Orgasmic Kundalini Rush, Tantric Taoist Awakening

Scott asks: I have been told by some people I have chatted with that I am experiencing a Kundalini Rush…I get hit with a wave of orgasmic energy, it starts in the stomach area and spreads quickly…It gets tingling. But it hits you like BAM. First you feel like you are going forward then it engulfs you and you go backwards and fall into it…It can happen twice in a row or just once. When I wake up I feel different, slightly energized, slightly creative. How and why is this occurring? Any thoughts?
Thanks
Scott

Rev. Hall: By stomach, do you mean abdominal area?

Scott: Yes and lower back

Rev. Hall: Does it spread through narrow channels (perhaps in the spine or back?) or more diffusely and generally throughout the torso?
Scott: It starts like pins and needles and grows in intensity and pleasure, it could be
through channels, but it happens fast.

Rev. Hall: By “it hits you like BAM”, do you mean that it is abrupt, or is it painful?
Scott: I am asleep or half asleep when it happens 4:30 to 6:00 AM…it is…pleasurable, I have tried to move my arm to share it with my wife, but generally can’t move my arm…I am awake at this point, trying to enjoy and understand it, not fighting it like I did at first. Yes, abrupt because It comes out of nowhere…

Rev. Hall: “First you feel like you are going forward then it engulfs you and you go backwards and fall into it “–So you are lying down when this happens? if so, on your back? or some other posture?

Scott: Yes, lying on back asleep, so it feels like a powerful force hit me (as if) I go forward and then lean back…It is very intense when it happens, it feels like an orgasm but different.

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First of all, let me state that there is virtually no Western medical research into this topic, other than several studies which link improved health and well being in general to non-tantric sex on a regular basis, with a partner. There are some physicians who still do not believe that there is such a thing as female ejaculation!

Tantra and Taoism have recognized the reality of the female ejaculation for many centuries. It is a result of a very high-energy g-spot orgasm and is a tremendous generation and release of energy. This is both a great blissful joy, and perhaps a bit of a potential problem.

Taoist practices assert that 1 drop of semen is equivalent to 100 drops of blood in terms of vital life force. It is likely that something similar is true for the female ejaculate. While the analogue in men is the blood, I have heard some Sifus state that for women it may be related more to certain secretions in the brain. There is a somewhat coarse colloquialism that describes this energetic and hormonal or neurotransmitter loss!

On the other hand, these Eastern traditions assert that non-ejaculatory sex strengthens the chakric energy system and the endocrine glands associated with them. There are probably two main pathways for this. One is directly through the Tumo channel, and the other through spinal channels. The spinal route is more indirect, stimulating the hypothalamus, which then stimulates the endocrine glands, and can be quite powerful. There are several Kundalini practices which facilitate this, two of the most powerful are the Transmuting breath (with golden nectar) and the Cobra Breath. These are oral traditions and must be received by initiation.

There are systems in Tantra for devitalizing or withdrawing the energy from the ejaculate. There are other Tantric practices which can recycle the energy of the ejaculate such as soixante-neuf (Congress of the Crow), forms of Vajroli, and the famous Tantric Milkshake. Some of these require a partner, others do not.

Of the techniques that you are familiar with, I feel that T’ai Chi (yang long form, 2x a day) and the sexual application of the microcosmic orbit may be most helpful. The Taoist bone washing may help also. Further Tantric training would ideal, along with more weight bearing and resistance type exercises. Copyright 2006, Keith E. Hall. All rights reserved

Some Western medical references:
Sex…has been known to relieve the symptoms of specific medical conditions, such as menstrual problems, osteoporosis and arthritis.
–Dr. Barbara Keesling

Post-menopausal females who are sexually active have a lower risk of osteoporosis because they produce more estrogen.
– Patricia Birch, a psycho-sexual and relationship therapist for the NHS

Sex also improves the production of estrogens - good for skin and hair and for the prevention of osteoporosis.
– Oswalt Kolle, The Great Taboo: Sexuality and Aging

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Diet and Exercise

Diet. Not all dietary sources of calcium are equally absorbable, For instance, leafy green vegetables are a good source, but some contain oxalate, which binds calcium, making unavailable for absorption. Some examples include: spinach, chard, beet greens, also chocolate. Phytic acid will also bind calcium and is found in unleavened bread and oats. Milk is controversial, some nutritionists claim it can contribute to osteoporosis. At minimum, it is a poor source of absorbable calcium. The phosphorus in meat and colas will leech calcium from the bones.

The herbs amalaki, comfrey, and horsetail are often used. Probably the best supplement is a peptide linked calcium orotate with vitamin D. You should probably do some research, or see a naturopath about your diet as all this can get complicated.

Exercise Resistance and weight bearing exercise stress the bones somewhat, stimulating them to take up calcium. Resistance exercise would include weights, nautilus, and the like. Weight bearing forms would include Tantric Qigong, T’ai Chi and walking. Vigorous hatha yoga may help, though Tantric Qigong and T’ai Chi are probably more efficient as the entire skeletal system bears weight at all times. T’ai Chi can be done with wrist weights. © 2006 Keith E. Hall. All rights reserved.

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Female Ejaculation, Osteoporosis, Tantric Taoist Sex

Kamakshi D asks: I have just been diagnosed with a high percentage of bone loss. A friend of mine with an Indian/Ayurvedic background has told me that daily self-pleasuring…is a cause of bone loss in women. I can understand the loss of some aspects of health in men, due to excessive loss of semen, but I have never heard of any detrimental health effects for women. Through self-pleasuring, I have several orgasms a day. I do experience female ejaculation, but that is NOT on a daily basis. I used to practice the microcosmic orbit meditation with arousal in order to retain and circulate the energy in my body, but have not done that for many years.

Do you know of anything in the Taoist or other teaching that would indicate that daily masturbation and orgasm in women is the source of a loss of vital energy and a problem relating to bone loss? Is ejaculation in women a cause of bone loss? Would practices like Internal Bone Breathing or Bone Marrow Washing be useful for something like this? I’m assuming that going back to my Tai Chi practice would be very helpful to stop any more bone loss. Do you know if any of these practices are helpful to REBUILD bone mass. Your input would be greatly appreciated.

Rev. Hall: Interesting, and one of the more esoteric questions I have received about bone loss! First of all, if you have been diagnosed, then there is already some progression in this condition, whether or not it has been labeled as osteoporosis. © 2006 Keith E. Hall. All rights reserved.

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The Power of Surrender

Being an externally oriented, aggressive culture, we often forget that Yin is equal in power to Yang, and a balance of both is required for health, longevity, and joy in life. It is best to cultivate not only your life force and power, but also your ability to relax and let go. Without surrender we just enroll our vitality in recreating our old patterns more powerfully, stubbornly insisting in consuming our life force in the repetition of old habits, thought patterns, dysfunctional emotions and behaviors.

Some Practical Suggestions. For those whose of us who wish to balance our yin and yang aspects, power and surrender, action and receptivity, the ego and the awakened Self, I would suggest:

1. 1 hour of T’ai Chi, Qigong, Yoga per day. If your resistance and stress levels are high, you need these practices to ground you and balance your energies, especially if you are also practicing Tantra and / or Kundalini techniques. While Tantric Qigong(sm) takes only 10 minutes, those who are in a state of both high energy and high resistance need more, an hour per day minimum.

2. Bodywork. This is a helpful adjunct to further cultivate surrender. Somatic Release, Rolfing, deep tissue styles are preferred. For some, a vigorous Thai massage can also work.

3. Progressive Relaxation. Teach yourself to relax, breathe, and let go with this helpful tape.

4. Breath Coaching. Focus on the continuity of consciousness and the energizing, yet relaxing power of the breath. Essential skills for Tantra and true meditation.

5. Presencing(sm). Similar to breath coaching. Observing the continuity of consciousness and breath, with the mindfulness of recognizing karmic patterns and cultivating the ability to let them go.

Develop Beginner’s Mind. Let go of your expertise, your hubris. Let go on a physical, emotional, and mental level. Let go of your insistence on recreating your karmic habits. Let go and fall into the arms of your lover, your bliss, your Divinity. Copyright 2006, Keith E. Hall. All rights reserved

See also: Orgasmic Kundalini Rush

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The Irresistible Joy and the Immovable Fear
There are some people who, though they have a very high resistance to their life force, also have a kind of stubborn determination to increase their energy levels. This always results in some type of drama - emotional, interpersonal, mental, or physical. I have seen a great many expressions of this principle over the years, so I am very familiar with it.

The key is Yin Yang balance. It is great if you want to overcome your resistance, but this cannot be safely accomplished just by amplifying your energy, any more than it would be efficient to jam your feet on your car’s accelerator and brakes at the same time. There’s going to be a lot of squealing, smoke, weaving down the road, and eventually a big repair bill. Brute force alone will not gain you admission to the Kingdom. © 2006, Keith E. Hall. All rights reserved

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Popular Resistances
These are some of the various excuses we use to avoid investing in Self Mastery: No time, no interest in knowing the higher self, too nervous, better things to do, no money to invest in personal growth, can’t be bothered, too tired, social commitments, etc. If you think about it, this list of rationalizations can get very long.

Ways to Consume your Energy
These are ploys to keep your energy level below that of your resistance so awakening and joy cannot occur. A partial lists includes ejaculation, overwork to the point of exhaustion, overeating, over exercise, emotional drama, talking all the time, excess mental activity, TV, movies, web surfing, video games, debilitating drug / alcohol use, anger / violence, depression, etc. Basically, anything that distracts, fatigues, or exhausts your life force so you do not have to experience true self-knowledge and bliss.

Most people are very adept about consuming their energy and keeping their resistance high. Our culture eagerly supports this. Many folks secretly wonder if consuming and resisting is all there is to life, and, for a few, this rises to a conscious inquiry of some importance. A few of these people will be motivated to actually do something to explore higher energy states and self-knowledge. Kriyas always occur in some form when a person is authentically overcoming their resistance. Usually these are quite pleasurable sensations. © 2006, Keith E. Hall. All rights reserved

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Kriyas, Resistance, and Sexual Arousal

DP asks: My query has to do with the…Kriya phenomena…it seems to spontaneously occur when kissing, etc. a date…but, I can imagine that they probably seem either weird and/or overly enticing to male friends. Is it normal for Kriyas to occur when sexually excited?…the kriyas (don’t) feel particularly sensual to me…I am used to sexual feelings…quite distinct from the somewhat abrupt Kriyas. Is this just a phase to go through while the energy overcomes resistance?…seems like there is a big difference between waves of sensual undulation and the kriyas which are more like a jack hammer….My whole reason for taking Tantra is to free up all of my considerable energy. This is happening. I do not want to stifle this process…

Rev. Hall: Yes it is desirable to have these tremors when sexually excited, It is a sign of your vital life force overcoming resistance. Sex energy is an expression of your life force. The neat thing about sex is that it can also stimulate life force in a kind of “feedback” process. More life force results more ecstatic sex and surrender to intimacy. More sex and surrender creates more life force, more freedom and vitality. This is what makes Tantric practices so energizing, healing, and enlightening. We are activating and transmuting our primal life force.

There is a balance needed between the activation and flow of sex energy, of prana and Kundalini, and our resistance to it. Resistance has at its root fear. We can also be quite stubborn about our resistance, and there are many socially supported rationalizations for not being free and flowing with our energy. The reason that it seems that at times the energy is jarring or slightly unpleasant is your anxiety about letting go of your resistance: your fear, your karmic patterns.

Most people do not experience kriyas because their resistance is higher than their available life force. A popular subconscious ploy to avoid knowing oneself and experiencing the power and bliss of who you truly are is to keep stubbornly resisting, and if that begins to fail, dump the excess energy. © 2006, Keith E. Hall. All rights reserved

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The Spiritual Function of Yearning

The first three chakras compose a unit; a triad of our animal drives. At this stage in our evolution, it is easy to observe that, as a species, humans are still controlled by these animal motivations. There are certainly many enlightened buddhas, saints, and prophets that have appeared over the millennia, but the vast majority of people are still centered within their animal heritage, though we can see that humans have certainly invented many complex variations of the basic animal instincts. This is why the animal experiments of Skinner can be applied to people. Stripped of our technology and with our rational faculties stressed, most of us still behave much the same way rats would. And, if possible, all too often we use the gift of our higher cortical powers to serve our animal instincts.

This is not to say that we shouldn’t fulfill animal needs as best as we can. Neo-Tantra often glorifies the senses, which are extensions of the body and animal in nature. Certainly, before we can turn our attention to the spirit, our basic needs must be met. This does include the need for pleasure. It is just that we are out of control, using our technology and mental power indiscriminately to sate our animal appetites. We most often do this reflexively, blindly, and with risk to ourselves, others, and the very planet we live on. Still, if one is acutely observant, it can be noticed that however accomplished we are at gratifying our animal natures, a hunger remains.

Beyond what is needed for basic and comfortable survival, the pursuit of material possessions, power, sensuality, and wealth cannot satisfy the desires of our higher consciousness. No amount of money or social status can satiate the spirit’s longing. Inflame the passions of the lower chakras? Perhaps. But liberate the spirit and fulfill the heart’s true desire? Never. Many try at this, all fail. The game of acquisition and dominance does not feed the soul. It can only drive us to conflict, warfare, an ever-faster rate of conspicuous consumption, and the intrigue of political, financial, and technological supremacy. This extends even to the point where we are willing to destroy our selves, individually or collectively, in one way or another. Perhaps this is one expression of Thanatos. Like the mythical rush of the lemmings, we would rather stubbornly fall to our deaths than give up this dance.

So, most people find themselves trapped in this box, the unconscious drives of the first three chakras. Physically this box is described in the lower half of the body. The “lid” of the box is the solar plexus. The life force inherent in both the emotions of pain, fear and anger, and the quests for money, pleasure, and power aspires to connect with the energies of higher consciousness. Yet our vitality seems trapped in this box that we so stubbornly defend, as if it were a great palace instead of the prison that it has become. To begin to join with higher consciousness in the body, life force must literally push off the lid of this box, and physically ascend through the solar plexus. It yearns powerfully to be allowed to do so.© 2008 Keith E. Hall. All rights reserved.

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Storing Life Force
What makes the third chakra and its emotions and agendas so powerful is, well, power. Power in the sense of the pure life force stored in this area. The third chakra is like a battery; life force is stored as potential. This energy is rarely stored as true potential, in the electrical sense. A battery can sit and store its electricity for a long period of time. People however are dynamic living bioelectrical systems. Human life force is a power that is active; it needs somewhere to flow to, something to do. Whether your karmic agenda is anger and manipulation, or self-healing and enlightenment, vast quantities of bioenergy are needed.

The Third Chakra

One basic function of Tantric and Taoist practices is to generate and store in the third chakra the energy needed to walk your own spiritual path with freedom and courage, whether or not your friends, family, or culture supports this. Primates, including humans, have invested millions of years in creating social structures that maximize safety and survival. The “herd instinct” is to limit the amount of freedom an individual can have. This is a sort of default brain stem reaction born of fear of potential harm to the group, and what is born in fear blossoms into judgment, stubbornness, resistance, anger, hatred, manipulation, and violence. This ancient, and virtually autonomic, limbic reaction is grossly maladaptive for how we as a species need to evolve. The energy bound by the imprints of these dark emotions needs to be extracted and recycled at the third chakra. If we can let go of our insistence on pain, fear, and anger, we can reprogram these lower chakras to deliver the life force necessary to ascend into self-realization, thus insuring our survival as a species into the next millennium.

The Anatomy of Power
The third chakra is relatively large in size. Apparently, in its function as a storage area for the power that all action requires, it needs somatic mass. At its lower border, the third chakra is referred to by the Taoists as the lower Tan Tien, sometimes called the Field Of Elixir, or the Hara in Japanese. Anatomically close to the sexual energies of the first two chakras, this is the point that all martial arts training uses to collect power. Perhaps its physical closeness to the chakras mediating sex energy is one reason we seem to mix together elements of sexuality, power, and even violence.

Included in this energetic family are the sub-chakras of the navel. The uppermost border of the third chakra is the solar plexus. © 2008 Keith E. Hall. All rights reserved.

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