Shared Transformation Issue 17
Electricity
Shakti (the risen Kundalini) frequently interferes with household electricity. I know of several people who called in electricians to check all their home wiring (without finding defects) when this interference caused concern. Lights go dim or may flicker, or blink off and on in the vicinity of the awakening individual. I went through a period where I couldn't touch a light switch without the light bulb instantly burning out. Radio or TV channels may produce static in the presence of such a person. Electrical and mechanical appliances may break down far more frequently. One woman told me she had "burned out" four answering machines in a period of five weeks. There were times when my energy was so strong that if I simply walked into the room where my husband was using the computer or printer, these machines would instantly malfunction. As soon as I left the room, they would operate perfectly again! The heightened energy in our systems can affect others around us. Animals may react differently in our presence, being magnetized to us or bolting away from us. One woman went through a period when the energy charge in her body was so great that whenever she entered a room where her cat was, the cat's hair would stand on end and it would streak away from her. During this time, her partner got an electric shock whenever he touched her. (Kissing can produce an electric shock for both parties when the spiritual energies are strong.)
Machinery noises can have a very strange effect on us during hypersensitive periods. I became
a sort of human tuning fork -- mechanical vibrations set me off in a wild way. Once my husband decided to clean
some crumbs off the table with the Dustbuster. As soon as he switched it on, I went into a seizure. Energy blasted
through my spinal cord and out of the top of my head like a geyser. It was both terrible and hilarious. Charles
had no idea that my sudden "attack" had anything to do with the vibration of the vacuum cleaner, and
my teeth rattled so hard I could only beg in an incoherent stutter: "St...st...st...STOP!" He finally
understood, and as soon as the machine was off, my seizure ended. During spiritual emergence, paranormal incidents
are commonly reported. In my case, a television repeatedly turned itself on full blast in the middle of the night.
Objects may crack, move or fall in the presence of shakti. I went through a phase where whatever room I was in
would make creaking, popping and other random noises for no apparent reason. One afternoon, I felt a sudden wild
and emphatic throbbing in my spine. "Now what?" I thought, hoping this wasn't signaling some new physical
disaster. After about 30 seconds, all this commotion in my spine stopped. I happened to turn on the TV and catch
a news broadcast some while later, and it turned out that at the exact time I was feeling the throbbing in my spine,
a moderate sized earthquake had struck in the region just east of us. Vicki Noble had a similar synchronistic
bodily manifestation as mine; a large boil developed on her back that she experienced as "a volcano needing
to erupt." The day after she made this comment to her partner, "Mount Helens did erupt, and so did my
boil!" (from Shakti Woman). When the Kundalini has sufficiently sensitized us, we discover, as Noble did,
that we are one with the earth. Carl Jung, who underwent several years of profound spiritual emergence, also experienced
extraordinary phenomena. There was a period when a series of uncanny phenomena occurred in his home, witnessed
by family members. He said "it was as if my house began to be haunted. My eldest daughter saw a white figure
passing through the room. My second daughter, independently of her elder sister, related that twice in the night
her blanket had been snatched away." Later in the day, his "front door bell began ringing frantically,"
although no one was at the door. All these poltergeist-type activities stopped when Jung channeled his now famous
mystical work, "The Seven Sermons of the Dead." (from Memories, Dreams, Reflections) Through our bodies
and minds, we are receiving stations for inconceivably powerful forces and vast information about ourselves and
our world. Although SHAKTI spirits may be involved in the production of these phenomena, these paranormal events
seem more likely to happen in the presence of a person with a great deal of shakti. Instead of regarding any of
these phenomena as supernatural and frightening, I interpret them as signs of lila, the play of God. When the
shakti is strong in us, we are privy to more mysterious forms of this cosmic playfulness and interconnectedness.
Sometimes, the phenomena also seem to be asking us to be more receptive, or to allow spiritual messages to come
through, as in Jung's case. And sometimes it seems to be simply an awakening call -- a startling "Hello!
I'm right here with you!" from an unexpected voice of the Universe.
-- El Collie
© El Collie 1995