As a young man in acting school, I had a 14 hour discussion with a Buddhist scholar about the concept of sunyata, or ‘emptiness’, which led to my first three seconds of Awakening/no-self/union with God. My first thought was:
“...something weird just happened… weird, but BIG.”
My second thought was:
“Well, that’s obviously God/the universal quantum field/the meaning of life, and that should be my #1 priority in life from now."
It did. I became a meditation geek and Buddhist nerd.
As a slightly less young man doing a part-time Master in Creative Writing at Cambridge, I had the time to maintain a four-hour daily meditation practice for a few months. That was the momentum I needed to break into three weeks of uninterrupted Awakening – and that’s what it took to ignite my Kundalini. It was as rapturous as it was purgatorial, owing to my lack of a teacher and any knowledge of Kundalini whatsoever. It was a painful process, but in hindsight, it did actually cure my chronic pain, tension and depression. It also blasted open my third eye and for several years, I was on a mission to piece together a new model of reality. I studied clinical psychology, ingested every psychedelic known to man, became initiated into the highest forms of Tibetan Buddhist meditation (Mahamudra and Dzogchen), studied with world-class teachers – most significantly Daniel P. Brown (PhD) and Daniel Ingram (M.D.) –, flickered from yoga retreat to healing certification to Tantra workshop to a year of living with shamans in Ecuador and much, much more.
If this sounds imbalanced, then I salute your wisdom, because it was. I did not have my shit together.
After a decade of chasing God the Father in the sky, God the Mother smacked me down to Earth to master “basic humanity”.
After a decade of chasing God the Father in the sky, God the Mother smacked me down to Earth to master “basic humanity”.
I moved home to Norway, returned to university and became a school teacher. And as soon as my roots began to grow, the winds of Fate rattled my branches. Now, for years, I’d taught meditation, yoga and spiritual theory upon request (after my evangelising days, where no request was needed), but suddenly I found myself with requests for professional coaching. I was offered a regular yoga class. I was invited to host workshops at Tantra festivals. I found myself midwifing more and more people through Kundalini, Crown and Heart awakenings and in this, I found myself, my Dharma.
And now you’ve found me. Howdy. Can I serve you? 🙂
