Ep# 8 begins with Dr. Gabriel Cousens describing his Kundalini awakening during his first meditation session with his Guru, Swami Muktananda and I’m your host Marc Ketchel.
In today’s episode, I’m having a conversation with Gabriel Cousens, MD, a very popular holistic physician, Rabbi, and meditation teacher. But he’s really much more than a meditation teacher, he brings decades of personal experience working with a fully awakened Kundalini to his teaching. Not only has he developed rare insight over the last four decades through his own evolutionary journey, but also through working with thousands of others who have sought his guidance with their process of awakening.
His direct experience with Kundalini, which he refers to as the evolutionary power, goes back to the 1970s and his early work with Lee Sannella, MD. Soon after his initial explorations and collaboration with Lee through the Kundalini Crisis Clinic, they developed a “kundalini machine”. The “kundalini machine” and Gabriel’s intense desire to know and experience the spiritual evolutionary power, led him to meet the renowned Kundalini master Swami Muktananda, and that’s when his inner journey really began to intensify and accelerate.
In this deeply insightful and candid conversation, we explore all the subtle facets of the awakening and inner journey, and how to nurture its full development and unfoldment. We discuss the intensity and his characteristic all-in focus that he brought to his daily practice, despite the uncertainties of not knowing where it would lead him. He talks about his abiding faith in the Guru, which carried him through each stage of his development over a 7-year period.
To say Gabriel is a rare and extraordinary individual is an understatement, but the best I can think of at the moment. My hope is that by sharing his story we will pave the way to making it not so rare and unusual in the future.
For those hearing about Kundalini awakening for the first time or serious students of Kundalini who want to further their research, the names of the subtle energies and practices referred to in our conversation are all linked in the show notes and the glossary of terms at meditatenow.net.
I hope you enjoy this enlightening conversation with Rabbi and holistic medical doctor, Gabriel Cousens, MD.