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“Pain is in the nature of a nervous and physical recoil from a dangerous or harmful contact; it is a part of what the Upanishad calls jugupsa, the shrinking of the limited being from that which is not himself and not sympathetic or in harmony with himself, it impulse of self-defense against others.” 117, Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine

Because of the attachment to our pain, the hardest thing to handle is the bliss of our own emergence. Either we want to retreat from the “limitless space” of Bliss into the pain-body, or we want to turn the Bliss into some self-indulgent ego gratification. To leave the Bliss pure in its essence is almost impossible at the beginning of the transmutational process. Kundalini is not usually painful, their might be some neuralgic pain years prior to an awakening, and for short periods during the peak, and the heart expansions can be painful as the heart explodes in the chest, and their might be pain during a Die-off. But usually there is so many opiates floating through the system that there is far less pain in the body than normally. Pain is usually the result of obstruction, toxicity or dehydration. Kundalini pain occurs when there is a blockage to the energy and bliss is the result of the flow of kundalini. As kundalini moves through parts of the body that were numb to us, we feel the extent of our contraction, but as Shakti does her work and we start to open up, what was once painful turns to bliss, if you move “into” the pain with the mind’s eye.

We can equate the pain-body with Wilhelm Reich’s body armor. Neurosis and psychosis, and negative ego characteristics all stem from embeddedness in our pain remembering mechanisms in the hippocampus and hypothalamus and amygdala and consequently in the neuromuscular of the whole body as well. We become addicted to our pain-body perhaps because we have found validity for our existence through pain. It seems we continually want to go back and revisit our pain so we can feel like we remember who we are, but this is just the perpetuation of the memory of the false self. Stimulation of our adrenals and dopamine in response to hurtful situations makes us feel alive. Defending our rights is defining our boundaries as an individual and this makes us feel Real, a solid thing that the ego finds reassurance in. Attainment of the Self however requires melting of this limiting defensive structure...which might have been needed in the individuation stage, but is a burden during the enlightenment stage. The caterpillar is completely consumed in the construction of the butterfly.

As conditioning unwinds those with active kundalini are more “elemental” and “archetypal.” The cerebrocortex is incapacitated through over-charge while the limbic and autonomic brain are hyper-activated. As kundalini moves through the brain intense emotions are felt. In the beginning stages there is often panic, anxiety, depression, anger, paranoia, confusion shame, fear and self-pity. These negative emotions tend to take over especially when the left-brain is in a clampdown from overcharge. Then as the work of purging and restructuring proceeds there is more enduring bliss, peace, equanimity, love and joy. If the cleansing work is not done however, instead of attaining a true Witness we repress pain and shadow through

dissociation. Dissociation is still the separate-self-sense, it is just a lower order of escape, through not allowing the full embodiment of the Self. This need for the work of nature to take its transmutational course is why surrender is fundamental to genuine spiritual growth.

In fact the need for nature to take its course is probably why cathartic release type therapies like Holotropic Breathing™ sessions and Osho’s dynamic meditations work so well. The “freeze response” to danger is countermanded such that accumulated shock is released and the chemistry can be resolved and let go. These releasing practices, and kriyas in general, allow the psychosomatic noise to be cleansed from the system permitting normal and supranormal conditions of consciousness to occur. There is no avoiding the fire. The emotion has to burn in the fires of purification before illuminative wisdom and unitive balance is achieved. This process of roasting in the fires of transformation creates the Philosopher’s Stone of Self. Once the bodymind’s resistance to conveying greater consciousness is penetrated the nervous system enters a permanent state of higher functioning.

Kundalini’s transformation of the limbic brain means that there is a lessening of the ability to condition the brain to pain and fear, and a lessening of the pain-body and armor. The pain-body is still there in potentiality because it would be extremely dangerous to live without the information of pain. Pain is as essential to the path as bliss. Kundalini/meditation/yoga/breathing does alter the pain mechanisms in the body such that we do have more distance from the automatic reactive mode of our reptilian functions. Or rather, we are no longer a petty tyrant sitting on an errant horse—rider and horse are now one in primordial impeccability.

The pain-body is composed of our negative and unconscious-shadow material and magnetically attracts more of its own vibration. So we need to apply conscious effort toward awakening and alivening in order to transcend the gravimetric pull of the lower emotional states. When we resonate in these lower frequencies we can be easily overwhelmed and controlled by others for we have no “distance” from these dark energies. We can learn not to resonate in response to darkness, but to see it for what it is—to breathe through it and pass quickly beyond, picking up speed, energy, power and focus. To do this we need to be aware of the unconscious programming of the fear, shame, guilt and original sin that we still embody. Thus if we find ourselves getting stuck over personality issues with others or collective darkness, we can directly become aware of the work we still need to do to cleanse our vehicle of life destroying energies.

We suffer when we perceive our experience in a egoic-personal and “downer” kind of way. Even bliss is suffering unless it is turned toward soul gratification rather than ego gratification. However without suffering we wouldn’t get the intuition to turn increasingly toward soul. Pain, wounds and shadow are the key to our evolutio. For if we address these things that prevent the full flow of light and faith, we free ourselves from our self constructed cage. The generation of bliss from having done this work constitutes an evolution beyond the pain-body. The pain mechanisms are still there however, but our neurology is so lit up in bliss that we have transcended our pain-body.

Ramakrishna says that a man’s spiritual consciousness is not awakened unless his kundalini is aroused. Kundalini is the fire of individuation. Spirituality in my mind is the transcendence of culture…it is an new-emergent added dimension beyond cultural conditioning, through the building of the personal umbilical to the Divine/Cosmos, via the initiation of the solar heart. Spirituality is creative redemption...that is reclaiming the universal self from the abuses, stigmas, power trips, seductions, manipulations and original sin of society at large. Certainly there is no faster and more complete way of emerging from the separate-self-sense and the pain-body that through the fires of active kundalini. Through allowing nature to take her course.

The Christ Light—kundalini is said to burn away ones past sins (life- harming trauma). But even though the body is more efficient after considerable transmutation, if we maintain the normal eating and health habits of the standard society, the body will continue to be aged and decayed via free radicals. One could say that free radicals are the agents of sin, much of what we do physically, mentally and emotionally in this culture just increases the free radical load...that is why most old people look broken at the end of their lives. It doesn’t have to be this way if we learn to master stress and free radicals.

It’s probably pretty common that we seek to run from pleasure into pain. We are used to pain, pain is the German ethic, the white-man’s safety zone. In kundalini it is easier to handle pain than extreme bliss, for pain is less “work” than extreme bliss. If we don’t have the skills to open to pleasure we may try to clog up our body to buffer ourselves from the bliss. In ecstasy we feel we have no “control”. If we come from a trauma background we expect and want things to go wrong so that we can stick to our familiar (family) mode of being.

Evolution requires us to learn to endure beauty and pleasure without closing down and retreating. Also consider that you are the universe observing itself, therefore you are big enough to handle all the beauty in the entire universe. Love is merely going with the speed of evolution and fear is backing down from that speed and Grace. Resistance to evolution is the fear of letting go of our former identity, developmental level, worldview, opinions, sensoral sensitivity level and habitual groove of consciousness. Growth requires the dissolution of all this before the birth of the new. We must essentially “lose possession” of ourselves in order to provide space for the repatterning of greater soul.

Dion Fortune says that “Consciousness is raised to a given plane by inhibiting

the thoughts and modes of consciousness of all the planes below it.” But I doubt that

inhibition ever leads to evolution, for you cannot evolve that which is repressed and what is not called into consciousness in the first place. There must be a full acknowledgement of the present self through which the neurotic anaesthetization is then lifted by Presence naturally infusing and raising our being to higher levels. So contrary to the old ascetic puritan ideas of sublimation and inhibition, we evolve by fully inhabiting and utilizing that which we ARE without resistance or rejection. The alchemy is thus quickened and the amplification of fructifying tensions and stormy energies then result in the inevitable depth and calm of a

more mature “spiritual” condition. As Osho says in Body Mind Balancing: “Man

is unhealthy and pathological because society has crippled him in many ways. You are not allowed to love totally, you are not allowed to be angry; you are not allowed to be yourself. A thousand and one limitations are enforced.”

Families and communities that will not allow you to “show” up; where each is a rote-learned cog in the commercial machine—this is not a society and one is not a citizen, but a subject. This is the roots of the painbody (armoring) and fascism that Riechian Charles Konia calls “the emotional plague.” Charles Konia M.D. has a new book called The Emotional Plaque: The Root of Human Evil. This book explores the disease of destructive human behavior involving people’s emotional lives, that can be spread from person to person with all the characteristics of an infectious disease. Amoring is essentially the absence of Presence.

The pain-body can be seen as an energy field of cellular memory, whose prime directive is the generation and accumulation of pain and the continuation of perceptive filters that generate suffering. When disease, dysfunction, imbalance or lack of peace occurs at any level, you can be sure that the imbalance of the undigested trauma stays with us, usurping our positive emotional states. The pain- body represents the sum of the pain of the past that still lives on in our mind and body and is playing an active role in perpetuating its own existence. But the pain- body is not so much an “entity” as it is an energetic standing pattern or habitual dissonant state. Stopping the processing of stress mid cycle means distress becomes internalized. The accumulated pain comprises of a negative energy field of stagnant lifeforce that causes cellular dysfunction, toxicity and vulnerability to infection and disease. The areas of stagnant energy contain unhealthy electromagnetic fields that literally split and subdivide the body’s energy field into separate compartments with reduced communication between them. Through the law of emotional resonance the pain-body attracts more distressing circumstances into our experience. Thus a defensive or angry stance toward our experience keeps us locked in a standing pattern of the negative emotions that self-perpetuate the pain-body cycle. This ongoing generation of emotional toxicity prevents the experience of peace, connection, cohesion and the coherence of spiritual stabilization. Thus the ego’s attachment to the painbody must be released for the spiritual life to emerge.

Releasing the negative emotional field involves the felt-sense acknowledgement, acceptance and allowance of feelings, without reactivity or judgment as to whether they are “good or bad.” Thus liberation from the pain-body is a type of equanimous reality therapy—addressing the truth of the accumulation within us of all the negative experience, resistance and disappointment we have had. Unconsciously, through the lack of objective understanding and mindfulness, we get used to the perceptive filters that cause our suffering. It is this unconscious pain-filter that must be loved to a higher order of frequency, health and unification. Transforming the stagnant negative energy field that holds our cells captive, by feeling into the dark void of the wound and filling it with warmth and light. When we fully accept the reality of now, it passes through us and doesn’t get stuck as karmic residue in our tissues.