Spiritual Nutrition: Six Foundations for Spiritual Life and the Awakening of Kundalini

By Gabriel Cousens, M.D.

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Part I: Energetics, Evolution, and Spiritual Anatomy

Proper nutrition is best understood as a support for spiritual evolution. When we eat in a healthy, harmonious way, our ability to attune and commune with the Divine is enhanced.

What is Kundalini?

• Kundalini is the Grace of God, which transforms consciousness into the non-dualistic holographic awareness of the Truth of God (I AM THAT awareness).
• In this Kundalini process, we experience non-causal ecstasy, non-causal contentment, non-causal Love, non-causal peace, and communion with God, which is our
  natural state.
• There are two Kundalini energies. The mundane Kundalini emanates out of the dormant Shakti Kundalini. It powers the physiologic functions of the body. It is a dormant remnant of the spiritual Kundalini.
• The dormant spiritual kundalini energy is based at the base of the spine, and has the potential to transform us into the non-dualistic, living awareness of the Truth of God, of I AM THAT. Once the Kundalini is awakened, it moves through the physical and subtle bodies, removing blocks and spiritualizing the consciousness of the aspirant. This process of enfoldment awakens our consciousness to the higher awareness and energy of each chakra.
• Kundalini has been a part of many spiritual traditions, including yoga, Kabbalah, African tribal rituals, and transpersonal and Jungian psychologies.
• Another term for Kundalini energy is prana. In Yoga, the term prana is used to describe basic universal energy. This energy must be awakened, generally through meditative practices, in order to be experienced.
•   Kundalini works to purify and awaken each chakra so that our mind merges with the highest awareness. The Kundalini energy continues to work as a spiritualizing force in the physical anatomy and in all the subtle anatomies, until it merges with the I AM consciousness in the crown chakra.

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