Buster_Brown said:

From the link:

      "...there isn't anybody on this planet, I can say with assuredly, that understands Kundalini or this universal life force energy well enough to speak about it with any authority, in my opinion"

Which begs the question why a teacher is required for something that happens naturally on the path.

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If you listen to or read the whole show, this is thoroughly addressed in the last part. I will do a poor job of briefly explaining, but I’m not a teacher, so for better information, listen to the whole thing and I’m sure your question will be answered. The point he is making in that quote is that all of these people teaching Kundalini Yoga etc have very very rarely experienced Kundalini themselves, much less really understand it or have actualized the whole path through her.

Asking why you need a teacher for Kundalini and even the path itself is very similar to asking why someone hoping to become a virtuoso violinist needs a teacher who is already a virtuoso themselves. Sure, you might be able to teach yourself the basics of how to play the violin, but to really understand the subtleties of technique, to become a real master, you are going to need a teacher who has already accomplished that themselves. But the ego doesn’t really like the idea of a teacher, because it doesn’t want to admit it needs help. I know that’s how I used to feel for sure.

Although in some rare cases, authentic Kundalini activation happens spontaneously, in most cases, it is actually the teacher themselves who activate the energy in the student through direct transmission, when the time is right. It seems that even in people who seemingly have spontaneous Kundalini, actually they may have just received a transmission in a previous life. I have a friend who seemingly had spontaneous Kundalini awakening, and she actually had to stop meditating and do everything she could to shut the energy down until she found a teacher, because it was out of control and she couldn’t manage it by herself. She didn’t have the meditative foundation in place to be able to handle the energy, and the teacher wasn’t there to mitigate the strength of the energy she was experiencing