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- Roller Coaster Ride To Heaven
-
- A personal account of a Kundalini experience
- by Dave Riley (adr@cix).
-
- The experience took place during a week long 'course' of meditation
- and personal development. After going to bed at about 1:30am early
- on Thursday morning my body started to shake, this was not like
- shivering but had a complex rhythm which felt like being on a train
- passing over multiple sets of points. The shaking continued for an
- hour or so. I then became aware of an area of heat and tingling near
- the base of my spine, just above my buttocks. The area felt to be
- circular and about 4 inches in diameter. It remained stationary for
- a while and then spread downwards to the base of my spine. After
- another delay its centre moved upwards about 6 inches and seemed to
- get bigger, to about 6 or 8 inches in diameter. During this stage I
- lost all 'normal' feelings in the lower part of my torso. I remember
- being concerned that I might wet the bed, or worse.
-
- After the tingling had moved up to the centre of my back it appeared
- to spread sideways, covering the whole width of my back. It stayed
- here for a while (I'm not sure how long, perhaps 10 minutes or so).
- The tingling had remained on the lower part of my back but the central
- area was slowly advancing upwards.
-
- By this time I had the feeling that I was experiencing something of
- considerable power. I could actually hear a deep rumbling sound which
- was synchronised with my shaking. Now too, I was seeing something;
- there appeared to be a gigantic tube, wound into a coil, which
- disappeared downwards into darkness. At its top the tube was unwinding
- from the coil and disappearing upwards out of my vision. The tube
- seemed to be made of all the things my body had ever experienced,
- everything I had ever tasted, touched, smelled or heard. I could see
- these sensations as textures on the surface of the tube. As it unwound
- these sensations were being played back to me, as if on a tape recorder,
- so that I was re-experiencing them.
-
- There then came a moment when I sensed that the area of heat and tingling
- was about to move upwards again. This time I knew it wasn't going to stop.
- I felt within it an enormous, perhaps infinite, power. I think I said
- 'Oh Oh, its coming'. Firstly it moved upwards only a small distance then
- it seemed to spread forwards into my heart. At the same time the vision
- of the unwinding coil accelerated, the sense of power was now awesome,
- flowing through me like a huge electric current, as if I had been plugged
- into the national grid.
-
- Now it was my emotions that were being unwound from the coil, I began
- laughing at the top of my voice, giggling, and then I was crying.
- Suddenly, in the space of a second, the tingling grew in power and
- spread both upwards and downwards. It shot upwards into my head and I
- experienced a gigantic explosion of light. I shouted 'Jesus Christ'
- three times. There was only one word to describe what I was now
- experiencing, that word was 'God'. I don't know how long this phase
- lasted. I remember being asked what I was feeling, I replied 'everything'.
-
- After a time the experience subsided. The rhythmic shaking stopped and
- was replaced by spurious shakes. I felt thoroughly 'spaced out' and
- rather exhausted. All of a sudden I knew I was going to throw up,
- fortunately I managed to make it to the toilet before doing so.
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