A Kundalini Awakening Pitfall to Avoid • The Grasping to Be Somebody One of the biggest mistakes I made after a strong awakening experience came from what followed that glimpse of freedom. My personal identity disappeared for a time — everything fell away. But life circumstances were challenging. I ended up in a psych ward, …
Articles by Kara-Leah
Kara-Leah writes on all things related to transformation, potential, awakening, and liberation, usually sharing directly from her own journey.
When protest becomes play. On inciting a revolution of joy
Rana is home. A ‘ceasefire’ has been declared. Trump is claiming credit for ‘peace’ in the Middle East, whilst attempting to send troops into Portland, Oregon, because he claims it’s a “war zone” and “burning to the ground” due to people protesting the actions of ICE. The courts disagree and have blocked him on the …
What is Awakening? A View from the Trenches
The Nature of Awakening • What IS Awakening? Awakening is a process, not a destination or an arrival. It is the recognition, the realization, the remembering that what you are, what I am, what we are, is not our conditioning, not our trauma, not our unresolved emotion, not our patterns, not our personas, not our …
What the F*ck Has New Zealand Done to Stop Genocide in Gaza?
Context (the horror, the facts you need to know) on what NZ has done to stop genocide. On 7 October 2023, Hamas launched a coordinated attack into southern Israel — killing civilians, storming towns, taking hostages. The Israeli security apparatus responded with ferocity. In the chaos, some Israeli troops even ended up killing their own …
How I was the source of my own suffering when I had an intense Kundalini Awakening (is this you too?)
Something that’s common amongst people experiencing an intense Kundalini Awakening is a desire for things to be different, a desire to fix or change things. It’s such a paradox but the doorway for a Kundalini Awakening, the portal, is our willingness to meet and embrace whatever’s unfolding exactly as it is. The paradox is that …
Cannabis as a Sacred Plant Medicine: Journeying, Accessing Trance States & Psychosis
by Kara-Leah Grant, (I wrote this in 2019, and only just published it, 2025) This article has been a long time coming. Given that Canada has just legalised cannabis, and New Zealand is finally having a referendum on legalising it in 2020, it feels like now is the time. The danger in writing about the …