1998/07/16  12:51  
 kundalini-l-d Digest V98 #513 
  
kundalini-l-d Digest				Volume 98 : Issue 513
 
Today's Topics: 
  Please read and respond               [ "Paul Torres" <island_11ATnospamhotmail.co ] 
  Newbie needs                          [ esther steinacher <esther.steinache ] 
  Re: Please read and respond           [ "Cathy Berger" <bergerATnospamnyc.tomen.co ] 
  pulse points?                         [ freda <fredaATnospamnwlink.com> ] 
  Re: depression                        [ "Paul West" <paulATnospamstationone.demon. ] 
  Re: Please read and respond           [ "Paul West" <paulATnospamstationone.demon. ] 
  Re: awareness                         [ "Paul West" <paulATnospamstationone.demon. ] 
  Re: awareness                         [ Harsha1MTMATnospamaol.com ] 
  Re: Please read and respond           [ AfperryATnospamaol.com ] 
  street sense                          [ amckeonATnospamhsmail.nfld.k12.mn.us ] 
  AutoPost from Kundalini Resource Cen  [ James C Jensen MD DABR <jcjensenATnospamwe ] 
  Re: Please read and respond           [ "Paul West" <paulATnospamstationone.demon. ] 
  Re: AutoPost from Kundalini Resource  [ "Harsha IMTM" <harsha1mtmATnospamhotmail.c ] 
  Re: depression                        [ "Joseph Miller" <joemillerATnospamhotmail. ] 
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 01:59:48 PDT 
From: "Paul Torres" <island_11ATnospamhotmail.com> 
To: kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com 
Subject: Please read and respond 
Message-ID: <19980716085949.16825.qmailATnospamhotmail.com> 
Content-Type: text/plain
 
  Hello all, I am going through some tough times right now, I am losing  
myself, but I am on my way back to the path.  I do wish to know however  
what a fairly objective opinion of my status in relation to kundalini  
awakening.  If anyone feels qualified to respond as this voice, I would  
deeply appreciate your input.  This is a curiosity of mine, but I do not  
really need a response.  It may however help me in my state of mind.  I  
am somewhat confused as to certain aspects of my relation to Kundalini,  
so I am doing the only thing I can, and I ask those who are more  
experienced than I.  I apologize if what follows sounds egotistical, but  
I feel that some of this needs to be said.  Please forgive any arrogance  
conveyed by my words.  
  On a typical day of mine, I go to work, and hang out with my friends  
at night.  I am able to use what are regarded as psyhcic powers to read  
others very well.  I am even able to see people's actions before they do  
them, and sometimes I am able to read thoughts,(proof is next to  
impossible, but that is obvious.)  Sometimes I get caught up in extra  
sensory information, such as the constant lights, colors, sounds, and  
pressure waves that I feel.  These pressure waves as I call them feel  
like I am in the ocean, but it is made up of energy instead of water.  I  
am able to be going through an emotional crisis, and somehow my  
consciousness seperates into the part that is emotionally distressed,  
and this third person omniscient point of view; where my personal  
troubles are still mine, yet part of a picture that I am gazing at.  I  
have yet to come upon a concept that I could not understand.  (an  
example is the fact that I read, and enjoyed the concepts of Stephen  
Hawking's A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME when only in seventh grade.)  I have  
had dreams that have told me about events happening now to me.  I  
sometimes get pressures inside of my head which seems to feed from my  
body, but does not indclude the top of my head. This pressure then  
causes a weird sensation of energy at my third eye.  I have never had  
the rushing up my spine,nor any other classic symptoms, but I have had  
visions and the inaudible voices since I was very young.  (This may  
point to an early awakening that happened to an unaware child.) I have  
not met anyone yet who I can truly regard as an intellectual superior,  
but perhaps I am too arrogant.  I realize however that through  
experience there are many out there who are smarter than I. 
  Before I close, I would like to say a few things that may be  
detrimental to the responses given to me.  I wish that  the totality of  
the truth about myself, given to all of you from this letter, may prove  
to be enough so that I may recieve helpful responses. 
  If anyone has read my profile it says that I am over thirty, but I am  
only ninteen.  I have not lied about my experiences, and have taken this  
list very seriously.  I hope that this does not cause anyone to lose  
faith in the act of sharing.  I would like to take this opportunity to  
express some feelings about this list;   
  I have grown attached to the outlet that you have all allowed me, but  
I may have to leave soon.  I feel a great love for all of you because we  
are all on the same path.  We are all doing our best to find the truth.   
Some say that it will set us free, with this as my hope, I shall  
continue my search, as I hope all of you will.   
  Thank you all for your time, and I hope that whatever influence that I  
had was a good one.  If not then my deepest apologies are sent to all of  
you.  Perhaps I shall meet you all some day. 
Until then, good journey, 
Paul Torres
 
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Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 22:55:19 +0500 
From: esther steinacher <esther.steinacherATnospamxtra.co.nz> 
To: kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com 
Subject: Newbie needs 
Message-ID: <35AE3E87.CC0ATnospamxtra.co.nz> 
 
Seems I need help replying to the list anyone with helpful info would  
save me from blundering through,blundering along Earle--Ta 
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:05:12 -0400 
From: "Cathy Berger" <bergerATnospamnyc.tomen.com> 
To: "Paul Torres" <island_11ATnospamhotmail.com>, <kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com> 
Subject: Re: Please read and respond 
Message-ID: <000801bdb0c2$c056cd20$465b9cd1ATnospamcathyber.TOMEN.COM> 
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 
 
Hi Paul,
 
Tell me, am I projecting my feelings on to you, or do you feel very 
alone, even in a room full of people.  I often feel sad because I 
know no one to share the truth of my life with.
 
The only peace and comfort I know for this sadness is in reaching out 
to spirit.  Reaching the meditative state where you feel connected at 
last to "yourself".
 
Love
 
Cathy
 
-----Original Message----- 
From: Paul Torres <island_11ATnospamhotmail.com> 
To: kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com <kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com> 
Date: Thursday, July 16, 1998 5:08 AM 
Subject: Please read and respond
 
>  Hello all, I am going through some tough times right now, I am 
losing 
>myself, but I am on my way back to the path.  I do wish to know 
however 
>what a fairly objective opinion of my status in relation to 
kundalini 
>awakening.  If anyone feels qualified to respond as this voice, I 
would 
>deeply appreciate your input.  This is a curiosity of mine, but I do 
not 
>really need a response.  It may however help me in my state of mind. 
I 
>am somewhat confused as to certain aspects of my relation to 
Kundalini, 
>so I am doing the only thing I can, and I ask those who are more 
>experienced than I.  I apologize if what follows sounds egotistical, 
but 
>I feel that some of this needs to be said.  Please forgive any 
arrogance 
>conveyed by my words. 
>  On a typical day of mine, I go to work, and hang out with my 
friends 
>at night.  I am able to use what are regarded as psyhcic powers to 
read 
>others very well.  I am even able to see people's actions before 
they do 
>them, and sometimes I am able to read thoughts,(proof is next to 
>impossible, but that is obvious.)  Sometimes I get caught up in 
extra 
>sensory information, such as the constant lights, colors, sounds, 
and 
>pressure waves that I feel.  These pressure waves as I call them 
feel 
>like I am in the ocean, but it is made up of energy instead of 
water.  I 
>am able to be going through an emotional crisis, and somehow my 
>consciousness seperates into the part that is emotionally 
distressed, 
>and this third person omniscient point of view; where my personal 
>troubles are still mine, yet part of a picture that I am gazing at. 
I 
>have yet to come upon a concept that I could not understand.  (an 
>example is the fact that I read, and enjoyed the concepts of Stephen 
>Hawking's A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME when only in seventh grade.)  I 
have 
>had dreams that have told me about events happening now to me.  I 
>sometimes get pressures inside of my head which seems to feed from 
my 
>body, but does not indclude the top of my head. This pressure then 
>causes a weird sensation of energy at my third eye.  I have never 
had 
>the rushing up my spine,nor any other classic symptoms, but I have 
had 
>visions and the inaudible voices since I was very young.  (This may 
>point to an early awakening that happened to an unaware child.) I 
have 
>not met anyone yet who I can truly regard as an intellectual 
superior, 
>but perhaps I am too arrogant.  I realize however that through 
>experience there are many out there who are smarter than I. 
>  Before I close, I would like to say a few things that may be 
>detrimental to the responses given to me.  I wish that  the totality 
of 
>the truth about myself, given to all of you from this letter, may 
prove 
>to be enough so that I may recieve helpful responses. 
>  If anyone has read my profile it says that I am over thirty, but I 
am 
>only ninteen.  I have not lied about my experiences, and have taken 
this 
>list very seriously.  I hope that this does not cause anyone to lose 
>faith in the act of sharing.  I would like to take this opportunity 
to 
>express some feelings about this list; 
>  I have grown attached to the outlet that you have all allowed me, 
but 
>I may have to leave soon.  I feel a great love for all of you 
because we 
>are all on the same path.  We are all doing our best to find the 
truth. 
>Some say that it will set us free, with this as my hope, I shall 
>continue my search, as I hope all of you will. 
>  Thank you all for your time, and I hope that whatever influence 
that I 
>had was a good one.  If not then my deepest apologies are sent to 
all of 
>you.  Perhaps I shall meet you all some day. 
>Until then, good journey, 
>Paul Torres 
> 
>______________________ 
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> 
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 07:13:13 -0700 
From: freda <fredaATnospamnwlink.com> 
To: kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com 
Subject: pulse points? 
Message-ID: <35AE0A79.D8CATnospamnwlink.com> 
 
Hello Group, 
It seems as though I have added a new phenomia to my little bag of 
tricks,,, ie.. rainbows, clover, wind :) ... broken cars :0  
 and confused myself in the process. 
Anyone know what correlation the inside of the Right wrist and the Left 
pulse on the neck (juggler?) have to one another? If any. I have wracked 
my brain and come up with a blank... 
any and all possibilities are welcome... as  I cant think of even a one, 
in spite of being the *creator* of the manifestion... 
I hate it when this happens... :) 
love, 
freda 
Date: 16 Jul 98 15:10:59 +0000 
From: "Paul West" <paulATnospamstationone.demon.co.uk> 
To: kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com 
Subject: Re: depression 
Message-Id: <35AE1803.MD-0.196.paulATnospamstationone.demon.co.uk> 
 
Greg,
 
> Has anyone out there who has been through kundalini have a case of 
> manic-depression or depression due to a chemical imbalance (or maybe 
> chakra imbalance).
 
> How does Kundalini affect people who are depressed.  Thank you for 
> your comments. Gregory Howard
 
Personally I always hated words like `depression' and `cope' and 
`stress' and things like that. I wanted to have nothing to do with 
those words because it would mean I wasn't excelling in life. But even 
as I affirmed that I was not those things or didn't need to do those 
things, I was.
 
I think kundalini has sort of taken me on a tour of many parts of 
myself that I didn't care to look at and when it starts to become 
revealed that you are depressed and can't cope as a side-effect of 
considering such a state undesirable, things did and do sort of get 
under the weather. And then the clouds part.
 
I have probably most of my life been depressed and stressed without 
really caring to aknowledge it, so as to continue to excel and cope 
with increasing levels of stress without ever letting it stop or 
letting myself say no. I have found kundalini to put those words back 
in my mouth from time to time so in a way it is a relief.
 
In some way I am a little more aware of awareness, and that means less 
need to be depressed, so that's not a bad thing.
 
-- 
Paul.
 
IRC: #amiga, Dalnet: #blitz 
WWW: http://www.stationone.demon.co.uk 
E-M: paulATnospamstationone.demon.co.uk 
Date: 16 Jul 98 15:43:52 +0000 
From: "Paul West" <paulATnospamstationone.demon.co.uk> 
To: kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com 
Subject: Re: Please read and respond 
Message-Id: <35AE1D27.MD-0.196.paulATnospamstationone.demon.co.uk> 
 
Paul Torres,
 
>   Hello all, I am going through some tough times right now, I am losing  
> myself, but I am on my way back to the path.
 
I know what you mean about losing yourself, and when I myself am lost 
I try to ascertain that I am getting closer to the path but either 
you're on the path or you're not - there's no inbetween state of 
getting closer.
 
>   On a typical day of mine, I go to work, and hang out with my friends  
> at night.  I am able to use what are regarded as psyhcic powers to read  
> others very well.  I am even able to see people's actions before they do  
> them, and sometimes I am able to read thoughts,(proof is next to  
> impossible, but that is obvious.)
 
I have found myself able to do similar things. It's a matter of having 
sensitive thought, which is what intellectualism is.
 
It gives rise to an intuition that is like a little messanger 
springing up in your mind, but it is seperated from action and it's up 
to you to choose to act on it or not. The aim I think is to merge with 
it more so that it acts more quickly rather than there being a delay.
 
Personally when I get an intuition it always seems to be 1/2 to 1/4 of 
a second before the thing happens. It's a matter of just doing it.
 
> am able to be going through an emotional crisis, and somehow my  
> consciousness seperates into the part that is emotionally distressed,  
> and this third person omniscient point of view; where my personal  
> troubles are still mine, yet part of a picture that I am gazing at.
 
And so there is seperation. I know what happens when there is 
emotional clout, and these lower emotions are made of thought. It is 
possibly to be emotionally passionate with your intellect, which I do 
all to often, in that the passion comes from a great excitement and 
friction and desire and engrandisment of what you are managing to 
visualise.
 
I have seen people who find it hard to be so successful and hard to 
excel and hard to relate to things in the way that I do, and how 
fortunate they are. 
  
> have yet to come upon a concept that I could not understand.
 
Hehe. I know that one well so you're not alone there. I and perhaps 
you as well are capable of tremendous ideological cultivation. It is 
amazing how many things thought can grasp. Being that way, I am very 
very clever and comprehension of things seems to come in an instants 
observation, after which I am left feeling annoyed at the 
low-standards of uptake of other people, their lack of efficiency, 
their inability to see what is `obvious'. But even so you have to be 
prepared to toss all that in the garbage because that's what it is.
 
> example is the fact that I read, and enjoyed the concepts of Stephen  
> Hawking's A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME when only in seventh grade.)
 
I'll refrain from entwining with you in a passionate mutual 
masturbation of self-complementation on that one. ;-)
 
Have you ever met people who are similar to yourself who you find you 
are able to get along with easily because everything you do and 
everything they do seems to complement you?
 
> I have never had  
> the rushing up my spine,nor any other classic symptoms, but I have had  
> visions and the inaudible voices since I was very young. 
>  (This may point to an early awakening that happened to an unaware 
> child.) 
 
I have though this of myself also. I am quite sure I had some 
altered/higher states of consciousness when I was a kid. I have often 
wondered if this special kundalini thing that I milk for all it's 
worth might have stretched back way into early life. Satisfying isn't 
it?
 
> not met anyone yet who I can truly regard as an intellectual superior,
 
That's understandable, because the intellect finds it hard to commit 
itself completely to a polarity - some ways in which they are better 
but some in which they are not.
 
> but perhaps I am too arrogant.  I realize however that through  
> experience there are many out there who are smarter than I.
 
And the suggestion that people having smarter intellects is /better/ 
is a way that the intellect polishes itself and adds to its vanity. 
Better people are not more intellectual, and searching for there to be 
a more intellectual person is not going to teach you anything.
 
One thiing you need to do to stop being depressed and intellectual is 
to stop trying to excel so much. It IS possible to excel at things, 
yes, to use your intellect to work things out, to use your thoughts to 
fill in the gaps, to use your visualisation to comprehend that which 
cannot be seen. But it takes you away from having clarity in your 
senses and seeing only what's there. You've got to learn how to be 
satisfied with the world only for what's there and not for what you 
fabricate about it.
 
I can remember countless times in which I have beat myself up because 
of not being good enough, by my own standards. Several years ago I had 
a little electronic handheld spaceinvaders game and whenever the 
slightest thing went wrong I would hit the screen and curse myself. 
And if at night I was having trouble getting to sleep I would get up 
angry and slap myself accross the face telling myself to do it better. 
Constantly suggesting that I was not doing it good enough. It leads to 
tremendous /effort/ which makes it very hard work.
 
If you do that, if you beat up on yourself for not being good enough 
or intellectual enough or quick enough or accurate enough, bloody well 
stop doing it for the sake of your life, everyone elses life, and God.
 
-- 
Paul.
 
IRC: #amiga, Dalnet: #blitz 
WWW: http://www.stationone.demon.co.uk 
E-M: paulATnospamstationone.demon.co.uk 
Date: 16 Jul 98 16:01:48 +0000 
From: "Paul West" <paulATnospamstationone.demon.co.uk> 
To: kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com 
Subject: Re: awareness 
Message-Id: <35AE22F9.MD-0.196.paulATnospamstationone.demon.co.uk> 
 
Cathy,
 
> Tell me, am I projecting my feelings on to you, or do you feel very 
> alone, even in a room full of people.  I often feel sad because I 
> know no one to share the truth of my life with.
 
True. You don't need to be alone to be lonely.
 
Or, to put it another way, to be lonely you have to not have the need 
to be alone (at-one). 
  
> The only peace and comfort I know for this sadness is in reaching out 
> to spirit.  Reaching the meditative state where you feel connected at 
> last to "yourself".
 
?
 
Yesterday I experienced something perhaps for the first time in my 
life. I felt that I was aware of being aware. Is that what you mean 
about meditative state or spirit?
 
I've not experienced it before, it was intruiging how it didn't rely 
on any thoughts of structures. It seemed almost selfish but it wasn't. 
Awareness that looks only at awareness.
 
When it happened I felt more confident, that there were more 
possibilities, that I had more `self'. I felt more complete, more 
whole, more an individual. Most of my time is usually spend being 
aware of thoughts, looking at them, thinking about them. But paying 
attention to attention, and being aware of awareness, is like paying 
attention to yourself, which is perhaps what you mean about being 
connected to yourself. Most of the time I am obsessive and posessive 
and desiring and that seems to `block' or get in the way of awareness.
 
I suppose one way to put it would be that awareness looks at itself as 
if accross a room but the room becomes cluttered and so the self gets 
covered up and obstructed. No way that you can /make/ or /invent/ that 
awareness, all you can do it play around with the furniture.
 
I hope that the awareness of awareness will come again and stay for 
longer. It answers everything is really very loving.
 
-- 
Paul.
 
IRC: #amiga, Dalnet: #blitz 
WWW: http://www.stationone.demon.co.uk 
E-M: paulATnospamstationone.demon.co.uk 
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 11:27:57 EDT 
From: Harsha1MTMATnospamaol.com 
To: paulATnospamstationone.demon.co.uk, kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com 
Subject: Re: awareness 
Message-ID: <5d7445eb.35ae1c00ATnospamaol.com> 
 
In a message dated 7/16/1998 8:05:10 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
paulATnospamstationone.demon.co.uk writes:
 
<< I hope that the awareness of awareness will come again and stay for 
 longer. >>
 
Harsha: Why not?  Yes.  That is the state to be aimed for.  Awareness Aware of 
It Self.  It is in fact always Present.  The mind has to become gentle, 
subtle, and calm to see this Awareness manifesting through it.  For the one 
who is on the path of knowledge (Jnana Yoga), cultivating of this Awareness 
will facilitate the rise of Shakti and merging in Its Source Revealing the 
Light that is the Self which gives light to all lights and makes perception at 
all levels of consciousness possible.  
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 12:00:44 EDT 
From: AfperryATnospamaol.com 
To: bergerATnospamnyc.tomen.com 
Cc: kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com 
Subject: Re: Please read and respond 
Message-ID: <5ac4f021.35ae23adATnospamaol.com> 
 
Dear Cathy,
 
In a message dated 16/7/98 3:02:39 pm, you wrote:
 
>I often feel sad because I know no one to share the truth of my life with. 
>The only peace and comfort I know for this sadness is in reaching out to 
spirit.
 
Here you speak for many on the spiritual path! I think this is something we 
all have to come to terms with sooner or later. The downside can be loneliness 
and the sadness of separation from those around you, but the upside is it 
impels you to seek the Divine as your confidante and in so doing in enables 
you to find the only true and permanent relationship we can ever have - with 
God. And as we do so, we naturally overcome the downside; loneliness will 
vanish like a will o' the wisp.
 
The learning of this can be painful, of course, but were it not so, would we 
really want to learn? I suspect inertia would win otherwise :-)
 
God bless, 
Alan 
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 12:07:40 -0500 
From: amckeonATnospamhsmail.nfld.k12.mn.us 
To: kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com 
Subject: street sense 
Message-Id: <l03020901b1d39278ae98ATnospam[206.103.216.207]> 
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
 
Freda, I'm really sorry this happened to you. Since no one else has 
mentioned it, at least as of the last time I was able to download my 
email.... When I go into the big city, I always wear dark sunglasses, 
winter or summer, and as long into the evening as I can stand until it is 
too dark to see.
 
It is tougher for someone to pick you as a victim if they can't see your 
eyes. This is especially important if you are already feeling vulnerable. I 
also tend to avoid eye contact (without appearing to avoid it, like staring 
over someone's shoulder at something *really* interesting in the distance), 
because I am easily "hooked" into whatever weirdness is going on with the 
other person, unless I am feeling unusually strong and confident or I am 
really *pissed off* about something!
 
I would also suggest not saying Hello to everyone you pass on the street. 
Sometimes that is all the encouragement some people need. This may be 
contrary to your friendly nature, but I am suggesting it anyway.
 
Just a little advice from the careful and antisocial 
amckeon 
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 09:07:13 -1000 (HST) 
From: James C Jensen MD DABR <jcjensenATnospamwebtv.net> 
To: kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com 
Subject: AutoPost from Kundalini Resource Center  
Message-Id: <199807161907.JAA26226ATnospamhaleakala.aloha.net>
 
Daily kundalini classes move and unify energy and create a feeling of connectedness. 
Date: 16 Jul 98 16:11:13 +0000 
From: "Paul West" <paulATnospamstationone.demon.co.uk> 
To: kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com 
Subject: Re: Please read and respond 
Message-Id: <35AE2621.MD-0.196.paulATnospamstationone.demon.co.uk> 
 
Dear Cathy,
 
> The only peace and comfort I know for this sadness is in reaching out 
> to spirit.  Reaching the meditative state where you feel connected at 
> last to "yourself".
 
"And if by chance, 
that special place"
 
"That you've been dreaming 
of"
 
"Leads you to a 
lonely place"
 
"Find your strength, 
in love".
 
-- 
Paul.
 
IRC: #amiga, Dalnet: #blitz 
WWW: http://www.stationone.demon.co.uk 
E-M: paulATnospamstationone.demon.co.uk 
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 12:25:56 PDT 
From: "Harsha IMTM" <harsha1mtmATnospamhotmail.com> 
To: kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com, jcjensenATnospamwebtv.net 
Subject: Re: AutoPost from Kundalini Resource Center 
Message-ID: <19980716192557.23444.qmailATnospamhotmail.com> 
Content-Type: text/plain
 
Daily kundalini classes move and unify energy and create a feeling of  
connectedness.
 
Harsha: So does daily breathing.
 
Absolute Awareness dawns with Perfect Clarity when the mind has subsided  
into the Total Silence of the Self. Here, Self Sees IT Self by It Self  
and Through It Self. 
 
Harsha
 
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Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 12:42:39 PDT 
From: "Joseph Miller" <joemillerATnospamhotmail.com> 
To: lhcpmgphATnospamiswt.com 
Cc: kundalini-lATnospamlists.execpc.com 
Subject: Re: depression 
Message-ID: <19980716194239.24558.qmailATnospamhotmail.com> 
Content-Type: text/plain
 
Gregory Howard wrote: 
Has anyone out there who has been through kundalini have a case of 
manic-depression or depression ... since you have gone through  
kundalini. 
 
Joe: 
Yes. 
 
I was born with K awake, it has been active all my life (as was  
explained by my teacher when I met him). I have learned to control and  
work with K. That actually makes it more active, it just isn't random  
now in where it goes or what it does. 
 
I have had depression much of my life too. I was told by a minister who  
had as more graduate hours in psych and counselling as many LCSWs (but  
no, non-ministerial, license) that I was a manic-depressive when I was  
in high school. If so, I grew out of it. By the time I was in my late  
20s I was just depressive.
 
You asked about chemical imbalance, I don't have a clue. I know the  
feelings and the thoughts. The chemical diagnosis would likely come from  
a psychiatrist. I won't go to a psychiatrist, they are too prone to give  
drugs (in the great animal/vegetable/mineral classification system I  
don't want to change my status). I've used psychologists from time to  
time.
 
Gregory Howard: 
Have you overcome your depression or have the symptoms disappeared or  
does it help with these new energies to cope with your depression.  
 
Joe: 
If one approaches Kundalini as a part of one's religious/spiritual  
system it will be helpful. Not the K, but the strength gained from  
having a spiritual/moral compass that is strong, and along with faith,  
will provide both a guide and a lifejacket for the rough waters and see  
you through the difficulties of the depression. As for Kundalini herself  
(alone).... 
 
It is not universal, but there is a tendency for K to actually increase  
the crap you have to deal with, be it depression or some other crap  
(issue or problem). It is a part of the cleaning process. 
 
For any who get above Ajna there is a very unpleasant time ahead (part  
of the "dark night of the soul") where all sorts of crap, some you have  
previously had no clue about, much of it from past lives, comes up/out  
and has to be dealt with. I have a friend who is at that point. He has  
always had problems with pride and a need for approval. Now he doesn't  
need approval, he demands it! Any question can strike him as an insult.  
He is close to tossing away some important and much needed friends over  
these minor (to nonexistent) slights. He is working on it, but it is  
rough for him and for those around him. 
 
You don't have to be at that point for K to make the bad stuff worse. It  
does this sort of cleaning as it travels all the way from your bottom to  
your top, it is just at its most intense above Ajna. 
 
That may not have been what you wanted to hear. If one reaches  
enlightenment I believe the depression will be gone. I've not been given  
specific teachings to that effect but it is a logical extension from  
some of the things I read in the scriptures and what I have been taught  
by a K master from India. If I make it, I'll let you know for sure if  
the logic is correct :-).
 
Namaste,
 
Joe
 
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