Guest guest Posted December 31, 2009 Report Share Posted December 31, 2009 Hi my name is James I am 32. Where to begin. I was brought up in an organisation called the School of Philosophy as a child which taught elements of Advaita Vedanta and taught meditation with a Sanskrit based matnra. But I never really understood or paid much attention to it because it was always forced upon me. When I was given the choice at the age of 16 to leave I took it. In the last two years of school I experienced a bit of a feeling of disillusionment and a sort of depression and feelings of isolation an dont fitting in as everyone seemed to change around me. My brother had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and that was also having an influence on my family life. I began to experience dizzy spells and stress headaches. I was always very sensitive. I visited a physio who suggested I take up transcendental meditation but I resisted the idea as I had a negative view of it from what I had seen in my family. He then suggested another type of meditation called the Ishayas Ascension which I went on a weekend course and took up. Over the next few years I did it with increasing regulatiry finding it helpful in my life, and went to Ascension weekend sporadialy gaining more Ascension attitudes as I went along. By the time I finished university Ascnesion had come an important part of my life, and I was thinking of going to America to train to teach it. I struggled with my last year of uni experiencing OOS syndrome and not really feeling motivated to complete it. During those four years though i had felt more intouch with myself taking up poetry writing and song writing and acting. Somewhere round that time period I had an experience of leaving my body and then soon after I experienced energy moving up my spine. Initially I felt guided to eat very little and meidtate a lot when it started happening. But it didn't seem to stop. I contacted the Ishayas and one of them replied that I was experiencing a kundalini awakening and that this was a wonderful thing. It went on though and as it did I began to lose interest in other pursuits and felt that I had to go to The Ishaya Campus as I felt like I needed to be there while whatever was happening to me was happening, among other reasons. Initially it had felt quite blissful but as it went on I began to experience jerking every time I meditated, pain in my back, cracking of the spine, headaches and hot flushes, feelings of disconnection and being in a trance like state, confusion and difficulty focussing on anything of a practical nature. So I went to America but my experience there wasn't quite what I had imagined. The " guru " and i put it in speech marks because he never wanted to be someone to " follow " , had passed away well before and the campus was in a state of disarray with no clear leader and a lot of people arguing about what was the way forward, a lack of focus and a lot of destructive behaviour patterns going on. It also seemed that the dogma that I had tried to escape from the school of philosophy that I didn't initially experience with Ascension has crept into the campus and took hold and people seemed at times more interested in upholding dogma than in what I had initialy felt the teaching was about. Also there didn't seem to be people there with mcuh of a knowledge about what was happening to me. In fact I felt a bit judged and didn't really know how to express what I was feeling about the place. I felt periods of anxiety and I think sometimes admittedly delusion at times, almost feeling like I was going through some kind of crucification process. Anyway I became disillusioned and left and headed for home. It was very difficult for me adjusting to being back home as for the last four or so months there, I had been on TEacher Training which I had won a raffle into, and had been meditating up to 16 hours a day, which I found very difficult to do but it was somewhat forced upon us. I was even advised against going for runs or walks or being outside for too long. Well when I got home I felt a bit disillusioned and didnt really know what to do with myself. I was still experiencing all the symptoms of kundalini and still didn;t know what I was to do about it or what I should do with my life. I had decided I wanted to get abck into acting which I did along with my music and poetry etc. I was finding it very difficult to meditate but also difficult not to. I still experienced the disconnection, headached, problems in my backs and guts and pressure in my head, along with experiences of leaving my body and flying round the stars. A friend of mine then introduced me to Reiki, but he had not really been properly trained in it and I am not sure to this day whether he gave me the right attunement or made some mistake with it. Anyway at the time I took to it with a bit too much zest. And started doing it constantly on myself almost admittedly with the attention of opening myself up and wanting to experience higher states of consiousness. I did it on my forehead hoping to open up my third eye and did it on my back to try and get rid of the pain. But I didn't even really know how to do it other than puttting my hands on and doing the symbols. Then it seemed like the energy was constantly coming through me and through my hands. I would often feel fatigued particularly when I woke up in the morning. And if I did it on other people I would feel very strange after. Everything felt like a whirling vortex of energy and my body felt like a volcano. My digestive system seemed ultra sensitive to everything. I found it hard to eat. I experienced ultra sensitivity to everything especially things like cigarette smoke around me. I felt almost dizzy and ver ungrounded a lot of the time. And then one night I woke up and saw what looked like an angel flying around my room but then its face turned demonic and it scared the life out of me. This is when I started seeking help. I went to an acupuncturist with the hope he might close these channels down. He said that I had opened myself up and that I needed shutting down. When he put the needles in me I convulsed and jerked. But I didn't really experience any reliefs from any of the symptoms that I had. He thought I had entiies around me and I went to a supposed " entity remover " who then supposedly removed all these entities off me, explaining what they were - more convulsing and jerking. It still went on. I would feel like every time the entities would leave and then come abck in again if that is what they were. He suggested I see a Maori healer and he tried to shut me down with greenstones digging into my head. They told me to stop meditating but it was almost as though I was in a constant state of meditation anyway it seemed and perhaps this was to do with the kundalini, because everything would just seem to open up again. It was impossible to close it. I prayed and prayed for help and for God to remove the attunements and to shut me down, and I experienced all sorts of sensations while doing this but it would seem everything would just open up again every time soon after without my control. I say all this because this is the best way I can describe what has been happening to me. But the honesty of it all is I dont know what is flawed thinking and what is true. I dont know what the truth is anymore about my condition. I found out about a a thing called Reiki Tummo. And that is where I fisrst heard the terms " Kundalini Syndrome " . I had read Gop Krishna's book on " kundalini " and felt that that was what was happening in some way or thoer to me but didn't really know how to explain this to people, and as mentioned the reiki attunement had made things worse to a degree as I now experienced a lot more of the tingling sensations in my hands and crawling sensations and had strange visions and dreams, and felt like I had holes in my body or that I was wide open or that energies were entering into me through my hands into my kidney area or that my lifeforce was leaking out through my hands even at times. Or that I had not closed off healings or preotected myself which was apparently what a lot of the alternative practitioners I went to see had told me. Anyway the Reiki Tummo people then told me that kundalini doesn't work with a normal Reiki attunement. As it drilla a hole from the crown chakra only to the heart chakra and out through the hands and so the energy cannot release through the head. They said that there attunements activated the kundalini and drilled a hole all the way down so that the kundalini went out through the head. Well I experienced even more sensations when this happened. But I still didn;t like the experience of the erngy in my hand I also felt everything very intensely and I was unsure whether it was the right path for me or that i believed in their philosophy. Eventually anyway I got the attunement removed from the head guru. That was a number of years ago still. Since then there have been more new age people. A crysal healer who told me my kundalini had risen to my neck. A spiritualist who said that he had got his spirit guide ot shut down my channels. Another lady who told me i needed to take up sculpture. A lady who claimed to channel Buddha and Jesus but didn;t seem to help with any of what I was going through. Not that I dont appreciate it all and to some degree I think part of it has been my disbelief that this is what is happening to me, and my difficulty to explain it to my family or circle of friends or whatever that has kept me isolated. Looking back I think a lot of the advice people gave me has been good. For example to stop all the spiritual stuff and take a rest from it for a while has been good. I have been trying to involve myself more in practical matters, but thats not to say that I dont still experience all the symptoms. Another acupuncturist told me to drink carrot juice, while treaing me like a Parkinsons patient, people have said to go for walks in nature and get outside and do physical activity. Dancing seems to help. I also learnt another energy healing technique called The Reconnection which I felt guided towards somehow. I have to admit I had expereinced a lot of paranoia over people telling me I had entities on me. One time I went to an Ishaya and it seemed everytime she got rid of one another would come back. People have told me that I was in a lot of danger, but haven't told me how to get out of it or what to do about it, For the majority I ahve had to cope with it on my own trying to make sense of all the myriad of things people have told me that are wrong with me. I doctor once told me I might have schizophrenia. That scared me and made me think that my brother might have the same thing. She deduced in five minutes of talking to me that that is what I had. haha. I went back to her a year later and she thought differently. I had been to a psychiatrist and he didn;t think I had anything wrong with me aprt from being anxious. And I will definitely admit to that. I am anxious about all the physical symptoms I experience. Another thing, one regression healer I went to something came out of it. I was speaking in a childs voice and saying that I had been abused sexually by my uncle when I was 3. My uncle committed suicide a long time ago. He supposedly had bipolar disorder. I have no way of finding out whether this was true. Or whether it was something that my mind made up to explain everything that has happeend to me. And the truth is I dont know. The guy who was doing the regression seeemed a bit odd but it came out of me not from him. Someitmes I feel like I might have made up something to make it feel like I was expriencing something, but then I also think that I might be saying that because I dont want to believe that it happened. I really dont know. Anyway I have felt at times suicidal through all this. I took up gambling at one stage. TO be honest it gave me something to do to concentrate on so I could stop thinking about al the discomfot and sensations and pain in my body. I won at first and then lost and lost and lost. I have been having counselling with a counsellor who I find listens and is helpful. The doctor put me on anxiety medication. Which seemed to help at least with some motivational aspect. It seemed to give me more get up and go. I dont know. Then I experienced stomach pains and she thinks I might have ulcers. I felt like it was a reaction to the medication. It could be more kundalini issues. The truth is I dont know. And again I was starting to feel a bit despairing, like nothing every works for me and that every time I think I find some sort of solution something comes and rips it away from me. So now I have a Reiki attunement a kundalini syndrome a Reconnection attunement which I dont know if I should use. I dont know whether to meditate because I went back the School of Philosophy for a while and learnt it. I dont know whether to Ascend but I feel like I shoudn't. I dont know whether my Reiki attunement is dodgy and if it i dont know if there is anything that can be done about it. But I stumbled upon this site and at least the symptoms that are talked about here, I can say that I have expereinced all of them at different times or other. Funnily enough also I ahve been to chirospractors and osteopaaths for these pains in my back haha. But no success. They come and go anyway. And I had tests for epilepsy but nothing. The kundalini syndrome is the only thing that I can find that seems to describe my symptoms. So here I am. HOping to sort the truth from the fiction. Trying to actually jusy be normal and grounded. Trying to live a life here on earth. Anyway if anyone actually got through all that. Thanks for listening. Its just nice to be able to have a space to blurt it all about. I am sorry if it is a bit lengthy but I didn;t know where to begin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 31, 2009 Report Share Posted December 31, 2009 James, Welcome. I am happy that you have found your way here. All of us come from different paths, backgrounds, sets of experiences and so on, but we all share in common that Kundalini is a huge part of our lives. I daresay nary an eyebrow will rise here at your recounting your experiences - we have all had experiences in realms of consciousness beyond the gross physical. If you have not done so, you may wish to look aroung the KAS1 web site and specifically look at the section titled " The Safeties " . The safeties are a set of protocols that can help to keep your Kundalini experience joyful, bright, and happy. http://www.kundaliniawakeningsystems1.com/ So welcome to our little corner of cyberspace. If you have found us, it is no accident, and I cannot think of a better way to start the new year! Love and blessings, David Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 1, 2010 Report Share Posted January 1, 2010 Hello James, welcome, and it seems like quite a ride you have been on. Your experiences are 'normal' here, so I suggest keeping it simple for now and doing the safeties.. love bruce , " djgottlieb " <dgottlieb wrote: > > > > James, > > Welcome. I am happy that you have found your way here. All of us come from different paths, backgrounds, sets of experiences and so on, but we all share in common that Kundalini is a huge part of our lives. I daresay nary an eyebrow will rise here at your recounting your experiences - we have all had experiences in realms of consciousness beyond the gross physical. > > If you have not done so, you may wish to look aroung the KAS1 web site and specifically look at the section titled " The Safeties " . The safeties are a set of protocols that can help to keep your Kundalini experience joyful, bright, and happy. > > http://www.kundaliniawakeningsystems1.com/ > > So welcome to our little corner of cyberspace. If you have found us, it is no accident, and I cannot think of a better way to start the new year! > > Love and blessings, > > David > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 1, 2010 Report Share Posted January 1, 2010 Hi James, I've been through some of your trials and recommend - as have others - committing to the Safeties. Also what has helped me, is to do simple repetitive tasks that (to most people) would seem like very passive and non-descript remedies to your very trying experiences - things like choosing to weed fairly neatly, just a square metre of neglected garden, going through your wardrobe or your collections of this and that and making tiny, flippant decisions on what you would like to discard or donate and follow through if you wish but with no fuss or bother. Pick a random set of co-ordinates in your local street directory, drive there and take a quiet stroll around a few blocks in that area. Browse an old book or photos that revive memories of when life was much simpler - something that doesn't need concentration or focus - just drifting. I suppose I'm saying by the process of shrugging your shoulders, drop out of the big pictures in your life, exempt yourself as much as possible from drama and burdensome decision-making tasks - in particular avoid clock-watching in regard to anything you're doing; steer clear of intense mental processes of any kind; don't slide into any form of self or interpersonal judgement. Simply hovering and meandering can and will restore your balance if you go quietly. Much love - John R. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 1, 2010 Report Share Posted January 1, 2010 Hi James, Welcome to KAS and you have now arrived at a place of acceptance and love. I am sure it will be suggested that you start practicing the safeities straight away, adn this is the best possible way to start the next phase of your journey and " by coincidence " (haha) the new year.  I would like to add that there is no need to begin doing the 5 tibetans " 21 times " each if you are not physically able to do them...start with 3 or 6 or 9 times each of them and build from there. The committment to do them and the continual practice is the thing. You will increase the number of times when it is right to do so. The emotional safieites are wonderfully helpful and if you practice these every day you will find the peace and knowing you are searching for will come as a by product of the practice. ~forgiveness for example ain't easy and  will keep you busy lol!  From what you have said I wonder if being offered another " practice " rather than being offered an explanation of your symptoms might not seem attractive to you? You have probably been offered practice after practice over the years! If you feel somwhat reluctant to begin a new practice I would say that the pracrtice of the safieites as given by is different. It transends all other pracitces.   The safeties offer a way of living and a way of being that transends all traditions and gets directly to the heart of us. We are all unique here James, while K has awakened there is no restrictive philosophy promoted here. You will find signposts and a wonderful loving teacher and a beautiful Kundalini family that will support you on the journey.  This community is based in love and service. Welcome and much love to you. Julia     ________________________________ james_crompton <james_crompton Fri, January 1, 2010 6:14:33 AM Introduction from James Can anyone make sense of this.  Hi my name is James I am 32. Where to begin. I was brought up in an organisation called the School of Philosophy as a child which taught elements of Advaita Vedanta and taught meditation with a Sanskrit based matnra. But I never really understood or paid much attention to it because it was always forced upon me. When I was given the choice at the age of 16 to leave I took it. In the last two years of school I experienced a bit of a feeling of disillusionment and a sort of depression and feelings of isolation an dont fitting in as everyone seemed to change around me. My brother had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and that was also having an influence on my family life. I began to experience dizzy spells and stress headaches. I was always very sensitive. I visited a physio who suggested I take up transcendental meditation but I resisted the idea as I had a negative view of it from what I had seen in my family. He then suggested another type of meditation called the Ishayas Ascension which I went on a weekend course and took up. Over the next few years I did it with increasing regulatiry finding it helpful in my life, and went to Ascension weekend sporadialy gaining more Ascension attitudes as I went along. By the time I finished university Ascnesion had come an important part of my life, and I was thinking of going to America to train to teach it. I struggled with my last year of uni experiencing OOS syndrome and not really feeling motivated to complete it. During those four years though i had felt more intouch with myself taking up poetry writing and song writing and acting.. Somewhere round that time period I had an experience of leaving my body and then soon after I experienced energy moving up my spine. Initially I felt guided to eat very little and meidtate a lot when it started happening.. But it didn't seem to stop. I contacted the Ishayas and one of them replied that I was experiencing a kundalini awakening and that this was a wonderful thing. It went on though and as it did I began to lose interest in other pursuits and felt that I had to go to The Ishaya Campus as I felt like I needed to be there while whatever was happening to me was happening, among other reasons. Initially it had felt quite blissful but as it went on I began to experience jerking every time I meditated, pain in my back, cracking of the spine, headaches and hot flushes, feelings of disconnection and being in a trance like state, confusion and difficulty focussing on anything of a practical nature. So I went to America but my experience there wasn't quite what I had imagined. The " guru " and i put it in speech marks because he never wanted to be someone to " follow " , had passed away well before and the campus was in a state of disarray with no clear leader and a lot of people arguing about what was the way forward, a lack of focus and a lot of destructive behaviour patterns going on. It also seemed that the dogma that I had tried to escape from the school of philosophy that I didn't initially experience with Ascension has crept into the campus and took hold and people seemed at times more interested in upholding dogma than in what I had initialy felt the teaching was about. Also there didn't seem to be people there with mcuh of a knowledge about what was happening to me. In fact I felt a bit judged and didn't really know how to express what I was feeling about the place. I felt periods of anxiety and I think sometimes admittedly delusion at times, almost feeling like I was going through some kind of crucification process. Anyway I became disillusioned and left and headed for home. It was very difficult for me adjusting to being back home as for the last four or so months there, I had been on TEacher Training which I had won a raffle into, and had been meditating up to 16 hours a day, which I found very difficult to do but it was somewhat forced upon us. I was even advised against going for runs or walks or being outside for too long. Well when I got home I felt a bit disillusioned and didnt really know what to do with myself. I was still experiencing all the symptoms of kundalini and still didn;t know what I was to do about it or what I should do with my life. I had decided I wanted to get abck into acting which I did along with my music and poetry etc. I was finding it very difficult to meditate but also difficult not to. I still experienced the disconnection, headached, problems in my backs and guts and pressure in my head, along with experiences of leaving my body and flying round the stars. A friend of mine then introduced me to Reiki, but he had not really been properly trained in it and I am not sure to this day whether he gave me the right attunement or made some mistake with it. Anyway at the time I took to it with a bit too much zest. And started doing it constantly on myself almost admittedly with the attention of opening myself up and wanting to experience higher states of consiousness. I did it on my forehead hoping to open up my third eye and did it on my back to try and get rid of the pain. But I didn't even really know how to do it other than puttting my hands on and doing the symbols. Then it seemed like the energy was constantly coming through me and through my hands. I would often feel fatigued particularly when I woke up in the morning. And if I did it on other people I would feel very strange after. Everything felt like a whirling vortex of energy and my body felt like a volcano. My digestive system seemed ultra sensitive to everything. I found it hard to eat. I experienced ultra sensitivity to everything especially things like cigarette smoke around me. I felt almost dizzy and ver ungrounded a lot of the time. And then one night I woke up and saw what looked like an angel flying around my room but then its face turned demonic and it scared the life out of me. This is when I started seeking help. I went to an acupuncturist with the hope he might close these channels down. He said that I had opened myself up and that I needed shutting down. When he put the needles in me I convulsed and jerked. But I didn't really experience any reliefs from any of the symptoms that I had. He thought I had entiies around me and I went to a supposed " entity remover " who then supposedly removed all these entities off me, explaining what they were - more convulsing and jerking. It still went on. I would feel like every time the entities would leave and then come abck in again if that is what they were. He suggested I see a Maori healer and he tried to shut me down with greenstones digging into my head. They told me to stop meditating but it was almost as though I was in a constant state of meditation anyway it seemed and perhaps this was to do with the kundalini, because everything would just seem to open up again. It was impossible to close it. I prayed and prayed for help and for God to remove the attunements and to shut me down, and I experienced all sorts of sensations while doing this but it would seem everything would just open up again every time soon after without my control. I say all this because this is the best way I can describe what has been happening to me. But the honesty of it all is I dont know what is flawed thinking and what is true. I dont know what the truth is anymore about my condition. I found out about a a thing called Reiki Tummo. And that is where I fisrst heard the terms " Kundalini Syndrome " . I had read Gop Krishna's book on " kundalini " and felt that that was what was happening in some way or thoer to me but didn't really know how to explain this to people, and as mentioned the reiki attunement had made things worse to a degree as I now experienced a lot more of the tingling sensations in my hands and crawling sensations and had strange visions and dreams, and felt like I had holes in my body or that I was wide open or that energies were entering into me through my hands into my kidney area or that my lifeforce was leaking out through my hands even at times. Or that I had not closed off healings or preotected myself which was apparently what a lot of the alternative practitioners I went to see had told me. Anyway the Reiki Tummo people then told me that kundalini doesn't work with a normal Reiki attunement. As it drilla a hole from the crown chakra only to the heart chakra and out through the hands and so the energy cannot release through the head. They said that there attunements activated the kundalini and drilled a hole all the way down so that the kundalini went out through the head. Well I experienced even more sensations when this happened. But I still didn;t like the experience of the erngy in my hand I also felt everything very intensely and I was unsure whether it was the right path for me or that i believed in their philosophy. Eventually anyway I got the attunement removed from the head guru. That was a number of years ago still. Since then there have been more new age people. A crysal healer who told me my kundalini had risen to my neck. A spiritualist who said that he had got his spirit guide ot shut down my channels. Another lady who told me i needed to take up sculpture. A lady who claimed to channel Buddha and Jesus but didn;t seem to help with any of what I was going through. Not that I dont appreciate it all and to some degree I think part of it has been my disbelief that this is what is happening to me, and my difficulty to explain it to my family or circle of friends or whatever that has kept me isolated. Looking back I think a lot of the advice people gave me has been good. For example to stop all the spiritual stuff and take a rest from it for a while has been good. I have been trying to involve myself more in practical matters, but thats not to say that I dont still experience all the symptoms. Another acupuncturist told me to drink carrot juice, while treaing me like a Parkinsons patient, people have said to go for walks in nature and get outside and do physical activity. Dancing seems to help. I also learnt another energy healing technique called The Reconnection which I felt guided towards somehow. I have to admit I had expereinced a lot of paranoia over people telling me I had entities on me. One time I went to an Ishaya and it seemed everytime she got rid of one another would come back. People have told me that I was in a lot of danger, but haven't told me how to get out of it or what to do about it, For the majority I ahve had to cope with it on my own trying to make sense of all the myriad of things people have told me that are wrong with me. I doctor once told me I might have schizophrenia. That scared me and made me think that my brother might have the same thing. She deduced in five minutes of talking to me that that is what I had. haha. I went back to her a year later and she thought differently. I had been to a psychiatrist and he didn;t think I had anything wrong with me aprt from being anxious. And I will definitely admit to that. I am anxious about all the physical symptoms I experience. Another thing, one regression healer I went to something came out of it. I was speaking in a childs voice and saying that I had been abused sexually by my uncle when I was 3. My uncle committed suicide a long time ago. He supposedly had bipolar disorder. I have no way of finding out whether this was true. Or whether it was something that my mind made up to explain everything that has happeend to me. And the truth is I dont know. The guy who was doing the regression seeemed a bit odd but it came out of me not from him. Someitmes I feel like I might have made up something to make it feel like I was expriencing something, but then I also think that I might be saying that because I dont want to believe that it happened. I really dont know. Anyway I have felt at times suicidal through all this. I took up gambling at one stage. TO be honest it gave me something to do to concentrate on so I could stop thinking about al the discomfot and sensations and pain in my body. I won at first and then lost and lost and lost. I have been having counselling with a counsellor who I find listens and is helpful. The doctor put me on anxiety medication. Which seemed to help at least with some motivational aspect. It seemed to give me more get up and go. I dont know.. Then I experienced stomach pains and she thinks I might have ulcers. I felt like it was a reaction to the medication. It could be more kundalini issues. The truth is I dont know. And again I was starting to feel a bit despairing, like nothing every works for me and that every time I think I find some sort of solution something comes and rips it away from me. So now I have a Reiki attunement a kundalini syndrome a Reconnection attunement which I dont know if I should use. I dont know whether to meditate because I went back the School of Philosophy for a while and learnt it. I dont know whether to Ascend but I feel like I shoudn't. I dont know whether my Reiki attunement is dodgy and if it i dont know if there is anything that can be done about it. But I stumbled upon this site and at least the symptoms that are talked about here, I can say that I have expereinced all of them at different times or other. Funnily enough also I ahve been to chirospractors and osteopaaths for these pains in my back haha. But no success. They come and go anyway. And I had tests for epilepsy but nothing. The kundalini syndrome is the only thing that I can find that seems to describe my symptoms. So here I am. HOping to sort the truth from the fiction. Trying to actually jusy be normal and grounded. Trying to live a life here on earth. Anyway if anyone actually got through all that. Thanks for listening. Its just nice to be able to have a space to blurt it all about. I am sorry if it is a bit lengthy but I didn;t know where to begin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 1, 2010 Report Share Posted January 1, 2010 Blessings James, I'm new also & can relate very well. I would suggest this to you as it helps me:  Every AM in mediatation or not. Visualize sending all negativity into the Earth by sending your roots deep into Mother to hold you in Her Safe, Warm, Love & bring up Her Healing Green Energy into all your cells. Then send your branches up to The Universe/ Spirit to connect you to Spirit & bring a White Protective Light All Around you. See yourself in this Protecton & feel the Protection...Know IT IS There! Recharge this image very AM or time you feel you need protection. See if it works for you, does some others not so much.  I've also learned that you can release entities that attach to you by calming yourself & speaking to them kindly; telling them that they can go to the Light & It is safe for them, they will find the loved ones & assistance they need to find their way Home. May take a couple of times cause these are souls that are lost & afarid; needing whom ever can assist them but their fear is great to move on. Bless You On Your Path may you come to find peace & joy with Spirit.                                         \         Blessings/Love/Peace,                                         \                              Tara ; ) --- On Fri, 1/1/10, james_crompton <james_crompton wrote: james_crompton <james_crompton Introduction from James Can anyone make sense of this. Friday, January 1, 2010, 1:14 AM  Hi my name is James I am 32. Where to begin. I was brought up in an organisation called the School of Philosophy as a child which taught elements of Advaita Vedanta and taught meditation with a Sanskrit based matnra. But I never really understood or paid much attention to it because it was always forced upon me. When I was given the choice at the age of 16 to leave I took it. In the last two years of school I experienced a bit of a feeling of disillusionment and a sort of depression and feelings of isolation an dont fitting in as everyone seemed to change around me. My brother had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and that was also having an influence on my family life. I began to experience dizzy spells and stress headaches. I was always very sensitive. I visited a physio who suggested I take up transcendental meditation but I resisted the idea as I had a negative view of it from what I had seen in my family. He then suggested another type of meditation called the Ishayas Ascension which I went on a weekend course and took up. Over the next few years I did it with increasing regulatiry finding it helpful in my life, and went to Ascension weekend sporadialy gaining more Ascension attitudes as I went along. By the time I finished university Ascnesion had come an important part of my life, and I was thinking of going to America to train to teach it. I struggled with my last year of uni experiencing OOS syndrome and not really feeling motivated to complete it. During those four years though i had felt more intouch with myself taking up poetry writing and song writing and acting. Somewhere round that time period I had an experience of leaving my body and then soon after I experienced energy moving up my spine. Initially I felt guided to eat very little and meidtate a lot when it started happening. But it didn't seem to stop. I contacted the Ishayas and one of them replied that I was experiencing a kundalini awakening and that this was a wonderful thing. It went on though and as it did I began to lose interest in other pursuits and felt that I had to go to The Ishaya Campus as I felt like I needed to be there while whatever was happening to me was happening, among other reasons. Initially it had felt quite blissful but as it went on I began to experience jerking every time I meditated, pain in my back, cracking of the spine, headaches and hot flushes, feelings of disconnection and being in a trance like state, confusion and difficulty focussing on anything of a practical nature. So I went to America but my experience there wasn't quite what I had imagined. The " guru " and i put it in speech marks because he never wanted to be someone to " follow " , had passed away well before and the campus was in a state of disarray with no clear leader and a lot of people arguing about what was the way forward, a lack of focus and a lot of destructive behaviour patterns going on. It also seemed that the dogma that I had tried to escape from the school of philosophy that I didn't initially experience with Ascension has crept into the campus and took hold and people seemed at times more interested in upholding dogma than in what I had initialy felt the teaching was about. Also there didn't seem to be people there with mcuh of a knowledge about what was happening to me. In fact I felt a bit judged and didn't really know how to express what I was feeling about the place. I felt periods of anxiety and I think sometimes admittedly delusion at times, almost feeling like I was going through some kind of crucification process. Anyway I became disillusioned and left and headed for home. It was very difficult for me adjusting to being back home as for the last four or so months there, I had been on TEacher Training which I had won a raffle into, and had been meditating up to 16 hours a day, which I found very difficult to do but it was somewhat forced upon us. I was even advised against going for runs or walks or being outside for too long. Well when I got home I felt a bit disillusioned and didnt really know what to do with myself. I was still experiencing all the symptoms of kundalini and still didn;t know what I was to do about it or what I should do with my life. I had decided I wanted to get abck into acting which I did along with my music and poetry etc. I was finding it very difficult to meditate but also difficult not to. I still experienced the disconnection, headached, problems in my backs and guts and pressure in my head, along with experiences of leaving my body and flying round the stars. A friend of mine then introduced me to Reiki, but he had not really been properly trained in it and I am not sure to this day whether he gave me the right attunement or made some mistake with it. Anyway at the time I took to it with a bit too much zest. And started doing it constantly on myself almost admittedly with the attention of opening myself up and wanting to experience higher states of consiousness. I did it on my forehead hoping to open up my third eye and did it on my back to try and get rid of the pain. But I didn't even really know how to do it other than puttting my hands on and doing the symbols. Then it seemed like the energy was constantly coming through me and through my hands. I would often feel fatigued particularly when I woke up in the morning. And if I did it on other people I would feel very strange after. Everything felt like a whirling vortex of energy and my body felt like a volcano. My digestive system seemed ultra sensitive to everything. I found it hard to eat. I experienced ultra sensitivity to everything especially things like cigarette smoke around me. I felt almost dizzy and ver ungrounded a lot of the time. And then one night I woke up and saw what looked like an angel flying around my room but then its face turned demonic and it scared the life out of me. This is when I started seeking help. I went to an acupuncturist with the hope he might close these channels down. He said that I had opened myself up and that I needed shutting down. When he put the needles in me I convulsed and jerked. But I didn't really experience any reliefs from any of the symptoms that I had. He thought I had entiies around me and I went to a supposed " entity remover " who then supposedly removed all these entities off me, explaining what they were - more convulsing and jerking. It still went on. I would feel like every time the entities would leave and then come abck in again if that is what they were. He suggested I see a Maori healer and he tried to shut me down with greenstones digging into my head. They told me to stop meditating but it was almost as though I was in a constant state of meditation anyway it seemed and perhaps this was to do with the kundalini, because everything would just seem to open up again. It was impossible to close it. I prayed and prayed for help and for God to remove the attunements and to shut me down, and I experienced all sorts of sensations while doing this but it would seem everything would just open up again every time soon after without my control. I say all this because this is the best way I can describe what has been happening to me. But the honesty of it all is I dont know what is flawed thinking and what is true. I dont know what the truth is anymore about my condition. I found out about a a thing called Reiki Tummo. And that is where I fisrst heard the terms " Kundalini Syndrome " . I had read Gop Krishna's book on " kundalini " and felt that that was what was happening in some way or thoer to me but didn't really know how to explain this to people, and as mentioned the reiki attunement had made things worse to a degree as I now experienced a lot more of the tingling sensations in my hands and crawling sensations and had strange visions and dreams, and felt like I had holes in my body or that I was wide open or that energies were entering into me through my hands into my kidney area or that my lifeforce was leaking out through my hands even at times. Or that I had not closed off healings or preotected myself which was apparently what a lot of the alternative practitioners I went to see had told me. Anyway the Reiki Tummo people then told me that kundalini doesn't work with a normal Reiki attunement. As it drilla a hole from the crown chakra only to the heart chakra and out through the hands and so the energy cannot release through the head. They said that there attunements activated the kundalini and drilled a hole all the way down so that the kundalini went out through the head. Well I experienced even more sensations when this happened. But I still didn;t like the experience of the erngy in my hand I also felt everything very intensely and I was unsure whether it was the right path for me or that i believed in their philosophy. Eventually anyway I got the attunement removed from the head guru. That was a number of years ago still. Since then there have been more new age people. A crysal healer who told me my kundalini had risen to my neck. A spiritualist who said that he had got his spirit guide ot shut down my channels. Another lady who told me i needed to take up sculpture. A lady who claimed to channel Buddha and Jesus but didn;t seem to help with any of what I was going through. Not that I dont appreciate it all and to some degree I think part of it has been my disbelief that this is what is happening to me, and my difficulty to explain it to my family or circle of friends or whatever that has kept me isolated. Looking back I think a lot of the advice people gave me has been good. For example to stop all the spiritual stuff and take a rest from it for a while has been good. I have been trying to involve myself more in practical matters, but thats not to say that I dont still experience all the symptoms. Another acupuncturist told me to drink carrot juice, while treaing me like a Parkinsons patient, people have said to go for walks in nature and get outside and do physical activity. Dancing seems to help. I also learnt another energy healing technique called The Reconnection which I felt guided towards somehow. I have to admit I had expereinced a lot of paranoia over people telling me I had entities on me. One time I went to an Ishaya and it seemed everytime she got rid of one another would come back. People have told me that I was in a lot of danger, but haven't told me how to get out of it or what to do about it, For the majority I ahve had to cope with it on my own trying to make sense of all the myriad of things people have told me that are wrong with me. I doctor once told me I might have schizophrenia. That scared me and made me think that my brother might have the same thing. She deduced in five minutes of talking to me that that is what I had. haha. I went back to her a year later and she thought differently. I had been to a psychiatrist and he didn;t think I had anything wrong with me aprt from being anxious. And I will definitely admit to that. I am anxious about all the physical symptoms I experience. Another thing, one regression healer I went to something came out of it. I was speaking in a childs voice and saying that I had been abused sexually by my uncle when I was 3. My uncle committed suicide a long time ago. He supposedly had bipolar disorder. I have no way of finding out whether this was true. Or whether it was something that my mind made up to explain everything that has happeend to me. And the truth is I dont know. The guy who was doing the regression seeemed a bit odd but it came out of me not from him. Someitmes I feel like I might have made up something to make it feel like I was expriencing something, but then I also think that I might be saying that because I dont want to believe that it happened. I really dont know. Anyway I have felt at times suicidal through all this. I took up gambling at one stage. TO be honest it gave me something to do to concentrate on so I could stop thinking about al the discomfot and sensations and pain in my body. I won at first and then lost and lost and lost. I have been having counselling with a counsellor who I find listens and is helpful. The doctor put me on anxiety medication. Which seemed to help at least with some motivational aspect. It seemed to give me more get up and go. I dont know. Then I experienced stomach pains and she thinks I might have ulcers. I felt like it was a reaction to the medication. It could be more kundalini issues. The truth is I dont know. And again I was starting to feel a bit despairing, like nothing every works for me and that every time I think I find some sort of solution something comes and rips it away from me. So now I have a Reiki attunement a kundalini syndrome a Reconnection attunement which I dont know if I should use. I dont know whether to meditate because I went back the School of Philosophy for a while and learnt it. I dont know whether to Ascend but I feel like I shoudn't. I dont know whether my Reiki attunement is dodgy and if it i dont know if there is anything that can be done about it. But I stumbled upon this site and at least the symptoms that are talked about here, I can say that I have expereinced all of them at different times or other. Funnily enough also I ahve been to chirospractors and osteopaaths for these pains in my back haha. But no success. They come and go anyway. And I had tests for epilepsy but nothing. The kundalini syndrome is the only thing that I can find that seems to describe my symptoms. So here I am. HOping to sort the truth from the fiction. Trying to actually jusy be normal and grounded. Trying to live a life here on earth. Anyway if anyone actually got through all that. Thanks for listening. Its just nice to be able to have a space to blurt it all about. I am sorry if it is a bit lengthy but I didn;t know where to begin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 1, 2010 Report Share Posted January 1, 2010 So much good advice has been offered - it is up to you to discern what is best. Like you I have a hard time looking within for my answers. The difference between us is that I found chrism before I experienced any major events. Thus I had guidance and although I admit I would look to seek help outside myself I am thoroughly fearful of being in a position of entity attachments from sources of other modalities. All that you describe about the many modalities is why I stay away from them. Many folks who get into these methods of process do not really know what they are doing as you described how you went into Reiki and began working on yourself and others - you really had no idea what it was all about seems to me and I see the damage that can cause and has caused for so many. I wrote an article called " Uncluttered Kundalini " in it I state how I do not feel any need to reach out to the many philosophies or modalities that are available. I have found my source of learning - here on the KAS1 site. Seeking here or there seems to me to clutter the path and put pitfalls into the journey. You found this site for a reason James- you are here because you need to be here. You will not find what you need by going to this modality or that one. You will find what you need within yourself - I agree with the others - keep it simple- follow the safeties and step back from all you have been thru and begin anew in this new year. No amount of reiki, ascension philosophy, or whatever is going to help - drugs especially- I went off all medication when meeting chrism - was on antidepressants and sleeping pills. It has not been easy the last two years yet my process has been mild compared to others. I have felt the anxiety - the suicidal thoughts - the despair - the this the that- and here I sit writing to you about what has been. I still struggle with my ego self wanting to run the show here - am a very stubborn independent willful Italian- surrendering and forgiveness I know is what I need to do - yet so hard to do - try and try and do and do - It is really a good place here in KAS1 land - there are folks in all levels of process - some are K active some are not - some have had the K syndrome some have not - some have been exposed to all sorts of entities some have not - some of us have struggled on our own ( as you have ) some of us were fortunate to find chrism and the group and do not have the same struggles. There are no accidents as chrism often says- you are here for a reason - you belong here - so use the offerings here of the safeties, the articles, the sharing of members and you decide how to proceed. For in the end you are the one who must choose between seeking from the outside or going inside for the answers. No one is going to do your work - we all have to surrender to the love of Shakti - she is a harsh mistress at times yet she ultimately has our best interest at heart- some of us are just more pig headed than others - me - I am - I thank you for posting your journey - for me it was very timely - I am at a cross roads where I have to make a decision to do a full practice or potentially suffer some of what you have experienced and that is not appetizing at all to me - The fact you are still up and about and functioning is a tribute to your tenacity. Kundalini folks are survivors - we are stronger than the normal fella - we have the blessings of Shakti so we have a big advantage on the playing field of life. Embrace the opportunity you have been given by finding this site and chrism's program. The sooner the better - ask any questions , share any concerns and be open to suggestions. If you do these things I guarantee you will in short time be in a position to honor and accept the gifts you are being offered. Welcome to the KAS1 family ... e Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 1, 2010 Report Share Posted January 1, 2010 Hello James you have received so much excellent advice and information! For my part I will suggest that you stop resisting the Kundalini expression within you. Its not going to go anywhere because you wish it away as you have done so much to gain its expression! So many practices and pursuits of its awakening within you that now that it is here and you were not expecting such expression you wish to rewrite your history. Not so uncommon my friend. Having is different than wanting. So no worries about any of your symptoms. Gracefully accept this divine presence within you and no longer resist the transformation agenda it is exacting upon you. It all good! You are being fear tested with the entities. Just stop going into such fear over them. Once you are able to get passed this basic learning your interactions will be very smooth as you will have jumped beyond the need for protections and many of the other fear based security issues. You are strong by just being in a body. Entities are there to test your fear. This is a common attribute of the Kundalini expression. Along with all of the other excellent advice about the safeties and the other techniques and frames of approach is the main idea, besides the fear removal, that you can begin to stop your resistance to the Kundalini. Once you do things get better very fast! You can find a home here James. Many of us including myself have walked where you are walking. There is a light that beckons you to see, you merely need to look. - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 1, 2010 Report Share Posted January 1, 2010 hi james nice to have you here with us. I read through it all and it wasnt too long at all. this is what this place is for to vent and share with others who are compassionate and understanding. - mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 1, 2010 Report Share Posted January 1, 2010 James, Blessings to you. A few additional thoughts.... We often are drawn to the writings of others who have experienced kundalini. Not all of these writings are love-based and/or entirely devoid of fear. Yet we read them because in them we have finally discovered other humans whose experiences show some parallel to our own, and we are relieved to hear that what we are experiencing has a name and that there might be some assistance and guidance available for us. There is, as well, much spiritual literature that is love-based and uplifting. Through these works, enlightening energy, love, and bliss pour through. You walk away feeling light and happy. For additional readings on kundalini, I would recommend the articles on the KAS1 web site, the old posts from this board, and some of the material found in the " files " and " links " sections. In particular, Chrism's writings and energy will help you immensely, as they have helped me and so many others. Remember that with kundalini, all is amplified. Every thought, emotion, etc. Both the good and the bad. When you fill yourself with love and inner joy, it is also amplified! This is why we need to so closely monitor what we allow to play over and over in our fields of attention. What we read, watch, enter into conversation about with others, etc., is " food for thought " and helps determine what plays over and over in our minds (the " programming " safety). Many writers have blessed us with honest and detailed biographies of their own kundalini experiences. Some of these writers experienced much suffering as part of their respective processes, sometimes due to lack of qualified guidance. I just want to reassure you that it does not have to be that way for everyone. You can have a magical and wonder-filled life! Love, David Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 1, 2010 Report Share Posted January 1, 2010 James - I can so relate to much of what you say, especially the line, " Trying to actually just be normal and grounded. Trying to live life here on earth. " Like you, I spent a lifetime in search of something more, and as Chrism said, now wanting to rewrite my history because of it. Also like you, I am trying to learn more about Kundalini and understand what exactly is happening. I was completely clueless before being led here three years ago. In the Western world (where I am from) there is much talk about the benefits of meditation and how it can eliminate stress and bring a person to altered states of awareness that they portray as being mostly blissful and evolved. However, most of this information and these sales pitches (for meditation CD's) speak very little about the sometimes frightening effects for those who are not properly educated on what can happen if a person invokes this " Serpent Power " too fast and without proper preparation. I found out the hard way. The first several years of using these CD's the effects were present, but mild, so as not to disturb me too much, but instead intrigued me and kept me going back for more. But last year, the effects came on full force, too fast and too strong and caused me all kinds of frightening physical problems and I have not touched them since. But the point is, mine was also brought on by meditation. In my case, I was seeking to understand God and the mysteries of the universe and wanting to receive " guidance " from a Higher Power. I wanted to rise above a lifetime of confusion and find harmony with the Divine and peace of mind. I did seek escape from a sometimes overwhelming world where I often had difficulty coping. I wanted to find peaceful insight and answers to my many questions. I have been intensely curious to understand the truth all of my life. Because of my lack of education on what I was getting myself into, peace of mind was not what I found. Like you, I began to fear possession and negative entities and dark forces. Like Gopi Krishna in his autobiography that I am now reading, I began to fear the supernatural and wished I had never explored it. But the tinglings, vibrations and buzzing are a constant reminder that Chrism appears to be correct when he says that once activated, we cannot turn this off. As knows, I have tried and strongly resisted this path which seemed so strange and foreign to me. I feel as though the K is saying to me, " You want to know the truth? Then you must experience it. " Like David, I believe that we have found ourselves in a position of magnification, and I now try to seek out and magnify what feels loving and peaceful. It appears to me that the only thing we CAN control at this point (of apparently no return) is that which we wish to magnify. This appears to require discipline of our thoughts and emotions to focus on what the safeties recommend: Gratitude, forgiveness, compassion, love, etc. It makes so much sense if you think about it. Apparently, experiencing the real truth means that we influence that which we experience by what we put our focus on. (Or at least, that which is on the same level of vibration.) I think this means to extract our faith away from collective, ego, fear-based beliefs, and towards the possibility of a more " heaven on earth " scenario. I think we are learning that this is urgent, so as not to suffer the consequences of falling for the fearful beliefs. I use that word a lot because it best fits how I feel about it. I think we are being called to understand the importance of what we choose to believe. On the other hand, as much as it seems to matter where we put our focus, it also seems obvious that this Energy has the ultimate say so, and knows what is best for us better than we know what is best for ourselves. So, when we focus on the safeties, we seem to place ourselves in a position of being in closer harmony with this Energy. This seems to make for a more pleasant experience, which must mean that placing our focus in this direction best emulates the characteristics of this Divine Force. I recently dreamed that I was fussing at my father and told him, " I do not know what to believe and what not to believe. You have put too much on me. I am not that strong. " And he said, " Yes you are that strong. You want to know what not to believe? Stop believing in that which you fear. Blame me if you want to, but it is the lier who is to blame. " Wishing you all peace of mind. Sorry I always ramble so much. Deb James: Trying to actually just be normal and grounded. Trying to live a life here on earth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 1, 2010 Report Share Posted January 1, 2010 Hi James, I'm so glad you wrote. I hope you'll keep writing and writing and let it all come out. You've been on a long journey alone and now you've found your way over the big hill and around the bend to this welcoming village of people who understand you and speak your language. So, please, take off your coat and shoes, put on these slippers, sit here and rest while we fix you something good to eat and get you something good to drink. You've been on the road a long time, but you're safe now, and you're in good company. What you're going through is puberty again, with all the ups and downs, all the physical and emotional and hormonal changes, all the concentration problems and moodiness, only you've had no one to tell you that what you are going through is normal -- and beautiful. In the village you come from, the people there go through puberty only once, then they forget, so when they see someone going through the Change, they misunderstand. Here, here it is normal. Everyone in this village has gone through it, or is going through it, or is preparing to go through the transformation you are experiencing now. So rest awhile. Your body needs rest and good food to build its chrysalis and paint the wings which will lift you. Rest here, James, and let yourself renew. Know, too, that we welcome your Song. Sing us your Song, James. Let it Sing you into being. Let the music of Creation sing the cells of the new You. Sing and Dance the music of your transformation. Let the gifts you've been given carry you, emptying your heart, stilling your mind, loosening your body and freeing your spirit to soar. You have it all within you, James. You've been gifted all you need for your Journey, and you have found your way here, to this safe and nurturing village where you can let yourself Be. It seems you've met the children who live along the Road. Mischievous children who jump from behind boulders and crowd around, teasing, making faces and pulling pranks. Pay them no mind. They just want to see if you are for real, if you are worth their admiration. You see, if they can distract you a while, they feel justified in remaining small. So pay them no mind. Bless them in your heart, and keep walking. They may put on bigger and scarier costumes for a while, but if you don't jump, they'll get bored and move on. Some of the braver ones, the ones who already are feeling the glimmerings, they may find you irresistible, drawn to your light. Sing softly, let your Love surround them, and keep walking. They may follow alongside you, or maybe they will stop in fear, or perhaps they may take a side road. Just keep walking. Eventually they will find their way here. Everyone does. So, Peace to you James, and welcome. I'm glad you made it. Welcome Home. Love, Shaz --- james_crompton wrote: > Hi my name is James Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 2, 2010 Report Share Posted January 2, 2010 Hi James I can relate to many of your experiences. Stop meditation or other practice for the moment. I visited so many healers and churches etc Some people scared me saying this or that! as Deb I did not know what to believe. It has been all part of my journey and I bless now all these people that tried to help. Don't buy into nothing or anyone that bring fear. It is VERY important to engage in other activity such as exercise, dancing, music, or any other thing that makes you happy. I found very beneficial exercise where I need to breathe hard. I came back to childhood prayers. Don't fear entities " become as nothing " with them. If you give them attention and fear them is going to be harder. I keep incense at home and sage that helped me to clean the environment. I got also hyper sensitive to everything ! negativity specially , some food, some music , TV shows etc etc . It has been moderating gradually. Choose what you see, what you hear and read. Always surround yourself with high vibration material. Practice being present (read the power of now from Tolle if you have a chance). I am reading at the moment a book called " am I going mad " from Marlyse Carroll. It is good helping you understand some basics of awakening and kundalini. Keep strong and don't feel alone. Monica , " james_crompton " <james_crompton wrote: > > Hi my name is James > I am 32. Where to begin. I was brought up in an organisation called the School of Philosophy as a child which taught elements of Advaita Vedanta and taught meditation with a Sanskrit based matnra. But I never really understood or paid much attention to it because it was always forced upon me. When I was given the choice at the age of 16 to leave I took it. In the last two years of school I experienced a bit of a feeling of disillusionment and a sort of depression and feelings of isolation an dont fitting in as everyone seemed to change around me. My brother had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and that was also having an influence on my family life. I began to experience dizzy spells and stress headaches. I was always very sensitive. > I visited a physio who suggested I take up transcendental meditation but I resisted the idea as I had a negative view of it from what I had seen in my family. He then suggested another type of meditation called the Ishayas Ascension which I went on a weekend course and took up. > Over the next few years I did it with increasing regulatiry finding it helpful in my life, and went to Ascension weekend sporadialy gaining more Ascension attitudes as I went along. By the time I finished university Ascnesion had come an important part of my life, and I was thinking of going to America to train to teach it. I struggled with my last year of uni experiencing OOS syndrome and not really feeling motivated to complete it. During those four years though i had felt more intouch with myself taking up poetry writing and song writing and acting. > Somewhere round that time period I had an experience of leaving my body and then soon after I experienced energy moving up my spine. Initially I felt guided to eat very little and meidtate a lot when it started happening. But it didn't seem to stop. > I contacted the Ishayas and one of them replied that I was experiencing a kundalini awakening and that this was a wonderful thing. > It went on though and as it did I began to lose interest in other pursuits and felt that I had to go to The Ishaya Campus as I felt like I needed to be there while whatever was happening to me was happening, among other reasons. > Initially it had felt quite blissful but as it went on I began to experience jerking every time I meditated, pain in my back, cracking of the spine, headaches and hot flushes, feelings of disconnection and being in a trance like state, confusion and difficulty focussing on anything of a practical nature. > So I went to America but my experience there wasn't quite what I had imagined. The " guru " and i put it in speech marks because he never wanted to be someone to " follow " , had passed away well before and the campus was in a state of disarray with no clear leader and a lot of people arguing about what was the way forward, a lack of focus and a lot of destructive behaviour patterns going on. It also seemed that the dogma that I had tried to escape from the school of philosophy that I didn't initially experience with Ascension has crept into the campus and took hold and people seemed at times more interested in upholding dogma than in what I had initialy felt the teaching was about. > Also there didn't seem to be people there with mcuh of a knowledge about what was happening to me. In fact I felt a bit judged and didn't really know how to express what I was feeling about the place. I felt periods of anxiety and I think sometimes admittedly delusion at times, almost feeling like I was going through some kind of crucification process. > Anyway I became disillusioned and left and headed for home. It was very difficult for me adjusting to being back home as for the last four or so months there, I had been on TEacher Training which I had won a raffle into, and had been meditating up to 16 hours a day, which I found very difficult to do but it was somewhat forced upon us. I was even advised against going for runs or walks or being outside for too long. > Well when I got home I felt a bit disillusioned and didnt really know what to do with myself. I was still experiencing all the symptoms of kundalini and still didn;t know what I was to do about it or what I should do with my life. I had decided I wanted to get abck into acting which I did along with my music and poetry etc. I was finding it very difficult to meditate but also difficult not to. I still experienced the disconnection, headached, problems in my backs and guts and pressure in my head, along with experiences of leaving my body and flying round the stars. > A friend of mine then introduced me to Reiki, but he had not really been properly trained in it and I am not sure to this day whether he gave me the right attunement or made some mistake with it. > Anyway at the time I took to it with a bit too much zest. And started doing it constantly on myself almost admittedly with the attention of opening myself up and wanting to experience higher states of consiousness. I did it on my forehead hoping to open up my third eye and did it on my back to try and get rid of the pain. But I didn't even really know how to do it other than puttting my hands on and doing the symbols. Then it seemed like the energy was constantly coming through me and through my hands. I would often feel fatigued particularly when I woke up in the morning. And if I did it on other people I would feel very strange after. Everything felt like a whirling vortex of energy and my body felt like a volcano. My digestive system seemed ultra sensitive to everything. I found it hard to eat. I experienced ultra sensitivity to everything especially things like cigarette smoke around me. I felt almost dizzy and ver ungrounded a lot of the time. > And then one night I woke up and saw what looked like an angel flying around my room but then its face turned demonic and it scared the life out of me. > This is when I started seeking help. I went to an acupuncturist with the hope he might close these channels down. He said that I had opened myself up and that I needed shutting down. When he put the needles in me I convulsed and jerked. But I didn't really experience any reliefs from any of the symptoms that I had. He thought I had entiies around me and I went to a supposed " entity remover " who then supposedly removed all these entities off me, explaining what they were - more convulsing and jerking. It still went on. I would feel like every time the entities would leave and then come abck in again if that is what they were. > He suggested I see a Maori healer and he tried to shut me down with greenstones digging into my head. They told me to stop meditating but it was almost as though I was in a constant state of meditation anyway it seemed and perhaps this was to do with the kundalini, because everything would just seem to open up again. It was impossible to close it. > I prayed and prayed for help and for God to remove the attunements and to shut me down, and I experienced all sorts of sensations while doing this but it would seem everything would just open up again every time soon after without my control. > I say all this because this is the best way I can describe what has been happening to me. But the honesty of it all is I dont know what is flawed thinking and what is true. I dont know what the truth is anymore about my condition. > I found out about a a thing called Reiki Tummo. And that is where I fisrst heard the terms " Kundalini Syndrome " . I had read Gop Krishna's book on " kundalini " and felt that that was what was happening in some way or thoer to me but didn't really know how to explain this to people, and as mentioned the reiki attunement had made things worse to a degree as I now experienced a lot more of the tingling sensations in my hands and crawling sensations and had strange visions and dreams, and felt like I had holes in my body or that I was wide open or that energies were entering into me through my hands into my kidney area or that my lifeforce was leaking out through my hands even at times. Or that I had not closed off healings or preotected myself which was apparently what a lot of the alternative practitioners I went to see had told me. > Anyway the Reiki Tummo people then told me that kundalini doesn't work with a normal Reiki attunement. As it drilla a hole from the crown chakra only to the heart chakra and out through the hands and so the energy cannot release through the head. They said that there attunements activated the kundalini and drilled a hole all the way down so that the kundalini went out through the head. > Well I experienced even more sensations when this happened. But I still didn;t like the experience of the erngy in my hand I also felt everything very intensely and I was unsure whether it was the right path for me or that i believed in their philosophy. Eventually anyway I got the attunement removed from the head guru. > That was a number of years ago still. Since then there have been more new age people. A crysal healer who told me my kundalini had risen to my neck. A spiritualist who said that he had got his spirit guide ot shut down my channels. Another lady who told me i needed to take up sculpture. A lady who claimed to channel Buddha and Jesus but didn;t seem to help with any of what I was going through. > Not that I dont appreciate it all and to some degree I think part of it has been my disbelief that this is what is happening to me, and my difficulty to explain it to my family or circle of friends or whatever that has kept me isolated. > Looking back I think a lot of the advice people gave me has been good. For example to stop all the spiritual stuff and take a rest from it for a while has been good. I have been trying to involve myself more in practical matters, but thats not to say that I dont still experience all the symptoms. > Another acupuncturist told me to drink carrot juice, while treaing me like a Parkinsons patient, people have said to go for walks in nature and get outside and do physical activity. > Dancing seems to help. > I also learnt another energy healing technique called The Reconnection which I felt guided towards somehow. > I have to admit I had expereinced a lot of paranoia over people telling me I had entities on me. One time I went to an Ishaya and it seemed everytime she got rid of one another would come back. People have told me that I was in a lot of danger, but haven't told me how to get out of it or what to do about it, For the majority I ahve had to cope with it on my own trying to make sense of all the myriad of things people have told me that are wrong with me. > I doctor once told me I might have schizophrenia. That scared me and made me think that my brother might have the same thing. She deduced in five minutes of talking to me that that is what I had. haha. > I went back to her a year later and she thought differently. I had been to a psychiatrist and he didn;t think I had anything wrong with me aprt from being anxious. And I will definitely admit to that. I am anxious about all the physical symptoms I experience. > Another thing, one regression healer I went to something came out of it. I was speaking in a childs voice and saying that I had been abused sexually by my uncle when I was 3. My uncle committed suicide a long time ago. He supposedly had bipolar disorder. > I have no way of finding out whether this was true. Or whether it was something that my mind made up to explain everything that has happeend to me. And the truth is I dont know. The guy who was doing the regression seeemed a bit odd but it came out of me not from him. > Someitmes I feel like I might have made up something to make it feel like I was expriencing something, but then I also think that I might be saying that because I dont want to believe that it happened. I really dont know. > Anyway I have felt at times suicidal through all this. I took up gambling at one stage. TO be honest it gave me something to do to concentrate on so I could stop thinking about al the discomfot and sensations and pain in my body. I won at first and then lost and lost and lost. > I have been having counselling with a counsellor who I find listens and is helpful. > The doctor put me on anxiety medication. Which seemed to help at least with some motivational aspect. It seemed to give me more get up and go. > I dont know. Then I experienced stomach pains and she thinks I might have ulcers. I felt like it was a reaction to the medication. It could be more kundalini issues. The truth is I dont know. > And again I was starting to feel a bit despairing, like nothing every works for me and that every time I think I find some sort of solution something comes and rips it away from me. > So now I have a Reiki attunement a kundalini syndrome a Reconnection attunement which I dont know if I should use. > I dont know whether to meditate because I went back the School of Philosophy for a while and learnt it. I dont know whether to Ascend but I feel like I shoudn't. > I dont know whether my Reiki attunement is dodgy and if it i dont know if there is anything that can be done about it. > But I stumbled upon this site and at least the symptoms that are talked about here, I can say that I have expereinced all of them at different times or other. > Funnily enough also I ahve been to chirospractors and osteopaaths for these pains in my back haha. But no success. They come and go anyway. > And I had tests for epilepsy but nothing. > The kundalini syndrome is the only thing that I can find that seems to describe my symptoms. > So here I am. HOping to sort the truth from the fiction. Trying to actually jusy be normal and grounded. Trying to live a life here on earth. > Anyway if anyone actually got through all that. Thanks for listening. Its just nice to be able to have a space to blurt it all about. > I am sorry if it is a bit lengthy but I didn;t know where to begin. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 2, 2010 Report Share Posted January 2, 2010 Monica, Thank you for your post - there is much wisdom in it! Here are some of the lines that resonated with me.... > It is VERY important to engage in other activity such as exercise, dancing, music, or any other thing that makes you happy. > I got also hyper sensitive to everything ! negativity specially , some food, some music , TV shows etc etc . It has been moderating gradually. Choose what you see, what you hear and read. Always surround yourself with high vibration material. > For me this is all part of cultivaing delight. The corollary is turning away from negativity. To some degree, we can choose our own inner state, often by choosing on what we place our attention. I like to stick with subject matter that is bright and happy. Love, David Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 9, 2010 Report Share Posted January 9, 2010 Thanks for this. Have been feeling it on all levels the last few days.. Sometimes the thouhgts seems so intense and I find it hard to discern between ego and truth. Between wrong and right and good and bad. Moreover I just find it hard to make decisions about even mundane things like what to eat. I dont know which is my Higher Self and which is my ego thinking it is my Higher Self. I find it hard to discern the truth from the fiction if yo know what I mean. So I stumble on trying to trust in something but no longer sure what I am trusting in. James --- On Sat, 2/1/10, <> wrote: <> Re: Introduction from James Can anyone make sense of this. Received: Saturday, 2 January, 2010, 2:36 AM  Hello James you have received so much excellent advice and information! For my part I will suggest that you stop resisting the Kundalini expression within you. Its not going to go anywhere because you wish it away as you have done so much to gain its expression! So many practices and pursuits of its awakening within you that now that it is here and you were not expecting such expression you wish to rewrite your history. Not so uncommon my friend. Having is different than wanting. So no worries about any of your symptoms. Gracefully accept this divine presence within you and no longer resist the transformation agenda it is exacting upon you. It all good! You are being fear tested with the entities. Just stop going into such fear over them. Once you are able to get passed this basic learning your interactions will be very smooth as you will have jumped beyond the need for protections and many of the other fear based security issues. You are strong by just being in a body. Entities are there to test your fear. This is a common attribute of the Kundalini expression. Along with all of the other excellent advice about the safeties and the other techniques and frames of approach is the main idea, besides the fear removal, that you can begin to stop your resistance to the Kundalini. Once you do things get better very fast! You can find a home here James. Many of us including myself have walked where you are walking. There is a light that beckons you to see, you merely need to look. - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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