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Spiritual Rebirth
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3/22/2009 4:57 AM
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Spiritual Rebirth: Awakening is the seed of perfection, involution precedes evolution – as we focus & ingather our energy higher & higher levels of consciousness & being are realized as the kundalini ascends & our chakras, whirling energy centers unravel, spiraling upwards towards liberation… at this point an ascent takes place as the Higher Power descends thru our crown chakra and enlightenment takes place – i.e., a rebirth from grossness to a refined subtleness. Kundalini is a psycho-spiritual energy, the energy of the consciousness, which is thought to reside within the sleeping body, and is aroused either through spiritual discipline or spontaneously to bring new states of consciousness, including mystical illumination. Kundalini is Sanskrit for "snake" or "serpent power," so-called because it is believed to lie like a serpent in the root chakra at the base of the spine. In Tantra Yoga kundalini is an aspect of Shakti, the divine female energy and consort of Shiva.(see also Tantrism) The power of kundalini is said to be enormous. Those having experienced it claim it to be indescribable. The phenomena associated with it varies from bizarre physical sensations and movements, pain, clairaudience, visions, brilliant lights, superlucidity, psychical powers, ecstasy, bliss, and transcendence of self. Kundalini has been described as liquid fire and liquid light.
Indian yoga, with its emphasis on the transmutation of energy to higher consciousness, was the chief contributor to the cultivation of kundalini and the preservation of its knowledge prior to present times. Kundalini was a rarity in the West before the 1970s until more attention became centered upon the consciousness. In 1932, for example, psychiatrist Carl G. Jung and others observed that the kundalini experience was seldom seen in the West. Kundalini is seen as an "energy" that usually resides "asleep" at the base of the spine. When this energy is "awakened" it rises slowly up the spinal canal to the top of the head. This may mark the beginning of a process of enlightenment. These people, though confused, fearful, and disoriented, are already undergoing a therapy from within, far superior to any that we yet know how to administer from without (Lee Sannella, Kundalini: Classical & Clinical). (Excerpts from Stanislav Grof, M.D. & Christina Grof, Spiritual Emergency: When Personal Transformation Becomes a Crisis)
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