Given we're dealing with a subject that isn't substantiated beyond subjective descriptions, validity isn't something you're likely to find on the topic. I don't believe the whole thing is a process, just a biophysical mechanism that involves the sublimation of sexual/gland energy upwards into mental energy for the use of application on a problem.. whether spiritual or just a really complex maths problem. The idea that it is some mystical process of unfolding strikes me as being more to do with the desire of individuals to want their to be some special process to which they can engage.. it's part of the Western fascination with Indian and Eastern esoteric thought. Don't forget the people in those places are people too.. got to sell something to make a living!
So to be fair I didn't want to just come on here with out even looking up my experience and trying to get a name that could apply. The snake feeling freaked me out at first and I had to drop a lot of mental symbolism that flooded into my head. Stuff I've made up, over years of listening to random dribble people make up. All of them are well meaning people, they have added some strange idea I don't need to my world view. Ideas that don't hold up. I had to try a second time with out so much self. Now it comes more naturally. I'm not seeking to follow someone's path, I'm seeking a path to a goal and this whole kundalini event may be a side bar but to this point I have not had a wasted lesson.
Do you think Kundalini is fair name for me to use since it draws up eastern, probably Hindu imagery? If you have another religious set of tenets from another culture please feel free to apply those. Obviously looking at old Roman Catholic art and looking under rocks of various branches of Christianity you can find a bunch of religious dogma or symbolism you could use if you don't like the eastern culture. As for selling something to make a living I'll let you know when someone comes to collect from me, seemed pretty free and money only controls what you let it so people who don't sell for money to live would be of interest, at least to me. I may share a lot of your skepticism with regard to anything spiritual for sale for money, in my view money clouds everything with a motive of profit.
I'm very unbalanced sexually this is probably why it is a huge boon suddenly but I'll wear out, eventually, perhaps. I thought sex was outside my path a bit but maybe it's my partners path so I'm just gonna go with it. Sex is insane for both of us despite only one of us using energy. I think I can understand the frame work of minor type healing. Like unblocking someone's bowels, I can do this on myself and probably on my partner. Nothing I would call major but just like moving energy internally to produce stimulation just use it to relax spasming muscles. I think it works so well for sex as we all draw on it during sex despite not realizing or recognizing it. Using it now is like using lube for the first time, just an Oh! Kinda moment.
I understand the idea of drawing energy for problem solving and yes this works for me but I'm not puritanical enough to avoid sexual pleasure. I just noticed one day I had a penis and it seemed I was actually made with it both visible and functional so I'm happy I don't feel ashamed about it.
When I was 12 I had a 7 year old math protégé teach me how to use my brain to do the work and leave my consciousness relatively free. Like taking a drink, I don't consciously deal with all the slight mechanical, biological motor function, it takes time to learn how to maintain precision on complex problems and I lost all this ability when I was drinking, now it is back. At its peak I could solve a simple quadratic without paper or calculator very quickly, last year I could barely remember my phone number. Now, I can remember in imagery and sharp enough to read a sign I didn't notice before, this is new.
So if my kundalini awakening is just my imagination, lucky me, if not? I will take your advice on not getting too caught up in "cultural overlays" and try to keep true to this experience. This weekend I'm gonna try changing the mood in a room without speaking, when they are all or at least mostly strangers. And yes I know buying a round at the pub does this every single time but I was thinking more spiritual and less spirits.