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headaches were caused by her attempts to control the physio kundalini process, suggests
that, in general, pains might be caused by conscious or subconscious resistance to the
process, rather than to the action of kundalini itself. They also might occur when the flow of
kundalini is especially intense through an area that has not yet been sufficiently opened.
This may have been true of the actress.
Interpretive
Unusual or Extreme Emotions Ecstasy, bliss, peace, love, devotion, joy and cosmic harmony
may occur , but also intense fear ,
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anxiety, depression, hatred, and confusion. In general, especially in the early stages of the
process any of the normal emotions may be experienced with much greater intensity than
usual. Later on, feelings of peace, love, and contentment tend to predominate.
Distortions of Thought Processes Thoughts may speed slow up, down, or stop altogether.
They may seem off balance, strange, or irrational. The person may feel close to insanity,
may enter I complete trance states, or may become impulsive and feel alienated and
generally confused. Most of our cases report these thought changes at some phase of the
process.
Detachment The individual may feel that he or she is watching all that is happening,
including his or her own thoughts and feelings from a distance, like one detached. The yogis
call this condition "witness consciousness". Sometimes, when it is not mentioned directly,
its presence may be inferred from phrases such as "the fire of separation" as with the Sufis,
or from feelings of great bliss. It differs from aloofness or anxious withdrawal in that it is a
dissociation of the separate observer self from the mental activities that it observes. The
activities may continue as usual. Thus, this condition need not interfere with normal
functioning.
Dissociation When the withdrawal of the self from active involvement or identification with
what it perceives is attained, the state of detachment or witness consciousness occurs. But
when it is not in balance, due to deep psychological resistances, to fear and confusion, or to
social and other environmental pressures, then negative aspects of the experience may be
emphasized. Hysteria or a state akin to schizophrenia may result. Also, the person may
become identified with the physio kundalini process itself in a negative, egotistical way,
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believing he or she has been divinely chosen for some great mission, perhaps as a savior.
Given time and the proper envi
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ronmental support, the imbalance is overcome and one finds a more suitable focus for his
or her energies, and the negative symptoms vanish.
Single Seeing This interesting variation in the visual function may be an experience
described in the Gospels : "The light of the body is the eye; therefore when thine eye is
single thy whole body is also full of light" (Luke 11:34).
Single seeing can be easily identified as a separate and distinct state by the typical and
graphic metaphors used to describe the experience by people who have had it. For example,
Muktananda said "My eyes gradually rolled up and became centered. ..Instead of seeing
separately. ..they saw as one." Later, in a lecture (February, 1976) he described a state in
which his eyes seemed turned equally inward and outward, "seeing" both inner and outer
landscapes.
The woman artist said, "My eyes seemed to move separately and the pupils felt like holes
which bored into my head and met in the center."
Flora Courtois (1970) wrote,
My sight had changed, sharpened to an infinitely small point which moved ceaselessly in paths totally free
of the old accustomed ones, as if flowing from a new source.
It was as if some inner eye. ..which extended without limit. ..had been restored& focused on infinity in a way
that was detached from immediate sight and yet had a profound effect on sight. ..there was a sharp one
pointedness to my attention now rooted into some deeper center so that my everyday sight, my eyes, were
released from their (need) to see the world outside. .. no matter where I looked no shadow (image) of my
nose. ..ever appeared in the clear field of sight.
The above is so close to the psychological process that Jung (1932) speaks of, that his words,
spoken at the seminar on kundalini, are used here to amplify and clarify it. He was asked if it
was not Wotan who loses one eye. He agreed and added that Osiris did also. He then went
on to say:
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Wotan has to sacrifice his one eye to the well of Mimir, the well of wisdom, which is the
unconscious; you see one eye will remain in the depths or turned towards it. Therefore
Jakob Boehme, when he was "enchanted into the centre of nature," as he says, wrote his
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book about the "Reversed Eye;" one of his eyes was turned inward, it kept on looking into
the underworld, which amounts to the loss of one eye; he had no longer two eyes for this
world.
Jesus uses a parable to tell of his inner truth. Jung uses myth as metaphor for a similar
experience of truth at a deep psychological level. In the cases cited here the experience is
the truth itself.
In a research setting Alyce Green (1975) reported that some of her biofeedback subjects
saw an inner vision of a single eye confronting them while they were deeply relaxed.
Great Body Experiencing oneself to be larger than the normal size of one's body is
occasionally reported.
Non physiological
Out of Body Experiences People experiencing this state feel themselves to be in a location
away from their physical bodies. At present we must regard these perceptions as subjective,
which would make them little different from vivid and involuntary imaginings. However, if it
could somehow be verified by independent or objective means, that these people have
actually been where they say they have been if they can alter that place, or retrieve
information from it then this phenomenon would have to be listed also under Sensory and
even, perhaps, under Motor. It would also become impossible to explain with current
Western models of brain function and mind body relationship. As in single seeing, the
language used to describe this state is so typical that we think of it as quite separable from
other states of divided consciousness.
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Psychic Perceptions Psychic abilities and experiences, particularly the obtaining of
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