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Kundalini Rising: Exploring the Energy of Awakening

It is hard to understand the power of Kundalini. For modern researchers and scholars of Eastern philosophy and spirituality, Kundalini is a topic for debate and discussion that goes beyond the physical experience, manifesting into a higher level of spiritual awakening. A collection of twenty four essays on various aspects of Kundalini experience is included in the book, “Kundalini Rising: Exploring the Energy of Awakening.” The contributors, who are academicians and yoga practitioners, have tried to unfold the relationship of Kundalini experience with physical and spiritual bliss.

According to Dorothy Walters, Kundalini is the goddess force, the ultimate creative energy that keeps the world alive. “It is the power resting at the heart of every entity and being in the universe.”

Raw Food for Real People

The positive effects of consuming raw food are many. In his book, “Raw food for Real People,” author Rod Rotondi attributes his good health to a diet predominantly made up of raw foods. Rod has used his unique experience and perspective to translate world cuisine into delicious and affordable raw, organic, and vegan offerings. He launched “Leaf Organics,” a business of packaged raw, vegan, and certified-organic entrees, wraps, salads, dips, desserts, and crackers. He advocates eating food derived from plants and discourages eating cooked food. He believes that eating cooked food will make one less energetic.

“The unadulterated real food from nature is integral to conscious eating and giving ourselves best food,” Rod comments. In his book, Rod gently walks the reader towards setting up a raw food kitchen with basic tools of a regular kitchen. He talks about sprouting the seed that make it into plants. “By eating sprout, humans are able to access energy and nutrition. You can draw energy from environment if you eat sprout,” he says.