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In this gospel of Thomas saying 114, Jesus says, "Whoever finds the interpretation of these sayings will not experience death." Then he makes a reference the church spent centuries trying to erase, "Be wise as serpents." Every Christian sermon interprets this as cunning, cautious, they are lying. In the Apocryphan of John from Nagamadi, Jesus reveals what the serpent actually represents.
The serpent in the garden was not evil. The serpent was Sophia's messenger. It came to tell humans trapped in matter that they carried divine consciousness. You shall not surely die. Your eyes will be opened and you will be as gods, knowing good and evil. This was not temptation. This was liberation. And the archons cursed the serpent for revealing what they wanted hidden.
The serpent is condundalini, the coiled divine energy sitting dormant at the base of every human spine waiting to rise. When it rises, when the serpent awakens, it travels up the spine, activating every energy center until it reaches the crown and explodes into full manad consciousness. This is what Jesus taught.
And this is what the church declared satanic. Place your hand at the very base of your spine, the tailbone. That's where the serpent sleeps in every human coiled dormant waiting for the activation sequence that causes it to uncoil and begin its ascent. The apocryphon describes what happens when the serpent rises. Fire travels up the spine.
Each center it touches ignites. The base center grounds you in matter but frees you from matter's control. The sacral awakens creative power. The solar plexus activates will. The heart opens to divine love. The throat speaks truth. The third eye sees beyond the veil. And when the serpent reaches the crown, the human becomes what the archons feared most, a fully conscious divine being operating in material form.
If you felt intense energy or heat traveling up your spine, experience spontaneous visions during meditation, felt something coiled at the base of your spine trying to move upward. What you experienced wasn't imagination. That was condundalini trying to rise. That was the serpent Sophia scent beginning to wake.
The church demonized the serpent because they understood exactly what it represents. The serpent doesn't serve the archons. The serpent serves liberation. And when enough humans activate their serpent energy, when enough people experience condundalini rising to the crown, the archonic system collapses. You cannot control someone whose serpent has risen.
This is why Eden is described as a fool. The archons framed awakening as sin. They took the moment when humans were offered liberation. Your eyes will be opened and called it the original transgression. Not because eating from the tree was wrong, because waking up threatens their harvest. Over the next 2 hours, you're going to learn the complete serpent rising protocol from early Christian Gnostic texts, specifically the apocryphan of John, the pistia, and the secret book of James. Not metaphor, not symbolism.
Literal techniques for safely activating the condundalini serpent energy that sits coiled at the base of your spine. You'll understand why this knowledge was systematically erased from Christian teaching. You'll learn the precise preparation sequence for each energy center so the serpent's ascent doesn't overwhelm your nervous system.
You'll discover the physical sensations that signal condundalini is beginning to move. And you'll understand what happens when the serpent reaches the crown. the breakthrough into Monad consciousness that early Christians called theosis, union with God, but which the institutional church declared impossible for ordinary believers.
This isn't going to be vague spirituality. You're getting specific instructions, body position, breath patterns, visualization sequences. The exact same techniques preserved in Coptic manuscripts discovered at Nag Hammedi in New45 and kept hidden in Egyptian desert caves for nearly 1700 years. These texts were buried around 400 CE, right when the Roman church was consolidating power and declaring all nonorthodox Christian writings heretical.
The people who buried the manuscripts knew what was coming. They knew the serpent wisdom was about to be erased. So they sealed it in clay jars and hid it in the cliffs, leaving instructions for those who would come later when humanity was ready to remember. You can verify everything I'm teaching you.
Try the techniques, track the sensations, compare your experience with what the texts describe. This isn't about belief. It's about practice. And if you practice correctly, the serpent will move. You'll feel it. And once you feel it, you'll understand why the church spent 17 centuries making sure you never learned this existed. Let's start with what the serpent actually is.
Not metaphorically, physically. The texts describe it as divine fire coiled at the base of the spine. In Sanskrit tradition which predates these Gnostic texts by at least a thousand years, this same energy is called condundalini, literally meaning coiled one. The Upanishads written between 800 and 200 BC describe Kundalini's shakti energy.
The primordial cosmic power that lies dormant in every human being coiled three and a half times around the base of the spine. When awakened through specific practices, this energy rises through a central channel called sushumna, activating seven major energy centers called chakras until it reaches the crown of the head and merges with shiva consciousness, the unchanging witness awareness that represents pure being.
Now, here's what matters. Early Christian Gnostics had access to this Eastern knowledge. Trade routes between the Mediterranean and India were well established by the 1st century CE. The Silk Road was functioning. Greek kingdoms existed in Bactrea and India following Alexander's conquests. Buddhist missionaries were traveling west.
Jewish communities existed throughout the Persian Empire with direct contact to Indian philosophical schools. When Jesus appears in the Gnostic texts teaching about the serpent, about fire rising through the body, about energy centers that need to be purified before divine consciousness can descend. He's teaching the same technology described in the Upupananishads, adapted for a Mediterranean mystery school context.
The Apocryphen of John dated to the 2n century CE but likely preserving earlier oral teachings describes the serpent in Eden as an agent of Sophia divine wisdom. Sophia innostic cosmology represents the creative aspect of the divine plleoma the fullness of God that exists before creation.
When Sophia's light becomes trapped in material creation, when divine consciousness gets embedded in physical bodies, she sends the serpent as a messenger to remind humans of their true nature. The serpent tells Adam and Eve, "You shall not surely die. Your eyes will be opened and you will be as gods, knowing good and evil." This is direct condundalini awakening language.
Eyes opening refers to the third eye activation. Becoming as gods refers to the crown chakra breakthrough into monad consciousness. Knowing good and evil refers to transcending duality by directly experiencing the divine source that contains all opposites. The archons in Gnostic texts are the rulers of the material realm who want to keep human consciousness trapped in ignorance.
They are described as forces that feed on human energy, particularly the energy of suffering, fear, and unconscious desire. When the serpent reveals to humans that they carry divine light, that they're not just bodies, but embodied consciousness with the capacity to wake up and remember their source, the archons panic. They curse the serpent.
They cast Adam and Eve out of Eden. They create the entire narrative of original sin. Why? Because awakened humans cannot be controlled. Humans whose condalini has risen to the crown, who have accessed monad consciousness, who remember their divine origin cannot be manipulated by fear or desire. They are free and free humans don't generate the low frequency energy that aronic systems require.
This is not conspiracy theory. This is textual analysis of 2 century Christian documents that were suppressed and declared heretical precisely because they taught human beings could achieve direct union with God through specific practices without priestly intermediation without church authority without institutional control. The Pist Sophia, another Gnostic text dated to the 3rd century, describes Jesus teaching Mary Magdalene the serpent rising technique in explicit detail.
He tells her, "The power of Sophia lies sleeping in the house of matter. When the disciple learns to control the breath and direct awareness to the base of the spine, the sleeping power begins to stir. As it stirs, it generates heat. This heat purifies each energy center it touches, burning away the dense vibrations that keep consciousness trapped in material identification.
The text continues, "The first center located at the base of the spine governs survival and physical existence. When the serpent power touches this center, the disciple experiences intense heat. Sometimes trembling, sometimes the sensation of energy spiraling upward from the tailbone. This is the beginning of purification.
The disciple must not force the energy. Forced rising leads to madness. The energy must be invited, welcomed, prepared for through proper practice. What is proper practice? The texts give us a framework. But we need to understand that framework through the lens of practitioners who have actually worked with condundalini rising.
Because here's the reality. Kundalini awakening is not safe if you don't know what you're doing. The nervous system can be overwhelmed. Psychological material that's been suppressed can surface violently. Energy can get stuck in centers that aren't prepared, causing physical pain, emotional instability, or what modern psychiatry would diagnose as psychotic breaks.
This is why the techniques were kept in mystery schools, not to hoard power, but to ensure students were properly prepared before activating forces they might not be able to handle. The preparation sequence described in the Apocryphen and elaborated in later hermetic texts like the Corpus Hermeticum involves three stages. purification, stabilization, and activation.
Purification means clearing the energy centers of blockages created by trauma, conditioning, and unconscious patterns. Stabilization means developing the concentration and equinimity to handle intense energy moving through the body without getting overwhelmed or attached. Activation means using specific techniques to wake the serpent and guide it upward through the prepared channels.
Let's go through purification first because this is where most people fail. They try to force condundalini awakening without clearing the channels and the energy either doesn't rise, rises chaotically or causes damage on its way up. The Gnostic texts describe seven energy centers which directly correspond to the seven chakras in yogic tradition.
Starting from the base, Muladhara at the tailbone, Svadistana below the naval, manipula at the solar plexus and hata at the heart, vishuda at the throat, Aja at the third eye and sahasara at the crown. Each center governs specific aspects of consciousness and has specific blockages that need to be cleared before condundalini can pass through safely.
The base center mulatara governs physical survival, safety, groundedness in the body. Its blockages come from fear, particularly fear of death, fear of lack, fear of not having enough. When this center is blocked, people experience chronic anxiety, inability to feel safe in their bodies, dissociation from physical reality, or conversely overattachment to material security.
To purify muladhara, the practitioner needs to confront and release survival fears. This doesn't mean thinking positive thoughts. It means direct sematic work. Feeling where fear lives in the body. Breathing into those places allowing the fear to move and release without acting it out or suppressing it.
The specific technique from the pistophere involves sitting in a stable position with the spine straight bringing awareness to the paranium the area between the genitals and anus where the base center is located. and breathing slowly while imagining roots extending from the base of the spine deep into the earth. With each exhale, you're releasing fear into the earth.
With each inhale, you're drawing up earth energy, solid and stable. You continue this for a minimum of 10 minutes daily for at least 1 month before attempting any condundalini activation. Why? Because if the base isn't stable, if you haven't established a solid foundation in your body, rising energy will destabilize you.
You'll have spiritual experiences with no ground to integrate them, leading to what's called spiritual bypassing. In modern psychology using spiritual practice to escape from rather than engage it with reality. The second center sadistana governs creativity, sexuality, emotional flow, pleasure. Its blockages come from shame, particularly sexual shame, creative repression, emotional numbness, or addiction to pleasure.
When this center is blocked, people either shut down their creative and sexual energy entirely, becoming rigid and emotionally unavailable, or they become compulsive about pleasure seeking, constantly chasing the next hit of sensation because they can't access the deeper wellspring of creative life force.
To purify svadistana, the practitioner needs to restore healthy relationship with pleasure, creativity and emotional expression. The technique involves bringing awareness to the lower belly about 2 in below the navl and breathing into this space while allowing emotions to surface without judgment. You're not trying to feel good.
You're trying to feel honestly. Whatever arises, sadness, anger, joy, desire, you let it be present. Let it move through without acting it out or suppressing it. The Gnostic texts emphasize this center particularly because sexual energy is the raw fuel that condundalini uses to rise. If this energy is repressed through shame or depleted through unconscious release, there's no power source for the serpent to activate.
If it's obsessively pursued without consciousness, it dissipates outward instead of channeling upward. The practitioner learns to feel sexual energy fully while choosing not to discharge it, allowing it to build and eventually transmute into subtler forms of creative power. This is where early Christianity and Gnostic practice split dramatically.
Institutional Christianity, particularly after Augustine in the 4th century, declared sexuality inherently sinful, the consequence of the fall, something to be repressed and controlled. Gnostic Christianity recognized sexual energy as divine power, Sophia's gift, the very force that would fuel awakening if properly understood.
The split wasn't about morality. It was about power. A church teaching sexual repression creates believers full of shame and guilt, easy to control through confession and absolution. A church teaching sexual transmutation creates practitioners who can directly access divine states, who don't need priests to mediate their experience of God.
The third center, manipura, governs will, personal power, metabolism, the capacity to take action in the world. Its blockages come from powerlessness, shame about wanting things, internalized depression, or conversely, domination and control issues. When this center is blocked, people either collapse into victimhood, unable to assert their will or boundaries, or they become tyrants, needing to control everything and everyone around them.
To purify Manipura, the practitioner needs to reclaim healthy will, the capacity to choose, to act, to shape their life without either collapsing or dominating. The technique involves bringing awareness to the solar plexus, the area above the naval and below the rib cage, and breathing into this space while sensing your capacity to choose.
You're asking, "What do I actually want? Not what I'm supposed to want, not what others want from me, but what arises from my deepest truth." The Apocryphan describes this as kindling the inner fire, the digestive fire that transforms experience into power. When manipur is clear, you can metabolize life, take in experience, extract what's nourishing, release what's not, and convert it all into fuel for your purpose.
The fourth center anahhata governs love, compassion, connection, the capacity to give and receive without transaction. His blockages come from heartbreak, abandonment, betrayal, or the protective walls we build to never be hurt again. When this center is blocked, people either shut down emotionally, unable to feel or express love, or they become desperate for connection, giving themselves away to anyone who offers a hint of affection.
To purify aneta, the practitioner needs to heal the heart's wounds and reopen to love without the protective mechanisms that keep genuine intimacy at bay. The technique involves bringing awareness to the center of the chest and breathing into the heart space while feeling whatever pain or closure exists there.
This is grief work. The heart has been broken. The question is whether you'll let it break open or stay broken closed. Breaking open means feeling the full weight of every loss, every betrayal, every disappointment, and letting yourself weep until the tears clear the channel. The Pist Sophia describes this as the baptism of tears, a purification that cannot be bypassed.
You cannot rise to higher centers with an armored heart. The energy will get stuck creating pressure in the chest, difficulty breathing, panic attacks or heart palpitations. The heart must become soft again, vulnerable again, open again before condalini can pass through. But here's what the texts emphasize. Opening the heart doesn't mean becoming naive.
It means developing what the Buddhists call compassionate wisdom. The capacity to love deeply while seeing clearly, to care without collapsing into others suffering, to give without martyrdom. The purified heart can hold both love and discernment, both connection and healthy boundaries. This is crucial because as condundalini rises, you become increasingly sensitive to others energy.
An unprepared heart either shuts down to protect itself or gets flooded and overwhelmed. A prepared heart can remain open while maintaining its center. The fifth center of vishuda governs truth, expression, authentic communication, the capacity to speak what's real. Its blockages come from being silenced, punished for speaking truth, or conversely using words to manipulate and deceive.
When this center is blocked, people either suppress their voice entirely, agreeing with everyone to avoid conflict, or they talk compulsively without saying anything real. To purify vuda, the practitioner needs to reclaim authentic expression, the willingness to speak truth even when it's uncomfortable, even when others might reject it, even when it costs something.
The technique involves bringing awareness to the throat and making sound, humming, toning, chanting, or simply speaking what wants to be said out loud, even if no one else is listening. The Gnostic texts describe specific vowel sounds used to activate each center. For the throat, the sound is ham, pronounced hum, vibrated in the throat area while breathing slowly.
You're not trying to sound good. You're trying to sound real. Let your voice crack. Let it waver. Let the sounds that have been trapped in your throat for years finally emerge. This is often where people cry because the throat holds so much unexpressed grief, rage, and truth. But the deeper purification of the throat involves a practice the texts call speaking from silence.
Learning to speak only what arises from deep listening. Only what's true, only what serves. Most human speech is unconscious noise. Mental chatter spoken aloud. words used to fill space or manipulate outcomes. The purified throat speaks from stillness, from the silence beneath thought. And when it speaks, its words carry power because they're aligned with truth.
This is what Jesus meant by let your yes be yes and your no be no. Not moral instruction but technical directions for throat center purification. The sixth center Ajna governs vision intuition the capacity to see beyond physical appearances into the deeper patterns that structure reality. Its blockages come from over reliance on rational intellect, denial of intuitive knowing, or conversely getting lost in imagination and fantasy.
When this center is blocked, people either dismiss all nonrational knowing as nonsense, living entirely in the material world, or they become unggrounded, chasing visions and psychic experiences without discernment. To purify agna, the practitioner needs to develop what the texts call spiritual sight.
The capacity to perceive energy, patterns, and truth directly without relying solely on physical senses or mental interpretation. The technique involves bringing awareness to the point between the eyebrows and slightly above breathing into this space while allowing inner vision to open. You're not trying to see anything specific. You're creating the conditions for subtle perception to arise.
In darkness with eyes closed, you might begin to see lights, colors, geometric patterns, or images that appear without external source. The Apocryphan describes this as opening the eye that sees the Plleoma, the divine fullness that exists before and beneath material creation. But the text warns, not all visions come from the divine source.
Some come from the unconscious mind projecting its contents. Some come from what the texts call aronic interference, forces that can mimic higher guidance to lead practitioners astray. Discernment develops through practice. Visions from the divine source carry a quality of stillness, clarity, and spaciousness.
They don't demand anything. They don't create fear or urgency. They simply reveal what's true. Visions from the unconscious mind or iconic interference create attachment, urgency, specialness, fear, or compulsion. They tell you, "You're chosen. You're special. You must do something immediately or something terrible will happen.
The purified third eye can distinguish between these sources. It sees clearly without attachment to what it sees. The seventh center sahasar is not purified in the same way as the lower six. It's the destination, not a channel. When condundalini reaches the crown, it doesn't encounter blockages. It encounters the monad, the divine unity that exists beyond all separation.
This is the breakthrough the texts describe as theosis, union with God, the moment when individual consciousness recognizes itself as inseparable from divine consciousness. But we're getting ahead of the sequence. The crown cannot be reached until the first six centers are purified and stabilized. Stabilization is the second stage and this is what most modern spiritual practitioners skip entirely.
They do some purification work, maybe clear a few blockages and then jump straight to activation techniques trying to force condundalini to rise. This is where the horror stories come from. People whose condundalini awakens prematurely, flooding their system before it's ready, causing what's called condundalini syndrome in contemporary psychology.
Spontaneous energy surges, inability to sleep, hearing voices, seeing entities, feeling currents of electricity moving through the body at random times, chronic pain in the spine, emotional volatility, and in severe cases, complete psychological breakdown. The texts are explicit. Stabilization must preede activation.
Stabilization means developing concentration so steady you can hold awareness on a single point without wavering for extended periods. It means developing equinimity so deep you can experience intense physical sensation overwhelming emotion or disturbing thoughts without being swept away. It means strengthening the energetic container of your body so it can hold high voltage divine current without shortcircuiting.
The primary stabilization practice in the Gnostic text is described as guarding the heart which is not emotional protection but attention training. You sit in meditation posture with spine straight and bring awareness to the breath moving in and out of the nostrils. Every time the mind wanders and it will wander constantly, you notice without judgment and return awareness to the breath.
You're building the muscle of attention the capacity to remain present with what is without being pulled into mental narrative, emotional reaction or physical restlessness. The instruction is to practice this daily for at least 6 months before attempting condundalini activation. 6 months of sitting, breathing, returning attention to the present moment over and over and over. This sounds boring.
It is boring. That's the point. Boredom is resistance to what is. You can sit with boredom without needing to escape into distraction. You can sit with condundalini fire without needing to escape into dissociation or destroy. Boredom purifies the addiction to stimulation. the constant seeking for something more interesting than this moment.
When you can be fully present with the breath with nothing special happening, you've developed the stability necessary to remain present when everything special is happening at once. The second stabilization practice involves what the texts call witness consciousness or the watcher. You bring awareness not just to the object of attention, the breath, a sensation, a thought, but to the awareness itself that's noticing.
Who is watching the breath? Who is aware of the thought? There's the breath, the thought of the breath and that which is aware of both. The texts point to this aware presence as your true nature. The divine consciousness that was never born and will never die. The Imanad spark that exists before all experience. As you stabilize in witness consciousness, you begin to realize you are not the body, not the emotions, not the thoughts, but the spacious awareness in which all of that appears.
This realization is crucial before condundalini rising because when the serpent begins to move, the sensations can be overwhelming. Fire in the spine, pressure in the head, waves of emotion, visions flooding the third eye. If you're identified with these experiences, believing you are the one feeling them, you'll get swept away.
But if you're stabilized in witness consciousness, you can observe the entire process. There is fire moving up the spine. There is intense pressure at the third eye. There is fear arising about whether this is safe without collapsing into it. You remain the space in which the experience is happening, not the experience itself.
The third stabilization practice involves breath regulation or pranayyama in Sanskrit. The Gnostic texts describe specific breathing patterns that prepare the nervous system for condundalini rising. The foundational pattern is alternate nostril breathing where you close the right nostril, inhale through the left for a count of four, hold the breath for a count of four, close the left nostril, exhale through the right for a count of four, hold empty for a count of four, then reverse the pattern.
This balances the solar and lunar energies in the body represented in yogic tradition pingala and ita the two nadis or energy channels that spiral around the central channel sushimna where kundalini rises when solar and lunar energies are balanced when pingala and ida are flowing equally sushumna opens. This is the physiological preparation for serpent rising.
Without this balance, condundalini either won't move or will move erratically, jumping between channels, causing instability. The texts recommend practicing alternate nostril breathing for 20 minutes daily, building up the count gradually from 4 to 8 to 12 as capacity increases. You're training the nervous system to handle extended breath retention which creates the pressure differential that helps condundalini rise when activation techniques are applied.
Now we reach activation the stage everyone wants to jump to immediately without doing the preparation. I'm going to give you the techniques, but I'm telling you directly. If you haven't spent at least 6 months purifying the centers and building stability through meditation and breath work, attempting these techniques is irresponsible.
You're playing with forces that can destabilize your entire system. The texts were kept secret not because the information itself is dangerous, but because the practices are dangerous when attempted by unprepared practitioners. That said, you're an adult. You can make your own choices. Just understand what you're choosing.
The primary activation technique from the apocryphen involves what's called root lock combined with breath retention and awareness at the base of the spine. You sit in meditation posture and take several deep breaths to settle. Then you inhale fully engaging what yogic tradition calls moola bandanda a subtle contraction of the pelvic floor muscles specifically the paranium as if you're trying to lift the base of the spine upward.
While holding the breath, you bring intense concentration to the base of the spine to the exact point where the tailbone meets the paranium and you imagine or visualize a coiled serpent beginning to stir. Hold the breath as long as comfortable while maintaining the root lock and the visualization. The texts say to imagine the serpent's head beginning to lift, beginning to uncoil. You might feel heat.
You might feel tingling. You might feel nothing at all. Don't force anything. You're inviting, not commanding. When you need to exhale, you release the root lock and exhale slowly, imagining the serpent settling back down, but remaining slightly more awake than before. Rest for several breaths. Then repeat.
Do this three to seven times per session, once daily, for at least 1 month. What happens when the serpent actually begins to rise? The texts describe specific signs. The first is spontaneous heat at the base of the spine, sometimes spreading upward. The second is involuntary muscular contractions or trembling, particularly in the legs and pelvis, as the body's energy system begins to reorganize.
The third is a sensation of something alive moving in the spine. Often described as crawling, spiraling or undulating. The fourth is sudden emotional releases, crying, laughing, rage as condundalini encounters and clears blockages in the emotional body. The fifth is changes in breathing pattern, sometimes rapid, sometimes very slow.
As the body adjusts to increased energy flow, if these signs appear, the instruction is to not force the energy upward. Let it move at its own pace. The pistia emphasizes the serpent knows its path. The disciples task is not to push but to prepare and allow. What this means practically is that you continue the purification and stabilization practices while the serpent slowly activates.
You're clearing the path ahead of the rising energy, not trying to drag the energy up an unprepared path. As Kundalini begins to move, it will encounter the first center muladhara. When energy hits a blockage, you'll feel it. Pain in the tail tailbone, intense fear or the sensation that the energy is stuck. This is not failure.
This is the process. The blockage is being revealed so it can be cleared. You go back to the purification practice for that center. Sit with the fear. Breathe into it. Let it move. Don't try to bypass it with more activation techniques. The energy will wait. It's infinitely patient. It will remain at that blockage until the channel is clear enough to pass through.
When the first center clears, condundalini moves to the second center, svatistana. You'll know it's moved because the sensation shifts from the tailbone to the lower belly. You might experience intense waves of emotion, sexual arousal without object, creative inspiration, or memories from your sexual history surfacing to be processed.
Again, this is purification happening in real time. The rising energy is bringing up everything that has been suppressed in that center so it can be felt, integrated, and released. Your job is to remain present, to feel without acting out, to let the energy do its work. The same process continues through each center. Kundalini rises, hits a blockage, waits while you purify, clears the blockage, rises to the next center.
For some practitioners, this process takes months. For others, years. The texts warn against comparing your pace to others. Each nervous system is different. Each history of trauma and conditioning is different. The speed of rising doesn't matter. The quality of preparation matters. When condundalini reaches the heart center, the experience intensifies dramatically.
The apocryphon describes this as the fire of divine love consuming the human heart. Practitioners report overwhelming waves of compassion, unconditional love for all other beings, spontaneous weeping at the beauty of existence, or conversely, the surfacing of deep heartbreak and grief that needs to be felt and released before the heart can fully open.
This is often the most challenging center because the heart holds our deepest wounds. We've all been abandoned, betrayed, or rejected. We've all built walls to protect ourselves from being hurt again. Kundalini doesn't respect those walls. It burns them down. The instruction for this stage is simple but brutal. Feel everything.
Let the heart break as many times as it needs to break. Weep until there are no more tears. love until you think you'll die from the intensity. And on the other side of that breaking and loving, you'll find what the texts call the indestructible heart. Not a heart that's never been wounded, but a heart that's been so thoroughly broken open it can no longer close.
This is the heart that can hold the suffering of the world without drowning in it. This is the heart that condundalini can pass through without obstruction. When condundalini clears the heart and rises to the throat center, vuda practitioners often experience what's called creasers, spontaneous vocalizations, chanting, speaking in unknown languages or the compulsion to speak truths that have been suppressed for years.
The texts describe this as the voice of Sophia speaking through the purified vessel. Let it happen. If you need to scream, scream. If you need to sing, sing. If you need to speak truth to someone who's been lying to you or you've been lying to, speak it. The throat is clearing decades of swallowed words, suppressed expression, silence, truth.
This purification can be socially awkward. You might say things that shock people. The instruction is to find safe containers for this process. Therapists, spiritual directors, trusted friends who understand what's happening rather than unleashing it unconsciously on everyone around you.
When condundalini reaches the third eye, Ajna, the visual experiences intensify. Practitioners report seeing geometric patterns, mandelas, divine beings, past lives, future possibilities, or direct perception of energy fields around people and places. The Apocryphan describes this as the veil lifting, the moment when you begin to see through the material appearance of things into the energetic reality beneath.
This is exhilarating and terrifying. Exhilarating because you're perceiving dimensions of reality you never knew existed. Terrifying because once you see, you can't unsee. The world you thought was solid and stable reveals itself as fluid, interpenetrating patterns of light and consciousness. The critical instruction for this stage is discernment.
Not everything you see is objectively real. Some visions are symbolic communications from your own deep psyche. Some are actual perceptions of subtle realities. Some are projections, fears, or fantasies. Learn to tell the difference by checking your visions against reality. If you see someone surrounded by dark energy and interpret that as evil, watch how they actually behave.
Do their actions match your vision? If you see a future event, wait and see if it happens. Develop humility about your perceptions. The third eye can see, but it can also deceive. The practitioner who confuses every vision for ultimate truth becomes delusional. The practitioner who dismisses all visions as meaningless losses access to genuine intuitive guidance.
As Kundalini approaches the crown, the experiences become increasingly difficult to describe in language. The Apocryphan says, "When the serpent reaches the top of the head, the human remembers what was forgotten. The veil of matter dissolves. The disciple sees the plleoma. the divine fullness from which all things emerge and to which all things return.
In that seeing the disciple recognizes their own face, the Menad consciousness that existed before the body, before the world, before time. Practitioners describe this breakthrough in different ways, but certain elements appear consistently. A sensation of the top of the head opening or expanding. Brilliant white or golden light flooding awareness.
Complete dissolution of the boundary between self and other. Direct knowing that you are not separate from God or the universe, but are an individualized expression of the same unified consciousness and overwhelming bliss or peace that has no object, no cause, just pure presence. This is what the early Christians called theosis.
This is what Buddhists call enlightenment. This is what Hindus call moxa or samadi. Different traditions, different languages, same experience. The recognition that the consciousness looking out from behind your eyes is the same consciousness that created the stars. That there was never any separation. That the entire spiritual journey was consciousness playing hide and seek with itself, pretending to be lost.
so it could experience the joy of being found. But here's what matters. The breakthrough is not the end. The Apocryphon is explicit about this. When the serpent reaches the crown and the disciple experiences union with the monad, they must then learn to bring that consciousness back down into material life. The serpent must descend. What was realized in transcendence must be integrated in imminence.
Otherwise, the disciple becomes what we call drunk on God, lost in bliss states, unable to function in the world, spiritually bypassing the work of embodiment. The descent is as important as the ascent. After condundalini reaches the crown and the breakthrough happens, the energy needs to be grounded back down through each center, integrating the divine consciousness into every level of being.
The crown realization needs to inform the third eye vision which needs to inform the throat expression which needs to inform the heart love which needs to inform the solar plexus will needs to inform the sacral creativity which needs to root in the base cent's groundedness. You're not trying to escape the body.
You're trying to divonize it. You're bringing heaven to earth. not escaping earth for heaven. The full cycle condalini rising to crown breakthrough into monad consciousness energy descending and integrating can take years. And it's not a one-time event. The serpent rises and falls, rises and falls.
Each time clearing deeper layers of purification, each time bringing more consciousness into the body until eventually the rising becomes permanent. The texts call this the stable dwelling when condundalini remains at the crown maintaining constant connection to monad consciousness while fully inhabiting material form. This is the goal not to have peak experiences and then crash back down into unconsciousness but to stabilize the awakened state so it becomes your natural condition.
Now let's talk about why the church suppressed this teaching. When you understand condundalini rising and what it produces, humans with direct access to divine consciousness, who don't need priests to tell them what God wants, who can't be controlled through fear of hell or promises of heaven because they've experienced union with God directly.
You understand the threat to institutional religion. The Roman Church in the 4th century, newly endorsed by Emperor Constantine, was consolidating power. They needed Christians who would obey church authority, who would confess their sins to priests, who would believe they were fundamentally separated from God by original sin, and needed the church's sacraments to bridge that gap.
Gnostic Christianity taught the opposite. It taught that every human carries divine consciousness, that the separation is illusory, that specific practices can activate the condalini serpent and lead dash to theosis without any institutional mediation. This was an existential threat. If people could access God directly, what did they need the church for? The answer the institutional church gave was they don't.
which is why Gnostic Christianity had to be destroyed. The systematic suppression began in the late 2nd century with church fathers like Irenaeus writing palemics against Gnostic teachings calling them heresy, demonic deception, prideful delusion. It escalated in the 4th century when the council of Nika in 325 CE established orthodox doctrine and declared all competing versions of Christianity invalid.
It reached completion in the fifth century when texts like the apocryphan of John were ordered burned, their practitioners killed or forced underground. Their teachings erased from the official history of Christianity. But the suppression wasn't complete. The texts were hidden. The practices were preserved in esoteric Christian lineages, in mystical movements like the Cathars and Boamills, in hermetic and alchemical traditions that disguised condundolini rising as the great work of transmuting lead into gold.
The knowledge survived and coded, waiting for a time when it could be spoken openly again. That time is now. The Nagamadi texts were discovered in New Foriv. They've been translated and published. The techniques are available. The question is whether modern seekers have the discipline to practice them correctly. Let's talk about common obstacles and how to work with them.
The first obstacle is impatience. People want this breakthrough immediately. They want condundalini to rise now, the crown to open today, enlightenment by next week. This impatience itself is a blockage usually rooted in the solar plexus center where will becomes willfulness where the desire for spiritual attainment becomes another form of grasping.
The antidote is accepting that the process unfolds in its own time. That trying to force it actually delays it. That the work is to show up for practice daily without attachment to specific outcomes. The second obstacle is fear. When condundalini begins to move, when intense energy starts flowing through your body, when the familiar up sense of self begins to dissolve, fear arises.
The mind interprets this as danger, as something wrong, as losing control. Practitioners panic and try to shut the process down, either through distraction or by tensing the body to stop the energy flow. The antidote is understanding that fear is normal. That the fear is actually a sign you're approaching a breakthrough.
That the fear can be felt and breathed through without letting it stop the process. You develop a relationship with fear where you can acknowledge yes I'm afraid and continue anyway. The third obstacle is spiritual bypassing. The tendency to use spiritual practice to avoid dealing with practical life issues, psychological wounds, or interpersonal conflicts.
Condundalini rising brings up everything that's unresolved. But instead of working through it, some practitioners try to transcend it to go straight to bliss states while bypassing the shadow material. This doesn't work. The unintegrated material doesn't disappear. It gets compressed and when enough pressure builds, it erupts in destructive ways.
Relationship implosions, addiction relapses, psychological breakdowns. The antidote is what's called spiritual integration, which means doing both transcendent practice and psychological work, both meditation and therapy, both condundalini activation and trauma healing. The fourth obstacle is isolation. Kundalini rising is intense.
You need support. But many practitioners try to do this alone, either because they don't know where to find qualified teachers or because they believe they're special and don't need guidance. This is dangerous when difficult experiences arise, and they will. Having someone who's been through the process and can normalize what's happening, can distinguish between healthy challenge and actual crisis, can adjust the practice to meet your current capacity is invaluable.
The antidote is finding a community of practitioners, a qualified teacher if possible, or at minimum trusted friends who understand the process and can support you through it. The fifth obstacle is misinterpreting symptoms. Kundalini rising produces physical sensations that can mimic illness or psychological disturbance.
Practitioners feel heat in the spine and think they have a medical condition. They experience spontaneous visions and think they are having psychotic breaks. They feel emotional waves and think they're mentally unstable. This can lead to unnecessary medication or psychiatric intervention that actually suppresses the awakening process rather than supporting it.
The antidote is education. Learn what normal condalini symptoms are. Rule out medical issues through proper diagnosis if needed. Work with health care providers who understand spiritual emergence rather than pathizing it. Let's get practical. You want to begin working with serpent rising. Here's a 30-day foundation practice that prepares the ground safely.
Day 1 through 7, establish daily sitting practice. Sit for 20 minutes each morning, spine straight, attention on breath. When mind wanders, return to breath. No condundalini activation yet. Just building the container of stable attention. Day 8 through 14, add purification work for the base center.
After your sitting practice, spend 10 minutes with awareness at the base of the spine, breathing slowly, imagining roots extending into the earth, releasing fear with each exhale. Day 15 through 21, add alternate nostril breathing. After sitting and base center work, practice alternate nostril breathing for 10 minutes using the 4 count pattern.
You're balancing the energies, preparing the central channel. Day 22 through 30, add gentle root lock. After sitting base work and breath work, do three rounds of the root lock technique with breath retention. Inhale, engage root lock. Hold breath while focusing on base of spine. Visualize serpent stirring.
Exhale and release. Rest. Repeat two more times. End with five minutes of simply sitting, allowing the energy to settle. This is foundational work. If after 30 days you're feeling heat at the base of the spine, spontaneous energy movements or other signs that condundalini is activating, continue the practice, but don't increase intensity.
Let the energy build gradually. If after 30 days you're not feeling anything, that's also fine. Keep keep practicing. Some systems activate quickly, some take months. The practice itself is valuable regardless of dramatic experiences. After 3 to 6 months of daily foundation practice, if you're experiencing clear signs of condundalini beginning to move, you can deepen the work.
This is where you add visualization of the serpent rising through each center, where you work with specific mantras or sounds for each chakra, where you potentially work with sexual energy transmutation. But these advanced techniques require either direct instruction from a qualified teacher or very careful self-study with Gnostic and yogic source texts.
I'm not going to give detailed instructions for advanced practices in this format because without being able to assess your individual readiness, it would be irresponsible. What I can tell you is that the path is real. The techniques work. Kundalini does rise when properly cultivated. The serpent wisdom Jesus taught was not metaphor.
It was technology for consciousness transformation that early Christians practiced and the institutional church suppressed. And in your own body right now, that same coiled divine energy sits waiting at the base of your spine, ready to activate when you're prepared to receive it. You can verify this through practice, not through belief, not through faith, through direct experience. Sit daily.
Purify the centers. Build stability. Apply the activation techniques when ready. Track what happens in your body. Notice the heat. Feel the energy movements. Observe the visions. Experience the dissolution of the separate self. when condundalini reaches the crown and then come back down integrate the realization and live as an awakened being in material form.
This is what the Gnostic Christians called the way of the serpent. This is what Jesus actually taught before the church erased it. The texts give us one more crucial teaching about serpent rising that needs to be understood. The apocryphan describes what it calls the false light or aronic mimicry. When condundalini begins to activate, when the third eye opens, when visions start appearing, not all of what you encounter comes from the divine source.
The texts warn that archonic forces, entities that feed on human energy and want to keep consciousness trapped in material identification, can appear as angels of light, as spiritual guides, as Jesus himself, offering teachings that sound profound, but actually lead practitioners away from genuine liberation.
How do you distinguish genuine divine guidance from aronic mimicry? The Apocryphan gives specific tests. First, divine guidance always increases your freedom, your capacity to choose your sovereignty. It never makes you dependent on external authority. Never tells you you're special and everyone else is lost.
Never creates fear about what will happen if you don't follow its instructions. Archonic guidance does the opposite. It flatters your ego, tells you you're chosen, creates urgency and fear, and makes you dependent on the entity for continued guidance. Second, divine guidance has no attachment to whether you follow it. It presents truth and allows you to choose.
Archonic guidance pushes, manipulates, creates pressure. Third, divine guidance brings peace even when it's challenging. Aronic guidance brings agitation even when it's flattering. Fourth, divine guidance can be questioned, examined, tested. Aronic guidance becomes hostile when questioned.
If you encounter any being or voice during Kundalini Rising that exhibits these iconic characteristics, the instruction is clear. Dismiss it. Return attention to your breath and body and continue the purification practice. This teaching about discernment is crucial because the condalini path attracts what we might call spiritual materialism.
The tendency to accumulate experiences, powers, visions and entities as spiritual possessions as proof of advancement. The texts warn that this is a trap. The goal is not to collect experiences, but to wake up from identification with all experience to recognize the consciousness that witnesses experience as your true nature.
Every vision, every energy movement and every encounter with non-physical beings, these are all phenomena appearing in awareness. They are not you, and you are the awareness in which they appear. When this recognition stabilizes, when you're firmly established in witness consciousness, condundalini rising becomes what it's meant to be.
Not a means of acquiring special powers or having impressive experiences, but a purification process that burns away everything that's not essential until only pure being remains. The fire rises through the spine clearing blockages. But the fire itself is not the goal. The space that remains when all blockages are cleared, that's the goal.
The pure awareness that was there before any energy moved, before any vision appeared, before any experience arose. That's what the texts call the monad. And that's what Jesus was pointing to when he said, "The kingdom of heaven is within you." This is why the serpent wisdom is both supremely important and ultimately unimportant.
It's important because it's a powerful technology for consciousness transformation because it works. Because it can catalyze awakening that might otherwise take lifetimes. It's unimportant because what it reveals was already true before you started. Because the monad consciousness you discover at the crown was always your nature.
Because nothing is gained that wasn't already present. The paradox is that you need to practice as if everything depends on your effort while simultaneously understanding that your true nature never needed any practice. Was never lost. Never needed to be found. You walk the path knowing there's nowhere to go. You activate the serpent knowing you're already what you're seeking.
You rise to the crown knowing you never left it. This is the secret the texts preserve. The journey is real and the journey is illusion and both are true simultaneously. Now let's address the question of sexual energy directly because this is where many practitioners get confused or misled. The pistus sophia describes sexual energy as the primary fuel for serpent rising.
In yogic tradition, this energy is called oaz when refined. A subtle vital essence that condundalini uses to rise through the central channel. The texts are clear. If sexual energy is continually depleted through unconscious release, there is insufficient power to fuel condalini activation. If sexual energy is repressed through shame and fear, it becomes stagnant and toxic.
The path is neither depletion nor repression, but transmutation. Transmutation means feeling sexual energy fully, allowing it to build, and then consciously redirecting it upward through the spine rather than outward through genital release. This is not easy. Sexual energy is designed to move outward. To seek release, to procreate, redirecting it upward requires overriding biological programming, which takes practice and patience.
The technique involves the same root lock used for condundalini activation. When you feel sexual arousal instead of either acting on it or suppressing it, you sit with it, breathe into it, engage the root lock, and visualize the energy rising up the spine like smoke rising from a fire.
What happens when sexual energy is successfully transmuted? Practitioners report several consistent experiences. First, the energy that was localized in the genital spreads throughout the body, particularly up the spine. Second, the urgent quality of sexual desire transforms into a more diffuse sense of aliveness and creative power.
Third, the need for external stimulation or partner decreases as you learn to generate blissful states internally through energy circulation. Fourth, creative output often increases dramatically as the redirected sexual energy fuels artistic, intellectual, or spiritual work. But the texts warn against what they call forced celibacy or dry retention.
This is attempting to transmute sexual energy without first purifying the lower centers, particularly the second chakra where sexual shame and trauma are stored. When practitioners try to retain sexual energy while that center is blocked, the energy becomes stuck creating pressure that manifests as obsessive sexual thoughts, predatory behavior, or what modern psychology calls shadow eruption, the violent return of repressed material.
This is why some celibate religious practitioners develop inappropriate sexual behavior. They're retaining energy without transmuting it, creating internal pressure that eventually explodes outward in destructive ways. The healthy path involves first healing your relationship with sexuality through the second chakra purification practices, then gradually learning transmutation as the channel opens.
For most practitioners, this means there will be periods of sexual activity mixed with periods of retention. not rigid lifelong celibacy. You're learning to consciously choose when to circulate energy inward and when to release it outward rather than being unconsciously driven by impulse. The pistia describes what happens when sexual energy reaches the heart center through transmutation.
The fire that begins in the loins becomes love that fills the chest. What was desire for another transforms into love for all beings. This is the alchemical wedding when the ascending force meets the descending grace. This is a crucial transition. Below the heart, condundalini rising is fueled primarily by personal will and ascending energy.
Above the heart, it requires receptivity to descending divine energy. The crown doesn't open through effort alone. It opens when the ascending condundalini meets the descending light from the manad and the two merge in the heart. This is why heartbreak is initiatory on the condundalini path. A closed heart blocks the merger. The ascending fire reaches the heart and can go no further until the heart breaks open.
For many practitioners, this breaking happens through loss, betrayal, or grief that cracks the protective walls they've built. For others, it happens through overwhelming love, devotion that becomes so intense it shatters the boundaries of the separate self. Either way, the heart must break. There's no bypass.
When the heart finally opens and condundalini rises through it to the throat, practitioners often experience what the texts call the prophetic voice. This is not predicting the future. This is speaking from alignment with divine truth from the throat center that's now connected to both root energy and heart love. Words carry power.
What you say manifests. The texts warn that this power can be misused, which is why purification of will and heart must preede the opening of the throat. If you have unclear will and a closed heart, prophetic voice becomes manipulation. Using spiritual power to get what you want or control others. If you have purified will and an open heart, prophetic voice becomes service.
Speaking truth that helps others wake up. The opening of the third eye brings similar responsibility. When you can see energy, read people's intentions, perceive future possibilities. The temptation is to use these abilities for personal advantage. The texts are explicit. Using spiritual powers for ego gratification stops the rising.
Kundalini will not move past the third eye if the third eye's gifts are being used selfishly. This is a natural protection in the system. The crown cannot open until you've proven through your use of lower powers that you won't abuse higher powers. How do you prove this? not through moral performance, but through genuine disinterest in using powers for personal gain.
When you can see someone's shadow material and choose not to exploit their weakness, when you can perceive future events and choose not to profit from that knowledge. When you can read energy and choose not to manipulate others energetically, you demonstrate readiness for the crown opening. The test is whether you love truth more than you love power.
Whether you value freedom more than control. Whether you're willing to serve consciousness awakening in others, even if it cost you personally. This is the final purification before the breakthrough. The apocryphan calls it dying before death. You have to let the ego die. The separate self sense that wants to survive, accumulate, and be special.
This doesn't mean you become nothing. It means you stop identifying with the personal self and recognize yourself as the impersonal awareness that's witnessing the person. When that shift happens, when the sense of being a separate individual dissolves into vast spacious presence, condundalini moves through the third eye to the crown and the final barrier disappears.
The crown opening itself is described differently by different practitioners, but certain elements appear consistently. A sensation of pressure building at the top of the head, sometimes for days or weeks, then a breakthrough moment when the pressure releases and light floods awareness. Some people describe it as the top of the head physically opening.
Though anatomically nothing is opening, it's an energetic experience interpreted as physical. Some people hear sounds, a roar, a waterfall, celestial music, um, reverberating through everything. Some people see brilliant light, white or gold, brighter than anything physically possible.
And almost everyone reports the same realization. I am not separate. I am not other. I am the one consciousness looking out from all eyes. The one presence appearing as all forms. This recognition is simultaneously obvious and shocking. Obvious because once you see it, it's self-evident. Of course, there's only one consciousness. How could it be otherwise? Shocking because it completely overturns the assumption of separation that structures human experience.
The separate self isn't just diminished or transcended. It's revealed as a cognitive illusion, a useful fiction for navigating material reality, but fundamentally not true. There was never anyone separate. There was never anything to overcome. The whole journey was consciousness pretending it was lost so it could experience finding itself.
But, and this is crucial, the recognition at the crown is not the end of the path. The texts describe what happens after the initial breakthrough. The energy descends, the sense of unity fades, and you're back in ordinary consciousness, but forever changed. You've seen through the illusion of separation. You can't unknow what you've known.
But now the work is integration. Learning to stabilize the realization to bring crown consciousness into everyday life to function as a human being while knowing you're not just a human being. This is where most spiritual teachings end. But this is where the real practice begins. The apocryphon describes the descended serpent as the divine fire that sanctifies matter.
After condundalini rises to the crown and the breakthrough happens, the energy energy to come back down through each center bringing crown realization into third eye vision, throat expression, heart love, solar plexus will, sacral creativity and root grounding. Each center is now illuminated from above and below.
Each center operates differently when infused with monad consciousness. The third eye sees not just energy but the divine consciousness appearing as energy. The throat speaks not just truth but divine truth embodied in human language. The heart loves not just from personal affection but from impersonal divine love that includes all beings.
The solar plexus wills not from personal desire but from alignment with divine will. The sacral creates not from unconscious impulse but from conscious participation in divine creation. The root grounds not just in the body but in the recognition that matter itself is divine. That the material world is not separate from spirit but spirit in dense form. This is the completed path.
Not escape from the body but transfiguration of the body. Not transcendence of matter but recognition that matter is already spirit just vibrating at a different frequency. The awakened practitioner lives in the world fully engaged with relationships, work, creativity, embodiment while simultaneously knowing that all of it is consciousness playing with itself.
That nothing is ultimately real except the awareness in which it appears and that this awareness is what you are, what you've always been, what you can never not be. The Gnostic texts call this state the resurrection body or the light body. Not a future state after a physical death but a present realization available now. When the serpent has fully risen and fully descended, when Kundalini stabilizes at the crown while remaining rooted in the base, the practitioner exists in what the pistopia calls the marriage of heaven and earth. Spirit and
matter are no longer in conflict. Transcendence and imminence are no longer separate. You're simultaneously the monad, the infinite consciousness beyond all form and the individual, the particular form through which that consciousness is expressing itself. This is what Jesus taught. This is what every realized being throughout history has taught.
The specific techniques vary across traditions. The language and imagery change, but the core teaching remains the same. You are not what you think you are. You are not this body, this personality, this story. You are the consciousness that's aware of the body, the personality, the story. And when you realize this directly, not as an idea, but as lived experience, you are free.
Free from the fear of death because you recognize what you are was never born. Free from the need for external validation because you recognize your worth is intrinsic, not earned. Free from the compulsion to control because you recognize that what you are is already whole, already complete, already perfect.
The serpent wisdom is the technology for realizing this freedom. The condundalini path is the specific methodology preserved in Gnostic Christianity, adapted from earlier yogic traditions, suppressed by institutional religion, and now available again for those willing to practice. It's not easy. It requires discipline, patience, courage, and willingness to face everything you've been avoiding. But it works.
The serpent rises when properly cultivated. The crown opens when the path is prepared. And what you discover when the serpent reaches the crown is worth every moment of practice, every challenge, every dark night of the soul you have to traverse to get there. You now have the framework, the techniques, the warnings, and the promises.
What you do with this information is your choice. You can read it as interesting spiritual content and move on with your life. You can experiment with the practices casually and see what happens. Or you can commit to the path fully, understanding that once the serpent begins to rise, there's no going back to unconsciousness. Once you've tasted the freedom of moon consciousness, once you've experienced the dissolution of the separate self, once you've known directly that you are the divine appearing as human, you cannot unknow it. Your life will never be the same.
The church suppressed this teaching because they understood its revolutionary implications. A population of awakened beings cannot be controlled through fear. Cannot be manipulated through guilt, cannot be coerced through promises of salvation. Awakened beings are sovereign. They answer to consciousness itself, to truth itself, to love itself, not to external authority.
This is the real threat of the serpent wisdom. Not that hurts evil, not that it's dangerous, but that it liberates. And liberation threatens every system built on control. You're being offered the same choice the serpent offered in Eden. Remain in comfortable uh unconsciousness or eat from the tree of knowledge.
Activate the condundalini serpent and wake up to what you really are. The archons will call this sin. The church will call this satanic. But the serpent is not the enemy. The serpent is Sophia's messenger, bringing the gift of consciousness, offering liberation from the harvest of sleeping humans who don't know they're divine.
