by maryshutan | Jun 14, 2021 | Self Inquiry, Seventh Eye, Shamanism, Spiritual Awakening, Uncategorized
Hi Mary– Curious because I never really hear you talk about it much. What is your opinion on utilizing psychedelics or taking other forms of mind-altering substances to awaken?…. Have they been a part of your path? Should I use them if I am interested in becoming more...
by maryshutan | May 24, 2021 | Kundalini, Raising Your Consciousness, Spiritual Awakening, Spiritual Consciousness of the Body, Uncategorized
Several years ago I wrote The Three Phases of Kundalini. It is one of my most popular blogs, and I occasionally get questions from people asking if several years later I would write anything differently. The answer to this question is yes. The way...
by maryshutan | Jan 9, 2020 | Animism, Cosmic Energies, Energetic Cleansing, Enlightenment, Healing Trauma, Navigating the Spiritual Realms, Raising Your Consciousness, Reiki, Self Inquiry, Shamanism, Spiritual Awakening
Every time there is some sort of larger happening in the world I see a call to “send energy”: to send prayers, intentions, or even do some type of energetic or spiritual work to be of assistance. In this I see the best of intentions: a desire to be of service,...
by maryshutan | Sep 29, 2019 | Enlightenment, Raising Your Consciousness, Spiritual Advice column, Spiritual Awakening, Spiritual Initiation
Understanding the Mechanics of Awakening What happens during the spiritual awakening process is that latent traumas arise into conscious awareness to be processed. Before this time, we were living out these traumas without awareness (looping through them again and...
by maryshutan | May 30, 2019 | Enlightenment, Kundalini, Raising Your Consciousness, Spiritual Awakening
One of the things that I find it vital to understand is the difference between lived, embodied experience and conceptual ideologies. Put more simply, you can understand something from a book on an intellectual level, you can repeat it often to others, you can say it...
by maryshutan | Feb 23, 2015 | Enlightenment, Kundalini, Near Death Experience, Raising Your Consciousness, Spiritual Awakening
It has been my direct experience as well as from hearing hundreds of client experiences that there are three distinct phases of Kundalini. Most literature is focused on the first phase either because it is an intellectualization of the Kundalini process without direct...