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TL;DR - answering questions on the k topic.
Re doughnuts, it's from an old advertisement. We use it to refer to work in general, not actually making little tasty toroids. Nice physics link, thank you. Will have a deeper look.
>I was caught by my flatmates peering in...
Laughter is always good medicine!! You and your friends will be telling this story as long as it makes you laugh. Makes ME laugh!
>I suppose I am fairly trusting of the process now...
The k process has a self-regulating wisdom built into itself. This isn't being doomed by life - it's being challenged by it, perhaps thoroughly to help you grow more actively, to place you in situations which will help you question and unlearn ideas which stand in your way. The input of heat or a push or challenges goes by what you you have shown you can adapt to, and it especially goes by how responsible you are being with your energy and actions. If you were to lets say stay reckless, (am not implying you now are - it's just an example) your growth would remain slow to nil as far as kundalini is concerned. Or it could rouse your choices into question and really throw you for a loop. There's no easy way to tell.
Though it will slowly try to force a bit of wisdom-giving experience into your being, you don't get to walk and run without consistent responsibility and good choices. Proving you can crawl and stand while holding furniture is essential.
Being stoned may make your choices whacky or unpredictable, irresponsible - hence the irony that people rouse their kundalini at times through drugs but end up going nowhere or even backwards with k due to continued drug use.
If you choose to continue using drugs, that's a personal choice which tells kundalini to back off. Some. Maybe next life, if you believe in such things.
>Do you think it's fine to share revelatory stuff to anybody safe in the knowledge that, if they are not ready, then they will not believe you?
This is asking me what to do and to choose for you. I won't. There will be risks involved, risks of rejection, ridicule, belittlement, stress and stuff that may affect your health, and this applies to sharing AND not sharing. You may lose a friend or two. You may discover who are your real friends.
Also, you want to reveal only that which is wise to do so. Our society doesn't much care for people too far on either side of the bell curve. You don't need a neighbour or flat-mate believing you then judging you to be some monster.
>Is there a karmic load for interfering in another's path?
Always, whether the influence is positive or negative. Merely sharing words or ideas does not constitute "interference" nor manipulation unless you are dealing with children who haven't yet the judgment to deal with all topics. Freedom from needing or wanting to manipulate others is a basic level demand of k practice. Helpfulness is fine, but being overly helpful will make you better understand the notion: No good deed goes unpunished.
Book ideas
The first book is in my opinion the very best on the topic. Nothing else I've explored comes close. The second is an unusual tale of a seeker of knowledge and a teacher he comes across. The lessons are valid for a k learner. The Prophet is a jewel of a work, and is more of an artistic gentle respectful dabble at deep wisdom. He points at something without fully saying what it is - you have to figure it out for yourself. I like the Gibran book for measuring what I see and don't see in his writings. Regarding Star Wars, kundalini bears resemblance to the force, BUT, this is not the same galaxy nor the same time. The house rules are different here - a Darth Vader personality cannot exist here. Also, force-wielders are not enforcing an artificial peace upon society.
>I suppose I am fairly trusting of the process now I have gotten over the fear (to name a few) - of serotonin addiction, being thought of as mad, being mad, poverty, that I am deluding myself and believing in all kinds of esoteric shit as a way of hiding from the life that society wants me to lead, and thus wasting my time here on earth.
Good stuff in this paragraph. Will explore in next reply. Also, I'll glance at what serotonin addiction consists of. Am clueless.
>I mention these fears not for drama but because I think I needed to share them with someone who can relate.
You'll have to decide whether you wish to share those in as public a venue as here.
>However, I later tried not to make the clear arguments that I feel would have undermined his world-view irrevocably as he was in a fragile place too and I didn't want to spread the crazy, to one who wasn't prepared.
This shows that you have awareness of and respect for other's beliefs and where they are at. Respect is a good sign. There are those who question religiosity and some religions demand that the reality of the Maker be presented to others, sometimes rather forcefully. Some ask... what, can't the maker do that without help? Kundalini doesn't demand that you be of this faith or that one, that you prefer chocolate to chocolate crunch super fudge ice cream. If anything really stands in the way within your belief, it will be revealed by your own growth. That means that everyone's path is unique and having respect for others is a basic (and easy) requirement if one is to mature well with k.
The donuts are calling!!
Edit: clarified sentences, added TL;DR
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0394404289/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00
Link to the book itself if anyone is interested in reading directly. Not sure if that's considered a commercial link, if it is feel free to remove or yell at me.