Kundalini Splendor

https://www.emergingsciences.org/‎

The Emerging Science Foundation website is a most interesting effort to get at some of the basic issues and questions surrounding the Kundalini phenomenon.  It offers, among other things, a complex questionnaire for those who have experienced Kundalini in their lives. It also offers some very interesting discussions on topics surrounding Kundalini, often as summaries of past webinars and various responses.  If you are interested in contemplating these issues with like minded others, you will enjoy this site, which involves a highly cerebral approach to the subject, yet honors the subjective element.  Here is an announcement of an upcoming webinar on the topic of Enlightenment.


Live Webinar: January 31 at 10:00am PST

Webinar: What is Enlightenment?

Dorothy,

Enlightenment, Samadhi, or Christ Consciousness are terms that are often used in religious circles, but could there be an objective, scientifically verifiable reality behind them? In his first webinar, veteran Kundalini activist, researcher, and vedic astrologer Michael Bradford will dispel the most common misconceptions about what it is to be Enlightened, and will show that true Enlightenment is much more than what most people believe it to be.

When it comes to religion and the New Age movement, there is no topic more confused than the subject of Enlightenment. Many well-known pundits today claim Enlightenment is simply a shift of perspective or attitude. Michael Bradford will show that this type of thinking is totally incorrect, and that Enlightenment has a profound biological basis. Michael will show the characteristics of Enlightenment, what seekers of today need to know about the mechanism that produced the enlightened sages and seers of the past, and will provide some basic criteria for assessing whether someone is Enlightened or not.

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And here is a very interesting idea about allegorical meanings of some common myths:


Much of the iconography in world mythos is used to embody functions within the human body. The theory of biological evolution controlled by Kundalini would help to explain the globally recognized “Virgin Birth” symbolism, as the word “Virgin” symbolizes the inward circulation of sexual energy and its sublimation. The “tree” which so many Gods and saviors are killed or crucified upon is a reference to the cerebrospinal system and denotes the major physiological transformation which occurs after Kundalini ascends upward from the base of the spine to the brain. Kundalini itself is symbolized by the serpent or snake and is the most widespread of all images encountered in mythology, as it denotes  both creation and destruction utilizing the spiral path of prana.
Joseph Alexander, from the webinar, "Reincarnation, Brain Evolution, and Kundalini in Myth"). 

I might add that the snake often occurs in ancient goddess worship as a symbol of rebirth or a source of wisdom.  In the Bible, it is seen as the bringer of evil, and Eve, who is seduced by the snake, becomes the source of all evil in the world.  Hence arises the denigration of females and female systems and the takeover of the patriarchy.  In this view, female equals evil and male equals good.  It also suggests that early patriarchal systems rejected such subjective processes as Kundalini (the mystical) approach because this experience was not controlled by the male hierarchy.

I also am reminded as I read these interesting comments, of what Yeats, the poet, said long ago: "Man can embody truth but never know it." Also of what Tolstoy wrote even earlier: "The kingdom of God is within you."

I think that when we reduce our rationalistic, often highly complex approaches to such mysteries as Kundalini, to their essence, we find that ultimately they are intricate presentations of very simple truths.  "The map is not the territory." The discussion is not the experience.  But it is fun to speculate and such discussions give our minds fodder for thought.