I was thinking there should be information about kundalini awakening from other sources in the world and not necessarily Tibetan or Indian.
And I "bumped" into this article about kundalini rising in Africa.
It adds on to our knowledge and we are grateful to the writer.
Kundalini Awakening from an African Perspective
March 16th, 2018
By Gogo Thule Ngane
If you are a part of any spiritual community or circle these
days you may have come across the concepts of “waking up” spiritually and
kundalini symptoms, as well as the concept that the vibration or consciousness
on the planet is rising and many shifts are happening.
Kundalini energy naturally dwells within us all. We came
into this world with a mission or destiny of sorts.
Very few of us are raised
in environments or cultural contexts that are fully aware of this and thus,
raise children to adapt to their environment, as opposed to seeing who this
child came into the world to be and help to grow that soul purpose out of the
child at a young age.
Thus “spontaneous” or
unexplainable or a divine series of events begin to peel the layers of our
conditioning to bring forth who we truly are and have come into this world to
be.
The signs and symptoms of such awakenings are many and vary
slightly from individual to individual and from culture to culture.
The most extreme cases show up in our modern world as some
form of mental health imbalance where people hear voices or see things that to
others aren’t there, or feel highly separated from this world.
They may be tormented by negative entities or have extreme
ecstatic states of awareness and bliss that cause them to be not fully functional
on this physical plane.
Milder symptoms can be described as feelings of oneness or
sudden openings in certain chakras/energy centers in the body which cause
anxiety, depression, headaches and other “detox” like symptoms.
Often times there are symptoms that simply make it hard to
function in a way that is considered “the norm,” such as “bad luck”, having a
hard time keeping a job/relationships, repetitively experiencing the same
troubles without any forward advancement.
These may sound like issues that any one person can
experience in a lifetime but when the experience becomes constant and
overbearing there is a link between the physical world and the spiritual world
that must be made.
From the perspective of the Ngoma, African spiritual
tradition, we explain that one is being “bothered by the ancestors.”
African spirituality understands that our every experience
is connected to the all that is beyond this lifetime, that the web in which we
are apart from through blood, lineage, and spirit impacts our daily life.
We are made up of all the elements of the earth and carry
information that lays active or dormant in our DNA. Our karma, the sum of our
actions in this life, past lives, and in the lives of our ancestors, impacts
our destiny.
Thus, the ancestors bother us to bring something urgent to
our attention, something that needs to be nurtured, addressed, cleared or
healed, embraced or achieved. We are because they are.
We have the technologies of this life because of their
inventions. We benefit from their work/wisdom. We suffer from their mistakes.
We are ill of the things that disrupted their life.
Our parents taught us what their parents taught them, and so
on and so forth. The dead are still living in the spirit realm and through the
stories we carry through generational curses and generational gifts.
The African spiritual perspective is that the ancestors are
known to bother our dreams, make us ill, take away things and people from our
life, induce strong sensations along the spine until the message is received
and fulfilled.
My awakening was a message to become a traditional healer or
isangoma. Sacred wisdom in my family line needed to be reawakened so that I, as
well as others, may heal or come into balance with their ancestral messages.
Yes, the ancestors still care and tend to their children
even from the ethereal realms.
There were times in my life where this awakening felt like
some form of punishment. It will feel like this many a times, however truly you
are finally crossing the bridge to who you truly are, what is truly real, and
the great mystery you question every day.
When the kundalini energy rises freely within us, we
telepathically know the answers to our life, we can perceive other realms, hear
from past loved ones, receive creative ideas/projects, make love in a way that
is healing and unites souls, see the world as it truly is, know without fancy
scientific tools/experiments beyond the scales or measures of time.
The list is truly endless but above all connection is the
root of this experience. Aren’t most human problems linked to some sort of
feeling of disconnect? Some echo of not knowing who we truly are? One part of
the body no longer communicating with another part?
It’s almost like a cosmic surgery, where we are opened up spiritually
and all the organs/blood/cells are actually meridians, chakras, and energy
lines that can begin to be rewired into bliss, connection, and peace.
The Zulu spiritualists identify this masculine and feminine
energy rise as nguni (a fiery masculine energy) and ndawe (a watery feminine
essence).
The rise produces mild or intense trance states where the
spirit realms is perceived. The characteristics, sounds, and energy surfaced
may be recognized as an ancestral spirit returned or a god/goddess of the region.
The energy may rise and vibrate profoundly in the sacral
chakra and we feel intense orgasmic bliss, or in the third eye chakra and
visions come, the solar plexus where we feel as strong and empowered as a lion.
The shift or awakening is a call to heal something within.
In most indigenous or ancient spiritual traditions the shift opens portals for
you to navigate. There is an aspect of the journey you must navigate alone but
with teachers.
Your teachers may appear as spirit guides and elevated ancestors
or deities but most will have both spiritual guides and human teachers (Babas,
Taitas, Iyas, Gobelas, Gurus, Masters, etc).
I’ve heard the stories of those who were initiated into the
cosmic mystery teachings only through spirit guides… trust when I say this is
the hardest and scariest journey for most. Those who walked that path had no
other choice, the spirits just “took them.”
They went missing for months or years, thought to be dead,
yet appeared in their villages anew through intense sacrifices and rites of
passages. If you already find life to be hard, you don’t want to deal with life
in multiple dimensions alone.
No one chooses to awaken, in a sense, it chooses you. Even
if you seek it, that initial desire that sprung up within you was a resonance
with something greater than yourself. And the truth is that many are called but
few answer it.
Putting kundalini awakenings to the side for a moment, many
of our earthly experiences still link us back to the ancestors.
When our
ancestors passed with unresolved issues, mistakes, traumas, oppression, and
wrong-doings, they often seek the children to help them release that karma,
almost like a second chance.
The eastern teachings refers to this in terms of past lives
but our past lives and our ancestors’ lives in the spirit realm are one in the
same or inherently linked.
So the symptoms and imbalances require some form of ceremony
to lend energy to that ancestral story and help them elevate to a higher
consciousness and state of being thus creating balance for past and future
generations.
Well-being from a more indigenous spiritual perspective is
so expansive, holistic even. It speaks to the whole, the village, the family,
our connection to all things, the land and its stories.
We are literally walking on the land that houses the bones
and stories of many and as long as our feet are planted on this land or for as
long as our ashes return to the elements… we carry their stories with us. When
we wake up, we wake up to this truth.
Whether we speak in terms of chakras or ancestors or human
experiences, this is what being an eternal soul comes with.
Also by Gogo Thule Ngane:
Gogo Thule Ngane is a Sangoma Traditional Healer, Priestess,
and Medicine Woman. She is guided by the Amadlozi, Elevated Ancestors of her
lineage. Her work includes divination, traditional healing, and leads
workshops, ceremonies, and retreats on ancient African healing and
spirituality. She is devoted to awakening ancestral wisdom on the earth.
