Archonstone

How do you have a kundalini awakening? How do you know if you’ve had one?
I had done meditation, yoga, and the breathwork, shadow work, and could feel the energy up my core. It stopped at my heart. Head down energy would splay through my body. I had done third eye work and other astral projection/traveling/aspecting work. When I moved energy from my crown and third eye down to my heart the path way opened. Energy moving up and down by will. I define the Shushumah going from the perineum up through the center of my body, around the major blood vessels in the center of the body and the vagus nerve sheath. I know, I know, many practitioners and traditionalists claim it is the spine. Some traditionalists and those who practice nada yoga and as well as chi gong, it is this central channel.
Is that kundalini? Some say yes. The prana from my base, and apana from my head moving up and down. God and Goddess merging and dancing.
When I started prana or Chi accumulation and storing it in my shushuma at the hrit or dan tian, above the second chakra. Physically it is called the mesentery. And meditated by cycling the astral/prana/chi up my back, up to my head, and down my front, while meditating with nature, and doing my mantras, I would get spontaneous blissful euphoric full body or****ic vibrations. Either spontaneously from being focused about anything, or after my practice and mantras. It was just my honest relationship with the universe, God, goddess, or any being of having an honest relationship with. Some times I store that energy into more core again. Now just sitting still in meditation, my mind and body have this quiet afterglow. Very useful when having a stressful day.
If you don't have a teacher or a guide here is my basic advice. Be ruthlessly honest with yourself. Practice ruthless detachment with everything. Practice attachment with what you need to in life by choice. Prana exercises breathing attachment to the moment and space of where you are then detachment, as you move to the next moment of space and time and things that you need and choose to do. As a householder, you practice this detachment, so that when you can be still, detachment becomes easier. And at that point your spirit becomes one with the spirit of the world around and deities that you have relationships with. In other words, choose your attachments, and practice detachment ruthlessly. Ruthless honesty about yourself and your day to day relationships with everything.
The physical awareness of the body and how it relates to your memories with and with out emotions, managing what is yours and detach from what is not. Is a start.
This allows you to turn inward to recognize the energy your spirit and body picks up on that is not being generated from you so you can identify it. Your mind's eye and senses start identifying where those internal senses come from. Again, choose even there the attachments and detachments. Attachment to the spirit around you anchor you to where you are. You cannot row a canoe across the lake if you never take the oar out of the water and place closer to where you want to be.
The or****ic bliss of your relationship with the universe, is like being connected all at once with everything. It sort of mirrors how you choose attachments and detachments but is more about the flow and connection. Instead of being in a canoe your are the river systems. If that makes sense.
Some call it surrender. I call it residing in.
IF you experience burning, shocks, sound hallucinations, slow down, turn inward and see what attachments that causes resistance in the parts of the body, manage it and resume practices. I have had each of those experiences. Observing people and their interactions, you can reflect on which actions and patterns of actions you need to choose to deal with people who aren't aware. To be all of who you are with out the constrictions of people's patterns insanities daily can cause problems with dealing with people. People are stuck, and they are stuck in their expectations of how their relationships were with you. Like therapy choose your boundaries one at a time. Have patience with the rest. Have confidence that you will meet people on your journey. The friendships will be fewer but more rewarding and of quality. See the rest for what they are and meet them as anyone else does by choice. This will help with your personal psychological changes and your social interactions.
Being comfortable with the feelings and awarenesses as you practice as milestones is the pathway. Being in that state where you and the divine are one, and that relationship vibrates through your body is goal one. Keep going, and keep developing that relationship deeper and deeper. Relationship with people or the universe is one that we work at. Do have the ruthlessly honest relationship with each.
I hope that is useful for it in a nutshell.

The Bliss. When we can resonate with many teachings. Spring and fall when astral/chi from the environment is stirring up what was grounded out for months, many try to make sense of the everything that is happening all at once, along with a larger world awareness.
The Bubble of indwelling rising and expanding to escape the surface tension of the water that we live in. Maya still exists, and so also are the billions swimming in it.
Of the many teaching and patterns that can help people, each to their context. The ecstasy of the calling, versus the ecstasy of residing in awareness, compared to the ecstasy residing in the wider world of the mother. Each are different. Each are equally important. Each are moving dance. It is not about balance anymore. It is about dynamics equilibrium of moving forces.
I had a student, who got caught up in his belief of being a guru. There are always people who can sense one riding on a current and encourage them. After going down the rapids eventually one comes to the lake and to take time to reflect. He has yet to reflect nor change the nature of his being. He creates more suffering for himself and others.
Having been to the top of the mountain and riding the rapids down the valley the energy is , pulsing, alive, and indeed such pristine parts of the world that we connect to are connect everywhere, just about. Until we descend back in to the lake worlds where people dwell and Maya and the shared illusions have their own strength and dimensions. How do you take a handful of air and put it back into the glass of water? If you do, those live and breath in the water, how do you teach them breath air? While every body of water is different, it is similar. So to are the delusions that people live with, and the many faces of Maya.
Knowing the knowledge is one thing. Applying it is different. A lever works one fulcrum and a stone at a time. A community may build a road, or a boat.
Ego is a tool, lest it be a master. Freedom is gained one self at a time, lest the world be an enslaver.
Many a temple and church have been made. And after the prophet leaves, Maya and the Egos of others change it to reinforce the delusions. This process is humbling. Even with the light of the gods, here we take the steps one step at a time. May we find fellow travelers, and make the road more clear to each other.

TITLE: Energetics 102: Using Energy by breath and movement
DESCRIPTION: Beyond mind, supernatural alignment, or identifying and projecting thoughtforms, how do we draw and move energy in the body? We can paint, draw and move astral/spirit/chi/prana through our body via energetic memory, breath, movement, and awareness. We will cover how we can channel spirit through our bodies utilizing concepts in energetic hygiene and a brief overview of meditation, Breath is used for energy work. Movements such as tai chi, chi gong and kriyas augment many spiritual and magical practices. Foundational integrated practices will be covered. Personal discovery to take this further is always encouraged.This is an energetic workshop. Wearing comfortable clothes is suggested. Wells of natural energy will be evoked as opposed to drawing on urban energies.
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Thoughts on how some magical traditions can be performative instead of useful for spiritual development. From another post.

Spiritual development sufficient to make you question your existence, beliefs, and forces you to undo every assertion and the ego programmed by everything else and sustained by one's comfort in it. Only then love and compassion takes on the universal perspective. Before that it is performative, erzats of depth and in application. It being supportive of one's mirroring of collective ideals. That being said the assertions and application is untested from a divine perspective one should cultivate to have the ability of true will.
Sadly hermetics regardless of tradition is a collection of symbols, assertions with opinions that most out of the symbolic juggling becomes mental ma********on.
Without experience , comparative experiences, and the will to love and with compassion to see those experiences in the lens of the other person people are jousting with the symbols, the ascribed meanings and their egoic constructs. Seeing that, and their comfort in their constructed spiritual ego there is little point in supporting a lot of that while trying to cultivate your will and how it applies successfully in one's world. Life is finite, true love is approaching the infinite, truth is. People's application of those principles out of harmony has no integrity. With integrity life can be more than one life.
Me blathering about this does nothing for these people until they have the spark to be uncomfortable embrace pain, and even face death to see , embrace and apply truth and love in harmony.

Deep and profound things can come from the least expected places.

Discussing with my step-daughter about how I identify with a type of depression coming scrupulous OCD. Wanting to do everything right, everything needs to be done that one feels to do what is right, or wants things to be right and true (Autistic behavior also).

She told me to give myself the grace to be human.

That hit me hard. First the shudder of "Oh being labeled Human".

She said to be called human can be highest compliment and the lowest insult. THAT Hit Me HARDER.

Human beings, we Achieve unimaginable Highs and Lows in existence. WE aspire to the heavens and root ourselves in the hells and struggle with the dichotomy of existence. Many just blind themselves to the simple, NEXT. One day at a time is sometimes all we can do.
Wise people give up on happiness, but embrace purpose we can survive. Somewhere between there and the awareness of scrupulous OCD, we function.

Hopefully I will get busy making content again. I've been busy settling things around home making it comfortable for me, the people graciously let me live there, and the local community that we continue to serve.

While I need to give myself the grace of being human, I will now look in yet a new light as give others the grace of being human.

Life, Love and Truth,
Archonstone

How is reality pushing us to rise to a new level of human life?
BY Ardith Rundall

Everything that is happening in the world today is following a plan of evolution that comes from nature itself. We encounter increasing global interdependence as parts of a single, integral system. Increasingly, we see that it is better for us to upgrade our relationships from egoistic to altruistic. Mutual responsibility around the globe is necessary, so we can become the best version of ourselves.

We must figure out how to live together harmoniously on our planet in a way that works for everyone. Nature shows us myriad different elements that are harmoniously united into one mechanism. Different cells are doing opposite functions, and yet they are also connecting these opposite qualities in ways that contribute to the greater whole.

We need to find that balance where each of us can make our own contribution to the system and yet merge with everyone else. It is like this very delicate dance that we have to find. Our positive and negative connections with each other clearly define and show us the well-being of our society and the work we are obliged to do, to weave our fragments into a harmonious super-organism that works for all of us.
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ARchonstone's response.
The "WE must" and WE need" paragraphs, are assertions to do better, and find a way. Acknowledgement that there is much work to be done.

Evolution is an inescapable force of life. Evolution can be for a more advanced lifeform, or less advanced lifeform or divergent lifeform.

Interdependence, responsibility and altruism is the hallmark of what mankind has as a tribe to survive as humans. It is co-opted, abused and misaligned, by those in power who forget what leadership and communal living means. Instead these qualities are aligned by a manager to extract labor, wealth, food and material goods to their benefit versus that of all beings in that tribal environment (including nature in all aspects).

The echo chamber of individuals enlightened to see truths of themselves and nature of man is as blind as the echo chamber of society plodding along. Maya, the zeitgeist of people living on information evolved for the fitness of use, or survival locks people and societies into patterns. People are imprinted by the societies they live in, by patterns that reinforce the same old patterns.

Evolution and divergence usually comes from small groups in specific environmental conditions. Humans live in large groups, while evolution is unlikely, and species conservatism exists in its ugliest forms of all kinds of bigotry there is evolution. Echo chambers, societal isolation, and jingoistic clan type of self isolation, reinforces the methods in which people cannot get beyond the dynamics of the world they live in. True individual can change their individual circumstances, and are part of small groups that reinforce that belief. (Spiritual groups with their spiritual egos, for example). Many revert to variations of the societal patterns repackaged thinking it is different. Unfortunately it too is an isolating mechanism when it mirrors society as a whole but for a niche group surviving.
Spiritual evolution can get stuck, especially for individuals or groups whose environments change little (i.e. traditions).

Evolution exists even in this milieu. Neurotypical people are of two kinds, the elites, and the drones. The brains are getting smaller, the amygdalas are smaller, empathy is driven to non-existence, and behaviors are fitted to their micro-environments that they mutually craft society in the same pattern for the past 5 millenia. The individuals that create technical and scientific innovation are in their own micro-environments treated like the drones of society, controlled and managed more deftly than livestock. Society appears to change and advance, but the cultural and technical innovation is just the decoration. The Brilliant and neuro-divergent, are confined into their sub-section of society and are breeding together, as are the elites and drones, separately. Empathic, intelligent, less pruned neurons, higher computing capabilities, larger amygdalas for the neurodivergent. They are also isolated with people with immunological compromised people, and other people of divergent health issues. This creates a host of support and social problems when integrating with society while many are found to be extremely valuable to that society.

There are three points of divergence. The human need to survive by labor diversification has been co-opted and strained that there are social microenvironments within the larger society. So far, these three groups that overlap and along with movements in society vie for supremacy. This has been going on effectively for, maybe, 500 years. The elites are effectively parasites, and the drones whoes mindsets are shaped by th eenvironment are not much different. The social mobility between the two seem to have the same skill sets to adapt to the individual microenvironments. They are basically the same. They are de-evolving, killing themselves enough where those who haven't survive and the cycle begins all over again. Sometimes they take down the intellectuals or the neurodivergents, some times they preserve them.

What we are missing is tribes. Not the perjorative tribalism term for jingoism and chauvinistic bigotry. Tribes where leaders are cultivated from childhood, who learn to love and understand all members to help them survive together. This creates a culture of togetherness versus that of isolation. Western civilization kills the heads of tribes that has skills of uniting people in species dimorphism, and then enslaves and isolates the rest. Separating the managers as elites and the rest as drones. Drones, i.e. serfs, slaves, laborers, who like the elites, do not have time to think or expend effort to grow beyond the environment presented to them for survival. The Elites have everything and don't need anything except to maintain the status quo. There is no impetus to evolve for either.

The neurodivergents were celebrated often used to help in commerce, diplomacy and sharing of information between tribes. And breeding outward and upward, integrated into tribes. This stopped with warfare and resource stealing and creating city states co-opting tribes into work forces.

In Evolutionary timing, which is slow, and species conservatism creates a lull in evolution, comes and goes. We need to start back at tribes and evolve the social structure from there. Then perhaps human evolution and its dimorphism will make us more integrated as one species or two remains to be seen. Humans are social animals, and our social intelligence has been stunted. Address this first and perhaps human evolution will follow. All the technologies, media, and communication tools only blind us to the types of isolation and ersatz relationship we do have.

Spiritual evolution, seeing things for what they are is the first step. Seeing why they are is the next. Being one with the all in whatever spiritual process you choose is great. It does not change the underlying strata that define even the spiritual allegories or metaphors that we use.

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Answer for Quora:
What is the reason behind the tingling sensation on the crown of the head for spiritually awakened individuals? Is it connected to chakras or another factor?

Studying the Spiritual and Magic for over 40 years.1y
The tingling sensation can occur with anyone. The top of the head is the crown chakra. But the ultimate reason is how charges flow through our acupuncture meridians.

Connective tissue, fascia or collagen fibers run through the whole body. Where connective tissues come together are where the acupuncture meridians are recorded. The largest confluence of connective tissues meet along the center of the back and front, and it goes all the way to the top of the head. Collagen fibers move hydrogen ions. Spiritually developed people focus on their crown and will draw or allow an excess charge at the top of their heads. This charge usually flows up the back, to the top of the head and back down the front to the perineum.

The feeling shivers, “someone walking your grave”, “bunny feet” or other euphemisms for these random feelings on our body, are due to this flow of charges through our collagen fibers. Aware people and people who have practiced other spiritual/magical disciplines can move these charges in the body to direct the flow of energy. So, people can focus at the top of their head and get a collection of charge up there. People who don’t let it flow, or they have some physical issue the charge can build up and instigate migraine headaches. Leaning the head back and looking down can encourage it to flow downward through the face and body. People can massage the side of the heads and neck and get the charge to flow down the sides of the body also, which can help with migraine issues.

Whether the person is awakened or not is a different issue. People can have these feelings and the chakra may or usually are not involved. Different disciplines are needed to ensure that there is a good flow through the internal confluences that people call the chakra. Usually there are somatic manifestations that block energy flow, and they are reflected along the core chakra that require practices and awareness to address. Awareness of energy flow in the body is comes way before most people even begin to do the work with mind, emotions and body. This should be done before working with the chakra so they can be effectively be managed.

Question from Quora
What is the nature of Water Spirits relationship with humans?

Spiritual and magic practitioner for over 40 yearsJust now
In our plane of existence, the spirits of a paranormal kind in nature are reflections of the energy and personality of people relating to the elements and energy of place and season.

Mankind can be marked by the proximity of 2 elements. First is fire. Without fire mankind wouldn’t be what it is. Second, and maybe foremost water. Even today 95% of mankind lives within 100–200 miles of the ocean and closer to rivers and lakes further inland. Fire and water, their behavior influences or is part of the overworld and underworld. The spirits that has a foot in the supernatural plains seem to relate to water and fire primarily, air and earth more rarely and usually overworld and underworld respectively. But not necessarily always. Human beings have underworld and overworld affinities. Whether these spirits are reflections of human nature, and or they exist in other planes as their own beings, in my opinion and observation, they each exist.

Human beings and their predecessors, in some scientific theories, are nearly devoid of hair like many other aquatic mammals.

Our fascination and projection tend to influence nature and the spiritual layers of reality.

Can you describe the feeling of having your aura cleansed?

This may be long.

First to answer the expected feeling. The feeling you get when you get chills or goose bumps. You are likely to feel it like that and a bit warm, where they are doing the work and sometimes it will reverberate to other parts of the body. For the lack of a better description like a post or**sm vibe.

Cleansing an aura is a temporary effect. One needs to do internal reflection, meditation and meditation with the body to resolve the traumas and attachments that connected to the body, and our relationship to it emotionally, mentally, and therefore energetically. Without managing that, the patterns of life and attracting the same type or even projecting it from yourself, that will encourage the same type of negative aura energies.

If you feel depleted after the aura cleansed, the practitioner may have gone too deep and or maybe a vampire.
If you feel prickles, hot spots, etc. could be a vampire or person who doesn’t know what they are doing, causing damage.
If they are using their hands like dribbling a basketball over your chakra, just stop the session. They are poorly trained are addicted in this type of vampirism.

Aura cleansing is temporary. Doing the internal work is more important.

Can you describe the feeling of having your aura cleansed? – Archonstone Mind, Body and Emotion in balance generates Spirit. Truth, Life, Love, in Harmony generates Integrity. Spirit and Integrity creates Soul.

A question from Quora

How can I involve my friends and community in supporting me through spiritual struggles and doubts?

There are 2 parts. Each depending on where you are with your faith or spiritual journey.

Struggles and doubts are natural with faith based religions. Each person and within the context of their church/religion either follow the dogma, or you will be on the outs with your religious community.

A true spiritual journey, and questioning reality, is part of the process. You have to have internal reflection. You need to review your choices, and see what is authentic to you and what were edicts from others that have no bearing on your journey, experiences, and the lack of coherence internally of others that fall into hypocrisy.

The problems from two different angles have the same issue for you.
You are changing. People are addicted to who they think they are. (Usually they are comfortable with their accumulation of circumstances and justify it.) Society, is its own animal. Each person is addicted to the comfortable pattern they are in. They don’t want to question that pattern and their way of being.
However you have. You make them uncomfortable. They may love you, care about you, try to include you into the activities that help feel normal asking for you to make things comfortable in their relationship with you.

Spirituality is a lonely road until you meet fellow travelers. They aren’t in your church, your home or in the town. They are on metaphorical road where each traveling. They tales to tell, their experiences, Their insights, yet, what is more important is the insights that you have. There are books, communities , that can help you get the validation from where you are in journey. Truthfully, many books and communities mirror the same stultifying means of dogma. See beyond it. They have hard earned their sense of self and finally maybe resolving or working with traumas, they are comfortable the first time in their lives and they’re hanging on to it for dear life. The same just like those who are comfortable in their religion, community and family situation, even if they are miserable. They are comfortable with their predictable pattern they are living in.

As a lifelong traveler and pursuit of my spiritual life, discomfort and being misunderstood is a daily thing. Sure I have worked a routine, and have friends and mates that share our shared circumstances comfortably. We have found each other and make the best of it. Each spiritual community has their own outlook and use of metaphors for describing or sharing their experiences. Once you get past that, you can hear the same thing with different words and metaphors from other people and groups.

You now have the opportunity to search out for new friends and new extended family of your own making. The few friends I have had and do have are worth all of it. The communities that I am part of, I may not fit 100% but we get along and respect each other's journeys.

Part of the spiritual journey is being comfortable be alone. You build your own authentic self. When you do, you have your hand on the rudder, and control the sail, and you choose which horizon you sail for. You have made the first steps, keep on stepping and welcome to the journey. I can say confidently it is worth every step.

How can I involve my friends and community in supporting me through spiritual struggles and doubts? – Archonstone Mind, Body and Emotion in balance generates Spirit. Truth, Life, Love, in Harmony generates Integrity. Spirit and Integrity creates Soul.