Duly noted.
Yeah I’ve been thinking about that. Sometimes it seems like everyone and their aunt has “had a kundalini awakening” if you believe the internets. Especially in the esoteric circles and subcultures… One of the new age gurus in question even mentioned in one of her books that I happened upon that the ‘traditional awakening’ was so rare that she had only encountered 2 people in her 40 years of ‘working the field’. Her selling point was that you could “determine” if you’ve had a kundalini awakening by checking a list with a series of… symptoms… that in general are associated with energy work (or even worse… qi disruption). She went ahead to say that the ‘negative’ symptoms could be fixed by some sort of new-agey higher-self healing. If her selling point had been shadow work and simpler energy work then that would have been fair. Instead, she is selling the idea that everyone can do it (ie, reach Enlightenment with capital E), and then promotes her own books on how to do it… case in point.
Thank God I am no longer a fledgling scholar nor a sucker
It’s redundant to say but I want to make clear that I will refrain from any attempts until I find someone who can guide me through it. For me it’s important to be done properly, or not at all.
Thanks for the input, guys.
And lastly, a depiction of what new-age enlightenment looks like: