When the Self Feels Alien or Angelic - How Kundalini Awakening Reveals the Hidden Depths of Your Own Consciousness.

Kundalini, the dormant life force at the base of the spine, is not merely an energetic surge. It is an intelligent force of evolution — a self-organizing intelligence that works through our entire system to transform and integrate the unconscious. As it rises and activates each energy center, Kundalini brings previously hidden aspects of the psyche into awareness. This awakening breaks through the familiar boundaries of our identity and dismantles the ego’s limited perception of self.

As the energy purifies the system, we begin to feel more deeply, perceive more broadly, and exist more fully. However, this enhanced existential presence — this sheer expansion of our spirit — often feels unfamiliar. So unfamiliar, in fact, that it is frequently misinterpreted.

The Misinterpretation of Spirit

The vast, amplified presence of Kundalini energy is far greater than the confined matrix of our previous psychological framework. When we encounter this expanded state, it is often misperceived as something external — an alien presence, an angelic being, a channeled guide.

In truth, what is being experienced is the Self — but a much fuller, unfiltered, and more powerful version of it. The mind, unaccustomed to this level of intensity, reaches for familiar spiritual or mythic narratives to make sense of what is happening. It assigns this new vibrational input to something “other,” because the ego has no framework to claim it as me.

But this, too, is part of the journey.

“People are so alienated from their own soul that when they meet their soul they think it comes from another star system.”— Terence McKenna

Flashes, Voices, and Inner Phenomena

As our biological and energetic systems evolve through the process of Kundalini metamorphosis, something remarkable happens. We begin to receive flashes of insight, intuitive downloads, and even voices or visions that seem to arise spontaneously.

Some of these are of a higher vibrational nature — voices carrying wisdom, clarity, or guidance. Others may arise from residual emotional imprints or distress patterns lodged in the psyche. Whether light or shadow, they are all parts of the Self. Some people experience more visual phenomena, others auditory. These expressions are extensions of our nervous system’s multidimensional capacities coming online.

These so-called intrusions are not intruders. They are higher operations of the holographic mind that we normally cannot access due to the strict filtering of the ego.

The Holographic Mind & Thoughtform Projection

The mind is not a passive receiver — it is a fractal hologram of the universe itself. As such, it has the capacity to fragment unresolved parts of the psyche into manifested archetypes or thoughtforms. These fragments often appear during heightened states of Kundalini activity, taking form as entities, beings, or full-fledged humanoids.

Why? Because the mind needs a way to interact with these aspects of itself. And so, it externalizes them — projecting the newly activated regions of the bodymind into symbolic, personified images that we can relate to and eventually integrate.

We may see orbs, flashes, beings, or sentient presences — but all of these are internal phenomena translated by the holographic lens of consciousness.

“We are all part of this great hologram called Creation, which is everybody’s SELF. It’s all a cosmic play, and there is nothing but you.”— Itzhak Bentov

Reclaiming the Self from Projection

Transferring our internal experiences onto “aliens,” “guides,” or “external forces” may feel comforting at first — but it is ultimately a disempowering move. What we cannot yet accept as part of ourselves, we project outward. But as Kundalini continues its work, these projections are gently but firmly returned.

The ego is forced to reclaim what it had previously disowned. Often, this reclamation happens through discomfort, resistance, and even suffering. But this is the medicine — the return of power to its rightful source.

As Eckhart Tolle reminds us:

“Your perception of the world is a reflection of your state of consciousness… Your consciousness creates the world that you inhabit.”

This Is You, Becoming Whole

The voices, visions, archetypes, or energies you encounter are not anomalies. They are you — your expanded self, your unprocessed emotional memory, your dormant intuition, your higher intelligence activating in real-time.

Kundalini bridges the conscious and unconscious mind. It thins the veil between seen and unseen, between self and Self. It asks for ownership, for embodiment, and for responsibility — not for belief in something “other,” but for the direct experience of inner wholeness.

This is not fantasy. This is your nervous system evolving.

This is your psyche remembering its own infinite complexity.

This is you, coming home.