A REVIEW AND NOTES from Barabara Whitfield
Kundalini Rising:
Exploring the Energy of Awakening
Sounds True
Boulder, CO
Sept 2009
It is with
immense gratitude that I read this new anthology recently released by
Sounds True Publishing. First, my husband Charles Whitfield and I are
contributors. We are grateful to have been included with this wonderful
list of specialists who together explain something that until
recently has been unexplainable. In the East it is called
“Kundalini.” Here in the West Christians call it “The
Holy Spirit,” in Hebrew it is Ruach ha Kadosh. I’m sure we
could find it in almost every religion. Now Western Science has gotten
interested too. This anthology contains essays by published
researchers and scientists who are on the cutting edge of this new
field.
My opening to
the Kundalini process began in 1975 after a profound near-death
experience. I call it a process because it continued, and continues to
this day, sometimes blatant but mostly subtle.
My second reason
for gratitude to Sounds True and this list of contributors is that
collectively we make a lot of sense. We bring together so many
different disciplines that create a new gestalt for a human/spiritual
mechanism that until now has remained hidden.
This energy,
this mechanism looks and feels crazy in the beginning for someone
like me who years ago had never heard of it and couldn’t
understand why or what was happening. Now, after reading most of the
essays in this book even I have a new understanding that I can almost
articulate. We human beings have a spiritual nature that is waiting to
be aroused, waiting to wake us up to a bigger reality then we have
perceived until the unfolding of Kundalini.
Babies have this
awareness but we (at least in the Western world) “reason”
it out of them by the time they grow up (hopefully that is changing. My
new book The Natural Soul is all about this).. Then through a spiritual
experience like an NDE, or other mystical experience, or through a 12
Step Program (remember the 12th Step), or a workshop, spiritual talk,
psychotherapy—this energy is aroused and we are on our way to a
whole new way of experiencing our reality – and it’s not
what the media is telling us is important! And that is where the rub
is! We can’t be mind controlled anymore by the media or our
religion (if it’s that type of religion – not all religions
are about control but I bet if Jesus came here today to visit us he
would shake his head and say, “I didn’t mean for you to get
so organized. I meant for you to be like me.)
Jesus had an
awakened Kundalini. He knew who he was. He knew where he came from and
he was aware of and connected to his Father, Mother, God. So are we and this mechanism called Kundalini will help us to know it.
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