In advanced yoga instruction, reference is made to three main subtle energy channels; the Ida & Pingala & Sushumna nadi. The Ida & Pingala nadi are usually described and pictured as two serpentine channels of energy that intertwine up and down the body around the chakras, on one side is the Ida; yellow – orange in colour and on the other side is the Pingala which is bluish purple. The Sushumna nadi apparently travels vertically up through each of the chakras.

I am among the seemingly small number of people that can see their circulating I & P energy channels.  Whenever I meditate and even sometimes when I don’t, I experience them. I am very familiar with the principles and reality of the human subtle anatomy; having studied and engaged with it for over 30yrs.

It was some 25 years ago that I first experienced the energy channel on my left side. It was like a ‘rippling sensation’ with what appeared to be an energy channel just on / in front of my chest. It had pulses of light travelling upwards through it. Initially when I first experienced it – it was colourless. It was curved, as though turning around my heart chakra and moving under my chin around my throat chakra. At that time I didn’t find any information that could explain it. Eventually my perception of it reduced and I forgot about it.

In 2003 my then wife and I were conducting research for a book we were writing about crystal healing using thought forms; she was acutely clairvoyant and could instantly observe all the various subtle energies both within and around the body. She used to study healers in action and could see the thoughtforms and relative subtle energies in play while they worked. In her study of the chakras and energy channels of the human subtle bodies she drew many pictures to depict what was going on and where. One particular picture she drew was of a double helix energy pattern that would rise up the body in one channel and travel down the body in the other one in a constant cyclic motion. It appeared to move around and in between the chakras. However it was not connected with chakras and instead had the function of charging different types of human subtle energies within the centres it created in the ‘loops’ and these types of energies were the foundation for spiritual experiences that people have; I could go on about this but it isn’t relevant. In short; I recognised what I used to see in me; a ‘cross section’ of this helix energy channel pattern. At that time, not then aware of the  I&P nadi, we named this twin energy channel structure as the Psy Structure and used this name in reference to it in our book. I used to see part of my Pingala nadi.

Move forward in time to maybe 5-7 years ago and while meditating, I began to experience the same rippling/pulsing energy channel over my chest again. However, now I was seeing it in colour. It was bluish purple and always flowed like a current travelling upwards to under my chin. It appeared to have a ‘pulse’ inside it that kept a fixed sequence/rhythm. There seemed to be light coloured or white ‘rings’ of light travelling along the inside of the channel in an upwards motion. I have experienced this same phenomenon ever since.

In 2019 I attended the Kaivalyadhama Yoga Institute with a friend who is an experienced yoga teacher (she was attending an advanced teacher training course). I had the free opportunity to wander the beautiful botanical gardens of the Institute and meditate. While I did so; I experienced for the first time, perception of the downward energy channel too; yellowish orange in colour. Therefore I confirmed my rising Pingala was blue/purple and the descending Ida was yellow/orange. This was exactly as my wife had described some 16 years prior. I see various images online depicting the nadi; some showing the correct (in my own experience) colours but most don’t.  I know they have nothing to do with chakras.

I don’t myself do ‘ordinary yoga’; this would also take too long to describe. I am fully aware of the traditional teaching of I&P & Sushumna, Prana energy (which I also readily see everywhere but that’s by the by) and the concept of Kundalini (itself being Sanskrit for coiled serpent) allegedly wrapped around Muladhara. Much of the latter I find contradictions with. My experience thus far has led me to conclude that there is definitely misunderstanding with Kundalini and the I&P nadi throughout students and teachers of the subtle knowledge in this respect. I don’t mean this to come across in a condescending manner – it’s just that I am finding contradictions with what I experience and see and what I read from others throughout the globe. I am quite convinced that most people who discuss the I&P – cannot themselves see it.

In a perhaps controversial move, I suggest that everyone has Kundalini and they use it every moment of their lives, that it is not ‘dormant’ in or around their base chakra; it is in fact the energy in their I&P nadi. Further – that the I&P are not actually two channels (often referred to as the Sun and Moon or positive and negative, male and female) – no – instead they are one and the same energy channel which goes up and then goes down and continues perpetually. The difference of their colour is simple to explain, the Kundalini is charging in upward travel and it is discharging in downward travel. The colour change is present because of the function of what the Kundalini is doing going up versus going down.

When people talk about ‘Kundalini Rising’ or ‘Awakening’ – I believe misinterpretation is at play. The problem is that names and words become fixed to beliefs like labels. It isn’t that the person going through a profound spiritual experience or illuminating one has their Kundalini rising – no – it is actually that their Soul is at a level that permits or accepts the experience as a stage of evolved spiritual growth. It has no direct connection with Kundalini – they are having the experience anyway – it isn’t because their Kundalini is rising. Their Kundalini is present before, throughout and after the experience exactly the same; it doesn’t go anywhere; it is in its normal movement around their I&P. The experience they have is one of a change of conscious awareness. Their perception may shift up a gear, they experience profound inner transformation indeed – but it has nothing to do with the state of their Kundalini energy.

Is that controversial enough? No – because there’s more…

Chakras have nothing to do with spirituality or psychic perception. Chakras cannot be blocked. They cannot be opened or closed through any ritual or self-development exercise. They cannot be unbalanced and obviously – nobody therefore can ‘balance your chakras’ or ‘cleanse’ them. Everyone that believes any of these concepts simply doesn’t understand the full picture. The world is full with healers, therapists, teachers, writers, gurus and all sorts that promulgate these beliefs. Just a quick look at Uncle Google will show you that; search chakras and you’ll see page after page after page of the same old lines over and over again.

The thing is – for the most part, people just believe what they are told or taught. It isn’t really doing any harm as such. The problem is that the bowl the teachers and tutors are holding is indeed full; but they only perceive half of its contents. Half the full story if you will. Like a jigsaw of a 1000 pieces in a box; the user only sees and knows of 500 of the pieces. So when they create their picture, there are spaces on the table between all of these 500; so they fill in the gaps as best as they can. Where these gaps are in the picture – there are assumptions. People copy people and now throughout the world we have most of the teachers, tutors and writers working from an incomplete understanding of the actual nature of chakras.

Do you want to know about the other 500? Let’s turn to exoteric science for some ironic allegory. Energy has two factors; it has strength and it has frequency. Stand on a beach and look out to sea, there is kinetic energy present in the medium of the water, it manifests as waves. The strength of the energy is reflected in the size of the waves. The frequency of the energy is shown in how often the waves break upon the shore. All forms of energy have these two determining factors – including all subtle energies.

Chakras exist in our system solely and only for the health of our body. In the room where you are sitting there is a door. Look at it. Imagine you can see lots of big tubes passing through the doorway. Imagine you can see inside these tubes and then see lots of channels, you look deeper and inside these channels there are sub-channels. Inside these there are threads and inside these threads are micro-threads. The doorway is like a chakra – it only has one function; to allow passage of subtle energies through it, travelling one way and back again. The tubes go to major areas of the body; the main organs… The channels go to specific parts of these organs. The sub channels again finer and finer in relevance until each of the micro threads attend to each and every single physical cell. The micro-threads carry both vitality and also an information command; like a program in a sense. The energy comes from our inner subtle bodies to this outer physical one by means of the chakras which act in a sense like subtle energy portals. There is no door; chakras cannot be opened or closed – they are always present to allow passage of energies passing through in both directions.

Different chakras allow different types of energy through from ‘within you’ to the etheric subtle counterpart of every single cell in your physical body; countless billions of them. However it all has a design – subtle energies that attend relative area for the base chakra cannot pass through the throat chakra for example. The reason being – the chakras all allow passage of different types of human subtle energies that have specific strengths of vibration. That is the kernel of the nut we are examining.

Now then, what about our spirituality, intuition, feelings and awareness? These are not associated to the chakras. They are actually associated to other subtle energy centres in the same location as the chakras but the two do not mix. So imagine you have drawn a diagram of the body on a sheet of paper and placed it on a table. Now get 7 silver coins and place them on the chakra locations. Then get 7 copper coins and place these on the silver coins. Seven locations, two energy centres at each location. Now draw the I&P intertwining around the coins; blue going from beneath the bottom coins up and at the same time in between, around the second coins back in below the third and so on to the top then a yellow line coming back down in and around all the coins again.

The other subtle energy centres represented by the copper coins are not generally known about – not many people are privy to this depth of subtle reality. They deal with human subtle energies relative to the frequency of those energies. These energies in these other energy centres (we referred to them as Psy centres in our work) are the root of manifesting spiritual development and psychic or intuitive faculties. So it is not the Ajna or Brow chakra that governs clairvoyant vision – it is in fact the Brow psy centre instead. As people evolve, they eventually all develop natural, human subtle abilities in keeping with their spiritual evolution; as they do – their qualities are as a result of these Psy centres becoming activated with the subtle energies within them being charged by Kundalini.

I view Kundalini like the mains electricity of a home; we use a washing machine, a shower, a vacuum cleaner, a heater, a cooker, a fridge, we light the home; we use all these different functions in the home and behind them all is the background energy supply. Just as we think, run, walk, see, hear, touch, taste, smell, get excited, angry, happy, sad… behind all experiences we have as human beings there is this special background energy – Kundalini.

You now have more pieces of the jigsaw.

I welcome contact with anyone, anywhere that also sees their I&P nadi.

Kind regards

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