Kundalini awakening can leave us totally incapacitated at times, or permanently damaged as far as our adaptability to this culture. Even Muktananda complained that he feared he would not be able to look after himself after he had experienced samadhi a couple of times. The Guru ashram system is great in this way, in that it insures those that are completely lost to kundalini, will be looked after. Not so in this society however, the initiate is more likely to be misunderstood, taken advantage of or locked up. Thus the more we know about the kundalini process, the better adapted we can be to the evolutionary force while still surviving in the western way of life.
Metamorphosis must surely be the most amazing and misunderstood phenomena on earth. My aim in writing this book is to dispel misinformation, myths, fear, resistance and superstition with regards to this most mysterious of all life processes. So many things have to be right for a successful kundalini awakening; going it alone is hard; being insulted and attacked for expressing ones experience--these make it harder. The experience of persecution is a common one, and the individual learns to depersonalize through this, so it's part of the courageous growth to Self, while we live in a society that is largely ignorant of and fearful of metamorphosis.
The path of fire compared to the stoic path of many traditions might seem unruly and unsure, but the heart can understand kundalini better than the mind can. My work is entirely bent on helping to alleviate ignorance on this matter, to reduce the compounded suffering humanity has undergone in the name of evolution. If one is already in total upheaval with kundalini it's just not advantageous to have one's community responding in devalidation, fear and rejection to one's metamorphosis. Thus the initiate has to be twice as strong—both to endure the fire, and to endure the social backlash.
Biology of Kundalini
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