| In the early 90's I had a spontaneous Kundalini | | | | meditation and entered a period that I can only |
| Awakening after a near death experience, which I | | | | describe as a mental hell. I later learned that even |
| wrote about in a different article. Here's what | | | | then I was balancing out my light and dark sides |
| happened next. | | | | (but that's a new posting). |
| After I got out of the hospital after my injury, | | | | After a few months of this I finally realized that |
| and even during my stay there, I felt that I was | | | | the best way to deal with all this was to *quit |
| extremely different. At the time I accounted it to | | | | trying to deal with it and JUST ACCEPT IT*. |
| just being glad to still be alive, and for over a | | | | Once I began relaxing into myself and wasn't |
| decade I never thought anything more about it. | | | | fighting the changes as much, I began to really |
| Yet the fact was that I did feel extremely | | | | feel a deep connection to the other energy |
| different and I felt driven to pursue meditation | | | | around me. |
| and other avenues that I'd always had a vague | | | | Cities like Denver drove me nuts, and a casual |
| interest in, but never really pursued. | | | | drive through the mountains (my buddy Jeff called |
| Now it was an imperative, so I began reading | | | | them 'medicine drives') would turn into an hours |
| everything I could find. Unfortunately I wasn't | | | | long meditation as I could feel the energy of all |
| finding much that was useful. It was about a year | | | | the trees and the world around me as I passed |
| later that I discovered "Pathnotes of an American | | | | through. |
| Ninja Master" by Dr. Glenn Morris. | | | | It was still a time of healing and I carried around a |
| It was the first I'd ever heard of kundalini, Reiki, | | | | damaged feeling that was gradually lessening as I |
| Chi Kung and Therapeutic Touch. Within a few | | | | became more relaxed. |
| days I discovered a Chi Kung class near where I | | | | At the time I was living in an old RV and just |
| lived in Ft. Lauderdale and was able to barter | | | | traveling around. I went back to Albuquerque for |
| some dreamcatchers and other odds and ends | | | | the winter and, even though things were still hard, |
| for some classes. | | | | I was learning to feel better. |
| My teacher there was also a Reiki Master, so he | | | | Then one day in February I suddenly realized that |
| introduced me to Reiki also. | | | | I was still working against myself. |
| Over the next decade I floundered around (or so | | | | I made a silent affirmation that I would quit |
| I thought) and worked a wide variety of jobs and | | | | working so hard at this, and that I was just going |
| studied a strange variety of classes in school, as | | | | to relax, have fun and enjoy each moment and |
| well as spent a large amount of time out in the | | | | see where I was supposed to go next. |
| mountains or hiding out in the desert and just | | | | A couple of days later I got a message from Jeff |
| communing and doing various types of energy | | | | that Dr. Glenn Morris (whom I'd had a chance to |
| work. | | | | finally meet at a metaphysical fair the previous |
| A couple of years ago while living up in Glenwood | | | | October) wanted me to come up for a weekend |
| Springs, CO I was again drawn to get deeper into | | | | and assist with the booth at another metaphysical |
| my energy work, and entered a period of intense | | | | fair. |
| yoga, Reiki, chi kung and meditation. | | | | So back I came to Denver, and a weekend of |
| One night while meditating I had a vision of a lotus | | | | volunteer work turned into a temporary |
| flower, but the vision included the flower, the | | | | partnership in a nonprofit and my helping with |
| stem and the roots. | | | | several of his kundalini awakening seminars. |
| The meaning was instantly obvious and I easily | | | | My training with Glenn opened up a vast world of |
| connected my energy and felt a rush up my | | | | new experiences and showed me that so many |
| spine and out through the top of my head. | | | | parts of my life actually made sense, and opened |
| Over the next few months I went through a | | | | the way for the healing and growth that I so |
| period that I can only describe as a karmic | | | | badly needed. |
| clean-out. | | | | Along the way I remembered that every time I |
| Any unresolved issue that I didn't properly deal | | | | had a problem or needed some direction I could |
| with would keep popping up over and over until I | | | | just relax and affirm to go wherever I was |
| dealt with it calmly and from my center. | | | | supposed to. |
| I had my drivers license revoked twice (during a | | | | The lesson for me was to have a little faith, and |
| period when I was just being hired by UPS, blew | | | | that having faith will work only if you commit to it |
| the engines on 3 vehicles and had a tortured | | | | and then let it happen. |
| series of bureaucratic battles. | | | | Even now I continue to affirm that I'll go |
| I had strange energy surges as my body | | | | wherever I'm supposed to go and do whatever it |
| re-wired itself and had energy releases that sent | | | | is that I'm supposed to do, and so far I've |
| me to massage therapists and other Reiki | | | | ALWAYS had the guidance I needed within a |
| practitioners to have cleaned out. | | | | couple of days. |
| Some of this still happens, and probably always | | | | I hope this helps some of you who may be |
| will. | | | | struggling with some aspects of this. This is |
| I also went through a period of balancing my | | | | obviously an ongoing process that's moving into |
| chakras, and I can look back at my life in various | | | | it's second decade and probably will never be |
| periods and see what chakra I was in. | | | | 'finished', but at least I'm learning to enjoy the ride |
| After a few months I started trying to get away | | | | and go where I'm supposed to. |
| from it all. I stopped doing my yoga and | | | | |