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Comparisons Between Toronto / Holy Laughter, and Kundalini Yoga Experiences

  Toronto Blessing   Kundalini

PURPOSES

     
  Healing   Healing
  Spiritual progress   Spiritual progress
  Experience love & peace   Experience bliss
  Deliverance   Liberation
       

TRIGGERS

     
  Spontaneous-no warning   Spontaneous
  Repetitive music   Repetitive music
  Letting control of mind go   Wandering mind
  Feeling of despair   Feeling of despair
       
PHYSICAL SIGNS      

Body

Body curls (pre-natal)   Bends forward or back
  Trembling   Trembling
  Numbness in parts   Partial parlysis

 

     

Mouth

Clenched jaws   Clenched jaws
  Increase saliva   Increase saliva
       

Eyes

Rolled back   Rolled back
  Twitching/moving   Rotating
  Can't open eyes   Can't open eyes
       

Face

Wrinkles up   Wrinkles up
  Brows knit   Brows knit
       

Breathing

Constricted breathing   Constricted breathing
  Breathing patterns change   Breathing patterns change
       

Actions

Rolling on floor   Rolling on floor
  Body twists   Body twists
  Body raises up and down   Body raise up and down
  Crawling on floor   Creeping
  Patterned movements   Hands move in patterns
       

Voice

Unable to speak   Loss of speech
  Speaking in tongues   Speaking in tongues
  Unusual sounds (animal)   Unusual sounds (animal)
       
INTERNAL      

Sensations

Heat   Heat
  Energy flow in body   Energy flows
  Tingling   Tingling
  Pressed to floor   Pressed to floor
  Head to feet sensations   Head to feet sensations
  Orgasms   Sexual excitement
       

Visions

Lights   Lights
  Visions of angels   Visions of dieties
       

Mental

Phenomena passed on   Absorbing of symptoms
  Awareness of being Christ   New Awareness
  Periods of in-activity   Period of in-activity
  Revelations   Existential insights
       

Emotional

Giddy   Giddy
  Laughing   Laughing
  Crying   Crying
  Emotional releases   Emotional releases
  Restlessness   Restlessness
       
REASON FOR EXPERIENCE VARIATION      
  Amount of change needed   Amount of balance
  Expected results   Conditioning
  Past history   Past history
       
SYMPTOMS      
  Linger for months   Linger for months
Sources For Toronto
Christian History, Issues 23, 45
Mainstream, Summer 1995
SPC Newsletter, Fall 1994
Media Spotlight, Special Report 1995
Personal observations and interviews
Source For Kundalini Yoga
Kundalini:The Arousal of the Inner Energy, Ajit Mookerjee, Destiny, 1991

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