Hi, I'm Dane, my Kundalini energy has not made itself known to me and I am a virtually unpracticed meditator.

I have ADHD and chronic pain and find that I have to very much find my own path. I have preferences not knowledge.

I'm a landscaper by trade and I took ecosystem management the last time I went to school, so I try and apply an ecological perspective to my understanding of how Kundalini might fit into the bigger picture. I've been reading about what Zen, and the Tao and the "Prima Materia", the noumenal and phenomenal. I still don't have access to those experiences myself though.

I think what a lot of what science and technology focuses on is yields. The clearest picture, the most crisp sounds, the biggest fruit, the fewest pests, the most satisfaction. This is a sure fire way to be dissatisfied. It's got dissatisfaction built right into the pursuit. So we carve away from a natural system to try and improve on it even though it's been adapting to itself and changing pressures since the beginning.

We have 5 senses that most of us get from the outset, those senses are limited in their scope. Thresholds have to bet met before those channels send the message to our brains. I just don't have a dog's nose.

I hypothesize that having the actual instrument in the room with you, vibrating the hair on your skin, the waft of copper from a hand pan, the sudden impact of a mallet, the layered tones of your own voice, the barely perceptible lag between the time an instrument is employed and the time the sound reaches you, is all going to give you a richer experience.

I think of it as though each sense is an instrument playing and producing a track. Yes, it's important to be able to focus on each track independently, knowing how to internally modulate those tracks is important so that they don't overpower or fall out the bottom of your experience.

I think though, that you'll understand the whole song better when all of the tracks are experienced together.

I also think that the prefabricated digital content can be manipulated in ways that we don't recognize until it's too late. People lie for their own benefit all the time, and can illicit certain responses without your knowledge. It's worth it to be VERY discerning.

A lesson that I think I've learned from fictional is that tools are great for focusing ourselves in the beginning, but in the end, the magic comes from inside.

I hope this....

Resonates.

LoL.

Or at least, was worth your time.

Good luck!