Very interesting ananda[
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Your descriptions are familiar to me in many aspects, but my take on them would be slightly different.
It is interesting to me that the white dove energy calms the fire of the kundalini and yet you associate it with the feminine.
For most of my life I have used the ishta of the Holy Mother Mary as the feminine energy. But, I have always, untill recently, invoked this energy from above. It would come in the form of light and often it would be blue in colour.
A couple of years ago however I realised that the feminine energy in the form of Mother Earth and kundalini came from the bottom up. So I switched my devotion of the Mother from top down to bottom up. In this I also became friendly with the aspect of Kali and later got a Kali mantra from Amma.
This all did make a difference and it is when I started experiencing the darkness etc.
So I wonder myself whether I was in fact invoking the Mother energy in it's true form.
To qualify this I would like to relate something Amma said in answer to a question.
The question put to her was: Why do you no longer embody the Shiva or Krishna energy in your ceremonies, instead you now always embody Shakti or Kali.
Amma's answer was that she found when she embodied Krishna that the energy was one of distance and detachment from others.
On the other hand the Kali or feminine Mother energy was truely empathic and she was able to be fully a Mother with people and feel for them and be more Motherly with them.
This is obviously her path, the path of the hugging Mother and it is why she stopped invoking Krishna from top down, presumably only during those ceremonies, but I don't know about that.
So to me the two energies of masculine and femine have very distinct qualities. The qualities experienced from kundalini tend to be empathic and more motherly, whereas the masculine energies from top down tend to be detached, but I would stress,
no less loving.
Either way what makes the difference IMO, is inner silence and self inquiry. Development of inner silence and active and never ending self inquiry are the keys to openess and honest living.
Thank you for your post ananda, your loving energy floats on every word.
Peace brother[
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