To: K-list
Recieved: 2002/03/28 14:56
Subject: Re: [K-list] Re: Awakening
From: lillianferracone

Yes these experiences are well described in the book, "A Variety of
Religious Experiences" by William James. Lillian
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Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 2:40 PM
Subject: [K-list] Re: Awakening

>
In a message dated 3/27/2002 2:39:28 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> jam574ATnospaminmarkservices.com writes:

> > No where in
> > Christianity was this mentioned, until I read St. Theresa of Avila and
St.
> > John of the Cross. Both of them had what I believe are kundalini
> > awakenings. Although they did not have our present day vocabulary there
is
> >
> > no mistaking what they are talking about. It is part of contemplative
> > prayer. St. Theresa called the Chakras, the 7 mansions, and goes on to
> > describe what happens as you transcend the mansions.
>
> Dear Jill,
>
> A warm welcome to the K list!
>
> I absolutely agree that these are K experiences! When I first read some
> excerpts of St. Theresa's (a sixteenth c. mystic), (quoted in *The
Sanctified
> Body* by Patricia Treece) I couldn't believe it. The description was
exactly
> as I had been experiencing it--including using the word delicious (I
presume
> "delicieux," in the French).
>
> "[Rapture] comes, in
> general, as a shock, quick and sharp, before you can collect your
> thoughts, or help yourself in any way, and you see and feel it as
> a cloud, or a strong eagle rising upwards and carrying you away
> on its wing....I repeat it: you feel yourself carried away you
> know not whither....(You) feel how delicious it is...(At) times
> it was impossible to resist at all; my soul was carried
> away...and now and then the whole body as well, so that it was
> lifted up from the ground."
>
> Thanks for the reminder! :))
>
> Again, welcome!
>
> Love, Hillary

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