Kundalini for Beginners E-Book

Harry Eilenstein

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• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021

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Beschreibung

The Kundalini is a part of the "life force circuit" in the life force body of the human being. The chakras are the "organs" of this life force body. The life force itself is a concept or image that describes the transition between consciousness and the body. The unimpeded flow of the life force is therefore essential to both physical health and the happy state of the psyche. There are many different approaches to allow the Kundalini to flow freely again: meditations, rituals, therapies, etc. These different approaches have different effects and can support each other. In this book the main features of these methods are described, so that a rough orientation is possible and you can start to awaken your Kundalini yourself. Apart from self-healing, which enables the awakening of the Kundalini, there are also many other effects of the awakened Kundalini in the field of magic. The path does not end when self-healing has been achieved - life really begins when you have achieved this healing!

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

The History of Kundalini

Kundalini in the Palaeolithic Age

Kundalini in the Neolithic Age

Kundalini among the Indo-Europeans

Kundalini in Central America

Kundalini with other Peoples

Kundalini and the Combat Ecstasy

The Character of Kundalini

Life force

Chakras

Flow of life force

Functions of Kundalini

Kundalini and the Heart Chakra

Kundalini and the Physical Body

Kundalini, chakras and organs

Brain structure and meditation posture

The Dynamics of Kundalini

Chakras

Solar system

Vajra

Crop circles

The Healed State

The Variety of Kundalini Experiences

Culture and tradition

Horoscope

Blockades

Method

Beyond Healing

Ways to Awaken the Kundalini

Life force pressure

Mantra

Breath control

Imagination

Asana

Movement

Motivation

Development of the psyche

The integration method

Relaxation

Physical Posture

Dream journeys

Conversations with the Kundalini

Classical singing

Homeopathy and osteopathy

Herbs and drugs

Dance

Ecstasy

Tantra

Teachers

Self fidelity

Here and now

Igniting the Kundalini

Root chakra

Solar plexus

Foot chakras

Head

Summary

VIII The Experience of Kundalini

Life force experiences in the chakras

Root chakra

Hara

Solar plexus

Heart chakra

Throat chakra

Third eye

Crown chakra

Hand chakras

Foot chakras

The experience of Kundalini

Electric tingling

Heat

Heat envelope

Glow

Kundalini outside the body

Snake vision

The experience of the blockades

Main blockage and opposite pole

Six ways of healing

The three Granthis

Reincarnation trauma

Meditation

Individual

The motivation

One's own style

Mantra

Breath

Posture

Imaginations

The root chakra

The Sushumna

Ida and Pingala

The three Nadis

Inner man and inner woman

The Sun Child

Fire

Slurping

The root chakra of the earth

The Light of Heaven

Fire and Light

Kundalini deities

The rising of Kundalini

Duration and frequency of the meditations

Dealing with the effects of meditation

Elastic constancy

Kindness

Look, feel, embrace

Crises

Development in waves

Aids

Ecstasy methods

Universal Kundalini

Flow of Kundalini

Life force umbilical cord

Heart chakra of the earth

Gaia

Two systems of life force currents

Light and fire

Zodiac

Places of power

Rituals

Invocations

Kundalini invocations

Tantra

Inner ritual

Outer life force ritual

External picture ritual

The ritual of the relationship mandala

Siddhis

Book List

I The History of Kundalini

Kundalini is not an Indian invention, but a universal phenomenon like telepathy, astrology or astral projection. Therefore, references to Kundalini can be found in many cultures – with the Indians (and later the Tibetans) having been the most thorough researchers, as with many magical-spiritual things.

This chapter, however, is not a detailed "History of Kundalini", but only a brief overview.

I 1. The Kundalini in the Palaeolithic Age

It can be assumed that the Kundalini was already well known in the Paleolithic Age, even though there is no direct evidence for it – there is, however, a very solid indirect evidence.

The oldest form of religion is shamanism – it goes back to at least the middle Paleolithic. A shaman is someone who has had a near-death and experienced during this leaving his body and floating above himself ("astral travel"). This experience has led to the realization that there is more than just the material body. This conscious leaving of one's own body is the origin of the conception of a soul, which received the form of a bird with all peoples due to the hovering with the astral body: the soul bird.

This soul bird may be a bird, a bird with a human head, a human with a birds head, a human with wings (angel), a human with a fether-garment, a human with fethers an his head etc.

Those who succeeded in recreating this experience at will were subsequently able to perceive other soul-birds (telepathically) and therefore became "soul-specialists".

When learning astral travel, one practices to become aware of one's own life force body and then to direct it purposefully – even outside of one's own physical body. However, becoming aware of one's own life force body is what one must first learn in awakening Kundalini as well.

The beginnings of the way of learning astral projection, the awakening of Kundalini and also hypnosis are identical: the awareness of one's own life force body.

Processes in the life force body

Goal

Astral journey

Kundalini

Hypnosis

awareness of the life force body

1st step

come to rest (sit or lie down)

come to rest (sit or lie down)

"Sit down."

2nd step

relax

relax

"You are relaxed."

3rd step

the experience of heaviness

the experience of heaviness

"You are heavy."

4th step

the experience of warmth

the experience of warmth

"You are getting warm."

action with the life force body

5th step

the experience of vibrating with 6Hz

the experience of pulsa- tion, tingling, heat, etc.

"You are getting tired."

6th step

movements of individual limbs (arm, leg, etc.) of the astral body and/or swaying of the astral body as in a high swell (one experiences this as supposed movements of the physical body)

turning and writhing in the root chakra (Kundalini snake)

"You fall asleep."

7th step

conscious leaving of the physical body

the experience of the Kundalini rising from the root chakra to the crown chakra

the hypnotist takes over the function of the awake consciousness of the hypnotized

Because of this close connection between astral projection, which is the basis of the oldest and worldwide spread form of religion, i.e. shamanism, the shamans must have discovered the Kundalini fire early on while learning the astral journey – a good half of the way to both experiences consists in the awareness of one's own life force body.

The shamans therefore not only master the astral journey, but also know the Kundalini fire – and this knowledge goes back at least to the middle Old Stone Age to the origin of shamanism.

I 2. The Kundalini in the Neolithic Age

At the beginning of the Neolithic Age, around 10,000 B.C., the temples of Göbekli Tepe, Nevali Cori, Jericho, etc. were built in northern Mesopotamia. In them there are some representations of the Kundalini – especially a head sculpture with ascending snake. There are also stone totem poles, reliefs on temple pillars, carvings on stone slabs, etc., on which snakes have been depicted, some of which are recognizable as Kundalini.

On these stone totem poles and temple columns also soul birds have been depicted. Among other things, the soul bird is found as a bird sitting on the neck of a person and looking forward over his head. Exactly the same representation can be found 7000 years later in a statue of the pharaoh Khafre, who built one of the pyramids of Giza.

These soul bird statues are found all over the world as totem poles: the pole itself is a human being and the bird on top of this pole is his soul bird. The oldest representation of such a soul bird originates from the cave paintings of Lascaux.

Kundalini und Seelenvogel/Astralreise

Paleolithic

Early Neolithic

hunting accident: near-dead or dead man, bison, spear, bird stick (precursor of the totem pole) with soul bird (Cave of Lascaux, Southern France; ca. 20,000 B.C.)

Kundalini: stone head with rising Kundalini (Nevali Cori, Northern Mesopotamia; ca. 9,000 B.C.)

I 3. The Kundalini among the Indo-Europeans

Around 7000 B.C. the ancestors of the Indo-Germans moved from northern Mesopotamia over the Caucasus to the southern Russian steppes, taking with them the world view of Göbekli Tepe, Nevali Cori, etc., thus also the knowledge of the Kundalini and astral travel.

From 2800 B.C. they have divided themselves into individual peoples. Of these Indo-Germanic individual peoples, the Indians have most systematically researched the experience of the rising Kundalini fire. Therefore, when we hear the word "kundalini" today, we think mainly of India – the word itself originates from India.

But also among the Celts the Kundalini was well known, as for example the report of the battle ecstasy of the hero Cú Chulain shows, who was the son of the sun god Lugh. In the relevant account in the Irish national epic "The Cattle Raid of Cuailgne", especially the rising and the heat are impressively described. The battle ecstasy was an application of the awakened Kundalini to battle magic.

The Celtic shaman god Cernunnos is also accompanied by a horned serpent ("dragon"). This motif is also found in Mesopotamia: The sun-god Marduk is accompanied by a horned serpent.

With the Teutons likewise the fight ecstasy is described, which was developed obviously by these two most western peoples of the Indo-Europeans. However, among the Teutons there are also representations of Kundalini outside of the martial ecstasy.

Several Kundalini Representations

stylized man and Kundalini under root chakra (golden horn of Gallehus, Denmark; 400 A.D.)

man with Kundalini snake under root chakra (Isle of Man; Great Britain; ca. 950 A.D.)

Helmet with snake crawling over the head to the third eye (Sweden; ca. 700 A.D.)

Cernunnos (Gundestrup Cauldron, Denmark; 400 B.C.)

Marduk with horned dragon (Mesopotamia, ca. 2500 B.C.)

Marduk with horned dragon (Mesopotamia, ca. 2500 B.C.)

I 4. The Kundalini in Central America

Among the Toltecs, Aztecs, Mayas and some other peoples in Central America, Quetzalcoatl is one of the most important deities. This god has the form of a snake covered with the blue feathers of the Quetzal bird. His name means "feathered snake."

Thus, he is a snake/bird hybrid, as also found among the Chinese as a flying dragon and in Europe as a winged dragon. This mythical creature originated from the connection of the ancestor snake or the Kundalini snake with the soul bird. In many cases this hybrid creature has been associated with fire and can, for example, breath fire.

Among the Aztecs he is depicted as a snake behind a man with a jaguar mask, i.e. behind a shaman. He was the protective deity of the Aztec priests and also the guardian of knowledge. He was considered by them as the "wisest man", i.e. he knows the afterlife and therefore also magic.

Quetzalcoatl was also the wind god. The wind was associated with the breath and with almost all peoples also with the life and therefore also with the soul – thus in the old testament the wind and the soul are called both "ruach" and with the Teutons Tyr was as beyond god also the "breath king", i.e. the soul king.

With the Toltecs "Quetzalcoatl" was also a military rank – were there also with the Toltecs ekstasy warriors?

Quetzalcoatl

Kundalini behind shaman with jaguar mask (Aztecs, 900 BC)

Vision serpent showing the underworld (Mayas, ca. 400 A.D.)

I 5. The Kundalini with Other Peoples

Since both astral projection and Kundalini are among the basic magical-spiritual experiences, there are more or less clear references to them in many traditions.

Often, however, it is not possible to say exactly what the history of this tradition is, which is mainly due to the fact that these experiences can always be discovered anew independently of a tradition.

Astral projection will have been known early in the Paleolithic period due to the frequent near-death experiences at that time. Such faints, in which the soul (astral body) leaves the physical body, have also been observed in animals. However, the first concrete evidence of a soul bird is relatively recent: the bird on a staff in the Lascaux cave, painted about 22,000 years ago.

However, it is probable that already around 50,000 B.C. there will have been clear ideas not only about the astral body ("soul bird"), but also about the Kundalini. At this time lived in Eurasia the Homo erectus and the Neanderthal man, to which from Africa the Homo sapiens had migrated. From the cultural synthesis of these three types of people a new culture was born, which among other things brought forth goddess statuettes, musical instruments, cave paintings, soul bird representations, totem poles and probably also a more detailed study of Kundalini.

These elements are not to be found at all or only in very small traces in Africa, from where the Homo sapiens originates – if one disregards once the general Schamanism and the mother goddess, which presumably go back to the earliest Old Stone Age more than one million years ago. This speaks for the fact that the above-mentioned elements developed only by the culture synthesis 50,000 years ago.

Of course, it could be that some of these elements already existed before 50,000 B.C. in Homo erectus and Neanderthal man, but there are no concrete traces of this. However, altars, cult bull skulls, the storage of human skulls etc. are known from Homo erectus, which are 300,000 years old. Also the sweat lodges originate presumably at least from the middle Old Stone Age before approx. 600,000 years – they are likewise an "invention" of Homo erectus. The Neanderthals already created ritual stone circles in caves 180,000 years ago. Religion is thus already clearly older than the younger Old Stone Age, which began 50,000 years ago.

The Indians are also descended from this mixed culture which was mainly Homo erectus and Homo sapiens, which originated 50,000 years ago. The ancestors of the Indians migrated around 14,000 B.C. from northeast Asia over the Bering Strait land bridge, which was dry during the ice age, to northwest Alaska and then further down to Tierra del Fuego.

Of course, these considerations do not prove that Kundalini has been known for about 50,000 years (or more), but this date has at least some probability, since Kundalini has a close resemblance in Eurasia, America and Australia, but is largely absent in Africa. It could of course also go back to a tradition of Homo erectus, who lived in Eurasia, and then be clearly older than "only" 50,000 years.

I 6. Kundalini and Combat Ecstasy

The battle ecstasy is quite certainly a further development of the shamanic ecstasy, which served the afterlife journey. It is found among the Teutons and Celts and possibly also among the Toltecs (which, however, is quite uncertain). This application of Kundalini is at the most 2000 years old.

In principle, two elements of the free-flowing Kundalini are used in martial ecstasy: on the one hand, one-pointedness and, on the other, the power of Kundalini itself. The battle ecstatics, who were called "Berserker" ("bear-skin-men") or Ulfhedinn ("wolfskin-men") by the Germanic tribes, used different methods of ecstasy like stomping, roaring or biting into the edge of the shield to put themselves into an "extraordinary state", by which they became insensitive to weapons and fire and received powers far beyond the normal measure.

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The background of the history of religion and magic has only been briefly sketched here, as it is not the main concern of this small introduction to the phenomena and methods of Kundalini meditations.

I have presented some aspects in more detail in the following books:

Kundalini in general:

"Kundalini I" and "Kundalini II"

general symbolism of Kundalini:

"Drachenfeuer"

Kundalini in the early Neolithic Age:

"Göbekli Tepe"

symbolism of Kundalini among the Germanic peoples:

"Die Götter der Germanen, Band 64a: Magie und Ritual I"

"Die Götter der Germanen, Band 42a: Die Symbolik der Schlangen und Drachen"

symbolism of Kundalini among the Celts:

"Cernunnos"

II The Character of Kundalini

In order to assess the importance of Kundalini for one's own life, it is necessary to understand as accurately as possible what Kundalini actually is.

II 1. Life Force

Kundalini is not a physical organ or a physical process – it is a process in the realm of the life force.

So what is the life force? It is generally treated as a "non-physical substance" – although it is called a "force". Probably it is most precise to understand the life force as the phenomena at the border between consciousness and matter. One can use the life force to describe all processes in which consciousness acts directly on matter: telepathy, telekinesis, magic, meditation, ghosts, spirit healings, miracles, and so on. This fact alone suggests that the life force should be understood as an image that serves to describe the processes at the transition from consciousness to matter.

II 2. Chakras

The life force is not structureless, but forms certain structures which can be observed in consciousness as well as in nature – as one should expect from a "substance" which describes the transition between consciousness and matter. If the life force would not form structures and processes which can be found in consciousness as well as in matter, it could not describe the boundary and the connection between consciousness and matter.

The most important structure that the life force forms in the human body are the chakras. They are, so to speak, the life force organs in man. This is a complex system, but for the time being only the seven main chakras are important.

These seven chakras are part of one system in a simple way:

At the center is the

heart chakra,

which contains a person's identity. This corresponds to the deep sleep consciousness that can be consciously reached in silent meditation. The heart chakra corresponds to the genital level with Sigmund Freud.

Downward follow three chakras that relate to one's own body; upward follow three chakras that relate to the environment.

Below the heart chakra is the solar plexus and above the heart chakra is the

throat chakra.

These two chakras are ideally the uninhibited physical selfexpression (solar plexus) and the uninhibited social self-expression (throat chakra). It is in these two chakras, which correspond to the dream state and in which the emotions are found. They can be explored by dream journeys. This is the first concretization step of identity in the heart chakra: identity becomes impulses. With Freud, they correspond to the phallic level.

Below and above these two chakras are the hara (below) and the third eye (above). The hara turns the physical impulses of the solar plexus into an inner support, a point of view, and a concrete desire; the third eye directs the social impulses toward concrete goals. These two chakras are the waking consciousness and the thinking. They correspond to the anal level with Freud.

Finally, below the hara is the

root chakra,

which is responsible for physical contact, and above the third eye is the

crown chakra,

which is responsible for mental contact. This is where the concrete experience arises, which is why these two chakras are associated with the state of ecstasy – which is obvious with the lower chakra due to its proximity to sexuality. They correspond to the oral level with Freud.

Kundalini is a process within this life force anatomy in one's own body.

II 3. Flow of Life Force