Kundalini, All On It's Own Options

Alright. So, I've been interested in Kundalini for some time now, but I've never attempted it. Although, recently I experienced something which I could only explain as Kundalini. I was sitting and meditating at my friend's house, pondering my true connection with the universe to a greater degree than I ever have before, when my root chakra seemed to just burst forth with new energy. I couldn't even feel my lower body all that well, so I thought that maybe my keys and wallet in my back pockets were pushing on my nerves. I took them out and set them next to me, but despite anything I did or how I sat that energy only spread even further.

Being a practitioner of occult studies, I decided to just ignore any odd looks I might get from my friends and feel the energy and inspect it. This next part is hard to explain. I felt, and in some strange way saw, a line of energy coiling around a point in my lower body. I immediately remembered what I knew of Kundalini and assumed it was that.

So, I decided to look up others' experiences with Kundalini. To my disappointment, they only described more advanced stages of Kundalini, such as when it is fully awoken. Although, I read that people undergoing Kundalini often dream of, and come across, snakes and fire. I don't remember my dreams from last night very well, but when I was a little kid, I had the most vivid dream that two white snakes bit me on either leg. The meaning of this dream has eluded me for the greater part of my life. This was before I practiced magick, but I was thinking that maybe I was more naturally prone to such things as this when I was younger and simply lost my belief in such things until later on in my life.

Also, I came across many different names for Kundalini while I was looking it up a moment ago. Holy Wind, Serpent Fire, Seiki, Lung..... and, as I was surprised to see, Vital Winds. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

This "coincidence" with my forum name and a name for Kundalini, coupled with my dream from when I was a child has left me almost certain that I was meant to undergo Kundalini. But, of course, I'm sure anyone who has experienced Kundalini was meant to.

And, of course, I come to our occult community to ask for advice from anyone who has experience with Kundalini, or might know of a good book on the subject.

Questions are also welcome.

I understand the principles behind being prepared for Kundalini, and I understand now how it must really feel and happen, but what do you guys think is the actual prerequisite for Kundalini awakening? Do you think that as long as I can balance my chakras and be peaceful and meditate regularly that it WILL happen? Or is there something else that you believe is necessary?

Just some postulation.

I understand the principles behind being prepared for Kundalini, and I understand now how it must really feel and happen, but what do you guys think is the actual prerequisite for Kundalini awakening? Do you think that as long as I can balance my chakras and be peaceful and meditate regularly that it WILL happen? Or is there something else that you believe is necessary?

Just some postulation.

Mmm, I know what you mean here, but careful with the word 'understand'. When we 'understand' something we haven't experienced, we often overlook that experience when it happens outside of our 'understanding'.

I had an experience some time ago, which I'm pretty sure I wrote about here at the time, while I was in NYC, which I thought was kundalini stirring. Not awakening, mind you, but grumbling in it's sleep, you could say, because I was poking at it. I had about a year's worth of anxiety attacks, random dehydration, a handful of terrifying visions, nightmares, constant muscle spasms, and occasional bone pain. I stopped poking, and it resolved itself as I recovered control over my body and my energy.

The prerequisites have to do with the toning of the nervous system. I don't think there is a way to guarantee it will happen - but I do think that if it's ever going to happen it definitely will. The way it is described, I have often thought that it might be a genetic predisposition. However, if that is not the case then at least it is understood that kundalini is an energy present in and expressed through the nervous system. So being peaceful and meditating will not be enough. Balancing chakras will not be enough. The full scale of training involves immersion in the senses both all together and individually, thorough stretching and flexibility training, specific nerve toning exercises by fine-tuned control over small scale muscle spasms, pursuit of the conscious control over the autonomic nervous system, the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous system, the ability to remain conscious during sleep, and ultimately the ability to overcome physical discomfort all together - in short, conscious integration with the nervous system from top to bottom. Meditating will not do this for you, no matter how deeply you meditate. So abandon that thinking, and if you want to pursue this intentionally then you need to find someone who can give you the specialized training necessary to pursue it.

peace