I sometimes experienced kundulini years ago when I did TM but nothing
earth-shattering. I experienced a heck of a lot of it years later in
the Ramtha School, which targets kundulini raising as one of its
goals.
The first time I had a kundulini experience was in Avoriaz, France on
an ATR. I didn't even know what it was. I had been meditating just
four
years, and on that course I fell in love. Every time I meditated, I
felt love for that man, and I would experience this soft strong rush
of
energy, like a river of cloud, up both sides of the inside of my
neck,
and inside my ears, flowing into my head. It made a a gentle steady
whoosh sound, like the ocean.
Ever since, when I feel great love, I feel that. When I started
experimenting with intentional kundulini-raising in the Ramtha
school,
I realized it was the same as the powerful love experience. Of course
kundulini can be much more intense, even really uncomfortable, and it
has been for me sometimes. I know some people have found it painful
and
particularly distressing.
I disagree with what some posters have written here, that kundulini
is
just a clearing of blockages in the physical nervous system and not
important to full enlightenment. I think the uncomfortableness comes
when the "river" encounters an obstacle, but I don't think the river
itself is a blockage. To me that wouldn't make much sense.
In the Ramtha school, people were taught to image a volcano in their
first chakra ("first seal" in Ramtha terms). Then we'd do a forced
sharp breath while envisioning pushing the volcano's energy up. We
would play with that image -- erupting the volcano -- while blasting
kundulini breaths to push the volcanic stream higher and higher up
the
spine. Kind of like those things at the fair where you bang the thing
and the ball goes higher and higher, with the goal being to ding the
bell at the top. We were told to envision the energy going all the
way
to the top of the head every time we blew. Everyone got very high on
this, as it made the energy climb higher each time you did it. It was
very empowering and enlivening.
After a 40-minute session like this, we'd do exercises to develop our
psychic abilities. I never used to be psychic before the Ramtha
school,
and I'm a lot more that way now. Plus it really enlivened my energy.
I
know it made me a lot smarter, I think because of the energy going
into
the head. I got a lot of good stuff out of that school and sometimes
still practice the technique.
