1997/05/13 08:30
kundalini-l-d Digest V97 #231
kundalini-l-d Digest Volume 97 : Issue 231
Today's Topics:
The Whole Manifesto - Vote Kundalini with your Hearts !
Re: Kundalini and lucid dreaming
Electric Shocks
Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 13:25:58 +0100
From: Tom Aston <yogi.tomATnospamtantrictom.demon.co.uk>
To: kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com
Subject: The Whole Manifesto - Vote Kundalini with your Hearts !
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Well, if the List Mystress says it's okay with her, then it's okay with
me !
sorry this is long, but it is very compact and covers a lot of ground,
bringing together a lot of themes from kundalini literature in the West.
there's nothing new here, but it is unusual to bring it all together
it maybe a good reference for when people start telling you all this
transformation of consciousness stuff is a load of New Age rubbish and
irrelevant in the real world.....!
not to be digested at one go probably, but rather leisurely cogitated
upon.....
may help point to where we can all play our part in our own little
ways...
happy hunting - Yogi Tom
A GLOBAL KUNDALINI MANIFESTO FOR THE WEST
by Yogi Tom/Silver Dawn Media
We live in interesting times, for we are witnessing largely irreversible
environmental destruction on an unprecedented scale - ozone depletion,
greenhouse gases, deforestation, soil erosion, climate change, species
loss.
So many are aware of the threat of the amassed weaponry, be it
atomic, biological, conventional or chemical, as perfected by some of
our greatest scientific minds and marketed by some of our smartest
salesmen.
Meanwhile, one billion or more people on the planet endure poverty,
exploitation, malnutrition or readily preventable disease.
The ageold debate over whether limited resources can meet the needs
of a growing population may be beginning to be resolved as the
population growth in the developing world promises to outstrip food
supplies in a generation or two.
And even if food needs are met, then fossil fuels are likely to be
exhausted soonafter so undermining one of the pillars of industrial
economies and transport systems.
Meanwhile, the rising consumer expectations and purchasing power of
the emergent Indian and Chinese middle classes suggests that even if the
West moderates its consumption and lifestyle, Asia will take up where
the West left off.
Yet our age enjoys access to unprecedented material riches,
advanced medical, scientific and communications technology, all the
wisdom of the great spiritual traditions and the gentle and wise
cultures of the indigenous peoples who are so much under threat.
Then there is the promise of health provided by Western allopathic
medicine, the Indian ayurvedic system, Chinese medicine and other forms
of holitic therapy.
And science and mysticism are beginning to converge through the
profound insight into the non-dual nature of the universe revealed by
modern physics in the form of Unified Field Theory, Quantum Mechanics
and the Theory of Relativity.
On many levels and in many ways, the forces of light and darkness are
locked in a mortal struggle and the choice is ours whether we turn to
the light and to life, or to the darkness and risk irreversible damage
to life on this planet; damage that is already too far gone for so many
living in poverty, suffering avoidable disease or malnourishment.
It is not just ecologies and plant and animal species that are being
destroyed, exploited or monopolised for profit at the expense of local
communities, but indigenous cultures that have taken centuries to
develop only to be undermined in a few decades by the impact of the
West.
We have reached an evolutionary bottleneck whereby the only way out
is through entering a greater reality, that of collective action and
mutual understanding and respect.
Through satellite technology, telecommunications, datacommunications,
televison, newspapers, magazines, books and radio, our consciousness is
becoming global.
And yet, even with all this knowledge and information, little seems
to be being done to tackle the roots of the crisis.
For these lie in the human mind and human heart. We have much
information, some knowledge, but little wisdom.
The true power to remake the world arises from transformation of
consciousness.
And this transformation ultimately begins with the transformation of
the individual who, without understanding of the forces at work, can
become confused.
Our age has the ideas of many profound psychological traditions -
transpersonal, psychosynthesis, Jungian, Freudian, among others - to
help it understand and heal the psyche that has spawned so many monsters
and so much destruction even where intentions are apparently pure.
Now another part of the jigsaw of human evolution is beginning to
emerge - that of kundalini, the serpent power or Mother Power so well-
known to the yogis, mystics and sages of times past.
The liberation of spiritual energy and the psychophysical
transformation of the human brain and nervous system that can follow
kundalini awakening gradually purifies the aspirant of all trace of
conditioned consciousness, the very consciousness that lies at the root
of so much misery and destruction on this planet.
It can liberate the vast reserves of human creativity and ingenuity,
love, wisdom, energy and intelligence needed for the first steps to be
taken towards a genuinely global - but diverse - spiritual tradition . A
spiritual experience that gradually permeates more and more of human
existence.
It is the spiritual power supply humanity needs to nurture compassion
and transcendental wisdom, the wise heart, the wholeness of the healthy
and integrated psyche, in a form that can not merely call a stop to the
current madness, but transform the underlying energies that drive it and
so create the conditions for the transformation of the material realms
of existence.
The momentum towards preserving the status quo, that so often
favours power, profit and self-interest at the cost of human need and
local communities, look unstoppable at first glance.
For unbridled capitalism dominates the world economy of rich and
poor alike in the form of transnational corporations that dwarf many
developing economies, and currency, bond, equity and commodity dealers
who can wreck whole economies in minutes and hours.
Militarism in the form of the huge international arms trade feeds on
the insecurity and pride so common among leaders in the developing
world.
Imperialism lives on in the form of Western economic supremacy
dressed up as neo-liberal free trade and the free international banking
system that profits from bleeding dry foreign exchange reserves in the
endebted third world nations.
On the more private level, reductive science can stigmatise,
chemicalise and write-off the idiosyncracies and spiritual crises that
are often the lifeblood of personal journeys towards wholeness and
wisdom.
And the Western psychiatric model of sanity and normality may often
be inappropriate in other non-industrial cultures.
In this context, the recent World Health Organisation prediction
that in the next century the developing world will suffer a mental
health epidemic seems to beg many of the deeper questions about cultural
norms of sanity that a global health agency should be asking.
In the industrialised countries, the centralised computerised state
poses a serious threat to many marginal groups and poses many longterm
problems for civil liberties in general.
But even in the face of such overwhelming odds in the material realms
and apparent inertia in thinking, many courageous souls are marking out
new paths in ethics, environmentalism, publishing and the media, culture
and education, sustainable lifestyles and appropriate technology, human
rights and micro-economic initiatives, health and agriculture, spiritual
thinking and practice, protest and progressive campaigning.
And sometimes they join together to form alliances, crossing both
issues and countries, that are unprecedented.
They may be ignored or marginalised - or even actively undermined and
resisted - by the prevailing mainstream culture of complacency or the
powerlessness of individuals caught in organisations offering them no
freedom to begin personal or public change, but these initiatives are
laying deep roots and show no sign of disappearing even if they may
reincarnate in many forms as they develop.
While the particular issues and words may change, it seems that there
is an intuitive awareness that the old ways and conventional
understanding are no longer enough.
Inevitably, just as scientific and technical understanding is
becoming more and more focused and detailed in realms from
microelectronics to particle physics, so too, at the other end of the
spectrum, a bigger picture is emerging, new holistic paradigms of
understanding are permeating more and more areas of mainstream
scientific and practical thinking, from healthcare to town planning,
from building design to modern physics.
In the field of Third World development, the notion of sustainable
development that first arose in the early 1970s has now become
mainstream thinking.
This is a remarkable step when compared to the old ideas of linear
economic growth and short-term priorities, in that it does not merely
include preservation of the environment at the centre of economic
development, but also takes into account the future needs of generations
to come.
This goes against the shortsighted outlook of modern economic
thinking and instead shares more with the non-exploitative traditions
of some indigenous people´s relationships with the environment that have
endured a sustainable lifestyle for centuries.
In academia and science the old forms of thinking are long gone. Non-
dualistic and non-linear forms of logic are common in science and
computing, taking the form of grey and fuzzy logic, chaos and
catastrophe theory, neural nets and the latest forms of hypertext, New
Physics and New Maths that leave the ideas of Newton and Euclid in their
wake .
While knowledge is becoming more and more specialised in the
technical and scientific realms, as well as many of the traditional
professions, these specialists are increasingly working together in
teams to produce broader insights and better understood decisions that
often involve a democratic process of research and consultation of those
likely to be effected by decisions.
Another holistic paradigm is arising in the emergence of the
kundalini experience.
There is already a small but growing interest in the West in
kundalini and yoga - the great spiritual science of the East that
understands kundalini so well - together with many of the mystical,
shamanistic and pagan traditions that also nurture and cooperate with
this evolutionary energy rather than repress or distort her.
Dr Hiroshi Motoyama of Japan, who has himself documented his own
kundalini awakening, has already designed a machine that can monitor the
energy levels of the chakras and meridians, the AMI machine, and suggest
exercises to correct imbalances and blocks.
Yogis such as Dr Motoyama and my own guru, Shri Shankarao Vidwans, of
Sevagram, central India, the home of Gandhi´s Ashram, and Swami
Saraswati Satyananda of the Bihar School of Yoga, have done much to
systematise and adapt the traditional yogic practices useful for
positive health and smooth awakening of kundalini.
The late Swami Muktananda has established a new tradition of Siddha
Yoga and shaktipat, the awakening of kundalini by a guru, in the West.
The late Indian yogi, Gopi Krishna, has left a rich collection of
writings on kundalini, its importance in the evolution of humanity, both
individually and collectively through the rise and fall of civilisation,
and its central role in mystical traditions throughout history.
The late American psychiatrist, Lee Sannella, has sympathetically
documented many of the psychiatric features of the crisis of kundalini
awakening that increasing numbers of Westerners are undergoing.
And the transpersonal psychologists Stanislav and Christina Grof have
led the way in researching into the nature spiritual emergence that can
arise with kundalini awakening.
Swami Sivananda Radha has made Kundalini Yoga teaching from the Hindu
tradition accessible to the Western mind.
Yogi Bhajan has established a strong Sikh tradition of kundalini yoga
in the West with the 3HO organisation.
The US-born yogi, Adi Da, has synthesised his own experience with
Eastern and Western outlooks to create a unique language of the Heart to
which his own kundalini awakening has led him.
The Indian spiritual teacher Mother Meera is able to bring about
kundalini-type experiences in some people simply through their being in
her presence.
Many spiritual teachers - be they shamen, pagans, meditators, Reiki
masters or martial artists - now refer to kundalini and often work
directly with this energy in many ways, be it through healing,
meditation, Tantra, sex, ritual or devotion.
Understanding of the subtle body, which plays a key role in
understanding the kundalini experience, comprising the chakra and nadi
and meridian systems of the East, is reaching an ever wider public
whether through alternative medicine, yoga, mysticism or spiritual
practice.
And there is a growing understanding that Western culture, and
scientific culture in particular, has neglected feminine aspects of the
psyche, right brain creative and wholesome functions as opposed to
analytical and male left brain functions.
In the Christian Evangelical churches there is some evidence to
suggest that kundalini may, for example, be manifesting in cathartic
mild hysteria, the Toronto Blessing and minor feats of healing.
Many kundalini experiences seem to be occurring among people who do
not necessarily have any conventional spiritual beliefs or practice at
all and are often confused or troubled by them. Many of these people may
not even have heard of kundalini even though they immediately recognise
the symptoms of awakening later on if they happen to read about
kundalini.
Material means alone are inadequate to the huge task of transforming
the juggernaut of destruction and exploitation that is promising future
generations and so many of the world´s current population so little - be
it material impoverishment in the developing world or spiritual
emptiness in the West.
Argument and theorising alone cannot develop the insight in
decisionmakers and key thinkers and academics from which the necessary
changes will begin to arise.
Effective action needs to arise from integration and development in
consciousness on so many levels, a broadening of our visions of our
lives and their possibilities, and a willingness to embrace more and
more of the world beyond our own private realms through whatever
relationships suit our particular experience, needs, knowledge and
abilities.
Ultimately, it comes down to the nature of one´s own experience and
the willingness of us to take responsibility for our own development so
that we can be of value to the whole.
While there will be conventional debates and arguments, the central
core of the process must be through individual choices and silent
understanding and witness.
In this context, it is essential that an understanding of kundalini
and its implications for the future of human consciousness in
generations to come must gradually permeate the minds of scientists and
health professionals, philosophers and spiritual leaders, teachers,
politicians and journalists, so that modern industrial culture embraces
kundalini rather than ignorantly trying to repress her.
While, inevitably, we will encounter resistance both within
ourselves and from others in yielding to these new forms of
understanding, in the larger picture, there is nowhere else for humanity
to go.
Given the odds at stake, regression is not an option for global
civilisation, even if the subconscious shadow and the conditioning in
all its darkness may impose itself more starkly than ever just before
its demise and permanent uprooting so giving the appearance things are
getting worse.
There is evidence to suggest morbid symptoms of repressed or
misconstrued kundalini awakening are manifesting as mental illness
diagnosed as schizophrenia, manic depression and acute anxiety. Many
people in the West are confused and bewildered by experiences that often
bear the hallmarks of kundalini, but which they lack the intellectual,
spiritual and cultural background to accept and nurture as part of their
spiritual development.
But while kundalini can be disruptive to the individual if blocked,
she can also accelerate human evolution both of the individual and the
collective mind, even if this can sometimes bring about an intense
transitional process, but ultimately leading us to the light of reality,
wisdom and love to which all the great mystical spiritual traditions
point - be they Sufism, Taoism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity,
Jainism, Judaism or Sikhism.
There is also evidence that some of the ancient civilisations such
as the Egyptians and Aztecs, pagan and shamanistic traditions, and some
indigenous cultures of the developing world have an understanding of
kundalini from which the West could learn….
In fact, reductive modern science and industrial culture seems to be
strangely out of synch with so much of history in that it is so often
both implicitly and explicitly hostile to the evolutionary energy of
kundalini.
If nurtured properly and allowed to run her course, the kundalini
experience leads us to our true nature, to wholeness and to the
realisation that all things are connected, both within the microcosm and
the macrocosm, and that the essence of spiritual evolution is to become
whole, to form ever greater unities, to realise harmony in more and more
expansive forms both within and without.
As knowledge of kundalini spreads in the West - which has such an
impact on cultures and economies around the world - more and more, we
will see the materialistic values that have dominated this age crumble,
undermined by the witness of those courageous, warm-hearted and strong-
minded individuals who know from both science and their own experience
that to be a human being is to be a spiritual being and that our destiny
is to realise our spiritual purpose by making both our own lives
increasingly whole and those of others.
It will be a revolution of the grassroots, quietly springing up from
the depths of human consciousness, irreversible and without leaders, but
with plenty of people from all kinds of backgrounds and traditions
acting as catalysts to awaken the potential within others so they too
can inspire others.
It is already emerging as a loosely knit anarchic movement rooted in
dreams and love and intuitive understanding of our true natures, in
solidarity, justice and mutual respect, in non-violent means and ends,
in which human frailty and gentleness are sources of strength and
learning, and crisis and dilemma embraced as part of the inevitable
journey towards truth and wholeness that is our birthright.
It is a revolution that many have already embarked upon in quiet ways
throughout history and which can draw on the best of recent history for
inspiration even when there are so many reasons to give up in despair
given the sheer scale of the destruction and intolerance we are
witnessing right now.
But there are precedents that offer hope - from the collapse of
Communism and the fall of the Berlin Wall to the negotiated end of
apartheid in South Africa, from global cooperation on the environment
over biodiversity and carbon gas emissions, protection for Antarctica
and the Indian Ocean, or human rights and the international rights of
the child, to international banning of atmospheric nuclear testing. .
While some individuals are making the first bold moves and acting as
catalysts for others, and some notable organisations are making
groundbreaking initiatives at every level, it is only when the
collective begins to connect through networks and shared knowledge and
cooperation using all the means at hand that tangible effects of this
new understanding will become more obvious to the sceptical and cynical
observers who so often pour scorn on initiatives and ideals that seem so
hopeless in the face of the nihilisitc momentum of modern industrial
culture.
It will be a revolution empowered by the human conscience, by the
certainty that the spirit can overcome the most insurmountable odds, by
the primordial unity of the many paths to the heart and the intuitive
knowledge that we are here to become whole and to join a reality greater
than ourselves. A revolution forsaking violence and turning only to love
and wisdom.
A revolution of the human heart that pulls us unbearably and
sometimes blissfully into the lives of others, working at every level.
Developing more and more of the potential within our own lives and those
of others.
In recent times, we have seen the horrors of colonialism and slavery,
of genocidal war driven by competing industrial states, of Communism
and Fascism bringing unprecedented suffering and death, of ethnic
cleansing and civilians and refugees bearing the brunt of the hurt as
nationalism and ideology give rise to war in Asia, Africa and Central
America.
We have seen the opening of the Pandora´s Box of nuclear physics and
genetic and viral engineering.
We have seen the contraction and repression of human experience in
the name of religious ideology.
We are seeing the rape and suffocation of the planet in the name of
human greed and ignorance disguised as economic progress and growth.
Now the heart must have its turn, gently taming the potential for
havoc from amoral science and ideologies and belief systems that seek to
fix and control humanity to suit the whims of the conditioned mind -
whose theories and ideologies are so often a sophisticated cover for the
repressed subconscious.
Then there is the dilemma of finding forms of economic and
environmental management and control that serve the needs of humanity
without repeating the authoritarian and dictatorial mistakes of recent
history.
Increasingly, we will find that only by developing as a global
community can any lasting solutions be found to these massive
challenges.
It is through evolving consciousness and deepening relationships and
understanding that solutions will arise rather than through any theory
or programme of action.
While computers and phone lines, jet travel and telephones,
satellites and international trade, all offer us the means of bridging
the distance without, kundalini is one more invaluable means to
transforming the world within and so creating the conditions for
transformation of these relationships and matter.
Without labels, without ideology, but with deep principles and with
no need to mould humanity or the planet to its will, the heart is
childlike in its simplicity.
But it is also astute in its profound knowledge, recognising our
duty to preserve resources for future generations, knowing that real joy
arises from service and healing and caring for all beings, that
happiness cannot be gained by one at the expense of another, and that
this is the only wealth worth pursuing and offers the only real
security.
Above all, it will grow from the understanding that freedom of choice
is sacrosanct and spiritual coercion or oppression is not an option.
But this does not preclude vigorously opposing evil by creative non-
violent means when this freedom of choice is abused.
By definition, the heart does not blossom alone, but arises from
engagement with others and perceiving the deeper unity that underlies so
many intellectual barriers.
Through relationship, dilemmas and contradictions can be dissolved
and resolved in unforeseen ways.
The sometimes destructive effect of cold reason can be disarmed by
cretive use of wisdom and love.
Argument and alienation can give way to tolerance and understanding.
This is one journey that cannot be made alone.
We live in extraordinary times: extraordinary in the level of
needless human waste in so many ways and in the real threat of global
environmental destruction, extraordinary in how small the individual
experience seems to have become in the eyes of dominant mass culture,
extraordinary in the speed of change and the lack of control we have
over our economic destinies
But it is also extraordinary in how easily we can recover our true
identity with a few well-chosen words or simple actions, and in the
possibilities for human transformation that can grow out of crisis and
the strength and certainty that can be born from loneliness and despair.
Extraordinary in that so many teachings and so much knowledge is
coming to hand.
Extraordinary in the enduring nature of the heart and its capacity
to embrace all forms of life and death and to rediscover ourselves in
the most hopeless of moments.
Extraordinary in the first glimpses of the light of dawn that is
always there waiting for us until we open up to it and embrace it in the
knowledge that this is the way home and, on this path, we are One.
Understanding of Oneness arises in the Heart and through the
transformation of consciousness
Kundalini is a means to realising the Heart and understanding the
mystery of Oneness.
She provides the energy whereby being may be rapidly transformed to grow
in harmony with the One.
Through Wholeness we become One with the Infinite.
The Heart has infinite names and forms that are contained by the One.
Through the Heart we find Wholeness
Through Wholeness we find the One.
Copyright 1997 Silver Dawn Media/Yogi Tom All Rights Reserved Worldwide
This article may be quoted or used freely and reproduced for genuine
spiritual or educational purposes anywhere in the world in any medium.
Any financial gain made from reproducing this article should be donated
to an appropriate good cause.
Constructive responses and positive feedback are welcomed at yogi.tomATnospamta
ntrictom.demon.co.uk
--
Tom Aston
Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 08:47:59 -0400
From: imtgATnospamjuno.com (tg xxx)
To: Kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com
Subject: Re: Kundalini and lucid dreaming
Message-ID: <19970513.085002.13566.20.imtgATnospamjuno.com>
Why bother with dreams
when you have a whole life
right in front of you
that is nothing but a dream?
Work your lucid dreaming skills
into your *awakened* (ha!) time,
so that you may be awake
during this dream we call life.
Once we get the hang of lucid dreaming
in our everyday awake life
it will automatically
be brought into your sleep time too
(well it seems like a good theory)
If you can't be awake while you are awake
then how in the world do you expect
to be awake when you are asleep?
like duh
Love to all,
xxxtg
"The best ways to make your dreams come true is to wake up."
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Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 09:22:29 -0400
From: imtgATnospamjuno.com (tg xxx)
To: Kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com
Subject: Electric Shocks
Message-ID: <19970513.094538.13566.26.imtgATnospamjuno.com>
<< when they still give people electric shocks, that is like
kicking the radio to see if something connects...
.....Sometimes kicking the radio or some other technological
mechanical/electrical device, works. It's not that it's broke, it just
needs it's inards scrambled a bit to connect.
Still Kicking,
xxxtg
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