I was living a stone’s throw from Harvard U.
in Cambridge, MA in the midst of various
emerging spiritual groups, mostly out of
India.
Myself and a friend visited a group called
Ananda Marga and met their group leader,
a Harvard student named Ollie.
Blonde hair, thin, decent looks, average
height and and blue eyes that seemed
capable of holding the secrets of the universe.
Ollie’s head perpetually moved smoothly,
from side to side, and you knew he had attained
some kind of advanced spiritual state. It wasn’t
BS. It wasn’t an act. It was like something you’d
see in an advanced sadhu in India.
Ollie was experiencing a perpetual manifestation
of kundalini energy flowing from the base of
his spine to the crown of his head.
I’d never seen anyone before Ollie who
genuinely experienced that outside of
meditation so powerfully. With kundalini
energy, it’s common to experience such
things in meditation and to always feel the
energy rising outside of meditation to varying
degrees – sometimes six feet above your head.
Never having experienced the full fruition of
this energy, but having read Gopi Krishna’s
account of his full blown awakening, I can
say such manifestations are only partial
awakenings.
But I wouldn’t be surprised if Ollie attained
a full awakening and cosmic consciousness
in his lifetime.
Bob Boyd