Magic Bullets & Kundalini Cures
As some people with powerful Kundalini risings have noticed after it awakened—or many years later—you can no longer do the yoga, the meditations, or the breathing techniques you formerly practiced. Mantras, hatha yoga postures, pranayamas, etc. , become excessive and lead to Kundalini eruptions accompanied by anixious nights and overpowering surges of Kundalini beyond your comfort level. In the worst cases people will be hospitalized.In spite of this, sometimes a person can feel compelled to try a fix with the hope of obtaining a flawless Kundalini process, knowing, or suspecting that there are risks involved. You will get assurances from gurus and devotees that their method is completely safe or that their Guru will protect you. When you hear these assurances know that these people have no idea what they are talking about when it comes to your particular manifestation of Kundalini. In a word, they, going only on belief or their desire to proselytize you, will essentially be experimenting on you.
Take the case of my friend Linnea who took a Huna initiation, thinking it would refine her Kundalini process and enhance her growth only to have one of the most severe and long-lasting Kundalini eruptions I have heard of. The effect of the intrusion of the Huna energy threw her Kundalini process into utter chaos, rendering her unable to function like most of us can--holding down jobs, going through our day without spacing in and out of alternate realities and so on.
I have heard more devotees, gurus, and people than I care to remember, tell me their practices would fix Kundalini or their techniques were foolproof and surefire methods incapable of doing any harm. After some disasters with too much Kundalini erupting along with consultations with many other individuals with the same disquieting end results, I came to see that these people have no clue as to what damage their methods can have on a powerful Kundalini rising. The worst case for me was when I tried a “safe” technique, under the Guru’s protection, that dynamited the Kundalini so forcefully that it took about a year for it to level off accompanied by many anxious days and fearful nights. My friend Jerry had a similar experience when he was under an allegedly competent Kundalini Yoga Guru. After about a year of study, his process had an eruption that in essence debilitated him to this day about 7 years after the fateful overloading of his inner circuits—under the protection of a powerful Guru. Then there are the unfortunate individuals who suffered a full-blown nervous breakdowns while doing allegedly safe meditation practices.
I studied with one of the most competent Gurus in America who was also a physician and a Sanskrit Scholar from India. Within his group there was a woman who suffered from some sort of compulsive disorder accompanied by fanciful illusions of being able to predict the future—the Guru could not fix this and it happened while she was involved with his practices—that is not to say his elaborate and exoteric methods of moving the energy caused this, but these methods did not prevent or heal it either. I studied with this Guru for about a year receiving a major shaktipat from him and many transmissions yet his methods did not fix my Kundalini energy either, even though he was as capable a Guru as you will find on American shores with shakti like an atomic force field.
So you have to realize no matter what well intentioned or uninformed individuals state about easy Kundalini cures, there are no magic bullets and no easy cures that work across the board—not even with powerful Gurus. If there were, I guarantee I, or the many people I have corresponded with in the last 20 years, would have found them. If you read Gopi Krishna’s Living With Kundalini you will remember he searched all over India for a Guru who could help him, but found none.
So, if you feel compelled to try any Gurus or methods to try to manipulate Kundalini, be aware that there are risks involved even it you are given every assurance to the contrary.
© Copyright Bob Boyd 2006