Phases of Kundalini
Just like everything else in life kundalini cycles thru a specific flow of chemistry. The general periods for a full-on awakening are 2 years priming, 6 month apex, 3 years peak, 5 years recovery, but awakenings come in all shapes and sizes. The peak-apex of a mature awakening is usually around 6 months, the awakening itself is usually around 3 years, then the assimilation phase is perhaps around 5 years. These figures are almost impossible to contrive because everyone has an awakening specific to themselves.
Each stage has its particular sensations, symptoms, emotions and thoughts. Broadly speaking the following outlines the linear process. The kundalini process cycles through these phases again and again, creating a hyperbolic wave of nested cycles.
PRIMING—Two or more years of sexual heating, increased creative drive and muse/PSI—Thyroid, sex hormone activation.INFLUX—Opening, Grace, ecstasy, electrical. Initial Inner-conjunction, Double Helix of energy rising around the spine—Sex with Eros, God’s Lightning Bolt.
SHOCK—Major septic shock from influx nitric oxide spike—contraction, panic, sympathetic/adrenal hyper-activation—White Death.
TRANSMUTATION—Fires, Heart-expansions proper, grounding, gravity warping.
MAIN INNER-CONJUNCTION—Full body orgasmic, massive energy up spine, paralysis—Silver Cord, Achieving Ones Self.
DIE-OFF—Ego inoperable, 3-7 days in bed, feels like body is eating itself, catabolic breakdown—Dark Night, Death prior to Resurrection.
HEART-BRAIN SYNC—Mature link; right orbiofrontal-limbic connection activity and associated heart expansion—Penis on the Brain, brain orgasms.
SUBSTANTIATION—Regrowth, building higher quality tissue, integration, calm, wholeness, anabolic—Spiritual Will.
All these cycles have to do with the mechanisms of biological transmutation, but one can talk about it in terms of cell-life duration, homeostatic coping ability, reserves of resources, physical-mental-emotional blockage and resistance, conduciveness of ones environment and rest-recovery-repair.
The question of the down-cycle’s relationship to the up-cycle is a big one for kundalini and is always fascinating to me. The intensity of the up-cycle is usually equivalent to the intensity of the down. However once we understand the actual neuro-hormonal chemistry better, we should be able to modulate both extremes. This might make kundalini awakenings somewhat more functional and adaptable to everyday life. Conscious navigation of the alchemy will not make awakenings less profound, but with greater knowledge there will be less resistance, secondary defensive coping strategies, story and terror, so the whole process should go more smoothly with less stress and organic damage.
