Rock bottom as the condition for something to open
Trauma and crisis (abuse, accident, breakdown, war, extreme loss) appear in nearly one in four accounts. Rock-bottom experiences seem to collapse the ego's grip, sometimes opening into something beyond the ordinary self.
What's notable is that many of these accounts don't frame the trauma as the cause of awakening but as the condition that made it possible. The ordinary self couldn't be maintained any longer, and in that gap, something else became available.
Often there is some kind of crisis or trauma before kundalini awakens.
What I mean by that is, let's say a person has been abused and worn down to the point of a nervous breakdown, just zapped of all their energy and the slightest challenge is almost too much to bear.
There's this abuse and wounding and trauma, we're all having PTSD, and as this sort of like a shaman or wounded healer, like we all are, we're like these organs to metabolize the shadow in the field.
It's like natural to just when you meet somebody, yeah, they they could be identified with their neuroses or their wound or trauma or abuse issues.