Kundalini Splendor

Dr. Larry Dossey is well known in both medical and spiritual circles for his unorthodox views on medicine and healing over many years. He has long promoted prayer as a major healing modality, and has insisted that medical practitioners frequently encounter “anomalous events,” things which simply do not fit the expected patterns (as, for example, seeming “miracle cures.”)

Recently he presented a paper here at the national conference of the Society for Scientific Exploration, a group consisting primarily of scientists and other researchers who investigate unusual phenomena, such as remote viewing, human energy fields, the effect of the experimenter on the results of experiments and the like. Larry’s topic was precognition as a healing modality. He has just published a book on this subject, and he recounted several of the stories of precognition included in this book.

Here is one of the stories he related:

A new mother has her baby sleeping in a crib in another room where a chandelier hangs above the crib. The night is calm. Suddenly, she wakes up and tells her husband she has had a nightmare in which, during a storm, the chandelier has fallen on the crib and killed the baby. The clock at that time reads 4:35. Her husband tells her not to be worried since it is only a bad dream and to go back to sleep. But she does not go back to sleep. Instead, she brings the baby back to sleep with her and her husband. About two hours later, there is a fierce storm, during which the chandelier crashes on the crib below. Had the baby been sleeping there, it would doubtless have been killed. The clock reads 4:35.

Now, I am a bit of a skeptic, so I immediately began to challenge this account in my mind. Quite possibly the mother had subconsciously picked up on the fact that the chandelier over the crib posed a possible threat, and had woven this apprehension into a dream of disaster. However, this anxiety did not explain the clock with the exact time as in the dream, nor did it explain how the weather turned from calm to fierce.

If you would like to read other similar accounts, go to his website, where he offers other narratives included in his new book.

Actually, when I reflected on the topic of precognition I realized that I also had had several similar incidents in my life, and, in talking with a friend, found that she likewise knew of such related “coincidences” in her circle of family and friends. One had to do with a friend who refused at the last minute to make a plane trip to Europe on a plane which subsequently crashed. It has been discovered that the planes involved in the 9/11 disaster were only about a third full, a most unusual circumstance. Did some prospective passengers simply choose not to fly in those fated planes? And apparently many thousands of persons had premonitions of the 9/11 disaster through dreams and visions.

Another story my friend told me was this: a relative’s family was literally packing the car to go on a trip, when the mother announced that they must unpack and forego their plans, for something was wrong with the car. Actually the car had just been checked and proclaimed safe. With reluctance, the family unpacked and canceled their plans. Next day, when the husband was driving to work, the brakes failed on the car and he was seriously injured in an accident.

In the vocabulary of the scientists, such events strongly suggest that consciousness is not “local.” That is to say, our awareness is not bounded by ordinary space and time, but can function well outside the “norms” of our daily experience.

And indeed, when we experience Kundalini bliss, it is as if we too were wafted out of ordinary space/time realms and carried into other regions where only timelessness prevails. We exist solely within awareness itself, which is unbounded.

(picture by N. M. Rai)