wellwisher
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I learned about Kundalini Yoga from a book I bought many years ago. At that time, I had recently graduated from university and was starting a job as a Development Engineer. I was 1000 miles from home and didn't know anyone, so I decided to spend my off time working days and rounding off my science education, by reading classical literature at night. During the process of the picking the top 100 classic books, I started to also pick up books about the arcane sciences; occult and mysticism. I had had many psychic experiences over my life and decided this was also a good time to learn about things, hard to prove, of which I had many experiences.
The book of Kundalini Yoga I bought suggested that Westerners were too tense, and that I would benefit by first using a meditation called Chaotic Medication, as a way to help me totally relax my mind, heart and body, before starting the Kundalini Yoga.
Chaotic Meditation invoked three 15 minute phases followed by a 15 minute meditative rest. The first 15 minute was designed to relax the body. This involved making up sort of a dance but without rhythm. It was supposed to be free style chaotic. It was very tiring and designed to break up patterns of body movement. The second 15 minutes was to relax the emotions. This was done with a chaotic emotional catharsis, where you would express all the emotions but again with no repetitive pattern. The last 15 was to relax the mind which was done by talking gibberish. You make sounds and make up words, that have no pattern. When the 45 minutes is done you body, heart and mind are calm. I did it for about 2 weeks, one hour per day and I was very relaxed and empty, and ready to begin.
Kundalini Yoga is based on the seven psychic centers connected to seven major nerve points; ganglions, along the spin. From the bottom up, the first is at the base of the spine, second is at the spleen, then the navel, the heart, the throat, the mind's eye or between the eyes, and seven is at the top of the head.
Kundalini is a breathing and visualizing yoga, where you start at the bottom center and work your way up 1 through 7, for seven cycles. As you inhale, you visualize energy entering the center of focus. As you exhale picture the energy going up your spine and out the top of your head; crown of the king. Then you go up one center and repeat, for seven cycles.
After about a week or two, I started to have some strange experiences. The first was, I was oversleeping one morning and I had a dream that my mother grab me by the ankle, to wake me, like she had done when I was a boy. This woke me and when I realized I was in another state, I snapped to it and made it to work on time.
After that when I did the yoga, I was starting to feel the centers resonate and energy come out of the top of my head during exhale. Then one day all the centers resonated and inflated, and then I felt my body inflate, and I started to feel like I was about to leave my body. This scared the crap out of me, because although I was hoping for something like this, I was not sure if I would be able to come back into my body. I snapped myself out the trance and stopped Kundalini. I decided to approach the occult and mysticism from a science POV; psychology. I was attracted to the Psychology of Carl Jung, since his thesis was the about the collective unconscious, based on collective human symbolism, much of which was connected to the world religions, alchemy and mysticism.
Later, I would develop my own type of self yoga, in induce the unconscious, so I would gain first hand data of the collective unconscious. This began with recording dreams and analyzing the symbolism. At times I would have dreams about symbols I never saw that I would read about in books, I never read before, the following day. Cause and affect was reversing; synchronicity. Kundalini Yoga gave me the hard first person experiences, that stimulated my interest, in how the brain's operating system works. It can be unsettling and can change your world view.
