Kundalini Rising: Exploring the Energy of Awakening Hot

This is a fascinating and brilliant book that is long overdue, and yet no doubt right on time in terms of marking the expanding edges of human consciousness. Editor Tami Simon has gathered twenty-four essays on aspects of the kundalini awakening experience from mystics, psychologists, neuroscientists, and ordinary people who have had their life turned inside out by kundalini energy coursing through their body, psyche, and spirit.

The definitions of kundalini are as varied as the authors and essays, and yet the common theme is that kundalini is an awakening of consciousness--in a big way. The power of kundalini energy arising seems to come in numerous forms and each person is affected in a highly individual way; for all it marks the beginning of an entirely new way of being, and of being in the world.

One author, Penny Kelly, says that people often ask her why kundalini awakening occurs (and perhaps wonder why it would happen to her in particular) and her reply is quite astute: “Because it can happen. It is a potential that is built into us.” And, according to many of the authors in this book, there are increasing numbers of people having increasing experiences that could be described as opening to the (kundalini) energy of awakening. This has much to do with accelerating awareness of human consciousness, planetary shifts, and the existence of trans-dimensionality.

If you have ever had a kundalini experience, or think you may be undergoing an awakening, this book will guide, reassure, and enlighten you. If you haven’t, be advised that reading Kundalini Rising may actually help to catalyze the awakening experience. As Simon says, “It is as if once we understand the energy that lies within us and the pathways through which it can travel in our subtle body, we have an ability to visualize and flow with the process with heightened sensitivity. May Kundalini Rising help activate this natural unfolding of our expanded human potential in you, for the sake of the whole.”