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Ancient Greek accounts of incubation repeatedly mention certain signs that mark the point of entry into another world: into another state of awareness that’s neither waking nor sleep. One of the signs is that you become aware of a rapid spinning movement. Another is that you hear the powerful vibration produced by a piping, whistling, hissing sound. In India exactly the same signs are described as the prelude to entering samādhi, the state beyond sleep and waking. And they’re directly related to the process known as the awakening of kundalinī — of the ‘serpent power’ that’s the basic energy in all creation but that’s almost completely asleep in human beings. When it starts waking up it makes a hissing sound. (The Spiritual Tradition at the Roots of Western Civilization. Excerpts from "In the Dark Places of Wisdom" and "Reality" by Peter Kingsley. A compilation by Ulrich Mohrhoff )
Posted on: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:27:59 +0000

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