I just finished reading the wikipedia entry on Kundalini for the umpteenth time. I have to laugh, because all of these people discuss Kundalini as a theoretical concept. They quote "reliable sources" -- and yes, most of them are reliable. And some of the posters might be Kundalini awakened, but they cannot see that they have awakened to their own individual Kundalini and that Kundalini is not the same for everyone.

About the theories? Kundalini is an experiential path. And without experiencing it? It's a little bit like trying to describe what coffee is without ever having taken a sip.

And so the writers write about this guru's quote and that guru's quote. For one thing all the gurus are male and have no idea what a female awakening might be like or how it may differ. I am female and my awakening is not at all like theirs.

Secondly, all the gurus assume that unifying shakta and shiva through the 7th chakra to achieve enlightenment is the only way to go. It's not. There is a fourth chakra model of Kundalini enlightenment -- in which energy is drawn down from the 7th chakra and up from the first chakra and unites at the 4th chakra -- to experience awakening on this plane -- not another. This view is more Buddhist -- a view in which we are meant to reach enlightenment through compassion for others.

I can understand why men miss it. And many women. They are so convinced that they are meant to transcend this plane -- the Hinayana/Nirvana concept of transcendence, that they completely ignore the possibility that because we are in bodies, on this planet, that our Kundalini awakening may be meant to be in and of this world.