Daniel Ingram
Case Study: The Awakening That Looked Like Madness — Kundalini Rising, Spiritual Emergency, and the Danger of Pathologizing the Sacred
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The Safe Container for Awakening: A Functional Medicine Protocol for Consciousness Transformation
The preceding articles in this series have documented what can go wrong during the awakening process: kundalini syndrome, the dark night, meditation-related adverse effects, depersonalization, psychotic-like episodes, spiritual bypassing, and the full spectrum of spiritual emergency. This final...
The Buddhist Paths and Stages of Enlightenment: Stream-Entry to Arahant
If the jhanas are the engineering manual for producing specific consciousness states, the Theravada model of awakening is the quality assurance framework — the specification document that defines what "done" looks like. The Buddhist path to liberation is mapped with a precision that puts most...
The Dark Night: The Debugging Phase That Modern Mindfulness Marketing Ignores
Every major contemplative tradition, without exception, includes a stage of profound difficulty in the awakening process — a period of darkness, disorientation, suffering, and apparent regression that occurs not because something has gone wrong but because something is going right. St.