Kundalini Splendor

I am delighted to share this beautiful account  of his awakening by someone who considered himself  an agnostic.  It is, I believe, a description of what many today are experiencing across the globe today as spiritual regeneration is happening to us even as the outer world collapses.  (from Jason's FB page)

 The Spiritual Awakening that Caught Me Completely by Surprise

JASON SEYMOUR·SUNDAY, JULY 26, 2020·READING TIME: 5 MINUTES

If we have not met formally, please allow me to introduce myself. I am a real estate attorney living in Washington, D.C. I think it is fair to say that I am a fairly ordinary person, and I like to think that I am a very rational person. 

I would like to share a personal experience in my life in the hope that it might give you a little bit of hope or inspiration during these uncertain times. Basically, this is the story of an unexpected, spontaneous “awakening” that caught me completely by surprise.

One fine day in March 2017, I was lounging in bed, as I was often wont to do on the weekend. It was a totally normal day like any other day.

At that point in my life, my philosophical position was that of the agnostic. Atheist—you could almost say—but I was not quite so arrogant as to say there is definitely no God or spiritual dimension to reality. And I adamantly believed that in order to believe in any phenomenon, there must be verifiable evidence.

There I was lounging when--all of a sudden--I felt an energy coursing up my spine and back. Next, I felt this energy coursing throughout my whole body. I was able to identify that energy as kundalini. Then, what can only be described as a kind of second sight opened up, and I saw colorful rays of light suffusing the room and giving the room a kind of golden hue. I identified that as my third eye opening up and seeing auras of light.

And then the most interesting thing happened. I was experiencing total bliss and peace like I had never done before. I also became aware of the presence of some kind of—well, the only word I could think of was—divinity. I experienced what I believed could only be described as divine. And I knew in that moment that there was absolutely nothing that existed that was outside of that divinity. It was all-encompassing.

I also had a sense of being totally at one with everything—and knew that oneness was the true state of everything. A lot of people talk about the interconnectedness of everything. It is just like that only taking it one step further. Not only are things related, they are not—from this perspective—even distinct from each other.

It is like astronauts viewing Earth from space and perceiving our planet as one single organism, which happens to astronauts quite a lot, apparently, and is referred to as the “overview effect.” And it was not that I merely had an intellectual understanding of this sense of oneness. It was a direct experience in which I felt and simply knew that everything was one.

In addition to that, I was experiencing a kind of higher consciousness—a kind of expansion of consciousness—and I just kind of knew things to be true that I did not normally know. And the world just felt natural and beautiful. It was not like I was transcending the world to experience some otherworldly spiritual dimension, but rather that I experienced the divinity (for lack of a better word) that is inherent and immanent in this world while being perfectly conscious of everything happening around me.

This experience continued with the same intensity for two straight weeks, although it diminished in intensity while I was at work. Astonishingly, I was able to do my work just fine despite going into states of higher consciousness throughout the day while sitting at my desk. Then, it started to subside. For six months, I was feeling the intensity of the experience for less and less each day.  But then, at the end of the six months, like clockwork—the intensity began to increase again and again.

And here I am more than three years later, and the experience is still with me. The difference between those first two weeks and now is that I have an increasing level of control over the experience. For instance, kundalini energy rarely rises up spontaneously. But if I want to experience kundalini, all I have to do is think of it and will it to rise and it does so.

A really interesting aspect to all of this is that I have changed as a person. I have made any formal effort to improve myself—but rather, the experience has changed me. And healed me. All of the anxiety that had burdened me in the past is completely gone or, perhaps it is more accurate to say, they have been reduced to healthy levels. Resentments from my past … have simply evaporated. I am more patient, more calm, more joyful, less angry and—most importantly—more loving. But it did not happen overnight. It happened so gradually that I did not notice it at all. And then one day I recognized that something was different about my reaction to something, and I said to myself, “Oh, hold on, Jason, you’re a different person.”

Some people speak about having a spiritual experience of the void or of emptiness or something deeply negative—but for me—what I have experienced has had a richness of spirit to it, a fullness. It is the most exquisitely beautiful experience I have ever had. It is beatific. Heaven on Earth. When I have the experience—full bore—it leaves me wanting for nothing.