Reddit reviews Kundalini Tantra/2012 Re-print/ 2013 Golden Jubilee edition

Ok, I can tell you that that sounds exactly like kundalini awakening. I've had symptoms too, but not that severe. It's going to be a wild ride for you, let me tell you, but at the end of it all you will be enlightened and be in constant bliss. Make sure you try and aim the energy up your central channel called the sushumna. it can be really bad if it gets forced up the left or right sides. I'd recommend getting in contact with some kind of kundalini yoga teacher to help guide you through this. Usually only advanced yogis attempt to raise their kundalini. The goal is to get the kundalini to go to the top of your head where the energies will merge and change your whole body and consiousness. I'd recommend reading these books:

http://www.amazon.com/Kundalini-Rising-Exploring-Energy-Awakening/dp/B0054U5DXU/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1334630716&sr=8-2

http://www.amazon.com/Kundalini-Tantra-Re-print-Satyananda-Saraswati/dp/8185787158/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1334630716&sr=8-4

http://www.amazon.com/Kundalini-The-Evolutionary-Energy-Man/dp/1570622809/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1334630754&sr=1-1

These sites will also give you a good idea:

http://swamij.com/index-yoga-meditation-kundalini.htm

http://www.aypsite.org/index.html

http://www.kundaliniawakeningsystems1.com/index.html#.T4zZ1TJYv-I

YOU'RE NOT CRAZY. This is very real and serious and you have to educate yourself. Send me a pm if you ever have any questions. I've read a lot about this and can give you advice. If you could find some kind of spiritual teacher that would be great. This can be very dangerous if you don't know what you're doing. Read the Gopi Krishna book. He gives his account of how he accidentally had a kundalini awakening and it totally fucked him over for 10 years. He almost died, but that's because he didn't know what it was and had no info available to him. God speed bro.

Im working on this book:

A Systematic Course in the Ancient Tantric Techniques of Yoga and Kriya

This is, in my opinion, the most complete book you will find on Yoga.

Also, I have been working on his companion book:

Kundalini Tantra

This second book covers in more detail Kundalini and Chakra work.

Both of these books are "esoteric". The Swami mentions "magick" several times and even compares Tantra with Kabbalah in several places. So it's definitely not just a bunch of poses. This guy is the real deal.

Ah, I see.

Satyananda Saraswati - A Systematic Course in the Ancient Tantric Techniques of Yoga and Kriya


Satyananda Saraswati - Asana Pranayama Mudra Bandha

Mukunda Stiles - Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy

KS Joshi - Yogic Pranayama

David Frawley - Ayurveda and the Mind

Satyananda Saraswati - Kundalini Tantra


Good luck and all the best. I recommend all books for a rounded introduction. I'd also recommend a more technical book on Chakras by Harish Johari, but I'd start with the above books.

Idk if I've ever experienced anything close to a Kundalini awakening, but everything I've experienced in that realm is terrifying, because it's tremendously powerful, beyond anything I've experienced in 'normal' life and blissful, because one can't help but ride the wave once it starts.

I would describe the energy as electrical / liquid movement moving in whirlpools that move in all directions at once, depending on attention. Up, down, clockwise, counter clockwise.

Breathe and observe awareness. Maintain equanimity.

Our world is not conducive to mental explorers. Expect to be very alone on the path of consciousness exploration. At times, I feel like I've chosen the comfort of my relationships with people over the challenges of the path. Meditation has made me more sensitive, and thus, more angry, sad and hateful towards what I perceive as ignorance. It's not that those feelings weren't there before, but being aware of it makes life more challenging.

Kundalini Yoga, in the context of a 1 hour yoga class, I think is more marketing than anything else.

Go read this. It outlines the 8 different paths for Kundalini awakening, and presents what the author considers to be the most optimal path for householders. It has several month long stages of purification and building sensitivity. It doesn't require living in seclusion, guru initiation, or other extremely devoted measures. The last time I tried the initial pranayama exercise, it proved to generate an incredible amount of power, more then I could handle at the time. I should try again.

Great book, if interested: Kundalini Tantra. IMO Kundalini is another word for many similar experiences. Holy Spirit "filling" in Christianity, or other religious experiences. Same source. And the experience really has nothing to do with religion, IMO. It's simply something people have elevated, feared, and forgotten about.

Sahasrara isn't really a chakra, and it contains all possible combinations of sanskrit sounds. It doesn't have a syllable for the same reason why the petals are more accurately depicted as white: white light contains all colors.

There's pretty detailed descriptions of the standard chakras and their symbols in this bad mofo.