Mine has been opening the crown for the last 2 years. My ears ring daily on and off and the head pressure is immense. However bliss at times makes it worth it. Extreme heat at times too, especially in the chest region. Been moving upward from my heart since 2012. It has blasted away most of my previous personality along with most desires, addictions, and goals. Heaven comes at a cost! That cost is you.
@ForrestKnutson4 жыл бұрын
Well said, Long. Not everyone will have the same experience, and it is possible to minimize the uncomfortability, or avoid too much kundalini experience. However, I would like to do a video that explains there are risks to deep meditation.
@AshwaniKumar-ix6fn4 жыл бұрын
Dissolving of Ego :)
@renakmans35213 жыл бұрын
@@ForrestKnutson Thanks for your explanation. When you say “risks” it sounds like it’s something no one would want. I know it’s a complete transformation but why wouldn’t people want to become enlightened? Pardon my ignorance:-)
@bobseehafer54144 жыл бұрын
I feel so blessed to have found this channel. ❤🙏
@ForrestKnutson4 жыл бұрын
Thank you Bob! Love having you!
@saarimann3 жыл бұрын
Since it is here for 8 years i now wonder which other gems yet have to find me. Everything to the right time i guess.
@TalkingTruewithJulieHoyle5 ай бұрын
My kundalini awakening happened in 1989, it was dramatic and it changed my life forever. Thankfully, I am a lucid dreamer, so I have always received guidance in dreams, as well as from earth angels who show up and speak to what I have been questioning. Thank you for sharing.💜
@kittywampusdrums49632 ай бұрын
Nice. I lucid dream allot but it's mostly nonsense lol.
@pauliehaley1034 жыл бұрын
I so understand not having anyone to talk to about my experience! I love you brother☀️🙏
@ForrestKnutson4 жыл бұрын
You get what I'm saying. 😊🤗🙏
@viafrequency Жыл бұрын
Hi Forrest, I can’t thank you enough for your channel and for this video specifically right now. I’ve watched many of your videos for a couple years now and I’ve been practicing meditation for some time; I also do extensive energy work so I am working with my energy daily. Tonight I experienced pretty much a mirror of what you’re describing in this video. I was meditating this evening, practicing HRV breathing of course, and I was pleasantly surprised (although the sensation was quite jolting) to find myself spinning uncontrollably (so I felt). At first it felt like the entire room spinning around me, and then it progressed to feeling like my body was spinning as well, almost like the room was spinning into my spinning body; it almost reminded me of the motion of the torus field. Because it was slightly nauseating and at first dizzying, if I had not seen this video maybe a year or two ago first, I would have immediately opened my eyes out of fear that I was “losing my body” because that seemed like a natural impulse. But I remembered your experience in the ashram and I simply surrendered into it. WOW. Profoundly intense and I am so grateful - although I’ve never met or spoken to you personally, I consider you such a special teacher to me and I felt like your words were guiding me through the experience. I just had to find this video again. I’ve had many experiences but not quite like this. The key was letting go and trusting. Thank you Forrest, from my heart! 🫶🏽
@dabblerdeluxe7752 жыл бұрын
I am comforted by your work(if you see this) I basically taught myself from books and experimentation since i was 13 and had all kinds of traumatic experiences which your content has given understanding of
@deborahstollman62384 жыл бұрын
You are correct; there is almost no one to talk to about experiences I’ve had. It’s very hard at times. Some people think I’m just going through some mental issues.
@ForrestKnutson4 жыл бұрын
Exactly! Well, I'm so glad I can be a voice you resonate with.
@manaoharsam42112 жыл бұрын
You are fine. Keep going.
@dr.jeffmoore21492 жыл бұрын
This is why we have a guru- one who has been there to guide us on our journey.
@fuzzylogics1392 жыл бұрын
I am sooo grateful for your channel. It is giving me so much confirmation that I couldn’t find anywhere for years actually! And it is actually starting to explain so many events I went through from childhood as well, for myself. I have always known it’s not a disease and it pains me that after finally reaching out about my experiences last year, at a psychiatrist, that I was given a diagnosis on the scizo- affective-spectrum. I know for myself it is not a disease because some of the experiences were clairvoyance for instance, that were undeniable for myself. And several other things like seeing colors from around the age of 12.. and just subtle voices and sensations throughout my life. All things I could still function with. But then I went into full blown psychosis 4 years ago. .. I have always known modern medicine would label it something it is not. And it stopped me for years from getting help even-though I’ve been desperate for it at times. Because really no one around me understands. Luckily I do have few openminded people around to whom I can vent some of it. But most I keep to myself because it can be so wild. I would not ever want to go through that (not being able to discern one dimension from another) again although I am also deeply grateful having gone through it.. But even during that time I was just praying for a medicine-man/ woman. A Buddhist teacher, someone of the older traditions that actually understands these phenomena. It was so so lonesome EVEN though the spirit world was helping me move through. They even “warned” me it was going to happen years prior. They told me “you need to prepare to let go of every concept you have about life”. But once it really hit, quite literally, all my frame of reference was gone.. sorry if I’m repeating some stuff from my last comment. It’s just that I feel a little overwhelmed. I just LOVE you for making this channel. I am calming down soo much compared to before. “They” are telling me to just lead as simple a life as possible for now with as little impulses as possible.. And it is a prayer answered to find a person in the flesh, EVEN if I see you on a screen haha, that tells me it is ok. You have done a HEAP for me by making these videos. THANK YOU SO MUCH.
@ForrestKnutson2 жыл бұрын
So wonderful! I'm so glad to hear that! 🌹🙌🙏
@krissykatportal2 жыл бұрын
I’m glad you started this channel because this whole spiritual awakening was forced upon me. And it’s nice to see experienced people describing what they went through. Now I can compare the things that I’m going through with someone else’s experiences. I don’t know if that made sense but thank u for these videos.
@ForrestKnutson2 жыл бұрын
Fantastic. That's exactly what it's for. 🙏🤩
@lestafrank41093 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for sharing your experiences so openly! So very helpful!
@jannareindel62635 жыл бұрын
I love this community you have created and are sharing with. It means so much. Your personal experience is very inspiring. Thank you so much.
@ForrestKnutson5 жыл бұрын
Thank YOU so much for watching and sharing with me!
@yagmurdicle18454 жыл бұрын
@@ForrestKnutson but there is no wrinkles in your face.your face looks bright
@MamaBlue13 Жыл бұрын
I am very grateful to hear your experiences and explanations, particularly this one. Your connections of meditative experience and human physiology are more helpful than you can know. Thank you so very much!!!
@imck7610 ай бұрын
wow.. How did these knots get so wound up in the first place? THANK you for creating a safe space for dialog!!
@coolalok7024 жыл бұрын
Dear Knutson your way of explanation is great and compact........I appreciate
@ForrestKnutson4 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Alok! That's exactly what I aim for.
@jazzychamp3 жыл бұрын
I relate to this. Thank you, yours is a noble endeavour 🙏
@ForrestKnutson3 жыл бұрын
Thank you Tanya!
@mantusachdeva9684 жыл бұрын
Thankyou and please continue to share your experiences ...it is very inspiring and is very good to know that there is someone out there who is ready to listen and give advice....thankyou
@ForrestKnutson4 жыл бұрын
Wonderful, Mantu! Thank you!
@dineshs136554 жыл бұрын
FK ji. Your sharings are excellent. We are indeed fortunate to have you with us, a gem who is always willing n prompt in helping, guiding spiritual aspirants, which are very helpful n encouraging to the Sadhakas. Pl keep up the Great Work. I feel the The Great Gurus are Blessing u n guiding us
@ForrestKnutson4 жыл бұрын
God bless you Dinesh ji, what a kind thing to say. I'm overjoyed at how this little work of mine has grown. 🙏🙏
@lsabdc3302 жыл бұрын
That's very kind of you and thank you for sharing your experience which is really supportive.
@ForrestKnutson2 жыл бұрын
My pleasure 🙏
@jhayalexander8982 Жыл бұрын
Jan. '23. Thank you. Amazing. Have had same experiences of "room and bed spinning", since I was young. Even lately, I had to reach out and grab either side of bed, from spinning. Had no idea what this was, other than an epileptic fit, and seizures that I was diagnosed w/ in 2014, under Obama Care. Spinning, like Dorothy, in Wizard of Oz. Thank you.
@akc1739 Жыл бұрын
Helpful info! Thanks, Forrest.
@charleslewis3045 Жыл бұрын
going back to check out some of your older stuff i’ve missed…. you’re an amazing guru, love your perspectives, and i’ve taken my meditations to a different level from your insight and teachings. thanks 🙏🏼
@ForrestKnutson Жыл бұрын
Fantastic Charles! Congratulations! 🤩🙏
@pittyj369 Жыл бұрын
May the Force be with you!
@flora78203 жыл бұрын
Hi Forrest, I am from Brazil. Your chanel is helping me a lot! Very Thankful!
@ForrestKnutson3 жыл бұрын
Wonderful Flora!
@vimaladominic4 жыл бұрын
Namaste sir. Wonderful kundalini experience. Get to learn more about it. Thank you so much for your kind reply. God bless. Much love
@ForrestKnutson4 жыл бұрын
Thank you Vimala! I hope it sheds a little light on the subject. 🙏
@durwhat8 ай бұрын
Thank you.
@RichGenius445 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much, Forrest! This video is so relevant for me. It’s assuring to hear that others are having experiences I’m having. You have such a wealth of knowledge that I’m really enjoying.
@ForrestKnutson5 жыл бұрын
That's wonderful! I'm so glad to be reassuring. No one ever told me anything, so it all came as quite a surprise to me, and when I tried to confirm it with the monks I was living with, they fell flat again. In the end I have to be responsible for myself, right? However, it sure is nice to have a helping hand along the way. So glad this helped.
@RichGenius445 жыл бұрын
@@ForrestKnutson So Forrest, I read Autobiography of a Yogi years ago and it was a real paradigm changer. I live in LA and have been able to visit Lake Shrine and meditate in the Chapel throughout the years. The energy of Krishna and Babaji have blessed me time and again even without a direct understanding of their philosophies. Their essence and presence have spoken to me quite profoundly. Here's the thing: I'm at the point in my life where meditation has become an essential priority. In addition, Lahiri Mahasaya is coming into my inner visions and I feel he is trying to teach me about Kriya Yoga. I noticed you've written "Hacking the Universe". Does the content reflect Lahiri Mahasaya's teachings? I'm really looking to dive in to Kriya. Thank you!
@ForrestKnutson5 жыл бұрын
Great question! Yes, it definitely is. The only difference would be that I talk about Patanjali and his 8 fold system, while Lahiri Baba taught a 6 fold system. If you could write me at thatyogiguy@gmail.com I'd love to talk more about Lahiri Mahasaya and his original Kriya.
@kantamasters5 жыл бұрын
@@RichGenius44 I hope you have become an Original Kriya yogi! :-)
@stephensylvester18344 жыл бұрын
@@ForrestKnutson Wow, that's very interesting about Lahiri's path being a six fold path. Is it related to Patanjali's (i.e. omitting certain steps) or is it a completely different approach? Also, are there any books that discuss the 6 fold path?
@SunflowerVal92 жыл бұрын
Thank you soo much , right when I watched this video about a year ago...I didnt get it...now I do.
@SitverystillL Жыл бұрын
Btw you are a fantastic teacher and I would love to meditate with you!
@manjunathgangadharg73925 жыл бұрын
If you are not ready it becomes difficult to stay in body... always good to have someone around who understand atleast first-time...
@ForrestKnutson5 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your comment. :)
@wisemantaylor90554 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing such wonderful knowledge, very few people on earth can experience it
@ForrestKnutson4 жыл бұрын
Thank you Wiseman!
@rajasen5414 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing your experience.
@ForrestKnutson4 жыл бұрын
Thank you Raja Sen!
@buddhadhammasangha15 жыл бұрын
Thanks Forrest, for the fresh, honest lion's roar.
@ForrestKnutson5 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Ellen! So great to hear from you!!
@TheMusicBeau3 жыл бұрын
@Forrest Knutson! You are doing a great service by educating the people in this not-so-well understood spiritual practice. I wanted to find out if you have any specific video released that provides recommendations of specific foods to eat or not to eat by the people on their path to kundalini awakening. There are not many videos available on the net except some recommending eating Sattvic food and avoid Tamsa foods.
@ForrestKnutson3 жыл бұрын
I talk about foods a little bit in this video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aeCbnMJlnsDTkmQ.html
@TheMusicBeau3 жыл бұрын
Forrest Knutson thank you! The video definitely provides some helpful information about . I will request you to make another video with more detailed list of different food materials that help or prevent from reaching the sadhaka from going into deeper meditation stages.
@lynnlevy50613 жыл бұрын
Blessed to have you.
@ForrestKnutson3 жыл бұрын
Thank you Lynn!
@Fluffehz4 жыл бұрын
Hey Forrest, A few years ago I had an experience of oneness, love and bliss that was preceeded by what felt like a line of buttons being pressed form bottom to top along my back. What was very significant about the experience was the COMPLETE silence (no thoughts) that accompanied the experience of oneness and bliss. This experience dissipated after 5-10 minutes and the more it left the more the thoughts came back. Nobody I talked to could explain it, but I suspect it was a kundalini related phenomenon. What do you think? Thank you for your videos, I really appreciate them.
@ForrestKnutson4 жыл бұрын
Wonderful, NST, it the Big Bliss Training I explain and demonstrate what I call "The Roll-up." That's what you had, and then you had an Absorption. So, the question becomes, where you surrounded by the bliss with you in the center? Or did you feel at one with it? If you were at One. Then it was a samadhi experience also.
@jessie56c.f.vnon.ttrrm2tjo83 жыл бұрын
I really appreciate this video. Helped me understand that spinning. Thank you.
@ForrestKnutson3 жыл бұрын
I'm so glad to hear that! That's exactly what this video is for.
@VaneAlexa893 жыл бұрын
I have had this experience, in a meditation retreat last New Year's night he finally woke up, after a couple of years of feeling signs, and particularly it is an energy that invites me to live IN LOVE WITH EXISTENCE, I feel at the spiral taking me and literally immobilizing me with an energy similar to a high tension tower in the spine, in the moments where I feel tempted to react impulsively or selfishly, the energy intensifies and I must stop, observe myself and choose to act from love ... and there the energy "calms down" It is a new experience but I appreciate it, I feel that I am guided by this energy, by life. It is like a wave of consciousness.
@ForrestKnutson3 жыл бұрын
Wonderful Vanessa!
@juliendeka33463 жыл бұрын
For me, it's the spine which starts to spin in a wave-like motion without me willing any motion into it. It's a very soothing feeling which usually culminates with a feeling of explosion of joy on the upper part of the skull
@ForrestKnutson3 жыл бұрын
Perfect, Julien!
@qucurabalarahababa25113 жыл бұрын
I have stayed in few ashram and I realized some how the elder and senior there don't really give me much answers and they just ignore me. Most of the time I felt like, no one to really share my meditation experience. I am glad u talk about this and least I know its not just my imagination
@ForrestKnutson3 жыл бұрын
You're absolutely right and that was the combination of my stay in the ashram. That I realized they just didn't have the answers I was looking for.
@sophchiburdanidze65234 жыл бұрын
Thank you for doing what you are doing!
@ForrestKnutson4 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@maestrosk5 жыл бұрын
Hi Forrest and thank you for your great teachings, especially on Khechari, which I just started to stretch and train to attain one day!
@ForrestKnutson5 жыл бұрын
Hi Thomas! Great to hear from you! I'm so glad the Khechari trainings are helping you!
@divinewineismine98295 жыл бұрын
stretch your tongue out long and hard straight down towards your chin, you don't have to use your hands or a stretcher, just notice how much further it will go back naturally after you do this. stretch it by it's own muscle strength down and then back towards the ganglion or past to the mudras position you are trying to achieve as am I. make it stronger and more flexible as a muscle tho don't over strain or damage trying to rush. it will happen eventually.
@JJ-vv6cb3 жыл бұрын
Mine was during a 2 hours meditation session, the eyes started pulsating at an incredible speed, I maintained my calm and kept observing and then there was an explosion of white light. I couldn’t move my body for some moments, it was like being detached from it and my life after that never been the same. I stopped being atheist, became vegetarian , reduced my alcohol intake...the ears now ring everyday and I had plenty of mind blowing visions, from the basic orbs of light , to the spiritual eye when I meditate or do breath work to still images from the past to cartons to high definition tv to math slides to alien spaceships and alien cities, out of body experiences and the spookier ones when focusing on the ear ringing in the evening in which one feels teleported and seems to be possessed by not friendly entities , or flying out of the body and being cared with such love by such a beautiful loving light to mind blowing cartoons series with sounds....it’s a process that will challenge all your conceptions about life and actually make you lose your fear of death or at least reduce it greatly....because the universe seems a lot more complex that one thinks...there is more to life than meets the eye. Thx a lot for your videos Forrest, it’s filled with beautiful advice and it’s very helpful to someone like me that thought he was going crazy....fortunately people like you , google and some kundalini books helped a lot to understand this experience that was very hard at the beginning, changed my life and some of my habits and inclusive my personality, I’m calmer now , more loving and more patient and it’s still ongoing...what a thing...
@carmancortez2 жыл бұрын
do you have a discord i would love to hear more of your story i had my kundalini awakening 3 years ago during a prayer
@JulieTasker3 жыл бұрын
Thanks 🙏 I’ve experienced the spiralling throughout my life yet I used to, I think, stop it and so I used to faint regularly. 🙏💕🙏
@ForrestKnutson3 жыл бұрын
Oh no! It can be very disconcerting when we don't know what it is.
@robertmcmurray44713 жыл бұрын
The feeling of the room spinning is something I got a lot as a child. Sometimes it spun and snapped back then spun and snapped back again. I once had an OBE and for a month after until it faded I felt this stuff a lot and started to feel like like I was almost taking off out of my body again. I fought it along with the waking sleep paralysis but it is my biggest regret that I never gave in to it. I didn't know what it was and wished I had a book on OBE's at the time but you have irrational concerns that something might get into your body while you're out. I never had one again but try occassionally and fail.
@U.N.763 Жыл бұрын
I have out of body experiences every now and then. I have devised a technique for entering into the borderland sleep state. It's called squishing your eyebrows and meditating or holding that squished eyebrows posture and going to sleep. Mannnnn it works wonders.... I think it has something to do with pressure in the third eye.
@enrico438695 жыл бұрын
jay GURU , brother kriyaban!
@ForrestKnutson5 жыл бұрын
Hail to the Bringer of Light indeed!
@enrico438695 жыл бұрын
@@ForrestKnutson HAIL, JAY!|
@hersonpuman33162 жыл бұрын
When I was about 21 or 22 I was practicing aikido and part of the class was a centering and expansion meditation on the hara. After a while, I noticed that sensations kept wanting to rise to the heart and throat. I couldnt seem to keep my energy down there. After an intensive weekend I went home and found myself with a kind of prayer going on in my head (but I wasn't really conventionally that religious). It was a frustrated longing to know what life was all about. It was very intense and out of frustration I called out angrily to the Universe. At that point, some kind of energy ripped up through my body, my heart, through my throat and out of the crown of my head. I was totally freaked and felt I was leaving my body and I was being called towards the stars. I thought I was dying and sat centering on my hara to stay alive! For months later I had a frickin feeling that a cool lazer type light was shining out of my crown. Man, was that strange! I have always felt I was reborn after that event......
@ForrestKnutson2 жыл бұрын
Beautiful! I love it! 🤩🤩🤩🙏
@oceana55544 жыл бұрын
Wow thank you so much, understand ways better now :D
@ForrestKnutson4 жыл бұрын
Wonderful Oceana!
@JohnnyFive6263 жыл бұрын
I have had a few of these dreams. Most recently I had a dream like this 2 nights ago. I have been scared since my awakening and other experiences, so I feel like I have these kundalini dreams b/c they are "safer." I dreamt that my third chakra was spinning, and then I was spun around and pushed to the wall. Then I was surrounded by monks in red and yellow robes. They were blowing in my ear or whispering in my ear. It was intense!!!
@ForrestKnutson3 жыл бұрын
Very cool! Sometimes it's easier in a dream.
@sidharthrelekar77613 жыл бұрын
Dear sole, i have experience of kundalini in 2014 but at that time till now I don't have any guru who is present in body n guide me, i found beej mantras of chakras n chant them continues for 17 days, from 4 th day all experiences started drastic changes r there in my body , there r some shower of lights on body ,n also i m blissed with power of healing ,but on 18th day i experienced dangerous force my each n every cell force me upwords n there lot of fear so that I stop on that movement my sadhana n search for guru. Recently i got an adress of KRIYA Yoga Center located near Allahabad, Guruji Yogi Satyam is there who teaches n gives diksha ( initiation ) so i m going there for kriya. Also your videos are very valuable for me Thank You.
@ForrestKnutson3 жыл бұрын
That's very good, congratulations. I recommend you slow down, and don't do it all at once. Chant OM in each chakra for a little time each day. Let it wash you out so the fear you felt does not return.
@weinerdog1374 жыл бұрын
You have a peaceful countenance.
@ForrestKnutson4 жыл бұрын
Thank you Jason! I see two kids on your arms! What a beautiful family!
@damarubhandari72532 жыл бұрын
I envy you I'm a beginner with too may question still
@Your_Entire_Reality_Is_A_Lie3 жыл бұрын
Newcomer here, just found your channel, incredibly excited to learn mindfulness/meditation techniques from a knowledgeable person like yourself. You seem genuine. On a note in regards to your spiritual"brother" at your retreat(?) , seems like maybe a jealous individual not wanting to share any information/knowledge on the subject? Anyhow, thanks for enlightening folks interested in the topic like myself...
@ForrestKnutson3 жыл бұрын
Thank you, and welcome aboard! You might like the Playlists on HRV Resonate Breathing. This is the best way to start a meditative practice.
@Your_Entire_Reality_Is_A_Lie3 жыл бұрын
@@ForrestKnutson thank you! I will check it out right now!! I just finished my 12th day of beginners meditation through an assisted app and it is this far incredibly helpful for an anxiety ridden individuals like myself. I'll add this playlist to my morning/nightly ritual!! Thanks again
@JustinJohnson-sg4sz3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing this. I have had the same frustration with being able to discuss my experiences or find related videos with tips
@ForrestKnutson3 жыл бұрын
My pleasure Justin
@durgaashtekar11123 жыл бұрын
your channel is very very useful
@ForrestKnutson3 жыл бұрын
Excellent, Durga!
@durgaashtekar11123 жыл бұрын
@@ForrestKnutson thank you for all the help and guidance.
@JK-nt8ou5 жыл бұрын
"Smiley all the time" I can't understand why the brother in the ashram would somehow dislike that. All the great masters always emphasised to always be like a child. Yogananda said: "All the great masters of India that I have known were childlike. They displayed all the qualities of sincerity, frankness, non-attachment, universality, forgiveness, truthfulness, calmness, sweetness, laughter, and freedom from worry of a child - minus the latter’s ignorance". It's very good to be smiley all the time :-)
@ForrestKnutson5 жыл бұрын
Thank you! He was very Calvanistic in his philosophy, and probably right about me. I was going through some things at the time, and was trying to handle it by staying upbeat. In the end I turned it into a joke. I would see him coming so I'd purposefully overly smile. Then he'd see me, and I'd pretend to be caught and change my face into something miserable. It took awhile, but he finally got the joke and laughed with me.
@JK-nt8ou5 жыл бұрын
@@ForrestKnutson Ah I understand, I am glad to hear he lightened up a bit and got the joke :-D
@ForrestKnutson5 жыл бұрын
@@JK-nt8ou Yes, he did. Haha!
@danielpaulo37463 жыл бұрын
Your channel is a goldmine! Thank you Forrest! I had a question, I experience all this when im singing, do u recommend ways to sustain the feeling?
@ForrestKnutson3 жыл бұрын
Wonderful! I teach HRV Resonant Breathing which I think you'd like. Try the HRV playlists.
@rocky8212 жыл бұрын
then you should definitely read chants of a lifetime by krishna das.
@danielpaulo37462 жыл бұрын
@@rocky821 thank u will check it out :)
@equynenergie2 жыл бұрын
Very helpful
@sangeeta9633 жыл бұрын
A master or one whos had Samadhi will know what u are speaking of..Your spinal Vortex moves it spreads n makes u feel u are spinning..the 3rd know opens Only in AUM ascention..u hear it u are enraptured by it it dissolves u..u hear d voice of god saying Vedanta at the heart knot..n LIGHT n u are ONE ... Narayana ..u are Narayana..then i was 5 days immersed totally in Lightrons !!So luminous so soft so Holy..!!
@mannie20753 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much 🙏❤️🙏 you describe my questions very good - but I wonder Joe do you feel for example toung knots🧐 Much love from Sweden 🇸🇪🌍🪴💃🏻🎶
@poonamnayar24893 жыл бұрын
Thanks 🙏
@ForrestKnutson3 жыл бұрын
You’re welcome 😊
@DP-fd4id5 жыл бұрын
Your experience is real, but don't fix with the experiences as with will lag you behind, because ppl may keep looking for it.
@ForrestKnutson5 жыл бұрын
Thanks DP. That's true; if you are an experience junkie, then you will be caught in the left brain.
@luvbug89534 жыл бұрын
In 2011 after visualization / slow breathing I had a powerful orgasmic explosion in my head, I remember it felt like lightning bolts shooting from the top of my head downward along with the orgasmic waves. For about 4 days after that happened, a buzzing / electric noise woke me up at night and I seen vivid tiny complex geometric shapes moving in sync behind closed eyes. I got the feeling that I seen a part of the world I wasn't supposed to see lol, like behind the scenes code of reality.. That's why I'm researching kundalini yoga. Anyway in 2016 a spinning sensation in front of my chest woke me up, it was like an invisible spinning magnetic pull.
@ForrestKnutson4 жыл бұрын
Very cool. I've found it very helpful to read a bunch of kundalini stories. My goal has been not so much kundalini as it is just to raise prana, however it has benefited my understanding to hear all the stories and possibilities. ... I talk about the archetype of spinning in the 3rd knot of Lahiri Mahasaya. I have several videos on this that you might enjoy.
@luvbug89534 жыл бұрын
Your videos are very helpful! That first unexpected experience lead me to the yoga path, but I've never been able to recreate it. It was an accident that happened after I heard about astral projection from KZfaq and tried to do it lol. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with people!
@lovelight63403 жыл бұрын
Woww looking back i did have an experience where i was curled up in a ball on my trampoline and i thought i was asleep but i knew i wasn’t and my physical eyes were closed but i could see myself spinning all over the trampoline in the same curled up position i was in and i just kept spinning going all over the trampoline like a pin ball. Then when i ‘woke up’ i was in the same place i laid down. What do you think this experience was because i’m not so sure. After this i have tried kundalini awakening meditations and have felt symptoms of such.
@ForrestKnutson3 жыл бұрын
That's the experience of the 3rd Knot as you are on the edge of exiting the left brain. Very normal yogic sensation. Well done!
@nenadrudic8409Ай бұрын
I have very intense kundalini awaking from top to bottom energy was flowing and for couple days I was seeing everything like one.Question how to get back that kundalini energy back since I have lost her after couple days Thx
@pbhello5 жыл бұрын
One time, when I was a teen, I was walking down the sidewalk of a busy and loud road. I was kind of deep into my own thoughts, and even though the traffic was loud, it was just background noise to my thoughts. My thoughts were light-hearted and not particularly important. Cars were whizzing by, horns were beeping, and also, someone was spinning their tires. All of a sudden, I heard a very loud crash and felt a burning sensation on the back of my calves, and without intention, I started high-stepping, football style, forward. The person that was spinning their tires, was not doing it intentionally, but because a fire hydrant was draining and she probably had bald tires, as she was turning onto the main road that I was walking on, she lost traction with the road and drove onto the sidewalk, extremely close to me. As far as I know, the car never touched me. I can understand my running, even if it wasn't a conscious decision to do so, because of the noise of the car hitting the curb, but what I don't understand is what caused me to feel a burning sensation on the back of my calves? I believe, ultimately, God saved me, but the intriguing thing is the process that was used. The reason why I bring it up after watching this video is maybe I was in some type of meditative mindset which left me open to the burning calves signal? Maybe it was an intense signal radiated from the woman who was driving the car and was trying to avoid hitting me? Sorry if this is off topic, I just think things like that are fascinating. A few other things in that realm have happened to me, too. Take care, and thank you for your work!
@ForrestKnutson5 жыл бұрын
Amazing! Thank you for sharing! The Right brain, the Parent brain, is designed to look out for us continuously. Its view is omni-directional, and it operates without words. Often we find a way to short circuit its directions. In this case it was important enough for it to take over and save your life. Beautiful story! Yes, God saved you.
@pbhello5 жыл бұрын
@@ForrestKnutson very cool insight; thank you! I've got some other cool and mysterious things that I've experienced, but I'll save them for another time. Take care!
@ForrestKnutson5 жыл бұрын
Wonderful! Let me know... 😀
@user-tm5em4vu7u8 ай бұрын
When you meditate, do you see snakes around you? I keep seeing that. Often dream about them and think of them.
@mindsciences85493 жыл бұрын
I am doing meditation but need someone like you who can guide me step by step to go deep into that field and explore more, hope you will help me. thanks
@ForrestKnutson3 жыл бұрын
Hello, that's what I do with my Patreon group, and through my trainings here: www.meditativemellows.com/
@rajibsaini68203 жыл бұрын
Thank you Forrest for sharing this experience,can you pls.explain the connection between pineal gland & kundlini awaking.
@ForrestKnutson3 жыл бұрын
My pleasure. The pineal glad helps the rest of the brain put the pieces together. It deepens the trance to enable a deeper experience.
@rajibsaini68203 жыл бұрын
@@ForrestKnutson Thanks a lot,I took Kriya initiation 8yrs back from Yss,but now I live in Sydney here srf takes care off,but I am still on kriya one after hearing you I am more clear and transplant in approach,I really appreciate your efforts .practicing every 15minutes for 2yrs to develop spiritual eye.tell me forrest do you still drink tamarind? Tell me if you want can you talk to the Masters through spiritual eye ? I mean two way conversations?Thanks
@ForrestKnutson3 жыл бұрын
@@rajibsaini6820 no I only took tamarind for a month. ... The communication sometimes just arrives, and sometimes the golden light crystalizes into a face.
@rajibsaini68203 жыл бұрын
@@ForrestKnutson okay Thank you.
@SitverystillL Жыл бұрын
Hey forest It was around 5am lying in bed my body was super relaxed, my heals felt heavy and it felt like an overwhelming amount of energy that went flying from my heals to head surging up for about 7 seconds. But it overwhelmed my body what happened sir?
@tjeerddebruin4 жыл бұрын
Pulsating tailbone and spinning body got me here.
@ForrestKnutson4 жыл бұрын
Hi Tjeerd! You'll want to watch the videos on the 3 Knots of Lahiri Mahasaya to understand a little what is happening to you.
@itsmepearly6074 жыл бұрын
Tjeerd de Bruin I’m experiencing the same.
@edu-lins5 жыл бұрын
Hey Forrest! I've just found out your channel and you are helping me a lot. Thank you very much! Also, I have something intriguing to share. I'm a beginner meditator and every time I meditate effectively I can feel by body spinning. It has become something so normal to my practice that when I don't feel myself spinning I feel like my meditation didn't succeed at all. Maybe I'm having my kundalini activation?
@ForrestKnutson5 жыл бұрын
Eduardo! It's fantastic to meet you! Thank you so much for sharing your experience! That's a great sensation, and a very good indicator of depth. You might like to look at the couple videos here where I mention Lahiri Mahasaya's 3 knots, which is a downward progression experience. The turning that you are feeling is the 3rd knot. I have a new theory about what this actually is in the brain, which I hope to share in video soon. Thank you for your great question!
@ameyapathak20085 жыл бұрын
Once I felt like the third eye was flickering like it was trying to open it's eyelid...Off course I was practicing my sambhavi.....What does that mean...I asked around my brothers who practice priya..But they are yet to reach that state...It's too blissful there
@ForrestKnutson5 жыл бұрын
I have a video about the 3 stages of Shambhavi. I mention the drawing, or magnetic state that the kutastha or medulla enters. That state is very blissful. This is part of the 3 Knots which happen in descending order. I have a video on the 3 knots, as well.
@yonix39583 жыл бұрын
what people don't understand is considered a dream or madness. Scientists or rationalists are experts in this field. What if it was enough to induce a physical or mental rotational effect to awaken the kundalini? I am thinking in particular of the dance of the whirling dervishes.
@ForrestKnutson3 жыл бұрын
I think so. I think that's what their practice is actually about. Not that there's any guarantee that it would happen quickly. However once you have had a deep experience it's easy enough to induce it by imagining it's happening to you.so the imagination becomes a gateway to the actual experience. In the same way that if you imagined yourself playing basketball every day you would get better at basketball in the real world.
@U.N.763 Жыл бұрын
I am there for you forest you can tell me your experiences
@WakingEssence4 жыл бұрын
Virtual kriya. . .very curious creature! Evidently the day of synthetic 'awareness' has arrived. . .replete with synthetic, repetitive, neuro-looping virtual background music. . .Ah, for the genuine thing. . .
@mikefinley43673 жыл бұрын
Why label this kundaini awakening? Unless it rises you have not awakened. Yes Kundalini experiences can differ when the internal breath pings the bottom chakra it can at that point differ in the experience of how it rises which are six basic ways with one greater deemed para kundaln not common. Samadhi has three stages and is experience when it truly rises, each stage requires being able to remain in samadhi longer and is a practice into it self. You ... Had an experience not a knudalini awakening and if you ever do you won't teach how to over a phone or internet.
@longdukdong6994 жыл бұрын
Spinning sensation is the Kundalini in the root chakra. At this point it is still coiled and still asleep. But it did stir or arouse. It is not really a Kundalini experience, especially not a Kundalini rising experience.
@ForrestKnutson4 жыл бұрын
It depends
@BlaCK_HaT.3 жыл бұрын
❤🤗🤗
@mariehawkswood71573 жыл бұрын
Why is the spiritual eye I see green rather than gold?
@ForrestKnutson3 жыл бұрын
That happens it's usually an early version and as you go on it will turn more golden.
@kresienm90315 жыл бұрын
Thank You. Enjoying all your videos. they have been helpful. Is it easier to awaken Kundalini or open Third eye. Please can you give methods on doing so?
@ForrestKnutson5 жыл бұрын
It is much easier to "open" the third eye. I have a video planned on this. ... The trick is to not look through it with your eyes, but with your attention. So you have to divide your attention from your physical eye focus. This happens automatically when we dilate the eyes significantly in meditation.
@kresienm90315 жыл бұрын
Thank You. I am looking forward to the video.@@ForrestKnutson
@ForrestKnutson5 жыл бұрын
Wonderful! Thank you for your encouragement!
@rb36942 жыл бұрын
Which Ashram did you learn in?
@neosugarland76823 жыл бұрын
Thank you Forrest for sharing your experiece. I would like to share mine if you don't mind about my own spiritual journey or more like a psychic experience. Ever since i can remember, i would have visions of things that will happen in the next 2-3 seconds. I always wondered how and why it happens. It reminds me of a Nicholas Cage movie titled NEXT. In this movie Nicholas would see things that will happen in the next 5 minutes. I also experienced SLOW MO effect thats when everything in my field of vision would move in slow motion just like when you push the slow mo button while watching a movie. This so far has only happened twice in my life. It happened while i was practicing martial arts and second was when i was in a emergency situation. I tried to replicate this feat or at least try to reverse engineer it . But i guest it was more a spontanious thing that got triggered. Thanks
@ForrestKnutson3 жыл бұрын
Very cool! That's a wonderful experience! It makes sense that we are programmed for longevity, and that intuition is a part of that programming. I've had a couple experiences of perception slowing down and speeding up.
@neosugarland76823 жыл бұрын
@@ForrestKnutson Nice, any idea why or how one's perception slows down or speed up ?
@ToxicLucidity3 жыл бұрын
I have felt the first knot and now I want to experience the second one. How long does it take between the first and the second?
@josevillamildelacadena67582 жыл бұрын
May you give us your teachings in spanish, please?
@ForrestKnutson2 жыл бұрын
Okay Jose! Pronto haré un video en español. 🤩🙏
@rinakaur7245 Жыл бұрын
Which ashram did you go to?
@harsh-dy8lp4 жыл бұрын
Extremely Informative - I stumbled upon your videos yesterday and they are so awesome!!! I had a query - how many levels are in kriya yoga? I hear diff figs all the time.thanks
@ForrestKnutson4 жыл бұрын
Within every Lahiri Mahasaya and Panchanan Bhattacharya line there should be 7 Kriya levels with a few variations, as well.
@harsh-dy8lp4 жыл бұрын
@@ForrestKnutson thanks
@ForrestKnutson4 жыл бұрын
@@harsh-dy8lp my pleasure!
@A-kash3 жыл бұрын
are you still active. i have many experiences with no explanations as to why i feel the things i do during meditation
@krissykatportal2 жыл бұрын
What does it mean when I’m meditating and all of a sudden I start to see this beautiful purplish smoke or liquid ?
@ForrestKnutson2 жыл бұрын
That is the spiritual eye. I have some older videos on this usually with the words shambhavi mudra, or just spiritual eye.
@krissykatportal2 жыл бұрын
@@ForrestKnutson thank u so much. All these things are happening to me that I never thought possible. My mom thinks I have demonic spirits in me so it’s hard understanding these things. I appreciate you so much!!!
@jacarandamarie2 жыл бұрын
Hi Forrest! I just found your channel and LOVE your vibe 💓. One question please - three years ago in a meditative space, I had what I can only describe as a LIGHTNING BOLT enter my head. I could see all of my atoms move around in my brain and rearrange while LIT UP, and with this very loud and deep WHIRRRRR sound happening. This went on for a while and then there were five bright EXPLOSIONS of light inside of me. It is so hard to explain in words, but it changed me immediately, as I KNEW and still KNOW there is a Greater Presence connecting ALL things. Have you ever heard of this kind of experience, and would you describe this as a different kind of Kundalini? Or something else?? Thank You 🙏🏻 I have been searching for answers 💓
@ForrestKnutson2 жыл бұрын
Beautiful! I once had that feeling of a lightning bolt coming through the top of my head and going down my spine while in prayer. Perhaps I should tell that story. This would fit within the category of Kundalini. Anytime we have a feeling inside of ourselves inside of the body of energy moving it fits within the category of Kundalini Awakening. We have become awake to the movements which are usually hidden. That you had a deep knowing because of this experience - that is a gift from the right brain - the guardian angel or the God brain inside of us. Welcome to the channel and I hope you find more and more answers. 🥳🙏
@jacarandamarie2 жыл бұрын
@@ForrestKnutson Oh my!! Thank you SO MUCH. I AM in tears reading this!! It’s been an awesome experience since that moment, but also very lonely as no one understood. Until YOU. What a gift on Thanksgiving Day (I am in Oregon, USA). Thank You for sharing your experience with me. I will definitely binge on your videos this weekend 😉 I send you so many blessings from my heart to yours. 🙏🏻
@ForrestKnutson2 жыл бұрын
@@jacarandamarie be sure to listen to tomorrow's video, and I'll tell that story.
@jimbyrne4663 жыл бұрын
Hi Forrest, I appreciate your videos and your genuine nature. In meditation, I see what looks like the iris of an eye. As I relax deeper into meditation the pupil of the iris turns a violet color. At some point, I often feel a like a "swoosh" sensation as if I'm moving to the stars. This violet pupil is a portal and I start to see blinking eyes. I've seen this many times. On one occasion, I felt as though I had moved through the portal. I was face to face with the most beautiful being. It's skin was light violet in color and it literally had three eyes. It seemed benevolent enough. I was just startled and lost the connection. Any ideas? My higher self? Thank you again for your videos - Namaste
@ForrestKnutson3 жыл бұрын
So that was the spiritual eye and when you feel that swoosh you are exiting from the preoccupation with the left brain and the sense of self or the consciousness is moving into absorption. If you were to go into full absorption then you would begin to enter a non-dual state. So what happened in that experience is you were right before that absorption and you entered what I call the download phase, and you had a meeting with an archetype of your Higher Self. Very awesome!
@jimbyrne4663 жыл бұрын
@@ForrestKnutson, Thank you for taking time for me and creating a safe space to discuss such things!
@astoria7913 жыл бұрын
I've felt that spinning experience. It has been mild for me. Honestly, the monastics can be ridiculous. I once asked a brother what "bliss" was. He said it was what one would feel after having a baby! Honestly he said that. Then I realized he didn't have a clue. For me having babies was a frightening experience. Yes, you love them but it's still terrifying physically, mentally, emotionally. Then another time I spoke to a nun. I asked about the spontaneous "kriyas" I was having. Spontaneous uddhiyana bandhas. She looked at me like I had two heads. They know nothing!
@ForrestKnutson3 жыл бұрын
Yes, that was my experience 97% of the time after living there for approximately 7 years.
@DP-fd4id5 жыл бұрын
Did you ask your guru? Who is your guru?
@ForrestKnutson5 жыл бұрын
I ask my Guru everything.
@DP-fd4id5 жыл бұрын
@@ForrestKnutson Then why didn't clear your spiritual experiences with him?
@ForrestKnutson5 жыл бұрын
@@DP-fd4id you assume that I didn't.
@paramvirsingh10065 жыл бұрын
I would like to know if there are any blockages in meditation. For eg anhedonia occurring and is there a solution to it? Thanks for sharing such informative videos.
@ForrestKnutson5 жыл бұрын
Anhedonia and depression usually happen when the past and the experience in our past, weigh on us so heavily that we can't imagine any possibly bright future. So we begin to give up hope. So it's an Affliction of both the past and the future as it is held in the unconscious mind. The best remedy that I know for this is a technique called the time line therapy. But you might have a hard time finding someone in your area that can help you with this. I'm planning on doing a series of videos about time line therapy and those may be of some use to you. I will try to get those out as soon as I can, but I have to set up the information correctly so everybody can understand.
@ForrestKnutson5 жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching! Please let me know if you have anymore questions.
@kanishkbohra9373 жыл бұрын
How is this spinning different from vertigo?
@juliantaylor73683 жыл бұрын
Hello Forrest - what an amazing experience! I have been reading a lot about Kundalini and sublimation, especially relating to the Golden Flower Meditation method. What are your thoughts on sublimation and Kundalini awakening in the case of householders? thanks as always!
@ForrestKnutson3 жыл бұрын
Hi Julian, I don't agree that Kundalini is a process of sublimation. The principle of everything in moderation is a great one, but the principle of celibacy leads to problems every single time as we have seen within the last 10 years very clearly. It is true if you are worn out and low of energy then the Kundalini experience will be reduced. However this is minor the real process of what is happening is the integration with subconscious material. Great question!
@juliantaylor73683 жыл бұрын
@@ForrestKnutson thank you Forrest. That is good to hear. I am keen to experience Kundalini energy, but not at the expense of my family.
@ForrestKnutson3 жыл бұрын
@@juliantaylor7368 that's wonderful. If you look back on my channel I do have a video on celibacy I think it's called The myth of celibacy. The lineage I represent is a householder lineage of meditation.
@sedefas64814 жыл бұрын
Did you also see snakes in your dreams, wonderful channel thank you
@ForrestKnutson4 жыл бұрын
I don't remember that I ever had that. Others symbols came to me. I had a teaching dream about An Elevator Shaft, funny enough.
@dheerajtak23063 жыл бұрын
Sir, i am not yet initiated by a guru but i do meditate. now i feel sometimes when i concentrate to meditate. i feel the oscillation in my mind...it feels like i am feeling the earthquake but its not there for anybody else. Am i feeling something spiritual or is it my mind only? Please sir, its something i cannot explain to anybody...
@ForrestKnutson3 жыл бұрын
That's the 2nd knot, the heart knot. See my video about the 3 knots of Lahiri Mahasaya. This is the 2nd one.
@omaradi-chavez79922 жыл бұрын
I have a question, what happens when a Guru shares their Samadhi??
@ForrestKnutson2 жыл бұрын
Have you ever been in tune with somebody so much that you started to hear their thoughts before they said them out loud?
@omaradi-chavez79922 жыл бұрын
@@ForrestKnutson It's only has happen a couple of times with my wife, but I have experienced full blown telepathy, the reason I ask is because there's a Guru master called Yogiraj, and I seen videos of him telling the crowd that he's going to share his Samaddhi, latter this month he's going to be having an online event and the second day he is going to share his Samaddhi, what I am curious about is if this would help me further my self in this path??, different question have you ever heard of the 1000 exploding Suns of God??