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I had the most incredible experience with Kundalini. Has anyone ever had this or any experience with Shakti-pad?
Thanks <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I have experienced a shift in kundalini energy before. It is strong stuff! I haven't come across shakti-pad. Can you enlighten us?

Shakti Pad is "the area of consciousness in which you confront the ego and the ego confronts you"....

Oh, yeh....I do this all the time.... <img src="/images/graemlins/tongue2.gif" alt="" />

Actually, this sounds both really big, and ultimately very simple... in Buddhism I would think that this is what is referred to as 'Samadhi'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samadhi

It's all extraordinarily fascinating...

Actually, that link at wikipedia gives a fairly comprehensive description of the stages of samadhi.

My experience with kundalini energy is when the powerful energy felt as sexual arousal is radiated through the torso and out through the limbs, enlivening the body. At the same time bringing thoughts to an exquisite level of purity and insight. I call this body-mind experience "joy."

Well girls here's a bit of synchronicity <img src="/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" />A friend told me today that the pineal gland becomes more crystalline as we age & I went on google to look it up. Lo & behold I found a detailed article on the subject of this thread. My eyes are too tired to read it right now- there's a lot of information here- but I'm guessing I'm meant to know more about it all!
The Crystal Palace

I'm very new to all of this and assume that everything is fine.
I checked out your link Alexandra, but I guess it was a bit more advanced for me. I'll have to research more. <img src="/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

Hey Susan <img src="/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />...wait a minute!
I went through the same thing. I don't quite understand why. I just assumed that maybe my body was going through a cleansing or like when you get certain initiations, and you find yourself with different experiences starting with the root chakra to the crown for completion.
I guess this is where enlightenment comes in? <img src="/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />
Anyway, all I know is that an associate of mine showed up at the same place and said that she was there to get her 'fix'...said that it was some sort of transmission. What do you guys thing of that?

I hope I don't get labelled the party pooper, but could I just throw in a 'caveat' here...?

The sensations and experiences are not the destination...
They are simply stages and particular phenomena that although noticed, and taken into account, should not be given any specific dominant importance... they are just part of the process...This is not enlightenment, although nobody but the person can realise what enlightenment is....
But even that is just another stage.... It's important to not get so 'attached' to these experiences that they ultimately halt or impede our own personal progress... they are as everything else, just part and parcel of the scenery....
It is such a wonderful thing to experience, that we may be apt to want to cling to it - to experience it again, and again.... and this itself is impossible... because each experience is different.... so we may end up comparing, and forgetting that the whole point is to just let go, and Be.

Nice thread. Thank you for listening. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Joy in living is the goal
Of each awakening human soul
And when the joy is well perceived
The gift of living is received.
~Susan

Just thought I'd share one of my verses ...

Thanks for sharing.