hey, Tanemon --

well, yes, it always sounds awful when I think about the symptoms and what the purification is like. but what we don't often realize is that when the shakti is applied in our spiritual lives, the acceleration of purifying karmas is profound. in other words, we can go through it in a little bumpy way in this lifetime -- but we get through REAMS of karmic stockpiles of debt. rather than stretching it all out over several lifetimes that may be more peaceful on the surface, but we're not getting any closer, internally, to knowing about the life and death cycles, who we really are, and why we came on this planet.

so -- it's a trade-off. for me, having lived in the frying pan for nearly 10 years now, I'm happy with the perqs and results that far outweigh the temporary illusions of physical discomfort.

by the way -- the skin stuff and rashes means the earth element in your system is getting purified. that's significant -- it's the biggest, toughest, most gross expression of the divine energy in form, the earth element is the most dense. it's where we hold a lot of our illusions and egoisms.

"For a very longer stretch of time, I've been hearing a constant high-pitched sound. It goes back before my Reiki attunements and is something that seems to have developed long ago out of my meditation, but which has continued on or perhaps intensified since my "energy attunements" (Reiki & other)."

yes, that's another clear symptom of receiving some divine energy.

"And there have been occasions when I smelled pefume for no apparent reason,"

it means an angel is near you. seriously -- one of the symptoms of the angels or the divine characters is a beautiful fragance, strong and distinctive, that comes 'out of nowhere' and doesn't seem to have a traceable source. my experience, sometimes, is that it smells like someone has broken a whole bottle of perfume in the room where I'm meditating. that's an auspicious moment -- there are tools you can use to develop that experience and maximize it.

"Another thing I've experienced is a recurrent, though not necessarily daily, onset of sudden drowsiness in the afternoon; sometimes, if I was not at an office or other work place, I could nap, and the sleeps that resulted felt luscious!"

yup. that's one of the happier symptoms of the purificatory spiritual explorations -- those downloads from the cosmic that come, seemingly without warning or announcement. if you meditate during those times, you can pull more of that delicious cosmic energy to yourself, to your soul, to strengthen your relationship with the divine in you.

there are mechanisms for utilizing the spiritual experiences, to gain more of them and more familiarity with them and how the creation works, distinct repeatable mechanisms, like a spiritual technology, that saints from thousands of years ago wrote down in formulas that people can follow.

it really sounds like you're already having so many experiences -- it would be brilliant to pursue the technology a bit so you can actually purpose and understand, clearly, those experiences and what they're leading to.

*grinning*

thanks for sharing all that. it's always inspiring to hear about people's spiritual 'symptoms'.

Alx