In this in-depth article, we will talk about the psycho-spirituality and ego development involved in the rising of chakras and awakening kundalini.

What is Kundalini & the Chakras?

Kundalini and the Chakras: Kundalini is symbolized as latent energy coiled at the base of the spine in Eastern spiritual traditions. The Chakras are seven energy centers along the spine, channeling life force energy. They play a crucial role in spiritual practices, representing different levels of consciousness.

Kundalini Awakening: A Kundalini Awakening is a transformative experience where dormant Kundalini energy rises through the Chakras. It can be triggered by meditation or spontaneously. This process leads to heightened consciousness, expanded awareness, and a connection with the universal consciousness. It involves intense physical and emotional sensations, fostering personal transformation and spiritual growth.

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Kundalini Awakening & Journey Across The Seven Chakras

Depth psychologies were intended to liberate the self from the limitations of Western ideas and to develop maps for inner experiences based on the transformative experiences achieved in therapeutic practices.

The Eastern world is based on the foundations of a psychic reality, meaning that Existence is within the psyche itself.

Yoga holds two notable concepts:

• Reincarnation and the quest of freeing yourself from the cycle of birth, death and rebirth
• The world is real and its existence endures because of ignorance of the spirit

Yoga is considered any type of meditation and ascetic techniques. This is why there are different schools of yoga, most notably, for our purposes—Kundalini yoga.

The difference between tantric teachings and others like Buddhism and Hindu teachings, is the focus on the identity of the absolute and highest truth (paramartha) and the phenomenal world by way of Hara (your true nature and spirit).

Paramartha is the identity of the absolute and the highest spiritual truth.

Hara is your true nature and spirit.

Through worship, Sedona, and tantrism, the Great Goddess is the leading principle. Tantrism recognizes the religious significance of the feminine principle. It also insists on the purity and holiness in all things.

Tantrism has forbidden the following five things that make up the substance of sacramental affair in certain tantric rites:

• Sexual Fluids
• Wine
• Meat
• Fish
• Parched Grain

There are two different schools for tantrism:

Right-handed schools of tantra are symbolic and focus on rituals.

Left-handed schools of tantra are literal and focus on sexual practices.

The high interest in tantra in the West during the 1960’s was accompanied by many workbooks and guides on sexual positions. A popular example of this would be the Kama Sutra books we find the raunchy mall outlets and sex shops today.

However, these sex manuals glossed over what Tantrism really is. Instead of focusing on the liberation from the rebirth cycle of reincarnation, these practices were directed towards sexual liberation.

The Indian philosophy surrounding Kundalini focuses on the connection between the conscious ego and non-ego. Tantra yoga represents the developmental phases of this impersonal process that produces the connection of higher supra-personal consciousness.

Kundalini yoga gave us an ego developmental model that shows us the levels of consciousness.

Kundalini in the body is represented by a series of chakras:

• Muladhara
• Swadhisthana
• Manipura
• Anahata
• Vishuddha
• Ajna
• Sahasrara

Each of these chakras are in different parts of the body and are linked by channels called nadi.

The most important chakra channels, or nadi, are:

• ida
• pingala
• sushumna

These chakras are not intended to be a literal reflection of the body, but an illustration of the structure of the subtle body, or mystical body. The chakras help guide, visualize, and contemplate one’s development.

Kundalini has also been defined as a micro cosmic manifestation of Shakti, or energy.

Shakti is a universal, energetic power that connects the finite body and mind.

Kundalini (the guiding feminine principle) is meant to be awakened through ritual practices, and using the chakra system as a visual allows us to observe her ascension up the system.

Upon reaching the highest chakra, there is a blissful union of Shiva and Shakti. This can lead to a huge transformation in one’s personality.

When one is under great stress, it is a good idea to lie down on a couch or a bed to lie down quietly and breathe quietly as if there’s a wind that you’re waiting to blow over.

The symbolism of Kundalini Yoga suggests that sometimes people may present symptoms due to the awakening of Kundalini. Knowledge of this symbolism gives us more information to what otherwise would be seen as coincidental byproducts of a disease instead of a meaningful symbol of what’s going on in the psyche.

For the purposes here, Kundalini is not a religion or a philosophy but instead it is a psychology.

Yoga is an activity that is inherently encourages introversion. This introverted activity can lead to inner processes to take place and cause personality changes.

This inner process is said to be universal. However, the methods that are used to achieve these processes is specific culture to culture.

Kundalini psychology is full of symbolic depictions of the inner experience and the individual and the individuation process. This rich symbolism offers a lot of information and material that can be interpreted about the collective unconscious.

Understand that due to cultural differences, someone who is European that practices yoga will not know what he’s doing and due to cultural upbringings may have a different effect than those who have had an Eastern upbringing.

This lecture is meant to help uncover the symbolic psychology that lies within Kundalini and draw some comparisons that can be understood to the western world.

Due to the cultural differences between westerners and easterners, it’s not easy to have an internal relationship with these Indian conceptualized symbols, but it’s very possible with cultural research.

Kundalini psychology has a parallel to the process of individuation.

In the West, we are used to the unconscious taking us through the individuation process gradually—via every life experience, underlying inner journey, and dream we have, we are revealed to ourselves bit by bit.

Tao developed meditation techniques for centuries and have collected far more symbols than the West.

The cultural aims between the east and west are very different:

• The East is above everyday reality, where the cultural aim is for Nirvana.
• The West has a cultural aim on the present three dimensional life.

Although our cultures are very different, Kundalini symbols like mandalas can be found in western minds in dreams and imaginings.

Yoga can be defined as a means to grasp the real essence the inner experience of a matter and a living reality that is governed by the laws of that matter.

Kundalini psychology and yoga views reality as a balanced polarity between man and woman energies.

The following is an exercise to help you with your psycho-spiritual development (aka ego development):

1. When you are having an emotional experience, slow down and find a space where you can contemplate your inner reality in solitude.
2. You then attach a symbol to this emotional experience, which gets easier depending on how well your relationship is with your emotions and level of self-awareness. If you struggle identifying your emotions, this is precisely the very same exercise that helps you cultivate that relationship with yourself.
3. This symbol is then embedded in your imagination for you to meditate on; in this specific scenario you would practice with the six chakras in mind.
4. You will meditate on this symbol and observe it as you let it act on its own freely in your imagination. Contemplate the intellectual and psychic content. This can lead to higher psycho-spiritual development, however this is rare.

An example of this in my own life would be one night when I couldn’t sleep. Every time I was about to fall asleep, something in my chest trilled and tickled (emotionally, not physically). I recognized this as anxiety. I gave this specific inner reality a symbol based on how it felt—

It felt like every time I was about to fall asleep, a prickly black sea urchin expanded in my chest and caused me to wake up. I examined and contemplated on this entity and inquired an answer from my mind as to what it means. The answer I received gave me insight on my psyche’s guidance of my current life direction.

Those who are unwilling to contemplate their chakras, or self-reflect on themselves when Life demands that they do, are likely to be those who are stuck in arrested development—which can reflect an inability for any real change in their internal structure to take place.

Because of this, understand that everyone is on a personal journey when it comes to the psychology behind Kundalini yoga. And you have to grasp it on the basis of your own personal inner experience. You will not grasp the inner meaning if you do not look at it from your own point of view and perception of life.

You can only fully understand Kundalini on the basis of your own inner experience—ie. the inner journey or individuation.

Yoga is the Indian way to the Self.

What you’ll notice in the tantric texts is that it is made up of a very intentional language. This intentional language can come off as ambiguous, secretive, sometimes dark, in which consciousness can express it in erotic terms. It’s also charged with mythology and cosmology, with Yogic and sexual meaning.

Although the tantric meaning is usually erotic, it’s difficult to determine whether it’s referencing a concrete act or a symbol of sexual eroticism. In other words, it’s as if the tantric text is flirting with the mind.

Understand that the psychology behind Kundalini yoga will be described here through the western lens of the process of individuation.

This is done through the interpretation of the psychological symbols that we get through Kundalini yoga. The chakra system surrounding kundalini is a representation of inner experiences that can’t be mirror or be identical to the cultural ideas of the west.

That said, understand that the chakras and Kundalini have always been separate concepts.

If you have been looking at shadow work material that was developed by Western minds understand the Indian material has been abstracted and differentiated for 1000s of years.

Kundalini is awakened at the base of the spine, then it travels up the body and completes the journey when it reaches the crown of the head. In clinical pictures, Kundalini travels up the legs and back, up to the top of the head, then down the throat to the face, to the abdominal area.

Transformation demands a change of being. The symbolism of the chakras for the Western mind are best to be thought of as archetypes of the regions of the psyche and provide the narrative that we go through during the process of individuation.

Those who know alchemy know that the making of gold was not the real purpose.

Sat chakra and nirupana primarily depicts this profound modification of experience and embodiment by ritual practices rather than symbolic depiction of universal process of individuation.

It’s difficult to attempt to translate the terms of Kundalini into modern concepts because what you’re really doing is hybridizing the concepts to fit the ideas you’ve learned in your culture. Understand that Western consciousness is not consciousness in general. Ideas of consciousness is historically, culturally and geographically influenced. A representation of a side of mankind.

• The East focuses on altered states of consciousness
• The West, specifically Jung, focused on symbols and individuation

Tantric yoga psychology, or “Mandala Psychology”, also known as Kundalini Psychology, understands that chakras are different centers of consciousness. Each symbol reflects an inner meaning of each life experience. These symbols help you understand conceptually and spiritually what you have lived or are going through.

Libido, or psychological energy, in it’s most simplest form is an urge. In tantric kundalini teachings, we all have a natural urge to produce a personality. This personality, or ego, is what helps separate us from other beings and keeps us grounded in physical reality.

This masculine principle, or anima quality, of discrimination is the urge and instinct to individuate. The instinct to individuate is everywhere in life, because there is nothing that is not individual. Life, or Truth, wants to produce individuals as complete as possible. Smaller parts of a totality, or smaller wills and intelligences within the highest will and intelligence.

Shia is the urge of realization; for a person to be themselves for who they really are and grow into their Wholeness.

Kleshas are the urge for a being to burst into life to feel to think and to want in some sense, it is the source of all misery because it serves as the emotional and motivational bases for all beings to become its own being and separate from the rest in a way this is not a bug but a feature and the only remedy to this bug or feature is to cope is to recover one’s sense of oneness. By discovering one’s own separate identity. The foundation of all classes is not knowing our true being.

Your personality comes from the urge of individuation, however your true individuality is always out of your grasp. No single being can be completely conscious of its own totality. This is why other people can see more clearly who you are than you do yourself. Given that they have a clean psyche.

An example of this is how a pet cat can have a very limited idea of itself compared to the sum of its whole entire individuality. You on the other hand can look at your pet and see that it is much more than it believes of itself.

All individuality is there from the beginning of one’s existence. But individuation only takes place when you are conscious of it.

Hatred is the thing that divides us. It’s the force that discriminates. It also helps us determine who we think we are and who we think we are not.

When two people fall in love, it’s very normal for them to be very close to each other. To see many similarities in themselves. Due to Participation Mystique, they are enamored in limerence with each other. So at some point, there is a struggle phase we need hatred in order to help separate ourselves and regain our individuality

Until they regain their individuality, partners who are enamored with each other are both in a state of unconsciousness or Participation Mystique.

Once they hit the struggle phase there is a type of Phobos, or fear, that separates the couple. They find ways not to stand one another. Fear causes one to run away and to remove oneself from place of danger.

People who are in love are people who see each other more identical than not.

Struggle phase is full of hate and or fear and it’s what is needed to separate, then consciously reintegrate. Until then, they are unconscious and in a delusion of limerence.

Brahman is existence that is not existing, yet oneness.

We handle our new love the way we handle ourselves—we are enmeshed until the honeymoon is over. We gain higher awareness of the Other through resistance, scenes, and disappointments. This is a reminder that they are not us. We are not so identical. This is an indication that the honeymoon phase is reaching its end and starting the struggle phase.

What we were unconscious of before we are we are now conscious of. Now we see the differences and we see what bothers us. This is both good and bad. It’s bad because it can tear immature people apart. But those who are mature can accept and develop true love that is fulfilling and everlasting.

Participation Mystique is when one spreads themselves over other people until they are “identical” with them, enmeshed, and this is a violation of the urge for individuality. Eventually, they have resistance, an urge of resistance in order to keep each other apart.

When you newly love somebody, you identify with them. You prevail against those that object against your love, while at the same time you repress your partner with your own self-evident identity. This isn’t a malicious quality. It is natural, and both parties participate in it in the form of trying to “impress” the other by taking interest in things the other wants to do, despite not always being fully enthused.

You handle the other person as if they are yourself. Naturally there will be resistance because they are not you. It’s through these resistances, boundaries, scenes, and disappointments that the unconscious becomes conscious. You become conscious of yourself, where you and they begin and end. It’s when the hatred or fear, that comes along with this transition. is no more that you can start to better accept that.

When you understand this romantic relationship cycle you will no longer worry. You will know that when you love, you will eventually “hate”, and then you will accept, and you will learn to more deeply love.

It’s natural for the human being to want clear absolute situations in life but that is impossible. That is too one-dimensional and human beings are not one-dimensional.

Libido, or energy, also known as tatva energy is not physically observed because it does not exist—it’s an abstraction of intensity.

In reality, energy is not physically substantial. However, in the East, tatva is considered to already be in existence.

The unconscious mind is full of symbols and archetypal images. These archetypes are equivalent to samskara, in the sense that they are complex bundles of beliefs or categories of creative fantasy.

Sthula is simply the physical matter we see; the obvious.

Sukshma is speculation and ideas we make about from the observable world.

All physical phenomena has both sthula and sukshma, the obvious physical matter we see, and the myth it carries.

According to Socratic theory, there is an idea of a heavenly storehouse that models everything in existence. And when we see concrete matter, we pull upon this heavenly storehouse to help define what that physical matter is.

A hypothesis is an assumption made through an idea that is formed in attempt to explain effect. Hypothesis means to put something that isn’t there under something.

Hypostasis means that there’s something below which is substantial upon which something else rests. Hypostasis means to invent something that is hanging in the air that has no real basis but you assume that it is a real thing.

The most primitive minds have hypostasis. It is where superstitions come from, as well as concepts such as the Law of Gravity. The ideas of Kundalini and chakras also come from hypostasis—there’s no grounding for it, but we accept it as if it’s real.

You have made God, so that he is in reality.

Muladhara & Svadhisthana

An example of hypostasis is when you forgot to send an email and something unfortunate happens because of this. You tell yourself, “Oh! I thought…”

Hypostasis means you are genuinely thinking that something is real, even when it’s not, you have assumed that it is and act as so.

A hypothesis becomes truth when there is evidence that it is applicable. Over time, what’s proven can become hypostasis because we simply accept things as a truth without taking the time to observe it ourselves.

Sometimes we forget that a hypothesis came from an arbitrary theory that just happened to work out.

Chakras are sometimes called mandalas.

Understand that symbols have a tendency to stick and cling on to us through the unconscious. Sometimes a symbol can stick and stick to us and inhibit our growth and development.

Hypostasis comes from the animus principle where assumptions are made without any ground; a form of ignorance.

If you try building an Eastern system based on Western psychology, you will only poison yourself and your understanding.

Second Chakra (Svadhisthana) – Represents water and diving into life without reservation. However, this region is above us.

In the Western world, diving into water would be moving from a higher place to a lower place; a descent into the unconscious.

In the Eastern world, diving into water is going from a lower place to a higher place.

Svadhisthana is the life we live without thought. This is when we get carried away by the stream of life and we float to whatever comes to us.

First Chakra (Muladhara) – Represents earth and the root of all things in the world. It is both masculine and feminine energies and it is the foundation of the world. Each chakra is a whole world of life experiences.

Muladhara is when the Self is asleep while living in reality, where we have to look after out daily duties and can’t easily run away from our responsibilities without getting neurotic.

When the Self is asleep, all things concerning the gods are asleep.

The muladhara is our earthly world, where mankind is a victim to its impulses, instincts, and unconscious influence, while not paying attention to daily life. It’s when we are victims of our circumstance and our reason holds little impact due to our lack of attention.

There are moments when we have a piece of us in the second chakra, which urges us to do something different. Maybe this calling happens once a week, once a year, or even special and ceremonial days.

It’s when we start tapping into the second chakra that something starts to stir in the unconscious. The unconscious forces call us to do something out of the ordinary.

When you are doing something that is very ordinary the gods are sleeping. Going to a restaurant and having food waiting, waiting for the bus, sitting at the theater, spending typical time with the family.

First to Second Chakra (Muladhara to Svadhisthana) – When you are “living life in transit”, there’s not much going on and we’re not in the mind of doing something different. It is here in muladhara that we are acting as unconscious animals.

The next chakra, Svadhisthana, is symbolized by the sea. In this ocean there is a monster that threatens your destruction.

Svadhisthana has the same characterization as the unconscious mind. You aren’t wrong to assume that the way out of our muladhara will lead us to water.

Symbolically, this is why a cult’s first demand for new recruits is to go into water and “be reborn”.

To get to higher development, you must go through water with the danger of being swallowed by the whale.

In baptism, there’s a symbolic drowning or “being taken by sea” to then be saved by a savior. This symbolic death is what leads into a new life.

When you go underwater you will encounter the monster, which will be either a source of renewal or destruction.

This is why the second chakra, svadhisthana, is known as a rebirth or destruction. Here we can expect a manifestation of a new life or renewed drive and intensity—a tapping into the third chakra, Manipura.

In the western world, we would place muladhara on top as our conscious world, meanwhile our next chakra (svadhisthana) would be underneath as our feelings.

This is the uniting of Shakti and Shiva, a pair of masculine and feminine principles. They are united below and so united above. This is reflected in the dive or descent into the unconscious world of svadhisthana.

In the western world, we look at the unconscious as a place under the earth, below ground level. Another word is catabasis, a journey to the Underworld.

There are two ways to approach the Unconscious:

1. You face the monster and become swallowed by it; you look into the abyss until is looks back.
2. You come to the monster from behind and attack it.

Yoni is a woman power and Linga is manpower—and they are united, they are not a part.

Muladhara is of the earth and it is not underground. Muladhara represents the entanglement with the duties of life, and relationships, and so on. In terms of The Hero’s Journey, this is known as the Old World before accepting The Call To Adventure.

Muladhara is life here on Earth, and here—the Gods are asleep.

When your second chakra is activating, you journey into The New World—the world that you have been unconscious of. This is understood as a higher place than before because you are approaching a different kind of life.

You can only reach the second chakra if you have stirred the unconscious by doing the following:

• You have aroused the Serpent, aka Kundalini
• You have acquired the right attitude necessary to acknowledge The Call To Adventure
• The correct attitude is accompanied with a “purified” mind; one who has been rudely awakened by a betrayal of life, a “rejection of fate”, or kind inspirational insight from wise alternative realities (wisdom from a life not lived)

All of these conditions are only met when the stars align, by chance, in a person’s life. This is the world encouraging your ego development by the graces of heaven and its agreements—I am speaking this way because this is an impersonal process, far beyond your sole personal power.

The grace of Heaven is the Kundalini. Something within you must urge you to the next chakra and lead you into it. If this urge does not happen naturally, then it is artificial, not real.

Kundalini is your leading spark, an inner incentive, the urge that forces you through the water (second chakra, svadhisthana, the call to adventure into the new world, that which is in your unconscious awareness…for now).

Kundalini is the World consciousness.

Civ-atma is your individual consciousness.

Kundalini is a form of woman power that is a pure knowledge.

Buddhi is the intuition organ and is composed of pure insight (sattva).

Kundalini in psychological terms is that thing that calls you to adventure

Kundalini is something that is superior to your will—the World’s will, God’s will, not your own personal willpower. You must be urged by something that is superior to your own. Otherwise, your Personal Will won’t push you to go through with The Call To Adventure.

You will turn back when you meet your first obstacle, the monster in the sea. It’s the urge manifested by Kundalini that pushes you to follow through with the call to adventure, so that you will face the music.

If you happen to turn your back to the Call, you will recognize that there is nothing for you in the life you’ve been living. When you realize how much life has lost its flavor, you’re psyche will acknowledge that the Call To Adventure can’t be ignored, you’ve reached a point of no return.

Kundalini is the divine urge for adventure.

The Western concept of anima is solid equivalent to the Eastern concept of kundalini.

The Moon Goddess, or Triple Goddess, is known as the feminine principle in pagan traditions. She is known to be the pregnant holder of dead souls, until she gives them to the sun. The sun gives these souls new life, which implies that the moon is a symbol of rebirth.

A muse is an inspiration, it’s anima, it’s kundalini, that which inspires you forward into Life. It’s what inspires creativity, adventure, and so on.

What need do you have for an outer woman when you have an inner woman within yourself to guide you forward? In practice, this is becoming aware of your own instincts and your own instinctual nature.

Muladhara is a symbol of our conscious earthly existence that signifies our roots. It is where the gods are asleep.

Linga is a germ.

Kundalini is the Sleeping Beauty, the potential world that hasn’t been called forth yet. This symbolic significance is that the human individual seems to be the only act of power.

The gods we pray to for change are inefficient and impersonal, non-ego powers. It’s because the gods are asleep, doing nothing for you, that you’re stuck in the unconscious daily day-in-day-out living.

The Eastern view of Hindus put the conscious world within the body and understand this conscious world as a transient place for growth that we are not meant to stay in. We are here for the purpose of becoming better so we become angels when we die.

With this perspective, muladhara is the beginning, a transitory state.

People are typically concerned with their immediate reality, and within this center of consciousness are the germs of potential that point us to a different level of consciousness that aren’t yet awakened for the time being.

These germs are only seeds for change, in other words, they are a reflection of the inefficient, inactive, sleeping gods.

The gods we look up to are the ideals we form in our mind. Until those germs grow into actual ideals that call us forward to as a god to look up to, and a faith we work towards to become—there is nothing to strive for.

The sleeping gods are these germs, seeds that have yet to point us in any life-changing direction. These germs are what will allows people to look at the muladhara world from a different point of view, instead of at your current low place, or place of beginnings.

In the lower abdomen, we can feel our unconscious contents stirring up and slowly rising to the surface and coming into our awareness. It is when we become aware of the germinated conviction, or clear goal, that we soon make the decision to run after it.

The purpose of yoga is to awaken Kundalini. This means to separate the gods from the world so that they become active—because until then, they are only germinating seeds in muladhara that will eventually use you to co-create the future.

When you awaken Kundalini, she begins to move you out of mere potentiality. Instead you start a world that is different and eternal from the muladhara world you’ve been letting your life slip away in.

Kundalini delivers you visions that can be for anyone because they are impersonal. They are visions of the ideal potential, those ideals that come from activating and pursuing our potentials—it is not of the world of Muladhara.

The world of the gods is an impersonal experience and is a natural illusion from muladhara psychology.

From muladhara psychology, the rational viewpoint of our world is one set of the personal aspect. All things that are personal are those that are only meaningful, however in another psychological perspective, all that is personal is utterly uninteresting and has no value because it is futile and illusory.

There are two forms of thought that can stem from the muladhara worldview:

• That personal life is meaningful, which is a reflection of a healthy, human animal
• Or that the world is a meaningless illusion, which is a reflection of an unhealthy human animal that has been traumatized, ostracized, and bitter about it, which eventually leads to murder-suicide or “shadow possession”.

When you are one with something, you are completely identical. You can’t discriminate, compare, measure, recognize, or contextualize.

For you to do these things, which is necessary to understand something, then you need to have an outside perspective. This is why I find it annoying when people say they prefer not to use labels—they fail to realize that labels help us understand the world.

Understand that awakening Kundalini isn’t some path towards self-development. It’s an impersonal development that mayinfluence your status in society (usually very favorably and authentically). However, this isn’t always the case.

The outer journey can reflect the inner journey, which is the kundalini leading you to inner fulfillment. That inner fulfillment that’s achieved does not necessarily mean it will reflect outer prosperity.

Kundalini starts as impersonal happenings that you should not identify with. If you do you will feel obnoxious consequence and get inflated. That’s one of the problems with experiencing the unconscious, if you identify too closely with it you become a fool.

Events that happen in the impersonal, non-human order of things, have a very disagreeable quality that they stick to us or we stick to them. This is called a tragedy or catastrophe.

Here are two relevant ways you can handle life:

• Taking Responsibility of Life. You can soar into the unknown chaos and safely come down again because it’s your own voluntary doing
• Being Blindsided by Tragedy. When you are swept up by the chaos, since you aren’t in control, you will be dropped in the most unpleasant way

You don’t want to identify with these impersonal experiences, but you do want to handle them. This is safe and absolutely necessary. Otherwise, if you identify yourself you get inflation, which is a minor form of lunacy.

When I say you don’t want to identify with the unconscious its because the unconscious is something that is within your psyche, but not something that is necessarily the personal you. Your ego is your personal you.

The other side of you is the unconscious.

You are not alone in your psyche.

Your ego is small in comparison to the expanse that is your psyche. The unconscious is everything that is outside of the ego. It is not your own.

It is something that you tap into, and it belongs to the entire world’s Oneness just as much as it belongs to your psyche and yourself.

It’s not you but it is a part of you—just like everything else in this World.

The real secrets are secrets because nobody understands them.

Spiral Dynamics & Kundalini

It’s important that one should be in this world and fulfill their entelechia, or capacity of potential.

If you aren’t seeking to expand your life or mind, you can’t ever kick off kundalini. Like a fish, you are just thrown back to muladhara and nothing happens.

This makes life an empty experience. Even if you are “living a life”, if you continue making the same mistakes and never learn, then it’s an empty experience.

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

You must expand your awareness, internally and externally. Your soul demands that you have faith in this world, to make roots and do your best, even if you believe in something foolish or absurd.

Because you must leave something in this world. You must leave something behind that shows the world that you have been here and that something has happened.

If your own personal spark never takes off, never leaves the ground, nothing will come of it.

There will be no Kundalini, no Linga, because you were staying in the infinity that was already there before.

In the process of completing your entelechia, or pursuing your capacity’s potential, you may detach from the world of Maya, the illusion that coats the world—an example of an illusion is how status and money isn’t real, but a symbolic illusion that many people can’t take a step back from.

By pursuing your kundalini, your pursuit for a higher, yet somehow personal, meaning, you re-contextualize life and prioritize things differently than most people in your society.

Depending on your ego development, it can look like the following:

• Stage Red: A single tribesman becomes power-hungry and wants to rise above the other animalistic tribal people through cruel and dark means
• Stage Blue: A group of like-minded individuals understand that forming a moral community gets people further, denounce other groups of people, and establishes laws to prevent psychopathic human animals from destroying their community
• Stage Orange: A single person discovers that building their own business, or elevating themselves through career or fitness ambitions, will take them further than the job-reliant and normal-bodied people in their community
• Stage Green: A group of like-minded individuals understand that human beings and the environment are all part of the same world, and not everyone has equal opportunities, and forming emotionally intelligent, ethical communities will make sure everyone is taken care of
• Stage Yellow: A single person who is owning and integrated their darker aspect, respects moral duties, has sufficiently achieved their ambitions, and has considerable empathy for people and the world, now sees that people are on their own ego development journey—that many are stuck in arrested development, but serve a purpose as the Call To Adventure for other gifted individuals to rise in consciousness

Each stage of psycho-spiritual development, as stated above, better sees through the Maya world, the Fabrication, the Construct, more and more as they rise through Awareness.

You can see how Life naturally drives people through these developmental stages in first-world countries. Examples of this include:

• Being exposed to abusers and people with personality disorders (Unhealthy Stage Red) and the decision to “not be like that” drives people to value morality, fidelity, etc (Healthy Stage Blue).
• Convicts in prison who committed high crimes (Unhealthy Stage Red) repent from their sins and find God (Stage Blue).
• Encountering religion that is corrupt, or being let go from an impersonal job you were overly loyal too, or naively placing too much faith (Unhealthy Stage Blue) in an early romantic relationship only to be betrayed—driving people to go to the gym, focus on their careers, build a business, and essentially awaken individual ambitions (Stage Orange).
• Reaching your ambitious goals, either ethically or amorally (Stage Orange w/ Blue or Red Foundation) or absolutely failing and getting angry at God for one’s “rejection of fate” and feeling betrayed by the World—leading to the acknowledgment of a Higher Power, systemic inequalities, and idea of Oneness or “God’s Plan” (Stage Green).
• Overly considerate of spreading kindness, emotional awareness of others, and leaving oneself too vulnerable (Unhealthy Stage Green), only to be betrayed by less developed individuals (Unhealthy Stage Red/Orange)taking advantage of one’s kindness—driving the betrayed person to find that there are levels to all of this (Stage Yellow).
• You realize that up until Stage Yellow, each of these stages are living in their own personal hell, full of self-judgments due to lack of construct-awareness and self-awareness. You are now an individual who can see what stage people are in and works to integrate all the healthy qualities of each stage to become further Whole.

You’ll realize that as you travel up in development, you develop more empathy and awareness of the World. Eventually you understand the importance of getting as close as you can to seeing objective reality by working through your triggers, relational traumas, building awareness, and finding others who are “on the level” if you are very lucky.

Buddhi is your personal subjective, ego.

Kundalini is impersonal, objective non-ego.

When your ego and non-ego meet, you will notice synchronicities.

Synchronicities happen when your personal, subjective narrative of your life meets the objective, non-ego, Reality. These are signs that you are on the right path.

The same way you may pray to God, “please give me a sign that I’m doing the right thing.” Then you see a flower, being carried by the wind, and it falls into your hand.

You take this as a sign because your egoic narrative is meeting with the World, the Universe, Reality, Oneness.

It’s moments like this, that tell you that you are on the right path.

Heads up—You are always on the right path. But witnessing these signs, help give us peace of mind.

Because we know that the Universe is there with us, co-creating the synchronicities as a part of our own manifestation.

Manifestations have their own requirements. The following is evidence that something is a manifestation:

1. It’s at the right place at the right time
2. It benefits you and others, without harm to anyone
3. It comes from an unexpected place

You notice more synchronicities and manifestations in your life when you show gratitude and fully give them your recognition. This is because your mind becomes more open to them, especially as they relate to your impersonal Hero’s Journey.

Manipura

Third Chakra (Manipura) – Represents fire and the “Fullness of Jewels” and is reached when you answer Kundalini’s Call To Adventure and pass through the danger of the unconscious underworld, Swadhisthana (Second Chakra)

Manipura represents fire and the sun rising. Here is where you are born into a new existence. In stories, this means you become a different being with a different name.

An example this is when Jesus receives his mission in the Spirit of God, and has His baptism in Jordan. He becomes a Christ after baptism because Christ means the anointed one. The transition to Jesus Christ means that he is twice-born.

As the “chosen one” he becomes a symbolic personality. No longer belonging to a mere family, but now belonging to the whole world—his life becoming much more important than if he were just the son of Mary and Joseph.

When you finally accept the Call to Adventure, you’re thrown into a new land—and to survive this new land, you have to be born again.

Emerging into a new world demands you to put on a new mask, a new ego, that furthers your individuation and maturity.

This ego is based on the ideal that Kundalini is guiding you towards—the God (ideal image) that you are admiring and pursuing.

Manipura is the center of identification with the ideal, divine, immortal soul. You are not just living in the moment, you are now a symbol that will exist eternally.

This means escaping from your own selfish personal existence because you stand for more than just yourself. You hold a higher meaning for your life that gives you a sense of abundance.

When you are reborn, you could say that your old world has burnt down. But although the worldly philosophy in your personal ego has changed, there is no proof that you have reached Manipura.

Understand that when we’re talking about something we don’t truly want to discuss, it’s out of fear and potential hidden destruction.

When we don’t want to touch upon a topic that is too “hot”, we start talking in abstractions and subtle hints. You speak this way to make excuses for impersonal realities in attempt to ward off evil or selfishness.

“We do not talk about he-who-must-not-be named” They don’t want to remind anyone of the chaos this person inflicted.

“She’s a good person, but she’s also a free spirit. I don’t think she’s ready for a relationship” They don’t want to be explicit about her promiscuity.

Hobie: “I don’t believe in teams.” Miles: “Aren’t you in the band?”  Hobie: “I don’t believe in consistency.” They don’t want to encourage involvement with secret saboteurs.

Everyone likes to believe they are living intentionally and consciously because we are naturally inclined not to take the unconscious mind seriously. This lack of respect for the unconscious leads us to invent theories that aren’t the reality of the situation.

This is because the unconscious is made up of what is typically not allowed in society. This includes desires, passions, an entire emotional world, sexuality, hunger for power, and every other inner demon in human nature.

Each of this are what you weren’t allowed to be, but is expressed as you become acquainted with the unconscious—whether you are aware that you are expressing it or not.

When people first attempt to recognize their unconscious, they suddenly see themselves differently, and that scares people—so they claim that there is no unconscious.

They tell themselves that there is no monster on the other side of the door, so don’t bother looking because it’s not important—but there is something there. You inevitably have no choice but to admit that there is something powerful behind that door.

But because you aren’t comfortable with the hidden demons, you use abstract language to subtly and shyly talk about it. This coded language allows you to speak euphemistically, so that you don’t arouse suspicion are irritate those who are involved with the hidden evils.

This is part of Manipura, the world of fire where things are too hot to touch, where the “fullness of jewels” is a source of energy.

Understand that one manifestation of this source of energy is war—where man can be a god, cohort, enslaved, or freed—each involved with the hidden evils, whether aware of it or not.

This third chakra is the center of emotions and is located in the solar plexus, the center of the abdomen. The abdomen is where we have our first psychic manifestations in our living experience.

The earliest human animals only had a conscious capacity to be aware of disturbances in the stomach. In other words, humans thought with their stomachs. If the early human wasn’t bothered by their stomach, then they had no reason to care.

This is why early tribes would inflict pain and wounds during their initiation rituals. These initiations included cutting, starving, and depriving their initiates of any sleep.

After the initiate passed their test, they would be bestowed their tribe’s secrets. This was done because people tend not to learn lessons unless they are hurting. In primitive times, this meant physically—in modern times, this can mean emotionally, mentally, etc.

The next center is the heart. In our modern times, we give significance to the relationship between the heart and head.

When people become aware of their unconscious mind, and hold it in their recognition, they often go into an emotional state where they explode lots of emotional energy that has built up or been buried. They will weep about events that happened years ago.

At the time they endured their trauma, forming their samskara, they were repressed their feelings to be held in the unconscious. When they get in touch with their lower centers, they tap back into that frozen moment in time that is embedded in their psyche (samskara). Only to find that the undigested emotions are still there and they are still surprisingly strong.

In manipura, you’ve reached a higher layer where things can change in the heart. When you come in contact with your passions, instincts, and desires, an impersonal opposite will be constellated. You will no longer identify with your desires.

Anahata

Fourth Chakra (Anahata) – In anahata, you are going through the process of sublimation—when solid matter turns into a gas. This is when you are risen above manipura (third chakra), lifted from Earth, and the world of your emotions. This can make you very emotional and identify with God.

When you are emotional you will try to express yourself. For example, you might do this with creative work, such as poetry, stories, or music. This is because emotions always utter they want to be heard.

Purusha is above the emotions and is where the first idea of the Self is more clearly seen. It’s here that we become aware of something within that is not personal. Here is where you begin to reason, think, and reflect.

This is the beginning of voluntary reduction and withdrawal of emotions, instead of following your impulses. You do this by stopping yourself and asking why you are behaving like this. This exercise helps you dis-identify and overcome your emotions.

People can lose themselves completely in their emotions and exhaust themselves even to the point that they are burned alive and nothing remains just ashes.

This also happens in lunacy, or manic episodes, when someone gets in a manic state and can’t get out of it. They burn up as a result of their exploded emotions.

However, there is a way to detach from it. And when man discovers this, he becomes truly a man.

This is also the beginning of individuation. By being able to differentiate yourself and withdraw any outbursts of emotion, you start to discover the self and you begin to individuate.

Anahata individuation will likely lead to inflation. So understand that individuation doesn’t mean you become an ego, it means you become an individual.

Anahata is the self, which is something impersonal and objective.

Individuation is when your ego awakens to the reality that it is only a small part of something much bigger.

Anahata ego inflation can lead to a experience where someone believes they are God; aka they are crazy.

Another example of someone who gets ego inflation from anahata will turn out to be a philosophical “egoless” egotist—indicating failure in individuation.

In Anahata, people begin to reason and gain more understanding in their judgments. You understand that it isn’t you who lives, but the Hero you were christened to be that lives in you—the ego you are assigned in this journey.

This is the understanding that you are not your mind, you are the eternal thing that observes your mind. That which is able to reflect on why the human animal you are perceiving Life through acts the way it does, and guiding it the best it is willing to cooperate within the circumstances Life has presently given it in.

Vishuddha

We all start in Muladhara and go through a series of chakra stages, or the four elements:

• Muladhara – Earth
• Swadhisthana – Water
• Manipura – Fire
• Anahata – Air
• Vishuddha – Spirit / Ether

Fifth Chakra (Vishuddha) – Represents Spirit and Ether, that which you can’t catch yet penetrates all. It is matter that is not matter.

Vishuddha is the first step beyond the empirical world into the world of concepts, psychic realities, and psychical substance.

This is construct-awareness and understanding that the sixth sense is intuition, the meaning-maker, which is both an unconscious and conscious function.

The relationship of Manipura and Anahata correlates with the interaction between fire and air.

• The fire element, manipura, is not gentle, it moves, mesmerizes, and burns
• The air element, anahata, is light, intangible, unseen, but you can still witness its effects

Manipura possession is when someone is controlled by their emotions.

Anahata is the heart center, which is characteristic of feeling, and represents the element of air, which is a characteristic of thought.

Understand that you need a heart to have feelings, and without feelings you don’t have courage.

In regards to thought, there are sayings like take it to heart, where you can learn something intellectually, but you won’t keep it on mind unless you take it to heart.

This is why the most important lessons are the ones that hurt.

It’s also why the importance of thoughts and values become clearer to us when we consider them as compelling forces in our lives.

When you cross the diaphragm in the chakra system, you have reached anahata:

Anahata is where you begin to recognize values, ideas, and it’s where psychical facts begin. These psychical ideas and convictions aren’t met with natural sciences.

Purusha is the essence of an ideal being, through the psychical substance that is thought, values, and fellings. Purusha is first seen in anahata.

You can recognize purusha in another person by their authentic ideas and feelings.

This is the first signs of being within your psychical and psychological existence. It is not you—it is contained within you and it is greater and more important than you, but it has an entirely psychical existence. That which cannot be weighed, but can be pondered—such as popularity and mental illness.

Any great motivation or movement of a human being has always started for psychical reasons.

Something constellated, the stars aligned, and the time has simply come when something had to happen for unknown psychical reasons.

Vishuddha is only reached when you trust psychical existence. Not only do you believe in matter-made, material world, you also believe in a psychical force, but you’ve yet to connect to psychical existence and its inherent psychic substances.

The gap between physics and psychology is a reflection between the difference between Anahata and Vishuddha.

Vishuddha is a world of abstract values and ideas where the psyche is and of itself, and psychical reality is the only reality.

This contends with the material reality and insists that this world is only an illusion.

This would mean that the Purusha has become the center of all and would witness Ultimate Reality as it were.

Vishuddha is complete recognition of psychical essences as fundamental facts of the world by experience.

Manipura

Manipura is the idea of Oneness in the sense that you may look at another person and want what they have, and although you acknowledge that you are your own separate being, there’s a part of you that in some weird way, also identifies with that person.

You are both part of existence. And in that sense, you are both one of the same. A person who exists in the world and is witnessing itself through another perspective.

Manipura is interesting because nothing changes in the visible world. The only change is the introduction of psychical substances and psychical facts.

You understand psychical facts as a visceral feeling. You can step across anahata and witness the beginning of psychical experiences.

This is where our emotions our values, our thoughts and convictions are interdependent with facts that we call objects. They become interwoven with the concrete facts.

When people cross from manipura to anahata they had to learn that feelings are rational in the sense that they are based on facts.

But to cross anahata to vishuddha, one must unlearn all of that and admit that all psychical facts have nothing to do with material facts.

For instance, the anger you feel towards somebody or something, no matter how justified, is not caused by those external things. It is a phenomenon all by itself.

If you have reached that stage, you begin to leave anahata because you have succeeded in dissolving the union of material external facts with internal or psychical facts—not taking things personally.

This means that people and events you have in the external world is your own personal, internal experience being projected outward. You are the person projecting meaning or lack of meaning, value or lack thereof, upon your experiences with people and life events.

The world itself becomes a reflection of the psyche.

This is basically understanding that your thoughts about a person isn’t the entirety of the person.

It is a projection of your own thoughts onto of what that person is. They are what you make them.

You are more integrated in yourself, you have differentiated that how people treat you is not a reflection of you but of themselves, and you are aware that the following are only emotional beliefs and not actual emotions:

• Betrayal
• Abandonment
• Disappointment
• Humiliation
• Isolation

You understand that your psyche is identical with your consciousness, your living experience. And that doesn’t mean it’s the Reality of the situation.

You understand that the Reality of the situation is behind the curtain that is your psyche (personal unconscious) and behind the dream that you’re living in that’s not yours (the society you live in; ex. the rat race).

The more you mend your psyche and the more aware of the authority you project to others, the closer you will get to understanding a more objective Reality—the Truth, Existence—that which encapsulates everything.

This is why when you are aware of your fundamental desires and passions, you have overcome the worst danger.

We like to believe everything is our conscious (intentional) doing, however, you can’t help but recognize that there is something living within your psyche, sitting next to your mind, elusive and acting on its own without you’re mind’s conscious knowing.

You are not your mind. You are more than your mind, and you are beyond your own complete understanding. Here are examples of elusive “others” that are still part of you, that are sitting within your psyche:

Meaning Maker: Until this stage of development, you weren’t aware of how you have an unconscious “Meaning-Maker” in your psyche—a feature of the human animal that is first understood to be your intuition, and later found the be understood as that which determines and connects you to your level of consciousness, or spirituality, aka your relationship with reality.

This very same Meaning-Maker is the thing that “weaves” your dreams with symbolic psychic materials that provoke emotional energy for you to carry into waking life.

The only difference is that during sleep it’s allowed to create a flexible dream world where you are the unknowing god projecting meaning onto everything (the dream is all you)—

While in your waking life, you are a limited god automatically projecting meaning onto a fixed material world, forming your lived experience based on the egoic ideal you are currently pursuing.

This is why “life is a dream”, or tHe mATrIx.

This is why the sleeping gods don’t awaken until you have a dream life you want to pursue, thanks to The Hero’s Journey that Kundalini called you to act upon.

There is also another part of your psyche that acts on it’s own and expresses itself through you:

Repressed Shadow Self: This is part of your personality that you’ve repressed and have effectively “hated” out of your awareness. It’s those qualities you think you don’t have, but in fact express in ignorance, and irrationally hyper-despise in others. It’s that thing that doesn’t want to be conscious of that fact that it likes being hurt or causing hurt because society has judged these sensations as unacceptable.

It’s also that inner self-saboteur that misplaces your belongings in the weirdest places, burns dinner out of momentary forgetfulness, or always drops items in the most shattering manner—that which manifests as your doing, but is also not of your doing. It’s the part of you that wanted these things to happen.

The unconscious side of you crossing over from Manipura to Anahata is really difficult. It demands that you recognize that the psyche is self-moving. It has a life of its own. Again, you are not your mind.

The unconscious is genuine because it’s not your ego self. Your ego has an end to it.

Your consciousness is limited. The unconscious, the unconscious mind is limitless.

You are not the master of your own mind, of your own psyche, of your own house.

NOTE: You still want a healthy strong ego! This is what you use to best navigate through life within the society you have been brought into. The ego serves a purpose, and giving into the shadow completely only leads a meaningless life that lends itself to neuroticism, homicidal and suicidal tendencies.

There are spirits at play within your consciousness and they appear right at the end of your own personal tyranny.

Eastern Symbolism for Elephants is the making of reality out of concepts, that we have to admit are just in our imagination.

Concepts are the products of feelings and intellect. They are abstractions with no physical phenomena, but still lead to manifestations in our physical world (the ever-present muladhara).

The abstract concept of “energy” is what binds these things together—the elephant makes reality out of these invisible spirits of the mind.

When you speculate on something, you create abstractions which can feel like your own artificial conclusions, so you’re never sure if they really do exist. When you obsess on your suspicions of “what is really going on here”, you seek to substantiate your thinking, causing to you behave in a way that closes the cognitive dissonance between your mind and physical reality.

You seek Truth.

And you work to reach the Truth, to make your dreams a reality—because you have faith.

This is why “working” is an embodiment of faith—you are the Being possessed by a God—you don’t have the idea, the idea has you.

Again, you are not your ego, you are not your mind, and anahata is the stage where you are a symbol of your Calling—you are The Chosen One, The Anointed, who is meant to find the Treasure of Truth at the end of this Hero’s Journey.

This is what all societies are built on, their level psycho-spiritual development.

The concept of God has come out of experience, the result of pursuing Truth.

Here are some phrases that hopefully make sense to you if you’ve been following along with everything:

You are a small piece of God, within the totality that is God, seeking to further understand God.

You are a small piece of Truth, within the totality that is Truth, seeking to further understand Truth.

You are a small piece of Reality, within the totality that is Reality, seeking to further understand Reality.

Everything that happens in this World is meant to bring more Love into this World.

Truth = Reality = God = Love = World

Spirituality is your relationship with the World.

Spirituality = Wisdom = Maturity

The healthy human animal inherently seeks the Truth as well as it possibly can.

For example, you know when you’d like to do something very much, but you hesitate when it’s not meant to be. Or when you don’t want to do something, but your psyche demands that you do it despite yourself.

Internally you know that you must go that way and there’s no hesitation about it.

This is the reality of living in Vishuddha.

Your psychical experience is evidence that a non-material, product of the mind is real. Examples of this includes:

• Pain
• Suffering
• Addiction

This same sort of inner psychical experience makes sense of those who identify as different genders than their birth bodies.

Ajna

Sixth Chakra (Ajna) – Represents a Winged Seed. This white chakra is said to be beyond our reach since most people have yet to reach Vishuddha.

Remember that the gods are dormant and sleeping in muladhara (first chakra), our earthly, physical, ever-present reality.

In ajna you are fully conscious and the sleeping gods of muladhara are now awake, you are united with Shiva, and are confronted to the only reality there is—a psychical reality.

However, the psychical reality still opposes physical reality.

Ajna is a non-ego reality. Ajna is ego death without rebirth.

You’re not doing anything other than what the inner psychical force is demanding that you do. And the force is not demanding it since you’re already doing it. Because you are the force and the force returns to the origin God.

You have awakened Ajna when you are in Life without Mind.

You’ll be okay, you can turn off your mind.

Demand that your mind leave you alone.

And follow the inner force that calls you.

This inner force will keep you alive because it is connected to the Higher Self and the Universe. You will be okay.

In Ajna, you have surrendered yourself to the Oneness that you are part of. You surrender to your intuitive callings.

Here, there is no experience because it is One and there is no second.

Philosophically, it is dormant and it is not—therefore, it is Nirvana. The Kingdom of Heaven. Delivered from our self-constructed hell.

Because we’ve accepted that Life is a never-ending Hero’s Journey, a continuous development.

However, the human animal naturally lives on this Earthly plane of muladhara.

So you cannot live in a constant state of presence and meditation that is Ajna. You have to go about in this world. You have to brought back to consciousness again, and let the gods sleep.

You are not going up and down development. Because where you have arrived at is never gone and you never really return. Return is an illusion.

In your journeys, you leave a part of yourself in the unconscious, and nobody gets in contact with the unconscious without leaving something behind there.

You may forget it or repress it—but then you will no longer be whole.

When you learn a fact, such as one plus one equals two, it will be so all eternity. One plus one will never equal six.

When you have really experienced something you cannot lose the experience.

Once you know, you can’t go back to not knowing.

You can return to the previous condition and forget what you’ve lost, but that doesn’t mean that you haven’t lost it, despite having forgotten that you have.

You can lose your finger to a junkyard dog, and you’ll even claim that you’ll never go back—but that doesn’t mean you didn’t already leave something there.

Osiris is the god of the Underworld, who has one one eye turned inward. This is the same as losing an eye, which keeps watch on the underworld.

When you have entered a higher state of consciousness, you never really go back. You stay there.

A part of you can split off and explore the lower levels. But the further you have gone into your conscious development the more expensive it will be to return.

If you’ve gained awareness of an eternal truth, but then forget the truth and go back—this is the same as not learning your lesson. This is evidence of empty experience and empty living.

In this sense, you’re not really a person and you’re not really real. The same way people with narcissistic personality disorder don’t learn from their mistakes. They never learn their lessons. This is arrested development.

Remember, if you have really experienced it, you cannot lose the experience. What is entered consciousness never really leaves.

Ajna is the state of complete consciousness where nothing is not yourself. It’s where all chakras are experienced at once, resulting in the highest state of consciousness. If it didn’t include all the former experiences, it wouldn’t be the highest state of consciousness.

Ajna is ego death without rebirth.

Philosophical Understanding

The following are philosophical way of looking at things:

• Sthula
• Sukshma
• Para

Symbols are a totality of separate parts woven together; you can’t take away any part without the symbol losing it’s nuanced meaning. (Examples of symbols are chakras and words).

A symbol is a living Gestalt, a form that is the sum of complex facts that our mind can’t understand conceptually, so is expressed in the form of an image.

Chakras are symbols of a bundle of complex psychic facts, which can’t be expressed any better than as images.

The psyche is so complicated, so vast and rich, with elements unknown to us. This is why we always turn to symbols in order to try and represent what we know about the psyche.

Chakras are an intuitive reflection of the self, where the ego and consciousness is known only as more-or-less essential.

Western beliefs insists that we think with our heads, as if we are sat on a higher level and look down on nature and animals.

Because we identify with our conscious minds, when we talk about the subconscious and unconscious, we speak as if we are descending to a lower level.

All culture creates suprapersonal values.

A thinker whose ideas are independent from the events of daily life is in Vishuddha, or entering Ajna.

Ajna is ego death without rebirth.

The supra-personal aspect is the personal aspect being identified with a conscious. We don’t see that there exists something outside of it. This aspect is not above, instead it is below—where we can observe suprapersonal events taking place in the psyche.

As we create culture, we are creating suprapersonal values. Through this we are seeing the sukshma aspect through culture, where we get an intuitive sense of the other.

The chakra system manifests itselt in culture, which can be divided into various levels—the belly, heart, and head.

We start in the head, where we identify with our eyes, with detached consciousness, and objectivity, we observe the world of ajna. When we speak our knowledge in the form of words, we are in vishuddha, aka the throat center.

Anahata is activated when we speak content that causes us positive or negative feelings that come from the heart.

Manipura activates when are are beside ourselves and have become irritable and angry.

As we travel further down the body, the heart and head are no longer speaking—now the body speaks.

Swadhisthana is a place of emotional intensity, where you don’t speak with words but with your physiology. This is the start of morality, which involves taking care of your needs in a place that is appropriate.

Dogs have learned this in swadhisthana, where they are particular about where they pee and poo.

This chakra level is also the lowest means of psychic expression and is used by lower consciousness human animals. For example, a gang member who sprays graffiti on the wall, or Amber Heard when she when she shat on Johnny Depp’s side of the bed.

They are essentially staking claim of territory. Such as, having hickeys on your partner or your or injecting your partner with semen.

The more primitive a being’s development is, the more valuable the psychic manifestations are. This is because this is the first form of speech in nature.

Dreams are full of symbolic psychic manifestations due to swadhisthana.

Muladhara, Swadhisthana, Manipura, Anahata, Vishuddha, Ajna, Sahasrara.

Muladhara is the life of animals and primitives living in harmony with nature.

Even when we are in ajna, we actually continue to live in muladhara.

This is due to the sthula aspect—since we cannot understand something when we are still immersed within and identified with it.

Only when we reach a standpoint that is outside the experience in question can we wholly understand what we were experiencing.

You have to pay for the objective truth by reaching a different point of reference.

You do this by putting aside your personal standpoint in exchange for a suprapersonal standpoint—which will show us where we are actually in this world.

Muladhara is the condition of psychic sleep, where we lack consciousness and speak nothing of it.

The creation of sukshma aspect parallels the creation of suprapersonal values and symbols.

The chakra system is created from a standpoint that transcends time and the individual.

In Hindi philosophy, the sukshma aspect depicts the beginning of Brahma, the One, without a second. This reflects a reality of being and not being, a revelatory visceral experience that is not described as an experiencing of thought.

The collective culture of India is in muladhara, where there’s much poverty, lack of hygiene, and ignorance towards technical and scientific achievements.

From the sthula aspect, the Indian culture is in muladhara where the western culture has reached anahata. Keep in mind that India looks at humanity from the sukshma aspect, and comes from a standpoint that is reverse of western culture.

Our western, personal consciousness can indeed be located in Anahata or even in Ajna, but nonetheless, our psychic situation as a whole is undoubtedly in muladhara.

In the sthula aspect, personal life must be fulfilled and assimilated into consciousness before introducing the supra-personal side of the psyche.

The supra-consciousness, an all embracing consciousness, surveys the psyche from above. This intuition, or higher self, observes from a higher standpoint we ascend to when we tap into the unconscious, because it frees us from everyday consciousness.

The Hindus thinking begins with the Brahman and ours with the ego. Our thought starts out with the individual and goes out into the general the Hindu begins with the general and works down to the individual.

In terms of the chakra, we are not high up, instead we are down low. Our culture represents the conscious mind being held prisoner in muladhara.

From the sukshma aspect, everything is still in muladhara.

Christianity is also based on the sukshma aspect. The world is only preparation for a higher condition, the sacraments and rights of early church all aim for freedom from a merely personal state of mind and allowing one to participate symbolically in a higher condition.

Christ is a symbolic representation, and anticipation desired, that is being lifted above the personal and into the supra-personal.

By sthula aspect, the roots of muladhara must first be fully lived in order to grow beyond it. This is how we develop out personal consciousness to ajna, where we create culture based on the supra-personal God perspective.

Muladhara, Swadhisthana, Manipura, Anahata, Vishuddha, Ajna, Sahasrara.

From the standpoint of a whole psyche, only our personal consciousness attains ajna. But from the standpoint of the chakra system, we are still in muladhara.

From the sukshma aspect, everything is reversed between eastern and western thought.

In the west, we dive downward into the unconscious underworld—the new world we have yet to integrate into our conscious experience.

In the east, we ascend upward into a new world—which we have yet to integrate into our conscious experience.

To awaken the unconscious mind means to awaken Kundalini, which begins the development of supra-personal within the individual and awaken the sleeping gods.

This rising of Kundalini within the individual brings the personal ego to the supra-ego, the personal into the impersonal, the ego to the non-ego, by pushing the person through the worlds that inhabit each chakra.

The para aspect is metaphysical and can be looked upon as purely theoretical abstractions. The western mind can do nothing with it, meanwhile the eastern mind assumes these as more concrete and substantial realities.

For example, in Indian culture, the Brahma or Purusha is accepted as an unquestioned reality in it’s culture, meanwhile the western mind would only consider to be extreme speculation.

We speak of the sukshma aspect, the metaphysical, only in symbols—such as water, fire, unconscious shadow theory, etc.

Another example can be samskara, the eastern equivalent of archetypes, which would be unconscious inherited conditions we hold in the atmosphere of our psyche, affecting our relationship with muladhara.

Archetypes are the first form of our existence. Children freely live along the world of the unconscious archetypes and world of jewels. It’s when the child starts experiencing bodily sensations that it awakens to swadhisthana, conscious of it’s own life and ego living in muladhara.

The concept of Kundalini has for us only one use—that is to describe our own experiences with the unconscious—the experiences that have to do with the initiation of the super personal processes.

Muladhara, Swadhisthana, Manipura, Anahata, Vishuddha, Ajna, Sahasrara.

The revival of inner images must develop organically.

Tantra: book

Middle-Buddhist yoga practice divides into two trends: sadhana and vajrayana.

Sadhana practices mantras or “power words”. By way of the mantra it is possible to call God as a vision that is stirred up by a yantra or mandala.

Through intensive contemplation of God, it comes alive, and the viewer enters into the God, and the God is in the viewer, identification with the God, deification of the viewer.

Vajrayana, where yana means vehicle, and vajra means divinity and phallic symbolism. It’s due to the ambivalent meaning of vajra that the two schools of thought were formed:

The female counterpart to the masculine phallic vajra is padma lotus, which is commonly seen together in worship.

• Left-Hand: Spiritual Rituals

The left-hand school of thought is frowned upon because of it’s focus on sexuality. The take on vajra, by this school of thought, is the fulfillment of personal sexuality.

• Right-Hand: Ritual Sexuality

The right-hand school of thought interprets vajra as divine energy, leading this school of thought to focus more on philosophy and occasionally spiritual inflation.

Consciousness is Maya. Maya is the projection of all earlier experiences, or samskara, being the veil on top of your living, physical muladhara experience.

Childhood is full of samskara (or archetypes) in the form of dreams or naturally expected roles

In vajrayana, there was the creation of sakti and Kundalini yoga, which stands for “capable power” and “coiled up” respectively.

Along this line of thinking is that a serpent lines are laid within us. These lines are trails from the left nostril to right testicle, and left testicle to right nostril—both representing sun and moon, fire and water, masculine and feminine.

These two trails, connect the muladhara to ajna chakras, along with a third trail going up and down the middle representing wisdom and being with Brahman.

Muladhara is the lowest center of the Earth, it is unconscious, latent, and dormant.

Catholics, along with other religions, come with it’s own expected unconscious qualities. You can expect groups of people who closely follow a similar group of beliefs will share similar shadow qualities, or “repressed behaviors”. This is done through religious meditations, or prayers, that effectively banish these unaccepted behaviors from one’s awareness. It doesn’t mean these behaviors don’t happen, it just means their minds have been trained not to identify or even see them when they are expressed by oneself.

In active imagination meditation, you concentrate on an object or person in your imagination. You focus on the form in your mind, but you do not let your mind give this form any personality. Instead you let this form speak for itself. This allows the unconscious mind to speak to you through it.

Citta is the world of the unconscious mind, the world your egoic conscious mind has no tyranny over.

Puja is persistant prayer that leads into transformation. This can only be done by understanding your own personal myth. By recounting your experiences and imaginations, processing and digesting from a higher level of maturity and objectivity.

Through this process, you discover your projections and repressions. You see where your ego is still battling with itself through the war is wages with the objects of your life.

As you gain this awareness, you begin to sever these ties between your ego and objects of life, you individuate. You achieve a detachment that viscerally feels like deliverance from the made up expectations your lie, or ego, had damned you to.

You do not develop apathy, but instead are freed from the passionate entanglement that was the hell in your life. For some, this looks like the following:

• You discover that not everyone is playing a power game, and you are able to relax from your hyper-vigilant, insecure mind
• You discover that you don’t need to live in shame for not living up to the holy image your religion, or family, expects you to—you have a choice
• You discover that you don’t need to become a huge success, make up for any “wasted time”, or have an underdog aspiring success story—nor do you need to keep up with the joneses

Your very existence is evidence that you are loved, whether or not you live up to the hell that is inherent to your current level of ego development.

Christian religious beliefs assumes you must grow upward. However, note that there are roots on both the top and bottom of a tree. Even if your tree doesn’t reach higher for the heavens, the furthering of the roots will still lead to the tree blossoming and bearing fruit.

Someone who is heavily intuitive will lack a sense of reality. They are not of this earth. They are tucked away in a tower without even knowing it.

Muladhara, Swadhisthana, Manipura, Anahata, Vishuddha, Ajna, Sahasrara.

The chakras are symbols of the levels of consciousness and they can be represented by three sections of the body:

1. Muladhara and Swadhisthana (Lower Centers)
2. Manipura and Anahata (Diaphragm)
3. Vishuddha and Ajna (Head)

The lower centers are attributions of the primitive functions, that which is instinctive, unconscious actions and motivations, and participation mystique for timely bonding.

The diaphragm contains manipura, the emotional being who is a victim of their passions, and anahata, the heart that is the beginning of sense of self and the rational thinking soul.

In western thought, we believe we think in the head ajna by default, but plenty of other cultures side-eye this assumption. Instead many cultures identify both their thinking and sense of self as coming from the heart.

The head is where we speak our ideas and abstractions from. The vishuddha speaks the word, that is connected to the entire body up to this point.

In western thought, we are convinced we are masters of ourselves, that our thoughts come from us, that the brain in the head carries the psyche—when in actuality, there are neural passageways all across the body, meaning the brain is actually the body. We don’t have ideas, ideas have us.

The belly is your God because it’s where the sense of self and rationale to do more and be more originates; the greek term thumos is “fire in the belly”, the motivation that drives action to be who we see ourselves to be.

Kundalini is the driving force that pushes our consciousness through these chakra stages. Kundalini also represents the sun serpent that rises from the night of muladhara. These journeys are the days of our life—until we realize that it’s all one experience encapsulating infinite.

Muladhara, Swadhisthana, Manipura, Anahata, Vishuddha, Ajna, Sahasrara.

A full awakening takes places after Vishuddha, where one’s psyche is mended, and at the start of Ajna, where great intuitions and synchronicities appear.

The awakening of Kundalini is the awakening of knowledge and creative power in woman power which works alongside man power.

There are two forms of Kundalini:

• The general Kundalini is the driving force for development prior to the awakening found in ajna
• The true Kundalini is the resulting union of getting in touch with one’s self and it’s great intuitions within ajna

Life after experiencing true Kundalini may appear to be the same, but this level of awareness of life is absolutely new compared to before.

Buddhism Symbol for Cow is the last and innermost reality. When one has found the cow, they longer care for it. One lives life without feeling the need to always look at their cow, because you know it’s always there. After realizing the highest intuition, you don’t always go looking for it. Instead you let yourself drop back into muladhara again. This is normal.

Enlightenment presence as God is held in moments. It is too vast for ego and the limited human animal to carry indefinitely. This last innermost reality can and will only be witnessed in moments.

The personal will can only stand within it for so long before dropping back down into the dream, where it will continue onto infinite more journeys, until the final awakening that is physical death.

The mind, or citta, must be cleansed before you can have True Kundalini. This means you must know your true inner self and show humility in admitting that there are other aspects in your psyche that are alive and act outside of your awareness.

Kundalini is psychic objectivity that accepts there are impersonal aspects in your psyche you are not responsible for; the sleeping gods that are in you. These include the intuitions of a “higher self”, the hellish urges of the “shadow”, the ego-ically unintentional creations of the “dream weaver” or “meaning-maker”, along with archetypal sub-personalities that activate upon real-life constellations, and so on.

These contents from other aspects of your psyche can only be awakened and experienced if you put your ego aside and let yourself play the mask, the ego—the role as The Anointed for this Call To Adventure—that the counsel of your psyche is urging you to play out.

You play this process out when you follow the urge to do something out of the ordinary and that is different from your typical day-to-day existence.

This also happens when we engage in rituals or watch actors in a play. Those involved allow themselves to be immersed in this artificial reality—the same way you buy into the ranks in your workplace, or consider yourself to be the responsible one in your family, or be the leader in your romantic relationship when you’re happy to be a follower in other aspects of life.

We do all of this because it fulfills a psychological need that our rational minds can’t fully comprehend.

The proof of that idea is that it works automatically.

The difference is that now that you are awakened you are aware of the masks and adventures you are called upon and now consciously give permission to, meanwhile previously you were being impulsive and lacked any awareness of your actions and why you did what you did—”living freely” and destroying your life and others.

Part of cleansing and mending your psyche and working through your issues is that you will no longer be called to your previously troublesome behavior. You realize that the psychological need to act out those destructive behaviors was for the psyche to catch the ego’s attention and address the need directly, in a manner that is sufficient and that will prevent creative, sociopathic-like destruction

For example, people who have insecure attachment styles and relational traumas will self-sabotage and destroy their relationships with anyone who gets too close. This is because the they lack the self-awareness they need to consciously soothe themselves or understand their past traumas. This self-trust and self-soothing is what would prevent the sleeping gods from calling them to perform acts of self-sabotage. The Call To Adventure from the sleeping gods that are provoking destruction is actually a cry for help from the damaged psyche to the conscious ego. But people refuse the call and instead continue to destroy their relationships unconsciously. If they answered this Call To Adventure, they would find at the end of their journey to be the treasure, which is the wisdom and self-awareness that it takes to prevent relational self-sabotage. This first requires taking accountability.

Again, a tree has roots on the top and the bottom. Whichever way you go, the tree will still bear fruit.

“No tree can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”

Another example of how the psyche has a life of its own is how you can develop anxieties for things out of nowhere. If you have a fear or neurosis, it’s best to go into and live in it. This way, it no longer has you in its hands, instead it is in yours.

People who don’t truly understand how things work, will claim these things to be simple. It’s these simple people of the world who cause the greatest messes and confusion in the world.

What makes great art is the conscious knowing that you are creating a representation of psychological experience.

Kundalini begins when something in the psych stirs up and develops by itself—this is why you must admit that there are things created in your mind that don’t come from you (your ego).

In this west, we think are gods who are the center of the world. This makes the tantric ideas of how one becomes god dangerous to us..

We are all devils here—all selfish creatures who can’t see ourselves from the outside. Top this with the idea that we think we are Gods and we will always find ourselves instinctively placing ourselves in the center of all things.

There is a metaphysical reality inside the cosmic organism, where there is a subconscious force of sound that regulates our lives unconsciously. To realize this sound power we must turn to meditation and allow it to strengthen in our conscious mind.

This inner working of subconscious power is known as bija.

Know that the erotic life carries a power of insight. The sexual nature of things grows into the spiritual realities above. This sentiment initially aligns with the sentiment of survival of the fittest.

When you meditate on the mandalas, you must try and feel the meaning. Each mandala, a symbol of chakra, is a whole world—full of chaos that summon our creativity.

The linga man power and yoni woman power, work together in the 3 stages of erotic life, creative life, and the intuitive life.

Swadhisthana is where we lose ourselves to life, living without goal or purpose. We are aware of the monster in the water, and a tendency in the mind to want to run away.

When you are against everything, including conventions and the ordinary, you will naturally become neurotic. This neuroticism is a psychological symptom, a sign of something within needing to be expressed.

Anahata is the heart and many cultures, unlike Americans, believe we think from the heart. In this sense, anahata is the center of our feelings, thoughts, and consciousness. Each of these are expressed through the breath in the form of the sound we make with speech.

Understand that many people have no idea what they are saying, or doing to others, with the thoughts and feelings they speak. In modern culture, depending on context, this is called word salad or yapping.

Because of this, anahata is only the beginning of self and the building blocks of consciousness.

When we speak, we use speech that give life to our words. Our words are associated with wind and spirit, because we see it only by its affect on things.

Hence the “Spirit of Deception”, where we speak a lie and it takes a life of its own. Haunting others with its distortion and damaging reality.

Understand that the great intuitions did not come about through thinking. The deepest intuitions, or creative powers, come from the heart.

Within every center lies a physical and meta-physical, a psychical and meta-psychical.