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The Evolving Human: A True Story of Awakened Kundalini

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I wrote this book after struggling with kundalini for several years because I felt there had to be other people in the world who were struggling with these symptoms and might be helped if they knew what was really happening.

Many people believe that spirituality is some fine, fuzzy feeling of benevolent prayerfulness that makes everything in the world wonderful and blissful. While a full awakening does lead eventually to joy, the beginning of the road can be overwhelming in its difficulties - the appearance of clairvoyance, clairaudience, and other psychic gifts, out-of-body experiences, precognition, periods of overwhelming sensuality, strange pains in the feet, intense and explosive heating of the body, inability to concentrate, loss of interest in jobs and partners due to blossoming of your true interests or purpose, and sometimes the crumbling of your old life - all of which creates what is known as "spiritual emergency."

After 22 years of counseling those caught in these difficulties, and running a small center providing temporary housing for those whose lives fall apart, it is clear that spirituality transforms both awareness and action, and the burden of these gifts is that they must be taken back into everyday life... hence the old saying, "Before enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment - chop wood, carry water."

It is also clear that a true spiritual awakening is deeply connected to sexuality, and that few people mention this in their writings, partly because of the many taboos around sex, partly because it is so deeply personal, and partly because they have not had the full awakening and therefore don't know enough. Those who knew Gopi Krishna were aware of the potent sexual nature of his experiences, and those who have studied the writings of Charles Leadbetter, Lee Sannela MD, Hank Wesselman, Swami Muktananda, St. John of The Cross, and others makes it clear that although Western religions have tried to separate sexuality and spirituality, they are intimately linked.

Known in the East as "kundalini", and in the West as "grace", this book covers the full range of what may be encountered in "the full manifestation of grace" and makes it obvious that what has long been considered an outright gift of God is built-in to each of us and unfolds spontaneously. The result, says Jesuit priest Pierre deChardin, is a "move up the ladder of evolution, a biological super-creation."

Finally a book about a regular person's experience with Kundalini Awakening!

I found the first half of this book to be absolutely phenomenal. Just like Robert Monroe's Far Journeys, Penny Kelly relates her extraordinary experience from the perspective of an ordinary person having a life-altering experience that she didn't even know was possible. Penny Kelly was not a yoga or mediation practitioner; she didn't have a guru. She had a series of mind-blowing experiences and this book details her search for answers, and her journey to coming to terms with her new perceptions.

I did find the second half of the book to rely to much on accepted theories as well as the need for this evolutionary change to occur. I find this type of message overly dogmatic and firmly routed in religious beliefs that man (at least here on Earth) is basically evil or else driven by the Darwinian survival of the fittest that leads to a need to dominate everything. For someone who realizes that her beliefs influence her perception of reality, I wish that Ms. Kelly would have gone a step further to point out that everything is really okay.

All in all, I found this book tremendously helpful. It is well-written, and it is REAL. The trauma of fearing for one's sanity when not knowing what is happening is quite real and can lead people to shy away from such life-altering experiences. However, by reading how Ms. Kelly integrated the changes in her life, we, the readers, are left with the comfort of knowing that it is possible to move through the fear and unpleasant sensations to a place of peace and joy and fulfillment.

Thank you!!

This is a great book about the powers of the human mind. Kelly is an excellent story teller and is able to take the reader through her experiences so clearly; that you actually feel like you are present with her.

The book is definitely thought provoking and the reality is sometimes scary. It is a compelling reading. I found it difficult to put down as I was drawn into every experience.

I also enjoyed interviewing Kelly on my Internet Radio Talk Show "Love and Balance with Chidi" on Voice America Networks.

Chidi Asika-Enahoro,
Author of "Innocence Interrupted".Innocence interrupted: A sexual molestation survival & prevention guide