The Kundalini Guide Quotes

“The 6th chakra, between the eyebrows. While it is easy to move kundalini into the heart, yogis say it requires long and strenuous practice to bring it into ajna chakra, or the third eye, as it is called in esoteric literature.  Meditators often report feeling a throbbing in the forehead when ajna is stimulated. People who do long meditations on this chakra often become ungrounded and disoriented, as if slightly out-of-body, and their thinking can feel cloudy.  They may become attached to glimpses of other realms and come to believe that is the goal of awakening.   Once pierced, this chakra produces much of the light and vision phenomena described by mystics.  It is also the point where ego identification can shift, sometimes in a great explosion.”
― Bonnie L. Greenwell, The Kundalini Guide: A Companion For the Inward Journey

“A few rare people are plunged into cosmic consciousness at the first arising of kundalini energy.  But more often it begins as a shaking or vibrating that may feel either gentle or harsh, perhaps bringing fear or perhaps bringing bliss, or even both at once.  Sometimes it seems to hit one hard in the gut, or cause an eruption in the heart, or gagging in the throat. It can feel like a rush of sexual energy, or a whole-body orgasm. It can feel like flashes of light or heat.  Whatever it does, you notice something unfamiliar is happening to you, and if you have never heard of the connection between energy and spirituality you are likely to be”
― Bonnie L. Greenwell, The Kundalini Guide: A Companion For the Inward Journey

“True freedom is moving beyond all clinging and attachments, whether mystical or mundane. It is not a moving beyond enjoyment of either, just releasing the tendency to make demands or have expectations regarding one’s experience.”
― Bonnie L. Greenwell, The Kundalini Guide: A Companion For the Inward Journey