Where did Gopi Krsna go wrong?
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I feel that if one's HGA always stepped in to prevent even spiritual harm (at least, the sort of spiritual harm that affects an entire incarnation), no one would ever fail at crossing the Abyss, right? The Angel would keep you from jumping. And yet it happens.
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In the A.'.A.'. system, with one properly going through each of the grades / completing all the tasks, is the complete rising of the Kundalini generally to occur after K&C of the HGA? I recall a mention before that Soror Meral had her Kundalini rising experience right after K&C...
I'm curious because Meditation SSS is a task of the grade of 3=8. Is complete Kundalini rising not induced by this meditation?
And one final question, just how linked are the K&C of the HGA, the awakening into Briatic consciousness, and the full rising of the Kundalini? Are they all, or all part of, the same event? I was under the impression that the K&C is the awakening into Briatic consciousness (stabilising as the 'baseline' consciousness), and yet the enlightenment results of Kundalini awakening also sound like a shift into constant Briatic consciousness. And Gopi Krishna also reports receiving inspired poetic texts (which made me think of both the reception of Holy Books and the voice of the HGA as personal genius).
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@bdc said
"In the A.'.A.'. system, with one properly going through each of the grades / completing all the tasks, is the complete rising of the Kundalini generally to occur after K&C of the HGA? I recall a mention before that Soror Meral had her Kundalini rising experience right after K&C..."
She did, which I think is because it hadn't happened sooner.
Most often it happens in the early grades (1=10 or 2=9) and then, as you alluded to later in your post, there is a practice in 3=8 that, before I was 3=8, I thought was meant to induce it and, after I was 3=8, I saw it did other things (among them, stabilizing and normalizing it - but the particulars might be individual).
"And one final question, just how linked are the K&C of the HGA, the awakening into Briatic consciousness, and the full rising of the Kundalini?"
I don't think there is an intrinsic connection of the rising of Kundalini to the other two - it's primarily a biological phenomenon (which, come to think of it, is probably why it tends to happen in advanced 1=10), with later Yetziratic implications.
As for the other two, I want to start answering slightly differently. The A.'.A.'. 5=6 grade is intrinsically linked to opened Briatic consciousness (a consequence of completing the Dominus Liminis work) in the same way that the Zelator grade is intrinsically linked to opened Yetziratic consciousness (a consequence of completing the Neophyte grade). If, by K&C of the HGA, you mean the phenomena distinctive to 5=6 (rather than the many layers of progressively opening connection and interaction with the HGA in the grades before that), then the model is that 5=6 Without presumes already awakened Briatic consciousness, and 5=6 Within (marked by attainment of the K&C) has... something more. I have described this as the Briatic consciousness opening itself to interpenetration by Atziluthic consciousness - being the grail into which the Great Lance is thrust.
"I was under the impression that the K&C is the awakening into Briatic consciousness (stabilising as the 'baseline' consciousness), and yet the enlightenment results of Kundalini awakening also sound like a shift into constant Briatic consciousness."
That's way advanced. A majority of people who have awakened Kundalini have never open to Briatic consciousness (certainly not in the immediate aftermath of that experience). Gopi Krishna took decades to get that far, if I'm recalling his story correctly (it's been decades since I devoured that book).
"And Gopi Krishna also reports receiving inspired poetic texts (which made me think of both the reception of Holy Books and the voice of the HGA as personal genius)."
Yes. Again, though, that came late in life, didn't it? (That's what I'm remembering.) A lot of us went through phases of writing intense poetry in upper-Yetziratic layers (during the stages of building bridges between Yetzirah and Briah - Netzach is a common place, since the themes are so often of love and come out as expressions of devotion), but some of his (writing in languages he'd never learned) seems much more than this.
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Excellent stuff, thanks for that, it has cleared up a lot.
And yes, there are decades between Gopi Krishna's awakening and the enlightenment and receiving inspired texts, decades spent dealing with the crisis of apparently forcing Kundalini, seemingly up Pingala (ferocious febrile heat being a particular symptom of his - extremely unpleasant and life threatening - condition).
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I'm pretty sure that's what he meant on his discussion of New Year's Eve 1893, the experience that set him on the path.
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There were two consecutive NYE events related. I thought the second & decisive one was December 31 '97, but I'm going from Memory. It was 10 1/2 months before his GD initiation.
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