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 long time—and much effort—for the moisture in it to turn into raindrops of words.
That was the case with the article on panic attacks. I worked on it for more than half a year, and while I was trying to assemble the fragments of information that were freely moving around in my mind and to give outward expression to the web of interconnections in a clear, logically ordered, and articulated way, I struggled quite a bit. I know there are people who write easily and are easy to read. For me, I can only hope for the latter—because the former simply does not happen. At least I am glad that there is meaning in it. I judge this by the reactions to the article on panic attacks on Facebook; from them I see that the number of people who have heard the call of their soul is growing more and more.
At the same time, the number of facts in the sciences of human health—both physical and psychological—that require a new kind of explanation is also growing. And this does not apply only to panic attacks. The circle of similar phenomena that either have no explanation, or have explanations that are unsatisfactory and offer no truly adequate solutions, is very wide. That is why I believe that familiarity with the energetic phenomenon known as kundalini awakening has the potential to provide such explanations.
This is equivalent to a shift of paradigm—that is, a change in the theoretical model we have been accustomed to using in order to explain mental (and physical) health and illness. It reminds me of what I know from the book The Holographic Universe. In it, the author presents the views of two highly prominent scientists—the quantum physicist David Bohm and the neurophysiologist Karl Pribram—who turned to the idea of the holographic model of the universe because the theories available to them at the time were no longer satisfactory in explaining the growing number of accumulated facts.
“Bohm became convinced of the holographic nature of the universe only after many years of dissatisfaction with the inability of standard theories to explain all the phenomena encountered in quantum physics. Pribram’s conviction arose from the failure of conventional theories of the brain to explain various neurophysiological puzzles.”
— Michael Talbot, The Holographic Universe
In the fields of medicine and psychology there are also many unresolved mysteries, the resolution of which determines our ability to treat the human being. A paradigm—that is, the meta-theory we use as a higher-level theoretical model to explain phenomena within a given scientific field—is something that changes over time. Science develops continuously, and what drives it forward is the accumulation of too many facts that cannot be explained by the old model and therefore can no longer be ignored.
This is exactly what happened when Karl Pribram and David Bohm decided to look for a new scientific paradigm in the form of the holographic model of the universe, in order to find answers to questions left unresolved by the old model. With this new theoretical framework, they were able to offer explanations for phenomena such as
“telepathy, precognition (the foreknowledge of a future event that cannot be inferred from present knowledge or derived through logic), the mystical feeling of unity with the universe, and even psychokinesis—the ability of the mind to move physical objects without touching them.”
— M. Talbot
It seems that with each successive step, science is drawing closer to what ancient spiritual teachings have known for a very long time. And this applies not only to physics and neurobiology. The same is true of other sciences as well, including the sciences of human health, such as medicine and psychotherapy. One such ancient knowledge is the understanding of the primordial energy in the human body, the activation of which creates problems if, along its path, it encounters blockages in the system of chakras in the subtle body of the human being. Carl Jung knew this very well:
“Indian wisdom is the most profound of all… The further we go, the closer we come to the thinking of the Indians. Psychological research confirms, step by step, the truths contained … in the ancient Indian science of the soul.”
— C. G. Jung, The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga, p. 24
To my great satisfaction, the number of scientists in the fields of medicine and psychology who study the relationship between the human body, psyche, and soul is steadily increasing. This not only allows many previously unexplained phenomena to be understood, but also opens the way to new solutions to the problems associated with them.
The fundamental characteristic of the kundalini awakening process is that it is a phenomenon that is simultaneously physical (bodily), psychological (emotional and mental), and spiritual (transpersonal). As such, it is a vivid demonstration that what we perceive as separate aspects of our lives are in fact one and the same thing, differing only in their degree of density. In other words, it is the manifestation of one and the same quality (or principle) in several different ways or levels of outward expression.
Because kundalini awakening is a multifaceted and complex phenomenon, this article will not be a single piece, but rather an entire series. And while these articles mature—while the “raindrops are forming”—there will also be other texts that give me the time I need to assemble the pieces of the puzzle.
Well… I feel lighter now. I have given fair warning. I think I have found a way to reconcile my need to be responsible—that is, to keep my promises—while at the same time remaining free from expectations. Because responsibility can be a heavy burden, especially when it is directed toward oneself.
Kameliya Hadzhiyska
Note: The quotations are translated from Bulgarian and are not presented as verbatim citations.
