I keep hearing this term or expression on the TV about people who run for political office called "vetting". It was fairly easy to figure out after a while that the pundits were talking about doing an extensive background check on the candidates or the people they hired to see if anything embarrassing popped up. After a while though, I needed to know more and Googled it up. Here's what it says on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vetting
Apparently the term began in the 1800s when it became a requirement for race horses to be checked out by a veterinarian before they would be allowed to race. Now it's used a lot in political elections and to check out stocks before one buys them on the stock market.
The rheumatoid arthritis is coming back in full force, and true to the original meaning of the Greek word "rheuma" (flow, movement), it's moved to my left elbow and the muscles in my left forearm and it hurts pretty bad when I type.
This dis-ease continues to remind me of how kundalini can be like. It moves throughout my body too. I've mentioned before about the only modern day biography I've read about a person so was struck by kundalini. I actually bought a copy of the book and left it at an old girlfriend's apartment when I pretty much had to run for my life. I left a lot of valuable stuff there. The guy who wrote the book was clear that experiencing kundalini was not always a pleasant event. He said it nearly killed him several times.
I didn't perform any specific exercises or rituals to experience this phenomena. I had read about it a bit, so that when it happened one day I was walking down the beach I immediately knew what was going on and managed not to freak out. It was a very powerful experience. I was sort of excited it happened because I have read that it happens rarely, but except for the actual physical occurrence of it, I didn't associate any particular behavior with it's arrival. Much later, after I went online and joined an e-mail discussion group about kundalini, did I realize that it never went away, and that the results of it popped up continuously until the present day. Here's another Wikipedia link if you're interested in reading about it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kundalini
I don't know if experiencing kundalini has anything to do with God, I don't know what God is, but if it's anything like experiencing kundalini, then the Jung quote about religion being a defense against the experience of God seems appropriate. I've experienced some ecstasy from my explorations and quests, but I've probably experienced more physical pain than ecstasy. I don't remember anybody telling me about that part of it when I first began, so I'm telling you. Don't go looking for God unless you're prepared to suffer the pangs of hell to get there.
I do not attempt to tell the God's own truth here because I don't know what the truth is or hardly ever. I try to capture the drifting thoughts that randomly appear in my imagination for reasons I may not understand. I don't know if the content I capture with these words is true or false. The Comments settings are turned off to prevent me from having to defend what amounts to little more than fanciful, sometime crude speculation. Great moments in our lives never return.
