shaktipat as a trigger of a manic episode

[David Dalton]

From http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/sunstare.html :


"Then on the afternoon of Saturday, Aug. 31, 1991, I walked
down the hill to deliver a deposit cheque for my fall
Iyengar yoga class to my new teacher, Gioia Irwin, who I
had not met before except by phone. When I met her it
seemed as though there was an energy about her (not visual),
a lightness, and this transferred to me --- after I gave
her the cheque I bounced up the hill. This I have come to
realize was a proximity-induced raising of kundalini, or
shaktipat, though in some cases it is more sudden, and can
even manifest like an epileptic seizure. In this case it
was one of many factors (including music) and was gradual.
But it is well known in the Kundalini literature that such
shaktipat awakening of Kundalini can trigger or be
equivalent to a manic attack. I wonder if some of other
such cases still living have cycles similar to mine, most
bipolars do not."


And I did go on to have a mystic manic episode in the days
after that, culminating in a naked sun stare, naked thorn
hill climb, and blue rose vision on Sept. 5/6, 1991.

So do you know of any living or past (including in
folktales, mythology and religious history) figures
who have experienced shaktipat and have had experiences
and cycles similar to mine (including waning crescent
highs)?

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David Dalton dal...@nfld.com http://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)
http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/nf.html Newfoundland&Labrador Travel & Music
http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)
"Here I go again...back into the flame" (Sarah McLachlan)