Table of contents of the book 'Spirituality and Energy: the Kundalini Issue'


Contents of  'Spiritualiteit en energie: de kundalini-kwestie'

(only avalable in Dutch, not yet translated into English)

 


Introduction

         Bizarre distortions                                                                                             
         ‘Kundalini’ as search term                                                                                     
         Intensifying confusion                                                                                            
         Who will benefit from this book?                                                                         

1         Everything is energy
The dance of pixels
The body as antenna system
Consciousness is space itself

2      The creating primal force
What is Kundalini?
The female aspect of the One

3         The circulation of Kundalini
Yin and Yang within us
The microcosmic orbit
Energy and consciousness expansion
The ‘journey through the chakra’s’
The enlightenment of the body
Three ways in which the energy must radiate

Personal stories – I
Geesje ‘Cleaning the inside’
Annie ‘Dabbling with bare feet through the mud’
Ada ‘A gifted state’
Cees ‘I am dancing life itself’

4     How our energy gets disrupted
Energy and lifecycle
Three layers of energy
Fight- and flight reactions
The fundamental problem: self-conceptions
Physical traumas
The energy current through the spine
Shock
Near death experiences

5     The ‘awakening’ of the Kundalini
The necessity for ‘grounding’
Deteriorating approaches
Inducing out-of-body experiences
The yearning for ‘transcendence’
Three risk factors
Energy-transmission (‘shaktipat’)
East and West

 6      Kundalini- and other yoga
The tendency to renounce the world
‘Non-dual’ philosophy
Tantric
Taoist yoga

 7      Signs of increased Kundalini-activity
Four relative differences between common- and Kundalini-disruptions
Experiences that can be the result of increased Kundalini activity
A.   Experiences which are generally perceived as negative or which lead to mixed feelings
B.    Experiences that are generally appreciated neutrally or positively, but are sometimes difficult to integrate into daily life and can happen so sudden that you still get upset by them

Personal stories – II
Sandra ‘It really was a terrible heat’
Haya ‘The Kundalini opened up everything in me’
Eva ‘The breathing of the soul’
Diana ‘The raw iron is forged’

 8      Explanations for some of the symptoms
1.       Shocks, ‘kriya’s’, hick ups, vibrations, muscle contraptions, belching, itches, uncomfortable prickling, aches in the skin, electrical symptoms, excessive perspiration, restless legs, physical unrest and the urge to move
2.       Numbness in certain parts of the body, especially the legs and feet; discolouring toenails; cold feet and possibly also cold hands; a cold back
3.       Sleep disturbances
4.       Internal noises, whistling, humming and buzzing sounds, the sound of a passing truck, rustling waterfall or thunder from lightning, tinnitus
5.       Internal light flashes, rising and fading light in one or more colours, longer staying light in one colour or more, sometimes alternating, radiantly even of spotted
6.       Spontaneous but difficult to control tendencies to adopt a certain posture, corresponding to postures and hand gestures in the practise of meditation or yoga, ‘mudra’s’
7.       Hearing voices from parts of your own psyche or from other entities; the feeling that you (without hearing voices) are being disturbed by entities (‘astral visitors’)
8.       Psychokinetic (telekinetic) effects

 9      De-personalization and de-realization
         Separation between body and mind
         The divided self
         Self-realization and de-realization

10     Increased sensitivity
         Sensitivity enriches your life
         Learning to let go deeper
        
Personal stories – III
Erna ‘The aftermath of the Bijlmer disaster’
Rinus ‘It is a force that brings everything to the light’
Ad ‘The deeper layer within myself’

11     Manic psychoses and depression
         The energetic aspect of psychoses
         Evaporating through the cranial top
         The triangular relation psychoses-depression-exhaustion

Personal stories – IV
         Lieneke ‘Sometimes I feel like elastic’
         Daan ‘An enormous transfer of energy’

12     Psychosis or spiritual crisis?
         Psychosis versus enlightenment
         Podvoll’s ‘islands of clarity’
         Psychosis as a Kundalini-process
         The ambiguous role of medication
         Healing poison?

Personal stories – V
José ‘Like some sort of returned Buddha’
Peter ‘My Kundalini erupted enormously’

13      One-sided or holistic development
         The chakras as a ‘holistic’ system
         One-sided emphasis on chakra’s
         Accentuation of ‘higher’ chakras
         The ‘bookcase’-model and the concentric model
         Integrating all layers

14     The Central Role of Breathing                                                            
         Absorbing life energy through breathing                                                           
         The threefold unification process                                                                       
         Connecting with the higher-Self                                                                        
         The way you breathe                                                                                       

15     Centering and Grounding                                                                               
         The hara point                                                                                                 
         The Chi-point                                                                                               
         Experiencing yourself as energy                                                                       
         Connecting your centre with the earth                                                             
         Accepting the earth                                                                                          

16     The unification of heaven and earth                                                    
         The polarity of our energy system                                                                     
         The 8th and 9th chakra                                                                                       
         Opening up between earth and heaven                                                            
         The cosmic eye and the grail within us                                                  

 17       Receiving inner guidance
            Being an instrument of ‘Above’
            Listening to your inner voice
            Learning to live ‘free of Karma’
            If what you desire, does not happen     

18     The new, second or spiritual birth
            The essential alchemist’s secret
            The conception of the Christ child
            Male and female energies
            The second fusion of energies
            Personal and cosmic consciousness

 19       Respect for the Sacral
            The Holy Spirit is within us, yet we do not have to become saints

20     Hints and recommendations
            1. Grounding: keep your feet warm and ‘open’
            2. Ask your doctor for advice
            3. Get a good night’s sleep
            4. Restore the circulation of your energy channels
            5. Learn the correct way of breathing
            6. Keep your back straight
            7. Learn to understand yourself 
            At all times: let go deeper

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