Energies of Transformation: A Guide to the Kundalini Process

Voorkant
Motilal Banarsidass Publishe, 2002 - 338 pagina's
This book is about the subtle energy of the life force, the pure consciousness beyond mind and the ecstatic experience of spiritual awakening. It also tells of physical collapse, psychic chaos, and personality upheaval, those elements of human transformation that uproot individuals to the core. It tells the stories of people, both ancient and modern, who have discovered and integrated an experience that pushes the edges of their sanity and their divinity. And it is a guide for survival and transformation. It appears that when people pray, meditate, or turn inward with great intensity to find God , what they may ultimately experience is the sat-chit-ananda of the ancient Indian scriptures. Sat is existence or beingness, the substance or essence that is all things. Chit is cosmic intelligence or knowledge that fills everything, a consciousness without personalidentity. Ananda is ecstatic bliss. Indian pandits identify these three qualities as the essential nature of existence. Direct intuition of them becomes possible following the eruption of Kundalini energy, which is latent in each of us. This book is to help you recognize and support a unique, universal and ageless process related to spiritual experience and psychological wholeness and identified in ancient times as Kundalini awakening.
 

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Kundalini Awakening in the West
5
Kundalini as the Great Goddess
17
Kundalini Western Therapies
24
Physiological Dimensions of the Process 31
36
Visions Sounds
47
Experiences of Light
55
The Samadhi Experience
61
Commentary on the Symptoms
67
Reports of Kundalini Experiences
164
Kundalini Awakening in the West
173
Nan
182
Margaret
188
Beth
199
Karen
203
Jay
219
Insane? Or Dying?
233

Energy of the Life Force
73
The Chakras
81
Western Physiology
97
Chemical Correlates
106
BrainWave Theories
112
Bliss and the Brain
119
SelfReports and Case Histories
125
SelfReports of Westerners
151
Visual Problems
248
Sexuality 8s Spiritual Awakening
263
Love Variations on the Theme
277
Visions 8s Voices
294
Collective Awakening
309
Kundalini Energy Meditation
327
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