1997/05/04  14:16  
 kundalini-l-d Digest V97 #210 
  
kundalini-l-d Digest				Volume 97 : Issue 210
 
Today's Topics: 
  Cross roads? 
  Re: Cross roads? 
  Re: Ashtanga yoga 
  Energy Builder 
  Re: Progress report  
  Re: Cross roads? 
  Attitude 
  Reply to Yogi Tom's article  
  Re: Dreamtime Encounters/New Introduction 
  Love for Bruno Callipari 
  enlightenment is......... 
Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 17:05:41 -0400 
From: "Larry Killen" <mosiahATnospammindspring.com> 
To: "Kundalini List" <kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com> 
Subject: Cross roads? 
Message-Id: <199705032314.TAA24622ATnospambrickbat9.mindspring.com> 
 
I am generally a silent member of this list but I have a question that 
someone may be able to assist me with.  I have experienced K for over a 
year now and it's intensity is, of course , cyclical.  But for the last few 
months it has been more intense than usual with much heightened awareness, 
visual auras, vibration sensing, unusual occurrences.  
 
I found a snake in my garage that I had dreamed about the night before.  I 
was actually quite sure he would be there yet I had never seen a snake on 
our property before.  The day after the dream (of which I informed my wife) 
I went out into the garage to clean.  I was picking up a piece of old 
carpet and again saw the snake in my minds eye for a moment.  I became 
cautious and picked up the remnant with care and there was a copperhead 
snake.  At first startled but than curious, I went into the house and got 
my wife and showed her.  I then picked up the snake, spoke to it lovingly, 
and carried him out into the field behind our house and released him.  This 
also concluded the course of my dream.
 
A few weeks later, I was standing outside of a meeting hall (AA) and a bird 
landed at my feet.  Several people laughed and jeered about it being an 
omen but then I bent down and picked the little guy up and stroked his 
feathers with the side of my nose.  He seemed calmed and with my hands 
open, made no attempt to fly away.  I walked around the building and spoke 
to him in private about my concern for his well being and then placed him 
on the ground.  He then flew away.
 
I am not a passionate animal lover but I do not hurt things unnecessarily.  
My friends told me that these animals could sense that I was a vegetarian 
and therefore had no fear of me.  
 
But this is not the reason for my post.
 
I am a graduate student, studying MIS.  I pursued this goal initially with 
vigor and vim but am unable to find it in me to do the simplest assignment. 
 I hold a 3.85 presently and find the coursework very easy and enjoyable 
but am plagued with a case of procrastination I had never heard of before.  
I can do all the research, prepare my papers, gather my documentation, read 
the text, etc. etc.  But when it comes to doing the actual assignments I 
feel like the characters in the Wizard of Oz as they approach the Emerald 
City.  I feel as if a spell is cast on me that caused my mind to go blank 
and an overwhelming desire to sleep.  Adequate sleep is not the issue.  In 
this setting I can sleep for days.  I have taken off long week ends to work 
on projects and would stay in bed until four in the afternoon (after a good 
nights sleep) and then decide it was too late to get started and delay the 
work until tomorrow whereas the cycle would continue.  This is not my 
normal make-up.  I have been known to work for 30 hours straight many times 
when my work demanded it.  This is unique to school work.
 
What I have been pondering as of late, is whether this is a sign that I am 
on the incorrect path.  I have altered my course before when an opportunity 
(sign) had kept reoccurring to the point that I felt God was trying to tell 
me something but I have never responded to the negation.  This is new turf. 
 Also, I am deeply financially invested in Grad school and to drop would be 
basically throwing the money away.
 
Has anyone experienced this.  An I missing a calling?  I meditate and 
prayer that I may know and follow God's will (no matter what).  Is this a 
beckoning of sorts?
 
 
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      Larry T. Killen 
 TRW Systems Integration Group 
 serving the Centers for Disease Control 
 wk (770)488-7404 
 hm (770)932-9169  
 mosiahATnospammindspring.com 
 killenlATnospamscis.acast.nova.edu 
 lak6ATnospamcdc.gov 
 
 
  "Opinions expressed here are strictly mine but should be yours" 
Date: Sat, 03 May 1997 17:32:28 -0700 
From: Morgana Wyze <morganaATnospambest.com> 
To: Larry Killen <mosiahATnospammindspring.com> 
CC: kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com 
Subject: Re: Cross roads? 
Message-ID: <336BD91B.3F88ATnospambest.com> 
 
Larry Killen wrote:
 
> City.  I feel as if a spell is cast on me that caused my mind to go blank 
> and an overwhelming desire to sleep.  Adequate sleep is not the issue.  
> Has anyone experienced this.  An I missing a calling?  I meditate and 
> prayer that I may know and follow God's will (no matter what).  Is this a 
> beckoning of sorts?
 
Sleep is resistance. Fatigue is anger. You are witholding energy from 
this task. 
  You made reference to the Oz boks, there's some deep wisdom there. 
They were almost to their goal and they fell asleep. 
  The roots are more likey in childhood, a deep resistance to coercion. 
Kundalini brings up these inner messages to heal them. This message is 
probably not about your path but more about your inner self-talk. Is it 
full of "must" and "should" and "make myself do it", instead of "can", 
"could" and "let myself do it"? Are you kind to yourself or do you call 
yourself names (wimp, lazy) to flagellate yourself into action. I'd do a 
lay-down strike in those circumstances, too! 
Morgana 
Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 22:29:31 -0500 (CDT) 
From: Narahari Phatak <forehamATnospamimsa.edu> 
To: kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com 
cc: kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com 
Subject: Re: Ashtanga yoga 
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Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 23:42:41 -0400 (EDT) 
From: CGIAJWATnospamaol.com 
To: kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com 
Subject: Energy Builder 
Message-ID: <970503234239_-2069157808ATnospamemout09.mail.aol.com>
 
This is extrodinarily long, and many of you probably already do a similar 
version
 
All material(C)Aaron Josef Williams
 
I want to tell you a system that helps me build up energy.  It amazes me how 
long it took me to really realize this, perhaps I keep forgetting for some 
reason, like my subconcious can give me spiritual gifts, but makes sure my 
concious mind doesn't catch up.  The system is alot like freeform dance, 
mixed with tai-chi, mixed with kung fu, mixed with hunting and fighting 
training.  In order to really do it, you've either got to live alone, or have 
moments when you've got a very quiet and safe place to work with.  You need 
to have no one watching you, at least till you get the knack of your style. 
 Everyone has a different style, because everyone is different, the trick is 
to listen to your body, and do what it wants to do.  
 
Clothes: underwear, shorts, and a t-shirt.  
 
Try to find a pair that make you feel nimble and spree, strong, fast, 
powerful.  First, stand up on your toes.  Without putting your heels on the 
ground, start stepping side to side and all around.  Try to flow, and try to 
let your legs just go.  Kick when needed.  With your arms, listen to them. 
 When they want to punch, let them punch.  When they want to block, let them 
block.  Loosten them up, feel energy traveling along them.  Let them go wild, 
then read them.  Your doing it right it you start to develop a style. 
 Visualize yourself against apponents, traveling through woods and jungle. 
 Be a hunter or a warrior, fight things.  We've evolved because our ancestors 
could survive, they used to fight wild animals, they were in battle, and the 
side which won lived to breed.  Violence is evil, but it has always happened, 
things kill for food, or they kill for protection of that food.  We've just 
complicated the matter for ourselves, but we kill for external objects or 
food.  Tap into the way the energy flowed in these people.  Realize that you 
are made entirely of energy.  Remeber that the universe is also composed of 
this energy.  Notice the trees in spring, the glowing green leaves like 
emerald solar panels, sucking energy and life from the sun, the roots growing 
deep and sucking the energy up from the ground.  Plants don't hunt, they suck 
energy.  Suck energy like the plant, but move like your ancestors did.  Being 
in imaginary combat stimulates you greatly.  Fear helps circulate our energy 
faster, to channel it, your get a huge adrenaline rush, making you feel 
powerful and alert.  Our ancestor got this rush constantly.  We associate it 
with traffic jams and board meeting jitters.  Feel that energy and tension 
throughout your whole body, focus on the energy, and holding the energy and 
completely relax your body.  The energy inside you can now be converted from 
negative stressful energy, into useful energy, and jolt of confidence, mental 
clarity.  As you relax, feel the energy that your holding convert, it feels 
alittle like its flipping over or suddenly rushing into my arms.  Your body 
and actoins will become smooth and fluid.  You will feel incredibly calm and 
incredibly alert.  You may notice your breathing become strong and sporatic, 
very rapid or very shallow.  This is a cleansing process, and should be 
enjoyed, but watched carefully.  If you start to feel dizzy or like your 
going to hyperventilate slowly stop and sit down and wait till you feel 
better.  Also if you feel pain in the muscles and joints, stop till the pain 
goes away.  You should feel warm, but a scratching in the joints or a entra 
strained muscle should be looked at by a doctor.  This can be alot like 
basketball, if your ankle feels sprained, or your hamstring feels pulled, 
don't play till you feel better.  
 
Energy Ball 
When you've mastered the Energy Builder, add the element of an energy ball 
into the equation.  Visualize an energy ball in one hand.  In order for the 
energy ball to maintain it's shape, you must give it the right momentum.  The 
speed will feel "just right".  Toss it from hand to hand, develop a style and 
move around with it.  Now, visualize a cylinder between the hands, like a 
clear tube.  Create an energy ball in the center of the tube an send it back 
and forth between the hands along the tube.  The energy will build up and the 
chunk of energy will join hands.  Try sucking in energy, pulling it up into 
your hands to create the balls and then give them a throw.  Learn to throw a 
ball of the energy, then rebuild/reload and try again.
 
Hope this helps you all 
Aaron :) 
Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 00:33:43 -0400 (EDT) 
From: LibraKat11ATnospamaol.com 
To: kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com 
Subject: Re: Progress report  
Message-ID: <970504003343_113997149ATnospamemout08.mail.aol.com>
 
Lobster, 
  
I missed the address to write to Steve personally so must post this to the 
entire list, for which I apologize since it's way off topic.  If you feel 
it's worthwhile, please forward it and if there is an address for Steve, 
please re-post it to prevent me from doing this again!  
 
<<  Re-assess my life, accept my illness?  I think I prefer to listen to CDs, 
 > enjoy jokes, learn about Windows 95, sequence music etc. 
  
 mmm . . . 
 we all prefer to run away and we all have that choice.  
 I know this fear, we all have it but it is not really fear 
 - it is loneliness - we are alone - nobody will ever know us 
 we try and fill our lives with people and things 
 but in our fear and loneliness there is a great Power and Strength 
 CD's, jokes, Win 95 and sequence music are all great fun 
 and even more so when the fear is conquered . . .  
 Are we really alone, are we really afraid? 
 What exactly are we? >>
 
In reference to the above post:
 
I don't believe doing these things are "running away".  Those who've not had 
to face death are often unaware of the many questions that come up, 
especially for us so-called "new agers" that have been lead to believe that 
everything we suffer through is "our choice" and not facing it is "running 
away."  Hey, anything that creates a sense of well-being and peace is a huge 
plus --- NOT running away!
 
I'd like to address the fact that  illness is not "our fault".   There are 
usually easier ways to learn lessons, but perhaps we just missed the 
signposts along the way.  I know I did. I've been through an NDE and know 
that the lesson can be as simple as this --- learn to receive, not just to 
always give.  
 
YOU are not at fault, you have an opportunity to learn something and yes, you 
probably gave yourself that opportunity before you were born.  However, the 
best, simplest and most all-encompassing way to know that is this:  open your 
heart and look as clearly as you can.  What do you see? Ask for answers from 
higher sources and willingly accept what you hear.  You don't have to make a 
commitment, just state your willingness to start from that point.  
 
So many of us are "givers".  We are so strong that we give and give to others 
and never expect to receive because we feel there is no need.  But like 
anything, there are two sides: giving elicits the need to receive. When we 
continually say "no thanks, I'm fine,"  it sets up a program wherein we must 
learn to not just give, but receive as well.
 
Your heart is full and loving.  Let it do what it wants.  Let light flood it, 
absorb it, and allow all the love you could possibly imagine, and then even 
more, encompass every particle of your being.  Envision lights of rainbow 
hues rising like the aurora borealis before you.  Let those lights surround 
you, permeate every part of your being and know that ---- this is all for 
YOU.  It is the love of all the energy of the universe and it is yours. 
 Accept it; and know that you are so loved it is beyond comprehension.
 
Sometimes choices seem clear, often not so clear.  Please just allow your 
innermost self to feel the love of God (or whatever you desire to know) and 
go forward with that.  Perhaps this will also help with any fear that you 
feel.  Believe me, having seen the afterlife, there is nothing to fear.  I do 
know, however, that the thought of leaving loved ones behind can be terribly 
hard. It's what brought be back.  
 
With all love, 
hoping that you will accept it wholeheartedly, 
Kat  
Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 01:45:23 -0500 (CDT) 
From: Nothing Is <holi0007ATnospamitlabs.umn.edu> 
To: Larry Killen <mosiahATnospammindspring.com> 
cc: Kundalini List <kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com> 
Subject: Re: Cross roads? 
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970504013309.22015A-100000ATnospampiranha.itlabs.umn.edu> 
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 I am an undergrad computer science major specializing in MIS, and 
let me tell you going from the Southeast Asian Library to Marketing 3001 
is one hell of a dualism I am trying to fit together.  I used to pursue 
my major with vigor and get good grades, ever since I got into Eastern 
philosophy they have dropped.  Is it because I am more dumb, lazier- NO! 
I just dont have that fear in me that allowed me to do well in the 
classes which I superficially did good in.  I feel much more aware 
and intelligent than I used to.  So what do the bad grades and 
procrastination mean:  well maybe that old muladhara has been in control 
too long and the new awareness is making it back off to make room 
for the others....or your major will send you to a way of life/work you 
wont really like, even with the amount of potential dough, your 
subconscious may be recognizing it but your ego is fighting it....well 
thats what it is for me, I am making adjustments.  Just some thoughts.
 
Bye,  
Nothing IS 
Date: Sun, 04 May 1997 14:14:11 -0700 
From: E Jason <vv60ATnospamdial.pipex.com> 
To: kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com 
CC: jan.watsonATnospamsympatico.ca 
Subject: Attitude 
Message-ID: <336CFC23.346CATnospamdial.pipex.com> 
 
Attitude
 
If a person has an experience or knowledge that sets them apart and acts 
in a way different to others or which alienates others or is below what 
others would consider polite, spiritual or just human. What can we say 
about such people? Do we say that they are more or less than others? 
The expression of what is sometimes known as crazy wisdom is not 
applicable to those who are experienced or beginners on the path - it is 
only applicable to those who have been crazed by Love. You can not act 
crazy - you just are and this is the nature of your expression. Such a 
state of spirituality is not permanent, it hopefully changes into a more 
sober and measured response. The most spiritual people seem to do very 
little but their presence is transformative. 
The false crazy wisdom is very much concerned with the self, with 
teaching without knowing, with shocking without providing a resolution 
and so on. In other words it is for affect but largely without effect. 
The genuine article is much more concerned with the transmission of 
ideas that are best left unsaid. 
On the spiritual path attitude is everything. Spiritual people are not 
about being better because of some need to excel, they do the best they 
can in every and any situation and are constantly trying to improve and 
grow in useful not spurious qualities. 
Immature spirituality is very much about taking; learning techniques, 
developing energy and gaining some kind of personal satisfaction. Mature 
spirituality is about giving and bestowing. We come closer to God when 
we bestow and give than at any other time because this is one of the 
major attributes of God - the Radiance or Bestowing of Love. 
Immature spirituality is about a kind of wishy-washy sentimentality that 
is frightened of harsh words or hard concepts. Spiritual maturity 
centers on the very difficult areas of our being and tries to understand 
and transform. In this sense it is how you deal with boredom, irritation 
and hostility that will mark out your real nature. None of us are 
perfect and all of us have much work to do. We must to the best of our 
abilities improve ourselves, our situation in a gentle and caring way. 
Eventually we will be given the responsibility to cause people disquiet 
and unease as an act of  mercy and growth. It is not our duty to bear 
that responsibility when there is still so much gentle nurturing and 
support that we can offer. 
If the kundalini opens every chakra and we develop the powers of  a 
goddess this is nothing compared with the simplicity of the force that 
gave us this manifestation - we call that force LOVE. 
 
Most Kind Regards 
Lobster 
Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 23:56:55 +1000 
From: Bruno Callipari <bruno_cATnospammildura.net.au> 
To: kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com 
Subject: Reply to Yogi Tom's article  
Message-Id: <199705041356.XAA08444ATnospammildura.mildura.net.au> 
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 Tom, you asked me what I thought of it, so here goes:) 
Reassurance and Tolerance - that's why I'm trying to find out as much as I 
can, because mental illness is a totally different thing - the stigma of 
mental illness signifies a weakness. 
 What is Kundalini? - Could masturbation be a form of tantric yoga or 
meditation?  With spiritual liberation in a single lifetime, what are the 
benefits of spiritual liberation?  Yes Westeners are great wankers! "no 
particular causal pattern apparent as seems to be happening increasingly 
among Westeners" 
 Kundalini *can* be difficult to explain. 
 The many faces of kundalini and spiritual experience - am I a yogi? 
"Kundalini and the chakras are used in various ways to deepen spiritual 
experience and insight".  
 Some central features of the kundalini experience - "Resistance by 
the ego can make a short lived period of K into a long drawn out one so it 
can be mistaken for mental illness."  But doesn't there have to be some 
unbearable psychological/emotional thing happen if you didn't get it through 
normal yoga or meditation?  Like as is said in Psychic Phenomena - soonafter 
"moments of crisis when an old mundane conditioned identity has to give way..." 
 Didn't have 'inner light' trouble 
 Didn't have 'outer light' trouble either 
 My experience was marked and bold it could hardly be called mundane. 
 'Inner voices' on the other hand I may have had because my mind was 
live to air and I repeated the inner voice.  Is it the voice that is yours 
but in your mind? 
 You have to realise I was in a hospital environment when the 
kundalini was most active - it was trying to help me escape - alot of it I 
was concious but can't remember actually being alive.  I was also unconcious 
from heavy needles after I did something like throw food into a staff 
member's face after saying something sharp and clever. 
 Tastes and smells - "can bring forth apparently imaginary smells and 
tastes, pleasant and unpleasant".  In Melbourne when the police were taking 
me to be incarcerated I smelt Religious incense and so did they as if it was 
coming from me. 
 Touch and the body - "sometimes of a sexual nature" I kept grabbing 
men's crotches in hospital probly as a bit of a waking them up thing.  I 
don't know cos this is another thing I cant remember actually doing.  I also 
had sex with another male patient (as a virgin too) 
 Purification of the sixth sense : the brain - "prevent its normal 
functioning" - you got that right buster!  Would this "longterm chemical 
imbalance" have passed if left to take its course and could there have been 
someone to help? Its hard to get help cos the government involuntarily puts 
you in.  A trial has to be held when you look better. 
 Here is the golden knuckle on the door > "the mind races, words or 
images pour through it in a great surge they cannot control, may feel an 
urge to speak in tongues etc"  Each time I got K it wasn't allowed to run 
its full course so it built up and became more complex - I am also governed 
by water so it can travel through me more intensely - don't you think? 
 "Phase of losing interest in food" - yes I deliberatley didn't order 
big meals (and I had blurred vision etc and they kept giving me it to fill 
out) - I didn't want their custard and only ate sandwiches usually (I had 
*some* willpower). 
 However I always kept clean even though I didn't have my regular 
products - I even bought this viscious tub of collagen cream at the mental 
patients tuck shop to make sure I didn't get hospital induced wrinkles.  In 
Mildura I kept pissing on the high detention floor (they didn't keep fresh 
issues of containers so serves 'em right - going to the toilet was a grand 
procession meanwhile while I turned my vinyl rubber mattress pad into a 
ship/boat alternatively and acted out Star Trek scenarios. 
 "the yogi will pick up his affairs when the process...is complete" - 
I made a relatively fast recovery, all or nothing like.  It was the forced 
medicine dependency that kept it lingering - now I've learnt to live with 
the drugs but I feel my kundalini enhancement suffers for it and is always 
in the background "no desire or ability to speak...tranquility and 
detatchment" or CALMNESS. 
 "Paranoid or agitated about past events or people" definitely - my 
divorced parents, feeling captured in high detention > I raised the fire 
alarm by breaking the 'glass'/button device once - the whole fire brigade 
came to the call and I escaped to the next floor that wasn't the mental ward 
as if guided to freedom/safety.  I also cleared the barbed wire fence and 
went shopping once, putting cool stuff like computers on hold!! 
 "A disturbed mind, bizarre belief system, confused identity.">"A new 
being emerging from beneath all the debris of the past". 
 "Out of body experiences" I had many blackouts, times I couldn't 
account for - Like when my brother in law and his son took me out for the 
day, he bought a box of Kentucky Fried Chicken and I ate it all from them. 
And regular things like when I got out of hospital - collecting my bond 
money and putting it into a bank account successfully. 
 "Bizarre and unpredictable behaviour (well known to india where some 
yogi's are notorious for bizarre behaviour and outbursts) 
 "The need to let go of everyone and everything" - I didn't want to 
be around those people cos they caused it in me, but I had to come back to 
Mildura and live in close contact to them. 
 "Crazy wisdom" indeed - I came out with all these observations on 
life - was called Mr. Know-it-all by my hunk of a brother in law (he, he) 
- ah yes, the subconcious - jung I prefer over freud but haven't read much - 
I tried to explain away that it was my subconcious all along. 
 Emptiness - yes I really felt empty afterwards. 
 I was opting to go naked eversince the first time I prayed under a 
tree in the back courtyard of my flat and collected in the dippy van. 
 Ward 1 Alice Springs - didn't give me as many tablets as I have now 
because they couldn't justify prescribing them - I kept coming up against 
shortcomings each time I got out (3 times consecutively) over 3 week periods 
of being incarcerated.  By the way Pine Gap is in Alice Springs - my brother 
in law was a carpet layer for the base and there's stringent guidelines 
while you're there and you're always watched - That may be why the 
psychiatric profession are more lenient. 
 The Question of psychiatric intervention - "may well poison the 
nerveous system and damage the autonomic functions...into a physical 
nightmare" - Tell me about it, I used to be size 87 jeans, now I'm fat and I 
do things slowly.  But I am seeing a naturopath so he's helping.  I have to 
take the medication cos I don't know what I'd do if I was in hopital again. 
I also see a psychiatrist every 3 weeks and a bloodlevel test every 3 
months.  If I was to stop taking them I'd need to be really sure I could 
ride out the kundalini, cos I don't think I've been fully awakened to 
stabilisation yet.  Can anyone help? 
 I threw the medicine out once thinking that it was eucharist and 
beforehand taking it with wine.  Thinking it was blasphemy.   
 Should I see a psychologist as opposed to a psychiatrist?  Or can I 
live out the rest of the kundalini with anyone experienced in the field, 
like go on a holiday to an ashram or something? 
 AND LASTLY TO END TOM'S ARTICLE, WHICH IS TOTALLY WHAT THIS POSTING 
WAS INSPIRED BY, some sobering quotes:) 
 "The profound and pure, wise and uplifting nature of their [the 
awakened's] words...repression of a healthy spiritual process of 
transition...in the same mentality and culture...[that is] causing so much 
harm to the environment and indigenous cultures of the world.  THANKS TOM... 
     bruno_c 
  
Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 10:01:58 -0500 
From: "Spiral" <spiral-3ATnospamworldnet.att.net> 
To: "E Jason" <vv60ATnospamdial.pipex.com> 
Cc: "Kundalini Mailing List" <kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com> 
Subject: Re: Dreamtime Encounters/New Introduction 
Message-ID: <19970504150233.AAA29104ATnospamrjiredff> 
 
Lobster wrote,
 
> All the parts of a dream are us. Nobody is prepared for unconditional 
> Love 
> and when we Dance with Him we have to learn the more subtle and gentle 
> rhythms  
> as well as the more frenetic beats. This element is the Unknown but we 
> will slowly get used to this deeper part of our own self . . .   
>You and everyone else here are finding a resonance and a rhythm that is 
> based on cooperation and mutual support. 
 
> Welcome. Dance.
 
Lobster, your lovely welcome deepened my experiencing of the dream.  Tears 
of joy brimmed and flowed. The resonance of which you speak is hard to come 
by.  Let me continue with my introduction.  At age 23 I developed chronic 
liver disease.  Shortly thereafter the AIDS epidemic hit.  Wake up calls.  
Individually and collectively something terrible was wrong.  The past 
fifteen years have been an often very lonely search for Truth, a persistent 
investigation into what is dis-eased in me.  Many dark nights of the soul, 
fears of death at a young age.  My kundalini awakening took place in the 
context of discovering, and opening myself to, the possiblity that there is 
a Ground of Being, beyond ego and mind, in which one can rest and be 
sustained.
 
In my dreams and visions I was presented over and over again with images 
that there is a tremendous Light to be found in the heart of Nature, the 
realm of the Goddess.  Morgana once wrote that kundalini is a gift of the 
Goddess.  That I have come to know to be true.  But I have also had to 
learn, through the processes of understanding my dis-ease and  integrating 
into life what was coming to me, that it is a gift which requires 
tremendous sacrifice.  I was a product of my time and environment.  Totally 
up in my head, all my homage going to the gods of intellect and rational 
thought. My liver, the seat of the soul, was dis-eased.   I didn't know it, 
but I was terrified by the power of The Feminine.  I had to come to terms 
with her -  to learn how to honor, respect, and love her.  Without fear.  
The gift came.  My liver function is now normal.
 
Love,
 
A joyous Spiral 
Date: Sun, 04 May 1997 10:49:39 -0700 
From: Ken McFarland <kenmATnospamOREGON.UOREGON.EDU> 
To: kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com 
Subject: Love for Bruno Callipari 
Message-id: <1.5.4.32.19970504174939.0066ee98ATnospamoregon.uoregon.edu> 
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Bruno, 
 
I don't have any sage advise for you.
 
I just want you to know that there are many people on this list who love you. 
 
I am one of them.
 
The others are observing, praying, and meditating for you.
 
When the time is right you will know.
 
Slowly and gently, examine the sources of your greatest pain. 
Somehow, you must be able to accept the intolerable. 
No one can tell you exactly how to do this. 
Perhaps, understand that each terrible event has some benefit; a blessing. 
Perhaps, there ia some greater purpose God has for each of us; all is well. 
You must search for the way to transform that which is too painful to accept.
 
Know that you are greatly loved by many.
 
Ken 
Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 20:50:15 +0100 
From: Tom Aston <yogi.tomATnospamtantrictom.demon.co.uk> 
To: kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com 
Subject: enlightenment is......... 
Message-ID: <iK9tYLA3hObzEwp4ATnospamtantrictom.demon.co.uk>
 
enlightenment is........... 
  
making friends with the universe 
in so many ways 
that life becomes unbearably... 
well, friendly.
 
doors open 
and hearts are filled with laughter 
and the joy of mutual recognition  
of Buddha and God 
having their way with us
 
and friendship is laughter  
shared with strangers 
and long lost friends 
who know they are One
 
Friendly Tom 
 
on finding doors i had assumed closed, opening all over London today ! 
--  
Tom Aston
 
 
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