Reddit mentions of Before The Sun: Meeting Rudi

I had a really long reply but i accidentally hit cancel.
Short version:
2 Teachers served Adi Da before his Divine reawakening.
Rudi [see great bio here] (http://www.amazon.com/Before-The-Sun-Meeting-Rudi-ebook/dp/B00LNO37WA) who was a Kundalini yogi of the descending type, and Swami Muktananda, who was a Kundalini yogi of the ascending type, and arguably the most popular Kundalini yogi of a Shaktipat tradition that has ever lived.
So clearly, Adi Da was steeped in education and practice of Kundalini, it was just that everything, including this was transcended in the event of the Seventh Stage Awakening.
Kundalini schools and practices are described as part of the fifth stage of life by Adi Da. For more info on the fifth stage see this [link] (http://www.beezone.com/educationseries/fifth_stage_of_life.html)

It is not that Kundalini is wrong or bad, it is that Kundalini based schools reinforce egoity:


"The liability in the fifth stage of life is the tendency toward belief in a fixed psychic identity, or an eternal egoic or independent and personal consciousness. It is the tendency toward belief in eternally extended but finite and personal experience, founded in an experiential state of undifferentiated unity with the causal root of the world, or the manifest gesture of attention at the heart of the body-mind."


"The Fifth Stage Error Of Clinging To subtle phenomena and states Of conditional Ascended Absorption As If they Are The Truth Is Likewise To Be Transcended By The Observation That This Clinging and This conditional Ascent (If It Occurs) Are Part Of The Evidence Of self-Contraction, and That They Are Only passing moments In The Process Of (Eventually, Ultimate, and Inherently Perfect) self-Transcendence."

It is not that Kundalini is not good, it is that it is not the it of It.

The reason I bring this up from time to time, is because I had to undergo a great ordeal to move beyond my Kundalini defined identity and framework. I believe the results of that are worthy of sharing, as they proved absolutely liberating, and could be helpful to one on the cusp of a similar transition. The criticism is not meant to be combative or argumentative, and is always given in the mood of love, it is a criticism of egoity, the total psychophysical act if self-contraction, and it is all of the suffering and self-identity that there is. And it is exactly what is addressed in Adidam, in all of its modes, including the absorptive and the mystical.