Kundalini Awakening (Part 3), Karma (Part 1) and Don Miguel Ruiz (Part 4)
October 27, 2024
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Kundalini Awakening
As described last week, unlike other animals, humans have the opportunity to go through a “third puberty” — a Kundalini Awakening.*
A Kundalini Awakening is when someone undergoes a metaphysical and biological transformation that rebuilds and recodes their spinal cord, brain and hormonal glands so that they may perceive subtler, “higher-vibrational” realities.
Just as not all womb-carriers choose to take on the journey of motherhood (and incur all of the physical and psychic changes it brings), not all humans choose to take on the journey of ascending to the next phase of human evolution via a Kundalini Awakening (and incur all of the physical and psychic changes it brings).
The next phase of human evolution is the perceiving all things as of one Source — as of God. The tortoise; the sailboat; the destruction of the planet; the joy of knowing Oneself; the words on this page. Most of us perceive these ideas as being separate from one another: the tortoise may stand upon the sailboat, but the two are nevertheless distinct from one another. In the next phase of human evolution, however, we see all things as arising from and being related to just one thing.
But why is it necessary to undergo a bodily transformation to get in touch with this realization? Well why is it necessary for the atoms of your smart phone to be arranged in the specific configuration they’re currently in? Because that configuration allows a unique flow of energy so that the phone may access the interconnected playground of the internet.
Same thing with you: your body must upgrade its cellular structure in order to perceive the higher order and interconnectivity of the Universe.
*Puberty #1 = Teenage Years • Puberty #2 = Menopause/Manopause
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What is karma?
This is Part 1 of 3.
Most people see karma as just being synonymous with revenge or recompense.
I punch you squarely in the face, but then I turn and slip on ice and break my own nose — karma. Today I selflessly help an elderly woman cross the street, and then tomorrow someone kindly helps me replace my flat tire — karma.
While this is true on one level, karma actually goes far deeper and is much more interesting. Karma is both the impersonal fact that your thoughts and decisions have consequences (for good or for ill), and is what inspires material reality to churn out new things.
In other words, when you really understand karma, you see that it’s basically the same thing as the First Law of Thermodynamics in physics, but with one key difference:
Karma deals with subjective reality, whereas the First Law of Thermodynamics relates to objective reality.
Subjective reality is what you feel and perceive. It’s the noumena of anger and desire and love that populates your conscious experience.
Objective reality is what is. It’s the measurable phenomena of hormones, and organs and temperature fluctuations that occur right alongside your subjective feelings.
In the objective world, when you throw a ball in the air, you would say that it must return back to the Earth so that the gravitational and kinetic energy scales balance out.
But if that ball had a subjective experience — if that ball actually felt something as it was being thrown in the air — you would say that it must return back to the Earth because that is its karma; it was always destined to return to its Source.
Said differently, karma is the interior side of Universal cause and effect — it is a parallel explanation for how things come into being, why they seem to stay there for a time, and what dissolves them back into nothingness.
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This is Part 4 of 4 on a series about the Four Agreements. Click to read Part 1, Part 2, or Part 3.
How do you know if you are doing your best or not?
For instance, is “doing your best” during a workout doing all-out sprints until your body collapses? Or is it only giving 50% effort, but showing up day after day after day?
Is “doing your best” for your finances penny-pinching, not spending an ounce on anything unnecessary? Or is it investing all of your money into health, certifications and relationships so that your job eventually pays you a huge salary?
The mind can easily get lost in its fantasies of “perfection,” constantly creating stories of what is better and worse, and strategies for attaining its idea of best.
This is its defense mechanism to avoid existing in the neutral Present.
No, “do your best” does not mean working unnaturally hard on something that you other people told you was best. It means making the difficult choice to align to higher states of consciousness — choosing joy over fear, and love over guilt.
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