What Is Kundalini?
kundalini energy is centered around getting this gland to function. In order to understand what we are after, let’s briefly explore how kundalini has been depicted in different cultures around the world. The Greek symbol of the caduceus, with wings and two snakes wrapped around a rod, appeared in the medical field after the original symbol of a rod with one snake. The rod with a single snake represented the rod of Asclepius, god of medicine and healing. There are multiple scholarly theories about these symbols. The caduceus that became the symbol of the American Medical Association was the symbol of noncombatants for the US Army Medical Corps. The symbolism of a spiral energy around a rod indicates the relationship between kundalini energy and the spine. With modern life, our spine health is at an all-time low because of weak core muscles to hold it upright, lack of movement to keep it mobile, poor posture due to sitting and looking down, and toxins that affect the spine through the different systems in the body affected by toxic buildup.
The Physiology of Enlightenment
While both mystical literature and academia alike often seem to screw to the left ideologically, creating more distance between the student and concept of enlightenment by adding complexity, this technical perspective of enlightenment turns the screw to the right, bringing the one using the tool closer to the thing itself that the screw is hoping to secure. We are diving into the physiology of enlightenment seen through the similar practice that awakens kundalini energy cross-culturally. Physiology is the way in which a living organism or bodily part functions. This will help us understand what is happening in the body when we experience enlightenment, why there are so many common physical and mental methods across cultures of obtaining it, and why kundalini yoga provides a fast and direct map to technically expanding human consciousness. Our modern age of electronic leashes, processed foods, fluoridated water, excessive sitting and sedentary lifestyles, and a work hard/play hard/party lifestyle all contribute to the deafening of our self-sensory
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