New Member Introduction

[Guest guest]

Thank you for your invitation to join. My name is . I'm a

60 yo male living in Canberra, Australia. I could be best described

as a dabbler with not much success in commitment to any one

organisation or set of practices.

 

An interest in Kundalini started in my early teens after

frustration at not being able to come to grips with my perceptions

of some of the inconsistencies in Christian church life. After

briefly exploring Theosophy, I had an initiation in Transcendental

Meditation. My physical reaction to the ceremony at which I received

a mantra was extreme heaviness in my forehead - not much else. I

found the meditation calming but not able to move me on any

trendline of spiritual progress.

 

In my early thirty's, the head heaviness returned and I developed

extreme heat throughout my body, and a mysterious dry throat

condition that persisted for weeks and had no medical explanation.

While the throat condition has gone and the heat has dissipated, I

am still very sensitive to the heat of the sun (not much fun in

Australia!).

 

After that, I began to explore Siddha Yoga. In their group

meditation sessions, I recall my first experience of tingling in the

base chakra. (THEIR manifestations of kundalini energy were however,

far more extreme, bordering on violent).

 

In my forty's I moved to Satyandana yoga. Satyandana's kriya yoga

courses seemed to focus on various forms of muscle tensing and

watching energy pass through the chakras. This produced moderate

tingling in my head, but also widespread tension throughout my body.

 

Most recently, I have been doing stimulating physical exercises

through the training on the Kundalini Yoga Organisation website and

they have produced the most promising results to date, much tingling

energy travelling up my spine to the crown chakra but I can't seem

to get any growth spurt in my mental or spiritual views of myself or

of the world. I suspect I have numerous blockages and I seek a a

means of breaking through these - at present my lonely path seems to

be taking me nowhere !!

 

I stress that all the people I have mingled with over the years have

been very supportive and I think the fact I've been so capricious in

switching around has been my biggest handicap.

 

Thanks for reading this and best wishes to all members - John.