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  1. I think an authentic kundalini activation might lead to an authentic nondual awakening, I donā€™t think it works the other way round though. KUNDALINI AWAKENING BY SWAMI NIRANJANANANDA SARASWATI Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati is from the lineage of the Bihar School of Yoga, which he also headed for many years. He has authored several books that have been published by the Bihar School of Yoga. In one of his books ā€“ Prana and Pranayama ā€“ he talks about the experience of kundalini awakening which he calls the experience of cosmic prana. ā€œā€¦When the full potential of this energy (kundalini) is released, it travels up through the Sushumna Nadi, bringing about a complete metamorphosis of the individual. Cosmic prana and kundalini are synonymous terms. In awakening the kundalini, one unites with the cosmic prana. At the time of the awakening, the two forces of prana and Chitta (mindset or state of mind) assume perfect balance within the individual and become one. The mind undergoes a state of fission and energy issues forth. There is an explosion of Satya, a moment of Truth, when one sees everything as luminous. One experiences oneself in every object of the universe, every person, leaf, and rock. The realization of cosmic prana is attained and the experience of separation dissolves. People who have experienced this union are called saints or liberated beings, as they have transcended duality by taming the infinite, universal energy within the microcosmic unit. The ultimate yoga is experienced at this level, where one discovers the abiding consciousness, sat-chit-ananda, truth, expansiveness, and beatitudeā€¦ā€œ
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    Either you donā€™t understand or youā€™re being snide about non-duality being ā€œapparently unpopularā€ since non-duality has the most powerful lobby group on this forum and is of course the most popular opinion hands down. Would it be so hard to just be honest and direct?
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    Isnā€™t this a bit of a straw man argument? You create a scenario that I never said and proceed to ridicule the entire concept. I remember I was first ridiculed by you when I first complained about @Jeffā€™s energy intrusions on me many years ago, I recall other people copied you then as well.
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    I have no doubt that you place attention on ā€˜the central channelā€™, and Iā€™m more than willing to believe that it is calming. But itā€™s true I would have a hard time believing you were drawn to this particular practice because you intuited that the subtle central channel existed, and independently of all other sources you chose to place your attention there. If Iā€™m wrong in the above assumptions, my apologies. I also understand that my post made you feel bad, but I was responding to your (I believe dangerous) over-simplification of a very complex system, based on your view that nondual realisation is equivalent to kundalini activation.
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    I find much of the general information about kundalini and the three main nadiā€™s to be worthwhile, but as you yourself said, they donā€™t agree on everything, and Iā€™m certainly not going to believe one teaching over another until I have a very good reason to side with any particular opinion. In the meantime, post as much as you please from Saivite schools and sects, Iā€™m not going to, after all, this thread is titled unpopular opinions, not popular scripture isnā€™t it?
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    When referring to Shiva/Shakti consciousness specifically, the central channel as their optimal ground of being does have a very specific location, and is only identified as the subtle energy body. When referring to nonduality the playing field is wide open.
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    I think we can clearly function without ā€˜higherā€™ consciousness being operational, but in that case I donā€™t think weā€™re functioning at our full potential. I mean the ā€˜hardwareā€™ exists, kundalini is there, but sleeping, the central channel exists but is unused, Shiva exists but remains unheard most of the time. Why that system exists waiting to be activated I have no idea, but Iā€™d bet the house on it that it does exist. I donā€™t really understand your questions here, except to say that higher consciousness is logically not equivalent to mundane consciousness, and if higher consciousness is activated properly, I donā€™t see that it would be bound to decrease.
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    Im using the broad concepts of Shiva and Shakti because theyā€™re useful, but Iā€™m not using the associated assumptions from any particular school or sect.
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    Yes, letā€™s say the subject is not fully comprehended by all the different traditions, and there is a great amount of confusion because each tradition likes to believe it has the full truth. The best we can do is explore the system ourselves, though this can easily backfire if the mundane mind is running the show. Best IMO would be to be led by ā€˜Shivaā€™ from the start, thatā€™s the only guaranteed way to not go wrong.
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    Maybe the central channel is the anatomical seat of nondual consciousness, or maybe itā€™s a a particular section of the central channel like the crown, or below the crown, or above the crown, or maybe itā€™s not related to the central channel at all, but until that potential is realised itā€™s really just guesswork. You might be right, but that would just be by chance, until you know. If some mental conditioning is being played out, or some emotional upheaval, I can imagine shifting awareness to some perceived centre might feel like a relief, but the conditioning and the emotional storms will continue to arise unless theyā€™re attended to directly, which is not the work of the central channel. Resting awareness in the centre continually, we bypass emotional and mental issues, but they and the ego which defends against them donā€™t just disappear of their own accord. This is your opinion garnered from literature or discussion, not your experience, so like your first assumption you may be entirely correct or you may have missed the mark entirely.
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    Ask a nondualist if they think their awakening/realisation/enlightenment is a function of kundalini or has got anything to do with kundalini.
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    Kundalini/Shakti is a level of consciousness that is designed to operate within the central channel, she is the Yin aspect of the central channel if you like, in ā€˜sleepā€™ mode because of a lack of energy flow in the side channels. Optimally Kundalini/Shakti consciousness dwells in the upper part of the central channel, though asleep she is in the lower part of the central channel. What her role is in the upper part of the central channel I can only guess at at the moment, but I do suspect part of her role is as intermediary between higher knowledge and consciousness and mundane consciousness. Shiva is her Yang counterpart, Shiva consciousness ā€˜knowsā€™ and guides Shakti consciousness, opens subtle energy doors for her when the time is right, protects her as she travels upwards, and continually points out the way she has to go. Without his actions and directing from above, Kundalini/Shakti will go the wrong way, she will either be stuck on her travels upward or she will take what appear to be shortcuts that are in fact dead ends. Itā€™s a very delicate dance that the two consciousnesses engage in, that can be all too easily disrupted by our mundane mind level consciousness. If circumstances allow them to actualise their potential then their level of consciousness will be available to us, of course I donā€™t know what that level of consciousness entails at this point in time.
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    Hereā€™s my current unpopular opinion. The actual point of spirituality is the activation of kundalini, though to qualify this, its activation needs to be in the central channel, and facilitated by kundaliniā€™s subtle energy/consciousness opposite, which can be identified as ā€˜Shivaā€™. I suspect that kundalini inappropriately activated via ā€˜forcefulā€™ methods, of which there are many, causes kundalini to travel up a side subtle channel, and I further suspect that this cannot be rectified, that is, it cannot then be made to travel up the central channel, except in extraordinary circumstances, such as sending kundalini back to sleep and doing the initial work necessary before raising kundalini consciousness correctly. Travelling up a side channel will inevitably lead to relatively useless side road achievements, inevitably degrading the perceived value of kundalini. In a community obsessed with emptiness and non-doing and nonduality, this must surely be in the running for most unpopular opinion.
  14. The Garden of Eden

    After a few days I am thinking that the tree trunk is the central channel, it disappears because my consciousness doesnā€™t need to travel downwards again once itā€™s arrived here, like that path no longer even exists so thereā€™s not even an option to descend. I recall a dream someone told me where they were driving and crashed into the trunk of a tree and died. I think his dream was showing him that his method of entering the central channel was doomed to failure, as he was ā€˜playingā€™ with energy at the time. I honestly think the fruit was ā€œfruit of the tree of knowledgeā€, and only one piece because too much new knowledge would overwhelm a person. I imagine sitting at the dining table the fruit will drop onto the table at the right time, in the right amount. Iā€™m thinking today that the dining table might be the chakra below the crown. Yes all persons were parts of myself, in the koshas model one identifies with various levels of the self over time, progressively identifying with a deeper part of the self until one arrives at the final layer, the true self. In my dream I believe I am identifying with kundalini consciousness and how that consciousness relates to the mundane mental level. Whether kundalini consciousness is the true self or the true self is deeper than that I will have to wait and see, as there is a lot to digest still at the kundalini consciousness level. I think there is an objectively true subtle energy system that operates to a greater or lesser degree in everyone. I do aim to understand that system, for now my dreams give me some information, I can only hope that when my dream gets played out in real time within myself that information about the subtle energy system, itā€™s setup and operation, will become more direct.
  15. The Garden of Eden

    Interesting, is this a scenario you have consciously created or did the scene just happen?