"As the opening begins and deepens, the body may go through a tremendous amount. Kundalini is usually said to be responsible for these events, but if we just call it the energy of the body, it's easier to talk about. As the opening progresses, the body must readjust. When space opens up, it provides room for the body to reharmonize and return to its natural state. During this process, some people's bodies experience a real shakedown. This can be quite dramatic because energy that has been trapped on the various levels -- physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual -- is released. This trapped energy is what keeps you off balance and in a state of suffering. Suddenly all the tension, holding, and knots are released, and the energy goes out in all directions. This energy has to break loose before it can reharmonize and get into proper flow. This bursting out can feel exhilarating or terrible; it can be tremendously powerful or mild. The harmonization may take weeks, months, or years. It may be very strong or imperceptible. Everyone is different; it just depends on how out-of-whack you've been." ~ Adyashanti,The Impact of Awakening
"The body is given. The Myth is given, even by the body. I have experience of a basic truth of the body, a timeless eternal drama of appearance and body disappearance. My body and mind are stratified, part of the cycle of existence, an impulse within a larger impulse. I'm experimenting with the mesomorph, endomorph and ectomorph of my body layers on the lagoon, and pedaling from eternity to my future, I'm part of an endless chain of human forms changes. I see this somatic reality is my myth." --Stanley Keleman, Myth and the body. A colloquy with Joseph Campbell, Center Press, Berkeley, 1999 , pp.10-ss,
"The body is given. The Myth is given, even by the body. I have experience of a basic truth of the body, a timeless eternal drama of appearance and body disappearance. My body and mind are stratified, part of the cycle of existence, an impulse within a larger impulse. I'm experimenting with the mesomorph, endomorph and ectomorph of my body layers on the lagoon, and pedaling from eternity to my future, I'm part of an endless chain of human forms changes. I see this somatic reality is my myth." --Stanley Keleman, Myth and the body. A colloquy with Joseph Campbell, Center Press, Berkeley, 1999 , pp.10-ss,