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We may consider that we should NOT be overly focused on "kundalini"...  it is simply a law of our nature...  simply let if unfold... 

Well, well, I have just read the above Eagle spirit ministry! I am so glad I did.
I think my own spirit guide, whoever that might be, has lead me to this Spiritualportal website.
For a while now I have only wanted to be "normal" for the rest of my life, being old now. Bad enough to wonder if you will get dementia! 
After reading Eagle spirit, kundalini awakening sounds more like a disease, than something to strive for! 
I will rather be normal, try to be a good person, and wait many incarnations for a more natural development, if that is really what we are in for.
Phew, I feel protected. Thank you God and my un-known spirit guide.

Pentatonic.

Has anybody heard of Gopi Krishna?
Last year I read something about kundalini awakening, which scared me, and I now have a book by Gopi Krishna called "Living with kundalini". He did the kriya the wrong way round, did not have a guru and nearly went insane, until he found out how to correct his mistake. He burnt badly in his spine. Scary.
But now he has the awakened Kundalini. He writes something very interesting, like kundalini awakening is a biological fate for all of us, eventually, like evolving to where we are now has been our fate. 
I have other books by him, not yet read.

Pentatonic.

Has anybody heard of Gopi Krishna?
Last year I read something about kundalini awakening, which scared me, and I now have a book by Gopi Krishna called "Living with kundalini". He did the kriya the wrong way round, did not have a guru and nearly went insane, until he found out how to correct his mistake. He burnt badly in his spine. Scary.
But now he has the awakened Kundalini. He writes something very interesting, like kundalini awakening is a biological fate for all of us, eventually, like evolving to where we are now has been our fate. 
I have other books by him, not yet read.

Pentatonic.

Hi Kayla. When I click the link it doesn't work but I was able to navigate to the right spot. I really like the penman idea of logging your experiences. I also agree that psychic abilities are organic.  :)

It sounds to me like raising Kundalini energy is exactly what kriya techniques are doing, although SRF doesn't really plainly state that, or I missed it.

not my quote,

"once Kundalini is awakened, it's likely that your life will conspire to create situations where you get to work through your karma at an accelerated rate."

Sounds right though.

i believe that during Yoganandas' time here on earth kundalini and raising the energy in the spine was considered dangerous by many people.

Yogananda emphasized the safe use of Kundalini safe use thru kriya yoga and the guidance of a guru who could help the devotee avoid the pitfalls of misusing such a technique.

We are taught that regardless of whether Kundalini is awakened knowingly.....we r still roasting the seeds of karma thru the practice of kriya or similar techniques. The astral spine holds all the memories from all past life encounters and all the seeds of that karma lie there ready to be opened. When we bring this energy up down the spiritual spine through yoga or visualization, and at some point, through actual awareness we slowly burn out all the karma we have generated in this life and thousands of other lives as well. Otherwise we have to go thru many thousands and perhaps millions of years evolving on this earth plain through various incarnations here or similar planets.

i have had experiences with kundalini rising. They r truly inspiring and gives r practice quite a boost. They r a bit like proof in the practice. However even though we may have such experiences, usually we have long years ahead of us in the practice of meditation and spiritual disciplines. The experiences alone r not really a sign of spiritual progress so much as attitude and behavior changing as a result of sadhana (spiritual practice and discipline). If we can look back at our lives and see progress in our way of looking at the world, people around us and ourselves, i believe this is the strongest indication of spiritual progress.

There is much more emphasis on bringing energy up in down the spiritual spine and focusing with visualization on the chakras in Ammas iam technique and Babajis' Kriya technique (the second, third and fourth kriyas expanding the visualization on the chakras and energy flowing up the spine.) then the kundalini. i would say that all these spiritual exercises lead to this awakening.

Even an interest in such subjects show definite spiritual progress. But the dharma (duty) involved in sadhana is a daily and moment to moment practice that is a routine that most of us r only beginning to understand; how it affects every encounter we have and every moment of our lives in our unfolding awareness.

I have read that some folks claim that when they experience kundalini rising (not sure if it was thru a scientific method or it was spontaneous), they feel "orgasmic" feelings thru each chakra as it moves up the spine. Again PY doesn't talk this way, but does allude that the feeling is better than any physical feelings. I wonder if the former folks actually do feel that way, and they have awakened kundalini, or it has awakened on its own, and some kind of karma or attachment need to be worked out. This is one example where it could be a little dangerous, and maybe lead you the wrong way.

I haven't personally experienced the feeling quite like that, but I would say it is different and at times equally as powerful and satisfying. The problem with that I think is, that's when you get attached to a feeling, hard not to.

The sleeping power of the serpent is a fascinating subject, one vital point I believe is that you don't want to force its awakening, it may become poisonous. Not that I'd know how to force that, even if I'd be so reckless to want it.

Apparently one of the signs of Kundalini rising is the feeling of not fitting in. I feel better now.

There are many other signs as well.

Seems there's lots of folks that have found bad side effects, psychosis for one would be a hard one to determine. There's some very strange stories out there.

I'd like to talk about the feeling of Kundalini, the actual sensation felt. Hard to describe I know, and likely no 2 people feel the same way.

One thing for me is, I get strong sensations not only from the lowest chakra, but using basic kriya technique, I also feel inrush at the back of the neck, the mouth of God as PY puts it, mixing together.

Paramahansa Yogananda gives a whole lesson on Kundalini in K-14 of the Kriya lessons. He mentions that when 'Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness' he lifted the kundalini or serpent power in his spine. Even after many years on the path i still feel as a novice when it comes to this energy. This spiritual energy that we have inside us. Most human beings are functioning in the lower chakras. But some of us are starting to awaken the higher centers in the astral body. Our hearts are opening more. Some of us might have had such an experience when their hearts have opened. Or perhaps they have at sometime in their life felt the energy in there spine ascend. Maybe they just have felt that wonderful feeling of a tingling rushing sensation up through their backs and neck when they read or saw something inspiring. These are experiences with Kundalini and spiritual energy that awakens our consciousness.

Some of us may now be practicing powerful techniques to withdraw the energy from the five salesmen of the senses (touch, sight, smell, hearing and taste) and directing that energy inward to awaken the spiritual centers. These centers are spoken of in the Bible as the seven candlesticks or the seven churches by St. John in Revelations. It is good to have a concept of what is happening to us when we cry tears of joy or feel sensations in our bodies that are not associated with physical phenomena. These are the experiences that are the evidence of what is unseen in faith and unknown in our own bodies and consciousness. They come to tell us that we are more than this body and this limited consciousness that we identify with.

Steve Hydonus