Aura

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are there any side effects?

hopefully probably! shakti with capital-s as deity is religion and that isnt necessary for breathing exercise pranayama to awaken kundalini. later when energy flow prana goes through crown chakra sense of self connects to divine bhakti then perhaps you find shakti as avatar if you choose. shakti with lowercase-s is divine energy of change and flow in universe like you feel through nature with awareness breathing moving living. two aspects of god male/female (also called chit/sat or nirguna/saguna brahman): god transcendent is eternal unchanging aloof old man but god immanent ever-changing ever-new up close beautiful shakti.

God’s desire to become the many can also be understood from a quantum physical angle. As already stated, it is only through the presence of a conscious observer that a potentiality (in physics called a wave function) changes into the particle state and becomes what we experience as a concrete reality. Concrete reality (what is) crystallising out of simple potentiality (what could be) is the condition for the lila, the play of divine creativity, the process aspect of God, the Shakti. Without God becoming many, there is only the potential for the universe or, for example, our planet to become a concrete reality. What we call reality (sat) is, until then, only a probability or likelihood. Quantum physicists have pointed out that even complex objects like Earth are sustained in the particle state and, therefore, kept from returning to a wave function of probability only because, at any given time, some observers are always conscious of it rather than asleep. As a collective, which includes non-human lifeforms, we are an essential link in the process of the God immanent becoming Itself by crystallising as the material universe and multiplying Itself as a collective of conscious witnesses – us.

In his monumental text Process and Reality, Alfred North Whitehead introduced the term process to refer to God. Apart from the term cosmic intelligence or Shakti, I cannot think of any term more apt to describe the immanent aspect of the Divine. This aspect of the Divine has been chronically underexplored and under-described by all religions. Quite likely so because most religious authorities were males, and the male nature is more attracted to solid-state spirituality, including concepts such as consciousness, nirvana, emptiness and their human embodiment, the unmoved mover (who is always male). They all have in common that they are immutable and unchangeable, and they do not react to their surroundings in any way.

The term process, on the other hand, describes the dynamic aspect of God (Shakti), who is in constant flux, constantly evolves, and moves towards a dynamic equilibrium that continually recreates Itself without ever becoming static. For most male mystics, these ideas are hard to bear as they long for something that never changes, such as the transcendent aspect of the Divine, the pure consciousness. Both aspects of the Divine are real and vital to experience, integrate and understand. Our spirituality and religion during the last few thousand years have, however, suffered from the fact that process spirituality, Shaktism or Earth-based spirituality was always persecuted or at least pushed to the margins.