just phases on the path toward androgyny which is harmonious and neutral in yin and yang behaviors. Androgyne is thought to be what our true spiritual nature is. Yin and yang on the continuum of masculine/feminine behaviors is dynamic and always changing. For example you may be predominantly yang with 20%ish yin. But that is constantly changing and evolving, flowing one into another but we are not always aware of this. This is not gender specific. You can see this in pairings. One person is more yin than yang than the other and vice versa but they are times when polarities are switched depending on a variety of things and circumstances. These are the most common pairings that is of opposite polarities. You dont often see androgynous pairings. The thing to remember on the K path that we are heading to becoming Spirit (androgynous) but we don't have to remain there. There is a choice. Once we become one with Spirit we can choose where we want to be on the continuum, more yin? more yang? stay adrogynous? Or maybe you like to slide all over the scale. One of my students came to me lately because being formerly a yang male with a strong yang sex drive he is starting to become more yin since his kundalini woke up last year.. "My libido is going away!" Not really. It is just changing. With Shaktipat from me and spending the weekend doing KAP and Shaktipat in Miami with Santi seems to have helped him reach a balance. He seems to be recovering his "male" libido. He is now in the Keys with a Tantrika creating his own sensual vacation by the shore. Just a little bit on a large subject to share right now. Susan

I wanted to add...yes, there is a change. Some of it is just the natural progression of transformation on the path. The heart keeps getting softer. The other is I found out just last week that I have a learning disability, which leaves me "moderately impaired" in some auditory and verbal processing abilities. Yay for labels. This answers a lot of questions in the history of my life and a lot of pieces fell into place. A nice reintegration. At first they thought I had ADD. Glad I don't but glad I have an answer. Yay for modern medicine. Yay for decent health insurance. I am grateful. s

It starts at 11:59 PM , 12/21/10 Miami FL time. Skype. http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/home We use skype and ustream for our classes and meditations with students and friends. If you don't have it you can just tune in with intent with myself and Vajrasattva (santiago). Santi will be in New York City area for the holidays with his big family. I think it is the first time on a plane for the baby, Skylar. Second time for little Lotus. Leaving today, me thinks. If anybody wants to join us for the chat,PM Santi. His Skype ID is silatyogi. We use the chat because when we get more that a few in a chat room, because with all the Shakti, it tends to destroy the video. We often have probs anyway with reception because the energy is so strong. We won't open a chat room until a few minutes before the event starts. It's more stable that way. Susan PS. Santi I will be teaching kundalini Awakening in London either in march or april. We had over 40 last time and it was so much fun! We are also invited to teach in Bangalore, India. Love it! I hope some of the Bums can make it.

thanks. I am just a work in progress. s

yes it is

"May all beings be happy, may all beings be safe, may all beings--everywhere--be free." This heartfelt Buddhist chant, and others, are sung, played, and lovingly prayed by various vocalists and talented musicians.

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I saw somewhere on the thread that Bruce is into forcing kundalini awake? Having taught Kundalini awakening since the 90s I would definately say never force the K. Can have some real serious problems result permanently, pain not being the least important. Relaxation is of paramount importance in the smooth awakening of K. Be relaxed in body, mind, spirit. No tension is the best. Energy doesn't flow through tension...normally ....unless forced. This is why secret smile and the microcosmic orbit is so important. The MO will clean out all the crap and help the whole person reach relaxation. It detoxes all the bodies. The secret smile helps transform the negative feelings and energies that arise out of doing the MO. Secret smile and MO 20 minutes a day, twice a day. That alone will eventually start your kundalini to awaken. Keep your tongue up. susan

Been very busy. Just dropping in to see if I can add anything relevant to the kundalini thread. Not really other than to the initial statement "spiralling kundalini is real." Yes, kundalini spirals just like a galaxy or water or wind spirals. there is only Love, Susan The more things change, the more things stay the same.

It is the purpose you give it. s

How apropros since this is World Kindness week. thanks, s

Blessings on the seminar. If Brett is involved in it you know it's got to be good. Brett has a good BS detector and is a thoughtful, mature practitioner. love, s

the day kundalini switched from temporary to permanent was like this: I was sitting on my bed in meditation and I felt a strong wind moving through my room. My body began shaking and I felt rather than heard something like thunder. Then my tailbone began to ACHE and vibrate. I felt a presence in the air which I knew was intelligent and alive. I later learned that was the presence of what I came to know as Shiva. Incredible heat started at pin point in the space of my tail bone and heated up my lower body. My body began rocking back and forth and a sinusoidal wave of pressure began oscillating in my pelvis and started moving up my back and in my spine like heated thick honey. The heat spread through my whole body and radiated out into my room causing the window to sweat and fog over inside on a cold October morning. Waves of intense orgasmic pleasure began to rock my body as my pelvis undulated in harmony with the snake like movements up my spine. I began to moan inwardly as my hands were drawn into mudras. And that's how it began. 19 years later it is all very yin, the universe beats with the creation power of Shiva and Shakti constantly making love, and I am happy and at peace. namaste, Susan

I would add for myself and Santi it is ON 24/7 and has been like that for years. I am speaking out of my own experiences and I don't think that is rare in our circles of influences. I am in regular contact and in friendship with people who are on 24/7. It might have been rare at one time but Santi and I are doing our best to make that not so. In the 90s there was research and an instrument invented by Bob Dratch that could measure kundalini waves in the spine. He spoke about how he thought they were more of a microwave frequency. There is also research out there (escapes my mind) the kundalini as a wave length is longer and as a sound frequency is almost unhearable and more felt. Microwave is of a lower frequency than infra red I think. Dr. Glenn Morris and I used to play with a tuning fork which was said to be attuned to the energy waves of shaktipat. It had very long tines (foot and a half?)and was more felt than heard. I would activate the tines and place it against Glenn's skull. He would report seeing a very deep violet almost black color from the vibration on his skull. After my k was awakening I used to love to put my hands on a plasma globe tesla coil. The light frequency would excite my kundalini and send me into bliss. I also found that standing close in front of a satellite dish would also excite my kundalini and put me into bliss. (This is really a stupid thing to do to stand in front of dish. Don't do it.) These things, now that my K is mature, don't really affect me like they used too. So I would say that sensitivity to light wave frequency could be a good measure. Glenn and I used to talk about the different ways. One of the most basic was just to look at the aura and into the body and check out the degree of awakening. Nice essay on kundalini and proof by Yogi Tom. http://www.kundalini-gateway.org/essays/e_science.html You might also review the polls we did over the years on kundalites and their experiences. http://www.kundalini-gateway.org/polls/index.html Susan Excerpts from the Avatamsaka Sutra; Of all things seen in the world Only mind is the host; By grasping forms according to interpretation It becomes deluded, not true to reality. All is clearly seen once the great mind is developed. That mind is far-reaching, as vast as the cosmos; Without reliance, unchanging, like space--- It clearly comprehends the realm of truth, apart from discriminatory thought.

I think of kundalini as having two aspects. The physical aspect keeps the body alive, the heart beating, the lungs breathing. No kundalini and you are dead. There is a spiritualizing aspect which is an evolutionary energy which returns a person to their natural state of awareness of the Consciousness of which they are a part. Babies are born with the kundalini awake in both forms but the non physical part often goes to "sleep" from parental, educational, cultural, and environmental pressures. In Medical Daoism, babies are born with the water orbit functioning as the natural dominant orbit. Since civilized society is not conducive to nuturuing the growth of water babies, the fire orbit starts to become dominant (the one most associated with the common MCO) and is the dominant orbit to be found in adults. (Medical daoism approach courtesy of Dr. Jerry Alan Johnson's research). s

Now isn't that the most insulting, untrue statement I have ever heard. s

I worked in cardiac nursing for a long time. I have worked with patients with all kinds of heart conditions from heart attacks, to heart failures, to irregular heart beats, to transplants to open heart surgery for blocked vessels. Getting advice on a forum is not going to help other than know that people support you. There is so much info one would need to know that is missing from your report to give you pertinent advice. I can tell you that there are some higher esoteric cultivation practices that incorporate learning to listen to the heart beat and then repeat a phrase with each heart beat to bring in a certain quality to meditate upon. If the problem you perceive is because you now can hear and feel your heart beat I would point to that you are becoming more sensitive to feeling your body. That is a good thing. Some day you will be able to feel your liver and kidneys and so on. So when you listen to your heart beat use a phrase or mantra with the beat. "I am peace," works well. So each time your heart beats, time the phrase "I am peace," with it. May peace be upon you, s