I wanted to further expand on the divine aspects of a Kundalini Awakening and its connection to Enlightenment and Heaven. This is highly controversial, so I apologise in advance if it upsets some people, but I have to present the Truth the way I experienced and saw it, which is by the way also how others have experienced it and is described in ancient Tantric texts going back thousands of years.
Just to recap, Tantra is a collection of spiritual, yogic and sexual practices that exist in the three main Indian religions, but is particularly prevalent in Tibetan Buddhism. It precedes all known religions and has been probably practiced as a sort of ritual magic even by cavemen. These practices are still very mysterious and little understood in the West. There is a parallel Magickal tradition in the West that has been by incorporating elements of Tantric Buddhism, Egyptian religion and Hermeticism into long lost Western magickal traditions.
However, it must be noted that whilst Eastern Tantrism is largely positive and focused on self-development and personal liberation from the cycle of rebirth, Western Magick is largely self-serving and focused on the fulfilment of desires. That is not to say that there is no such thing as black magic in the East, they are known to operate in both India and Tibet, however they are generally shunned by society and are seen as dangerous. There are many stories in Tibet about how the Karmic load of practicing black magic takes many lifetimes to work off.
I am focussed here on the positive aspects of Tantra, which is to do with liberation from the cycle of rebirth. This is done by uniting with the Goddess, the universal female force that was the first Duality, the first step of creation. Before male and female were separated there was just the One, the unmanifest Source, also know as Brahman. We might call that a Quantum Singularity in scientific terms. All of creation already existed in its potentiality, but separation was necessary to make it manifest. What we call the Big Bang, was basically this potentiality becoming manifest. The whole world is made up of vibrations in Source. An atom or a particle is a standing wave, vibrating in the source field. We are a collection of various energetic vibrations that eventually harmonise with each other, creating a functioning and healthy human body. Disease is disharmony in this chorus of multiple vibrations. That is how energy healing works, by retuning the energetic system of the body, harmony can be restored and where the energy body goes, the physical body will eventually follow as well.
The goal of Tantra is to reunite the female aspect of the Divine, Shakti, with the male aspect, Shiva. Shakti rests as Kundalini, at the base of the spine, as a fiery, serpentine energy that is activated through spiritual practice, yoga and meditation. Karmic aspects and sometimes sheer chance plays a role and Kundalini is often activated spontaneously, even as a result of an accident in some cases. Spontaneous Kundalini activation can be very dangerous as most people are seriously unbalanced energetically and when the serpent power rises without restriction and control it can easily lead to mental and physical illness. Eastern Gurus often perform what is known as Shaktipat, a controlled activation of the Kundalini, to prevent such symptoms from occurring. This is usually done after extensive mental and physical preparation to ensure the student is truly ready to go through a Kundalini Awakening.
There is also a sexual aspect to Tantra, which is the one that is most well-known in the West. This involves a Tantric couple practicing a sexualised form of Yoga, where the man has to practice retaining his semen. This is done by contracting the muscles that control urination. The goal is to clench those muscles once the man reaches the „point of no return” and stop ejaculation from occurring. This results in a so-called dry orgasm, where there is no seminal release, but the energetic aspect of an orgasm is subsumed into a spiritual goal. What actuallly happens, is that the nerves from the reproductive organs, carry the sexual energy thus released to the base of the spine, where the clenching of the muscles that control urination and defecation causes this force to turn around and flow upwards along the spine and eventually into the brain. This is felt as intense heat and light. It is what gives Yogis and Sannyasis their psychic powers, which are known as siddhis. Sexual Imagery and the practice of Tantric Sex increases the flow of reproductive energies into the brain and particularly into the pineal gland, which is why Hindu and Jain temples are sometimes decorated with statues and paintings of a sexual nature and sacred prostitution in Tantric temples is still practiced to this day. Unitary and visionary experiences are often the result of this as DMT is released into the brain by the pineal gland.
In Tantric Sex, the woman takes on the role of Shakti, the Goddess and the man is Shiva, the male aspect of God. Both Shiva and Shakti have creative and destructive aspects as their separation creates the universe, whereas their final union destroys it as everything returns into unmanifest Oneness, back to the Source Consciousness or Brahman. This happens in the microcosm of a human body when Shakti rises up to the Sahasrara, the thousand-petalled lotus above the head where Shiva dwells as the local manifestation of God and the two reunite in a sexual release of energy that is beyond anything a human normally experiences. It is followed by a constant flow of Amrita or Soma (known to us as Nectar and Ambrosia), that I described in a previous post. This drip-drip flow of Nectar is extremely pleasurable and is a natural high of sorts. According to Gopi Krishna, it is nature’s way of incentivising spiritual growth and the seeking of religious, spiritual and unitary experiences. Some Yogis go to extreme length to stimulate the production of Soma, going as far as cutting the base of the tongue so they can keep it pressed against the palate at all times.
In ancient myth, Soma or Nectar is known as the food of the gods. It is what supposedly gives them immortality and special powers. It is also the reason they „shine” which is what Deva means. Demons and Asuras are cut off from this divine source of sustenance and concoct various schemes to steal it from the gods. That is supposedly also the reason that they vampire off human energy, because they don’t have their own source of energetic sustenance.
There is also a deeper meaning to this constant tussle between the devas and the asuras to obtain the Nectar of Immortality. The tale of the Churning of the Milk Ocean is an Indian classic. It tells of a time when the Devas and Asuras joined forces to churn the milk ocean, to obtain divine butter, that is Soma. This is a metaphor for the lower and upper chakras working together in pulling and spinning the Kundalini Serpent to obtain Nectar. Vishnu, sitting on a stone in the middle, is symbolic of the heart chakra. It is where the lower chakras (Asuras) and the higher chakras (Devas) come into balance and all Chakras must work together in unison to obtain Soma, but the Heart must be at the centre of it. Even though all chakras are needed, only the upper ones actually receive it and drink of it. This is the symbolic significance of this tale, which you can check out below:
http://vedicstoriesofindia.blogspot....ilk-ocean.html