http://batgap.com/
The above address contains one of the most fascinating interviews with someone who has experienced major Kundaini awakening that I have come across. Jan Esmann spent his early years in London, then moved to Denmark with his parents, who were Danes.
Even in childhood Jan experienced out of body experiences as well as bliss states. As he grew older, these experiences continued to manifest and intensify, often when he underwent spiritual initiation with various teachers. Bliss became a daily companion. and for him, bliss love was an indicator of the love of the universe itself for the individual person. Today, he sometimes gives "shaktipat" to his friends and fellow meditators. His method is simple: he touches their knee with his hand.
Jan is unusual in his willingness to expose and explore his private "bliss states." As I have mentioned from time to time, many spiritual and martial arts teachers I have met belittled bliss as an aberration from the preferred path, or said they had never heard of it, or else proclaimed, "If you are lucky you will get over it." Rather than relegating bliss to the state of a distraction from the true path, he sees it as a sign of having reached the major goal of oneness with divine essence, which he names as the Goddess herself. She is with him constantly, and he is always bathed in her love.
Jan has written a book ("Lovebliss") to be available on Amazon soon. He also has a website that contains much of his own experience and philosophy but it is difficult to find a url for it--but you can google him or else go to the link on the site mentioned above.
For Jan, lovebliss is th state of enlightenment itself, for it produces oneness consciousness in its fullest state. I agree.
The only reservation I have about his presentation is that when he was asked about the possible negative effects of Kundalini, he brushed the question aside, saying that he was only familiar with his own experience. Kundalini is not necessarily all bliss, as many of us know, Kundalini awakening is for many like flipping a coin--one side brings bliss, the other pain, and we cannot predict who will receive which result.
I urge everyone to read this website and to listen to the youtube interview. They are of extreme significance to anyone interested in Kundalini.
Here ia more about Jan from the site mentioned above:
Jan was born 1960 and grew up in Bury, England. His parents were Danish. In 1967 the family moved to Denmark. Jan’s dad is an engineer and there was no spiritual influence from either parent. Yet Jan showed strong spiritual yearnings since an early age. Jan trained as an artist under the Danish painter Niels Hermann Wamberg; he also studied art restoration at the Royal Academy in order to learn the traditional craft. Jan also studied at the university and acquired an MA in history of modern culture. Today Jan works as a full time professional artist and also has a software company developing photo retouching plug-ins for Photoshop.
After doing Transcendental Meditation and the TM Siddhi Programme for six years, Jan felt the need for a guru and found Gururaj Ananda Yogi whom he stayed with for three years. Then Jan’s Kundalini was so active, that he did not need any other guidance than what the Shakti gave, so he gave up on gurus and meditated by observing the inner Shakti’s workings. Following this, Jan began to be contagious and the Kundalini might spontaneously awaken in those that meditated with him. After some years, Jan met Amma and related to her as a spiritual master for about ten years. But again the Shakti guided Jan to meditate on his own and follow the inner guidance of the Shakti. Today Jan would describe his spirituality as being grabbed by Mother’s grace. The Divine Mother who resides in everybody as Kundalini Shakti and patiently waits to unfold as a vibrating field of love, bliss and grace.
Interview recorded 7/10/2011.
Jan’s sites: Spirituality, Art, Software Development
# posted by Dorothy : 7/18/2011 01:56:00 PM
