I want to talk to you about joy, not as an emotion and not as a feeling, but as the inherent nature of beingness, and what this means on the Joy Rebel Path. In non-dual Shaiva Tantra, joy isn’t something you chase, cultivate, fix or manufacture. It isn’t the opposite of sadness. It isn’t the …
What’s the First Step in dealing with a Kundalini Awakening Purification Process?
All righty, I’ve got an email here from someone asking a question about the Kundalini Awakening Purification Process, so let’s dive in. Watch the video, read the article, or do both! You said that a Kundalinī awakening highlights when you’re deluded, stuck, attached, in aversion, or out of alignment with reality. It must eventually lead …
The Biggest Mistake I made after Kundalini Awakening
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, …
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 …
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 …