“You have to finish things — that’s how you learn. You learn by finishing things.”— Neil Gaiman Below is the introduction I wrote for the Bulgarian translation of Branded by the Spirit by Al Collie. I came across this book during a period of active and in-depth research into the phenomenology of awakened kundalini […]
Kundalini Awakening
The spontaneous awakening of kundalini energy is a complex bodily, psychological, and spiritual phenomenon which, when unrecognized, can generate profound fear and confusion in the person for whom the “sleeping serpent at the base of the spine” has chosen to awaken. The two books translated on the initiative of this site, together with the numerous articles devoted to this subject, aim to offer support in navigating the often irrational experiences that arise from the transpersonal level of the psyche.
“Therefore, in a period of critically intense psychic pressure, when the unconscious is in turmoil, it is of utmost importance to provide the person with appropriate psychological understanding… The task of the Western analyst is simply this: to confirm the truth of another person’s experience, to take it seriously, to believe in the reality of his inner world, and to bear witness to it. He should not be frightened by it or label it an illness.”
— James Hillman
“Therefore, in a period of critically intense psychic pressure, when the unconscious is in turmoil, it is of utmost importance to provide the person with appropriate psychological understanding… The task of the Western analyst is simply this: to confirm the truth of another person’s experience, to take it seriously, to believe in the reality of his inner world, and to bear witness to it. He should not be frightened by it or label it an illness.”
— James Hillman
- Analytical Psychology
- Astro-psychology
- Carl Gustav Jung
- Depression
- Desire
- Ego and the Soul
- Fear
- Helping others
- How Change Happens
- Individuation
- James Hillman
- Marie-Louise von Franz
- Mental health
- Recommended books
- Relationships
- Selected Articles
- Spiritual Teachers
- Spiritual Transformation
- The Destroyer Archetype
- The Mind
- The Pain
Following El Collie’s book Branded by the Spirit , here is another work devoted to the phenomenology of awakened kundalini in the human body—one that emerges from the intensity of direct personal experience and lived encounters with this mysterious psycho-spiritual bodily phenomenon.This is Gopi Krishna’s Kundalini: The Evolutionary Energy in Man, a book that offers […]
I continue to feel tempted to add my own comments to what I have read in Gopi Krishna’s book. I believe that this book has fully succeeded in achieving its author’s aims, namely to provide autobiographical material capable of provoking further discussion and research on this profoundly important subject: the spontaneous awakening of kundalini as […]
21.12.2014
What A Shaman Sees in A Mental Hospital
Excerpted from: The Natural Medicine Guide to Schizophrenia, pages 178–189 by Stephanie Marohn (featuring Malidoma Patrice Somé). The Shamanic View of Mental Illness In the shamanic view, mental illness signals “the birth of a healer,” explains Malidoma Patrice Somé. Thus, mental disorders are spiritual emergencies, spiritual crises, and need to be regarded as such […]
The twelfth chapter of Еl Collie’s book Branded by the Spirit is titled “Pathologizing the Spirit” and traces the relationship between the symptoms of awakened kundalini and various mental illnesses. For me, this chapter is particularly valuable because it helps reveal the deeper spiritual causes of human suffering—a theme to which a large portion of […]
16.11.2014
The Shadow of the Wounded Healer
In her book Astrology and the Rising of Kundalini (Astrology and the Rising of Kundalini: The Transformative Power of Saturn, Chiron, and Uranus), Barbara Hand Clow writes that during a painful event, two of the following three roles are activated: being the one who is wounded, being the one who wounds, and being the wounded […]
29.08.2014
Antero Alli the Two Types of Attention
“It is of the utmost importance to have knowledge. But it is also of the utmost importance to be able to escape the known.” Jiddu Krishnamurti With this quote begins the article by Antero Alli, “Double Vision: On the First and Second Attention.” In it, he presents two different ways of perceiving reality, which are […]
18.05.2014
The Awakening of Kundalini and Love
When people speak about spontaneous kundalini awakening, they often refer to transpersonal experiences that are not deliberately sought and are triggered by factors that have nothing to do with spiritual practices or meditation. One such factor is intense romantic love. I know several people whose panic attacks were triggered after they fell deeply in love […]
What follows is further information on the phenomenology of spontaneously awakening kundalini. This is my translation of an article from the website of Bonnie Greenwell—a psychotherapist in the tradition of transpersonal psychotherapy, co-founder and director of the Kundalini Research Network, which brings together health professionals, scientists, and public figures. Bonnie Greenwell is also the author […]
01.04.2014
Scott Kiloby on the Awakening of the Body
One interpretation of synchronicistic events is that they arrive in order to draw our attention to that with which they are connected. Their language is based on the law of correspondences, and if two or more events bearing the same sign occur at the same time, this is regarded as a confirmation of that sign’s […]
24.03.2014
What Fuels the Fire
Scott Kiloby’s method for dealing with unbearable suffering A friend of mine recently sent me an article that deeply resonated with me. In it, the author, Fiona Robertson, shares her personal experience of working through overwhelming emotions and intense suffering using the Living Inquiries method: “The biggest revelation for me came when I was able […]
I like to keep my promises, but it seems that writing the article I promised in the one on panic attacks will take longer than I expected. This is the image that comes to mind when I think about my “writer’s struggle”: there is a cloud of knowledge in my head, but it takes a […]
