"It started suddenly with an uncontrollable jerk as I sat on a straight backed chair in a small rustic cottage…. Then, came a loud inner roar like the sound of water rushing, followed by the searing image in my mind's eye of hot white light shooting up my spine, through my brain and out the top of my head. The force was so strong that my head flew backward as my arms flung upward, fingers splayed and palms raised to the heavens.  Accompanied by a strong, hot dry wind the light drew me up and out of my body to an expanded universe where everything was vividly alive, conscious and interconnected."

Brenda Sanders, PhD in Peak Vitality

In that one gripping instant, the touchstone from which I lived my life vanished. The implications were staggering. At the time I was a research biologist and university professor living comfortably within the paradigm of modern science that reality is physical and anything supposedly metaphysical was illusion or superstition. I believed I was the sum total of my thoughts, hopes and beliefs, and nothing more. It has taken me years to reorient and realign my life. I still can't shake the sense of realness that I felt –it felt more real to me than any other moment in my life. I have since learned that my experience isn't unique and that these spiritual, or Kundalini, awakenings as some call them, are happening more frequently in the west.

I continue to deal with the profound personal challenges of creating a new life consistent with the person that I now know I am. And as a scientist I am fascinated by the scientific, philosophical and spiritual implications of this phenomenon and the contribution of direct experience to the Science of Consciousness. I invite you to join me in a grounded discourse on these topics on the blog at this website.

If you are interested, please read my chapter, 'What's Really Real', from Peak Vitality which frames the discussion. The chapter can be downloaded and the book purchased from this site. 

Namaste

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