If so, what triggered it and what was it like?

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    1 year ago

    The funny thing is, for all it’s descriptions in Yoga literature, if I tell you I had a partial kundalini awakening you still won’t know what I mean unless you experienced it yourself.

    So no, a definition does not help to get a shared understanding.

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      1 year ago

      … you are correct that if I’m unfamiliar with your terminology, I will not know what you mean.

      You are incorrect that if I understand the definition of a “partial Kundalini awakening” I will not have a shared understanding. I can’t imagine why that would be true.

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        1 year ago

        Just as an experiment, try to describe the taste of honey to someone who doesn’t know the sweetness, but be sure to demarcate against sugar.

        And then imagine how much shared understanding there’d be.

        You absolutely need experience at least in some limited ways to understand definitions or descriptions.