Part Two of a two-part series asking what Kundalini is, what Kundalini Awakening means, and whether a new framework is needed for the modern 'Awakening' phenomenon. The term "kundalini awakening" is a modern compound that no single classical tradition uses in the way we now understand it. This essay takes the two words apart. "Kundalini" entered Western culture through a specific chain — Vivekananda, Woodroffe, and above all Gopi Krishna, whose 1967 autobiography gave the con

Part One of a two-part series asking what Kundalini is, what Kundalini Awakening means, and whether a new framework is needed for the modern 'Awakening' phenomenon. The word Kundalini is used today to describe an enormous range of experiences — from energy surges and spontaneous movements to mystical openings and encounters with seemingly autonomous presences. But the traditions that carried the word never agreed on what it names. Kashmir Shaivism calls it consciousness itsel

"The discovery of essence is the beginning of the true life" AH Almaas (also known as Hameed Ali) is an author and spiritual teacher who co-founded the Rhidhwan School with Karen Johnson. Together they created The Diamond Approach, which is a contemporary spiritual path and community, using self-inquiry as it’s central method of teaching. I'm sharing a summary of his book entitled Essence, which I found to be a wonderful explanation of what we are journeying towards on our pa

Part III — A Real New Age - From Linear Collapse to Integrated Maturity "People do not appreciate that the rate of progress is accelerating." — Ray Kurzweil, MIT lecture, October 2025 "Today, something is happening to the whole structure of human consciousness. A fresh kind of life is starting." — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Having traced in Part II how we arrived at this threshold through the Industrial Revolution, the rise of inner technologies, and the cultural shifts that

Part II — Crossing the Knee How Technology, Culture, and Consciousness Began to Accelerate Together "What human beings are is a species that has undergone a cultural and technological evolution, and it's the nature of evolution that it accelerates, and that its powers grow exponentially." — Ray Kurzweil "After eons of slow expansion, the human species has entered a phase of compression. Every part of the globe is now inhabited, and we are confronted by a new reality: limited

Part I — Two Ways of Seeing the Horizon "It is in the nature of exponential growth that events develop extremely slowly for extremely long periods of time, but as one glides through the knee of the curve, events erupt at an increasingly furious pace." — Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity Is Near "The consciousness of each of us is evolution looking at itself and reflecting upon itself." — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin I had a spontaneous awakening 20 years ago, at a time when the wor

I’ve just returned from a UAP conference — the first of its kind in Europe, organised by the Sol Foundation — bringing together a group of scientists, academics, former military personnel, and technology innovators. A UAP is an Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon. It is the modern, formal term used by governments, military organisations, scientists, and researchers to describe any aerial event that cannot be immediately identified through conventional means. The term replaces “U

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Facing ones fears is an integral part of the journey.

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