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Taylor Gilmore
Taylor Gilmore

Through the fire to the tree; my awakening story


Hi everyone. I'm Taylor, I'm from the US, and I'm new here. I've been reading through the site, and honestly, reading the survey results felt like reading my own story. So I wanted to share mine.

In 2024 I was going through the hardest season of my life. I was separated from my children in the middle of a custody battle, and I was barely holding myself together. During that time, someone I trusted in a position of authority pushed me under extreme stress in a way that I still believe crossed serious lines. That's all I'll say about that part. What matters here is what happened inside me next.

In September 2024, I felt a shift. Everything went fuzzy, and it was like I was watching and understanding everything from a third point of view, outside myself. That same night, a burning started low at the base of my…

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rosea972
Oct 06

Wonderful. (Literally - full of wonder.) Your story has all the classic signs of a spiritual emergency, kundalni activation, peak experience, and dark night of the soul (the grief at separation after the experience). Sounds like it was really life changing - I'm so glad the experience wasn't a blip but has had profound ripple effects in your life. Thanks for sharing!

My Story:

Greetings everyone, very happy to have found this group. Had not seen this topic untill a few days ago, have been reading everyone's story, fascinating! I've deleted two other postings regarding my awakening in 1979, forty seven years ago.

Prior to the awakening, I'd experimented with seances in high school, progressing through college with Edgar Cayce, Ouspenski's "In Search of the Miraculous" and Sufi literature. By this time I was in Music School, and by age 25 had given it all up to become a professional (ha!) musician. I could feel/hear the spirituality that was in Music. It was an exciting time for me,

I had accompanied my then wife to a meeting/sales pitch for a group promoting confrontational reality. I'd read about it in Psychology Today a few months before, I asked if I could tag along. We arrived at a home, parked and went in. I counted 22-2…


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That's very interesting about Eternity not being time-based. In my early days, I found a stone with a number 8 or eternity symbol scrawled on it and in that moment, I knew intuitively that I was connected to God. It felt so profound. I also had a dream in which my wall clock was replaced by a display of symbols (symbols being the language of Spirit). Reflecting on that dream made me more consciously aware of the illusion of time.

The physical body does age with time but the soul is eternal.

Solar Awakening

Hey friends,

My process does not seem to have the same sights and events on the roadmap of kundalini. Over the years I gain a better understanding of the nature of my awakenings.


Learning to identify and express it has been the longer part. I will express a bit here.


I had always had a practice of some kind or another ... so what folks would call a spontaneous awakening... was a surprise to me. My spiritual teacher of many years has said it is not really spontaneous for it is in divine order with our higher self.


In my experience a kA is half of the awakening.


I experienced a kA to Shiva and the 3rd eye. I heard the THX of the sound vibration of Light. I experienced the many arms of the Creator aspect of Shiva. The whole multi-verse flowed through me and I experienced the voltage…


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Thanks for sharing. Learning about your experiences was very interesting, although different from mine. One commonality, however, is, as you have written: "In my experience a kA is half of the awakening." My experience was, as Sufi master Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan has expressed: "Awakening beyond life must be followed by awakening within life." Pir Vilayat also taught that we are "beings of radiant light whose boundaries extend to infinity." You may find his perspective on contemporary sufism interesting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEYdlE9oh0o



Kundalini Rising

I'm a 55 year-old male with a history of yoga practice stretching back about 15 years.


In late 2024 awareness came online about parts of the body that hadn't been a part of my existence until then, beginning like small fireworks going off in the pelvic floor region and progressing to what at the time felt like full-body orgasms. At first, these experiences were days, or weeks apart, until, about three months later automatic kryas, or yoga postures came on, after which all manner of energetic phenomena occurred.


Since that time, as part of the unfolding, automatic typing takes place, most days, after meditation. Some friends recently encouraged this to be shared with a wider audience, so I started a Substack as a way of publishing what comes. The decision to publish wasn't straightforward and involved all kinds of ego checks that are still ongoing. So far, other people have…


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AA
Aug 26, 2025

I enjoyed reading your entries and they resonate so much with me.


While I have not written anything quite so raw, I have been documenting my kriya experiences here: https://onebloomsinging.com/kriya-practice/


In the "Practice Logs" I map out the energy movements and their effects. When the energy hits throat chakra or above, it is often accompanied by very similar sounding insights, like we are tuned to a similar frequency. Many of mine are deeply personal and have to do with my specific history, but some feel more collective. I am collecting these and hope to incorporate them into future writings.

Thanks for sharing!

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