Kundalini Rising: Mastering Creative Energies

by Barbara Condron

The next step in human and global evolution

From the creative genius of Einstein, Shakespeare, and Plato, to the realms of revelation experienced by the world s masters of spirituality, if you aspire to greater Self awareness and mastery of your creative energies, Kundalini Rising is unequivocally the most extensive resource available.

Genres: Spirituality

214 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1992

Reviews

[Prakash Murthy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Difficult to read. Yet a very important book.

The book is very difficult to read because of the following reasons:

* The subject matter of the book is totally alien to me. I have totally avoided all spiritual and religious topics and practices all my life deeming them to be only fit for weak-minded non-practical people. Hence I was confronted with strange and unfamiliar ideas and concepts on every page and every paragraph of the book. That made my progress through the book very slow.

* The writing style is bad, with possibly no involvement of a competent editor to make the writing easy to understand. The sentence construction is very complex in many places. And it is flawed or incomplete at most other places. I guess the editors gave up after a few complaints that didn’t get a positive response from the author. I had to read and re-read many sentences and paragraphs multiple times to even comprehend where the author was going with it.

* A big part of the book is dedicated to re-interpreting parts of the Bible - both Old Testament and New Testament - in terms of Kundalini concepts. Adam & Eve in the Garden of Eden and the Serpent, Cain, and Abel, David, Solomon, Moses and the Ark of the covenant, Miracles of Jesus - all of these and more from the Bible get reinterpreted in terms of Kundalini concepts. I guess it helps people raised with Christianity or Catholicism religious background easily connect their belief system with the Kundalini concepts. For someone like me with no background or connection with either the Bible or Christianity, this amounts to a whole lot of fluff I have to get through for the real gold in the book.

Despite it being very difficult to read, I consider this book to be the most important book I have ever read as it caused a shift in my way of thinking and being.

From starting out with the opinion that Kundalini energy and specifically raising it to the higher chakras is an esoteric concept the knowledge and practice of which is restricted to the mystics and a few lucky folks among us, the book ended up convincing me that these concepts are an everyday commonplace things and anyone willing to work on learning and expanding their consciousness to include the spiritual world can access the power of the omnipresent Kundalini energy.

While the book doesn't give a ready recipe for what I am after - a repeatable process to raise kundalini energy from the lower chakras to the higher chakras and thereby possibly cure myself of Glioblastoma - the book does give some directions as to how to go about it and what to focus on at different steps of the process.

So let me repeat again: This is a very important book.

[Steven Walker · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was excited about reading this book, but overall I found it to be somewhat poorly written and laborious to read. Though still there are worthwhile bits of wisdom and explanations of chakras. And although I don't subscribe to the author's points of view completely, she has some interesting interpretations of the Bible as it relates to kundalini.

[John · Rating 1 out of 5]

I know that i'm not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but i picked this one up because the cover held me captivated. Although this is a subject i greatly enjoy i found the content dry and mainly uninteresting.

[Rhonda · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great for creative visualization.