The Kundalini experience Dr. Kujawa talks about has become such a trend that people are seeking out this activation. I've heard though that this practice can open people up to unwanted entity attachments, much like ayahuasca. I myself haven't settled on any opinion for or against it, and I've not experienced it either. I personally think it is something that happens naturally when one is ready for it, and I think it's important to have done a fair amount of shadow work first. Interestingly, in the book Sri Aurobindo and the Adventure of Consciousness by Satprem, he writes:
the centers "can open in two ways: from the bottom to top or from top to bottom... we can eventually feel a Force awakening at the bottom of the spine and ascending from level to level up to the top of the head, with an undulating movement, just like a snake. At each level this Force pierces (rather violently) through the corresponding center, which opens up, thereby putting us in contact with all the universal vibrations or energies associated with the frequency of that particular center.
"... the descending Force opens the same centers, slowly and gently, from top to bottom. Often the lower centers do not even fully open until much later. This process has a distinct advantage if we appreciate that each center corresponds to a universal mode of consciousness or energy. To open the lower vital or subconscious centers at the beginning is to run the risk of being flooded not only by our own small personal problems, but by torrents of universal mud; we are automatically in contact with the confusion and mud of the world.
"With the descending Force this danger is avoided; we confront the lower centers only after our being is firmly established in the higher, superconscious light. Once the seeker controls his centers, he begins to know things and beings, the world and himself, as they really are, for he is no longer receiving external signs, dubious words or gestures - the charade of the confined man or the closed face of things - but the pure vibration at each level, in each thing and each being, which nothing can disguise. "
"From top to bottom, our being is a receiving station."
I find myself leaning more toward this descending process than toward the traditional Kundalini experience of an ascending force.
I can't say Dr. Kujawa makes total sense to me, as I haven't experienced it either. But I've had one very sexually passionate relationship long ago, where perhaps (...in a very broad and general way...) the ambiance when we were together felt "magical and consciousness expanding".
The Kundalini experience Dr. Kujawa talks about has become such a trend that people are seeking out this activation. I've heard though that this practice can open people up to unwanted entity attachments, much like ayahuasca. I myself haven't settled on any opinion for or against it, and I've not experienced it either. I personally think it is something that happens naturally when one is ready for it, and I think it's important to have done a fair amount of shadow work first. Interestingly, in the book Sri Aurobindo and the Adventure of Consciousness by Satprem, he writes:
the centers "can open in two ways: from the bottom to top or from top to bottom... we can eventually feel a Force awakening at the bottom of the spine and ascending from level to level up to the top of the head, with an undulating movement, just like a snake. At each level this Force pierces (rather violently) through the corresponding center, which opens up, thereby putting us in contact with all the universal vibrations or energies associated with the frequency of that particular center.
"... the descending Force opens the same centers, slowly and gently, from top to bottom. Often the lower centers do not even fully open until much later. This process has a distinct advantage if we appreciate that each center corresponds to a universal mode of consciousness or energy. To open the lower vital or subconscious centers at the beginning is to run the risk of being flooded not only by our own small personal problems, but by torrents of universal mud; we are automatically in contact with the confusion and mud of the world.
"With the descending Force this danger is avoided; we confront the lower centers only after our being is firmly established in the higher, superconscious light. Once the seeker controls his centers, he begins to know things and beings, the world and himself, as they really are, for he is no longer receiving external signs, dubious words or gestures - the charade of the confined man or the closed face of things - but the pure vibration at each level, in each thing and each being, which nothing can disguise. "
"From top to bottom, our being is a receiving station."
I find myself leaning more toward this descending process than toward the traditional Kundalini experience of an ascending force.
I can't say Dr. Kujawa makes total sense to me, as I haven't experienced it either. But I've had one very sexually passionate relationship long ago, where perhaps (...in a very broad and general way...) the ambiance when we were together felt "magical and consciousness expanding".