Resources
Videos from the free Anam Cara Meditation programs led by Lawrence Edwards. These programs included teachings, chanting, mantras and silent meditation. Click HERE.
Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, 2022, Vol. 54, No. 1 : Analysis of Spiritual Awakening in a Kundalini Tradition: Psychological Change and Spiritual Growth by Lawrence Edwards, PhD, and Marjorie Woollacott, PhD. Click: tprs-54-22-01-056 Edwards & Woollacott – Analysis of Spiritual Awakening …
Reproductions of Lawrence’s meditation art, including the Maha Kali Yantra, the Anam Cara Mandala and the Om Kali Ma – Heal All Wounds wall hanging, can be found at Studio 6.
Free podcasts of Lawrence Edwards speaking about Kundalini:
Kundalini Collective podcasts – part 1 August 2024 and part 2 November 2024. Sameer Patel interviews Lawrence about a wide range of topics related to Kundalini, spiritual awakening, the Hero’s Journey, and much more!
March 2024 – Guy Lawrence, an health and wellness retreat leading in Australia, interviews Lawrence again about spiritual development, Kundalini awakening, the hero’s journey and meditation.
https://youtu.be/5iMA2WUZQgU?si=nTL4M8M8JFdx5Abp
December 2023 – Jeff Carriera discusses The Awakening of Kundalini with Lawrence:
“Dr. Lawrence Edwards has taught meditation for over 40 years and is the founder of the Anam Cara Meditation Foundation. I was very happy to have this conversation with him to discuss enlightenment and the path of kundalini awakening. He is a teacher that I have known about and admired for some years and his knowledge of multiple spiritual traditions as well as the clarity and simplicity of his articulation of them made this interview a true joy to conduct.” Jeff Carriera
“Kundalini Awakening: Maps of the Journey”, presented by Lawrence Edwards PhD, to Spiritual Awakenings International Conference 2023, Saturday, June 10, 2023, describing and comparing Yogic and Buddhist descriptions of the Kundalini Awakening process in spiritual awakening. Kundalini, the power of boundless Consciousness to know Itself both as finite and infinite, is known by many names in different traditions – Holy Spirit, Goddess, Divine Mother, and Bhagavati Maha Prajnaparamita, to name just a few. Awakening is the metaphor aptly used for becoming aware of what already exists. However, awakening to this boundless power of Universal Consciousness can be profoundly disorienting to the ordinary mind with all its limitations. Sages and saints have left us maps to help the mind understand what it is awakening to and what lies far beyond its reach. These maps aren’t the territory. We only come to know the actual landscape of Consciousness by becoming skilled, trained, and informed explorers. The Eastern meditative traditions and all mystic traditions emphasize the need for direct non-conceptual experience. Maps and selfless guides or teachers are necessary, but not sufficient. We have to make the journey ourselves. Dr. Edwards shares some of the ancient maps that can help orient a seeker on the journey of awakening to the Reality of Infinite Oneness. Lawrence Edwards, PhD is a teacher, mentor and guide for the path of Kundalini and non-dual spiritual development. He is the founder and director of Anam Cara Meditation and for many years he served as president of the Kundalini Research Network. He trained as a monk in India in an ancient Kundalini yoga lineage. He also trained for decades in the Buddhist tradition and received teachings and empowerments from His Holiness the Dalai Lama and other rinpoches. He is a board-certified neuro-biofeedback clinician and a licensed psychotherapist. He was on the faculty of the New York Medical College for 24 years. He is the author numerous works including: “The Soul’s Journey: Guidance From The Divine Within,” “Awakening Kundalini: The Path To Radical Freedom,” and a recent research article in the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology on Kundalini, co-authored by Marjorie Woollacott, PhD, titled: “Analysis of Spiritual Awakening in a Kundalini Tradition: Psychological Change and Spiritual Growth.”
October 19, 2022 – Australian podcaster Guy Lawrence interviews Dr. Edwards in this one hour program related to Dr. Edwards’ book, Awakening Kundalini The Path To Radical Freedom.
May 2021 – Bob Nickman’s The Exploding Human podcast – Enjoy this fun and wide-ranging interview about Kundalini, Compassion and Consciousness.
April 2021 – Sam Tripoli interviews Dr. Lawrence Edwards about Kundalini, Consciousness, karma bhumi, seva – selfless service and more:
September 4, 2020 – Wisdom Talks podcast (2hrs) with hosts Marc Ketchel and Larry Holmes speaking with Lawrence about Kundalini, spiritual development and much more! Click HERE
Tami Simon, the publisher of Sounds True, interviewed Lawrence about Kundalini awakening and the processes involved in Kundalini unfolding. Sounds True has generously made these podcasts freely available.
Dr. Lawrence Edwards and Tami Simon discussing Kundalini (1hr): (click on the date)
December 9, 2009
Tami Simon speaks with Dr. Lawrence Edwards, president of The Kundalini Research Network, as well as the founder of a Kundalini support website, kundalinisupport.org. He is also a contributing author to an anthology published by Sounds True titled Kundalini Rising: Exploring the Energy of Awakening. Lawrence has practiced and taught meditation for over 45 years, is a board-certified neurotherapist, a licensed psychotherapist, and has been on the faculty of New York Medical College since 1998. Lawrence discusses his own experiences with Kundalini
August 21, 2012
Tami Simon speaks with Dr. Lawrence Edwards, president of the Kundalini Research Network and founder of kundalinisupport.org, a Kundalini support website. A meditation teacher, board-certified neurotherapist, and licensed psychotherapist, Lawrence has created with Sounds True an audio training program titled Awakening Kundalini: The Path to Radical Freedom. In this episode, Tami speaks with Lawrence about how to avoid common pitfalls in the Kundalini awakening process, what the role of our ego mind is in a Kundalini awakening, and the nature of a Kundalini energy transmission from a teacher. He also shares an empowered mantra to work with as part of the Kundalini awakening process. (70 minutes)
Additional podcasts (click on the date or audio bar):
March 23, 2017
Gary Goldberg, host of In The Spirit on WRPI 91.5FM, interviews Lawrence on Awakening Kundalini, Kali’s Bazaar and much more.
December 2016
Rick Archer from Buddha at the Gas Pump interviewed Lawrence for 2 hours on the extraordinary power of grace and revelation known in the yogic tradition as Kundalini.
October 7, 2016
New Zealand’s most popular yoga teacher, author and blogger, Kara-Leah Grant, offered a video interview of Lawrence speaking about a wide range of topics related to Kundalini awakening and unfolding.
November 2013
Author Caroline Sutherland interviews Lawrence on the transformative power of Kundalini.
November 2009
Gary Goldberg, host of In The Spirit on WRPI 91.5 fm, interviews Lawrence Edwards, PhD and Sat Bir Singh, PhD on their chapters in the book Kundalini Rising, edited by Tami Simon and published by Sounds True.
Videos of Lawrence teaching on the Anam Cara Meditation YouTube channel, click HERE.
Spiritual Emergence Networks:
United States: http://www.spiritualemergence.info/
Europe: Spiritual Emergence Network
Australia: http://www.spiritualemergence.org.au/
United Kingdom: http://www.spiritualcrisisnetwork.org.uk/kundalini.html
Kundalini Resources
Kundalini Support
www.kundalinisupport.org
Dorothy Walters, PhD
Dorothy was a dear friend and a genuine mystic whose poetry and prose point beyond the ordinary mind to the very source of the mind, Kundalini Shakti. Her works include Some Kiss We Want: New and Selected Poems, Unmasking The Rose: A Record of Kundalini Initiation, Marrow of Flame: Poems of the Spiritual Journey, Ley Lines of the Soul and A Cloth of Fine Gold.
Meditation and Yoga Resources
Anam Cara Meditation Foundation
A non-profit educational organization that is a resource for meditation instruction, free on-line MP3’s of guided meditation, free monthly e-newsletter to support your meditation practice and listings of meditation courses and retreats they offer. Located in Armonk, NY. “Anam Cara” is an ancient Gaelic term meaning “friend of the soul.” Founded and directed by Dr. Lawrence Edwards.
www.anamcarameditation.org
Chagdud Gonpa
International network of Chagdud Gonpa centers established by the late, revered meditation master, H.E. Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche.
www.chagdud.org
Sri Nisargadatta, Advaita Vedanta
His works continue to carry the power of non-dual awareness that
he conveyed throughout his life.
http://www.advaita.org
Sri Ramakrishna
http://www.ramakrishna.org
Sri Ramana Maharshi
http://www.ramana-maharshi.org
Thich Nhat Hanh
Teachings from the late Buddhist master
http://www.plumvillage.org
Empty Bell
Zen and Christian Meditation & Prayer – Robert Jonas, MTS, EdD – Founder & Director
Wonderful shakuhachi flute music by master Robert Jonas! Click here to listen and order.
www.emptybell.org
Biofeedback Resources
International Society for Neurofeedback and Research, and the Journal of Neurotherapy
http://www.isnr.org
The Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback
http://www.aapb.org
Transpersonal Psychology And Subtle Energy
Association for Transpersonal Psychology
http://www.atpweb.org
Association for Humanistic Psychology
http://ahpweb.org/index.html