Dr. Robert Svoboda explores genuine Kundalini awakening, spiritual delusion, and why regularly returning to the basics of spiritual practice is essential.

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In this episode of Living with Reality, Dr. Svoboda explores:

• Kundalini energy and connecting to supreme reality
• How to tell if one is genuinely having a Kundalini Awakening
• Insufficient grounding and the ‘Balloon Without a String” metaphor
• The capacity to channel and hold onto shakti
• How the middle of the spiritual path can be more dangerous than the beginning
• Becoming scattered, bewildered, and dispersed
• Aligning yourself with whatever you are devoted to
• How delusions can get magnified by kundalini
• Going back to the basics of practice

About Dr. Robert Svoboda:

Dr. Robert Svoboda is the first Westerner ever to graduate from a college of Ayurveda and be licensed to practice Ayurveda in India. During and after his formal Ayurvedic training, he was tutored in Ayurveda, Yoga, Jyotish, Tantra and other forms of classical Indian lore by his mentor, the Aghori Vimalananda. He is the author of twelve books, including Prakriti: Your Ayurvedic Constitution and the Aghora series, which discusses his experiences with his mentor during the years 1975 to 1983.

In the years since 1986, Dr. Svoboda has traveled extensively, spending an average of three months per year in India. He often speaks on Ayurveda, Jyotish, Tantra, and allied subjects in locales across the world.

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“Genuine awakening makes you more human and not less human, more capable of being in relationship with ordinary humans, more capable of genuinely showing affection to them and receiving affection from them. It is the real test of being able to deal with Kundalini that you can be ordinary and extraordinary at the same time. If you’re a balloon without a string, you’re going to go way off into the stratosphere or you’re going to pop.” –Dr. Svoboda

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From subterranean spirits to the awakening of Kundalini, Dr. Svoboda explores the hidden currents connecting the worlds of nature, spirit, and consciousness.

Join Dr. Svoboda for monthly Q&As and biweekly writing on the Vedic sciences, plus occasional courses not available elsewhere! You can also study with Dr. Svoboda and learn about Ayurveda, Jyotisha, the Devatas, and Spiritual Practice. For multiple courses, lifetime access to materials and more, check out Dr. Svoboda’s Spiritual Practice Bundle.

In this episode, Dr. Svoboda discusses:

• How other planes of existence influence our own
• Nagas: subterranean serpent-like spirits
• The Tibetan thought of Nagas as a cause of disease
• The concept of the Nāga in Indian spiritual traditions
• Awakening the serpent energy of Kundalini
• Using Jyotish (Vedic astrology) to understand if a Nāga Dosha has happened
• Aligning to the ancient current of awareness

“Nāgas are subterranean serpent-like spirits associated particularly with water, with aquatic underground environments. When humans pollute their environment and otherwise disturb the earth, the Nāgas can become agitated and they can provoke illness.” –Dr. Svoboda

About Dr. Robert Svoboda:

Dr. Robert Svoboda is the first Westerner ever to graduate from a college of Ayurveda and be licensed to practice Ayurveda in India. During and after his formal Ayurvedic training he was tutored in Ayurveda, Yoga, Jyotish, Tantra and other forms of classical Indian lore by his mentor, the Aghori Vimalananda. He is the author of twelve books including Prakriti: Your Ayurvedic Constitution and the Aghora series, which discusses his experiences with his mentor during the years 1975 – 1983.

In the years since 1986, Dr. Svoboda has traveled extensively, spending three months per year on average in India. He often speaks on Ayurveda, Jyotish, Tantra and allied subjects in locales across the world.

Join Dr. Svoboda’s courses, watch the latest video in Dr. Svoboda’s 5 Minutes series on Youtube and follow Dr. Svoboda on Facebook and Instagram for updates, events, and new content. You can also check out www.drsvoboda.com

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Discussing behavioral manipulation and ideological engineering, Dr. Svoboda outlines our human vulnerability to the real dangers of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.).

This time on Living with Reality, Dr. Svoboda offers a critical talk on:

• How A.I. is one large echo chamber, reflecting humanity back at itself
• Keeping Kali Yuga in mind as we navigate A.I.
• Maintaining awareness of all the layers of reality
• Asking ChatGPT what serious dangers exist in the context of A.I.
• Destabilization of institutions and automated cyberattacks
• Economic destruction and inequality from uneven wealth distribution
• The loss of human agency and behavioral manipulation
• How human vulnerability and mental illness make A.I. even more concerning
• Coercion and ideological engineering from the government/billionaires
• Using A.I. as a friend, emotional support, or even a romantic partner
• Losing the ability to create actual human relationships

“A.I. is an externalization of the human thought process, an externalization of how humans perceive and project awareness onto the external world. It is returning our collective intentions, fears, biases, etc. back to us in intensified form. It is an echo chamber...we have two mirrors pointed at one another generating images that recede into infinity.” –Dr. Svoboda

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