I am trying to understand what you are saying yet it appears you are equating kundalini with the Holy Spirit. I cannot grasp this,since a kundalini awakening can be activated by ritual sodomy as well as trance and drug experiences. The Holy Spirit is not some random force but the third PERSOn of the Blessed Trinity. Even the Dalai Lama admits that the two paths are NOT the same.
Most people are not looking for a mystical experience but to conform themselves to the will of God by acts of loving kindness as well as obedience to authority.The devil has no power over those who are obedient.
kundalini is a non-Catholic attempt at explaining what happens to human beings who were made in the image of God. Since they don’t acknowledge the Holy Spirit, their experiences require a different explanation.
What I’ve found is that the more I learn about non-Christian religions and especially non-western ones, there is more in common at their very core in terms of what does this mean about how a human body interacts with forces we cannot see and measure in a lab, than I ever knew before I ever heard of the apophatic tradition of the Church.
As far as being made in the image of God, we say that but then we effectively deny it, in the way we (many Catholics IMO) go about self-loathing in lieu of humility and look for God everywhere but within.
Notice, for example, 1 Cor 6:18-20
18 Avoid immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the immoral person sins against his own body.[h] 19 Do you not know that your body is a temple* of the holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? 20 For you have been purchased at a price. Therefore glorify God in your body.
So we are temples of God, the Holy Spirit being
within us, so we should avoid sin because we are sinning against God. So yes when we do wrong we are reminded that God is inside us and we’re really giving Him fits.
But then when we do something loving, we don’t see that we are also temples of the Holy Spirit when we do good stuff, too. Basically we are “channelers” for God, through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. We offer our bodies and minds to “channel” His love into loving acts, and each time no less an “Incarnation” than the Eucharist itself. Which should not be any big deal to those who recognize that the transubstantiation that is of most importance is not that bread becomes God, but that we consume that bread and we become one with God. I used the term “channel” to mean His tools, His arms and legs on this earth. His little Christ-children, adopted siblings of Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ who made all the others.
If I may be so bold as to go one step further, we are all “gods” if we have received the Word. Jesus tried to explain this and almost got killed for it. No wonder the pharisees of this day cannot stand it when we compare ourselves to God in any other way as to call light to how miserable and terrible we are by comparison. He made us to BE gods; not to run around feeling lousy because we aren’t.
John 10:30-36
30 [n]The Father and I are one.”
31 The Jews again picked up rocks to stone him. 32 Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of these are you trying to stone me?” 33 The Jews answered him, “We are not stoning you for a good work but for blasphemy. You, a man, are making yourself God.” 34 [o]Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, “You are gods”’? 35 If it calls them gods to whom the word of God came, and scripture cannot be set aside, 36 can you say that the one whom the Father has consecrated[p] and sent into the world blasphemes because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?
So my question is, why do we deny our own divinity? If you think other religions are spooky and weird, they are nothing compared to the richness of what we have right here. And it isn’t always because they are completely off-base; sometimes they are looking at the same thing and applying different words – and making different assumptions.*
