Just yesterday, I received an email from a very old friend of mine who I correspend with on a fairly regular basis. Usually, I find her emails to be refreshing and full of life, but yesterday's threw me off. In her title of the email, she writes: Kundalini Rising - Which initially threw me off, because of all the information I've read on Kundalini energy on the forum.
In the email she goes on to say:
Now I have been to a rave before, and they are anything but some type of positive gathering of energy. I couldn't find anything online about chakra raves except for two videos posted on youtube, that seem rather sketchy to me.
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGfohU2X1SM&feature=related
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9Cm2sGFnEc
You can see in the first video in particular, the mainstream symbols for the different chakras on the main stage and under the canopy. Although in these videos, the raves are taking place in the daytime, whereas my friend stated the one she attended starts at midnight! On a full moon no less!!
These raves the she plans on attending (7 of them altogether) seem stupid and downright dangerous, considering the nature of the business she's involving herself in. She is one of my dearest friends and I'm worried about this "New-agey" path that she's headed on, considering all the pitfalls involved in such a process. My question, is what should I do about it? How do I let someone know that what they are involving themselves in, is NOT what they believe it to be. I don't want to be pushy, or violate her free-will on this issue, but she may be setting herself up for a fall on this one.
Should I just send her an email letting her know my thoughts about it, ask questions about the event, her reactions to what was going on and her thoughts on how it could be "spiritually progressive", forward her links to some of the discussions on the forum about such topics, or just leave it alone and not say anything?
"In so-called 'occult' literature you have probably met with the expression 'Kundalini,' 'the fire of Kundalini,' or the 'serpent of Kundalini.' This expression is often used to designate some kind of strange force which is present in man and which can be awakened. But none of the known theories gives the right explanation of the force of Kundalini. Sometimes it is connected with sex, with sex energy, that is with the idea of the possibility of using sex energy for other purposes. This latter is entirely wrong because Kundalini can be in anything. And above all, Kundalini is not anything desirable or useful for man's development. It is very curious how these occultists have got hold of the word from somewhere but have completely altered its meaning and from a very dangerous and terrible thing have made something to be hoped for and to be awaited as some blessing.
"In reality Kundalini is the power of imagination, the power of fantasy, which takes the place of a real function. When a man dreams instead of acting, when his dreams take the place of reality, when a man imagines himself to be an eagle, a lion, or a magician, it is the force of Kundalini acting in him. Kundalini can act in all centers and with its help all the centers can be satisfied with the imaginary instead of the real. A sheep which considers itself a lion or a magician lives under the power of Kundalini.
"Kundalini is a force put into men in order to keep them in their present state. If men could really see their true position and could understand all the horror of it, they would be unable to remain where they are even for one second. They would begin to seek a way out and they would quickly find it, because there is a way out; but men fail to see it simply because they are hypnotized. Kundalini is the force that keeps them in a hypnotic state. 'To awaken' for man means to be 'dehypnotized.' In this lies the chief difficulty and in this also lies the guarantee of its possibility, for there is no organic reason for sleep and man can awaken.
In the email she goes on to say:
Daniel - forgive me if this correspondence finds you in another realm - for it comes to you from mine which is of another reality at the moment. It's 7 am and I just returned home from a Chakra Rave. There are 7 of them - (each one for the different chakras) and tonight was the first one - The Root Chakra. Each one occuring once a month on the full moon.
Now I have been to a rave before, and they are anything but some type of positive gathering of energy. I couldn't find anything online about chakra raves except for two videos posted on youtube, that seem rather sketchy to me.
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGfohU2X1SM&feature=related
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9Cm2sGFnEc
You can see in the first video in particular, the mainstream symbols for the different chakras on the main stage and under the canopy. Although in these videos, the raves are taking place in the daytime, whereas my friend stated the one she attended starts at midnight! On a full moon no less!!
These raves the she plans on attending (7 of them altogether) seem stupid and downright dangerous, considering the nature of the business she's involving herself in. She is one of my dearest friends and I'm worried about this "New-agey" path that she's headed on, considering all the pitfalls involved in such a process. My question, is what should I do about it? How do I let someone know that what they are involving themselves in, is NOT what they believe it to be. I don't want to be pushy, or violate her free-will on this issue, but she may be setting herself up for a fall on this one.
Should I just send her an email letting her know my thoughts about it, ask questions about the event, her reactions to what was going on and her thoughts on how it could be "spiritually progressive", forward her links to some of the discussions on the forum about such topics, or just leave it alone and not say anything?