Note
This little document is intended for Kundalini Yoga initiates, so I’m leaving out much material. But eventually this all needs to be thoroughly documented, as this knowledge is largely lost in our present age, and should be documented before the coming general collapse (where are those jars in a cave when you need one!
Definition
In Sanskrit, Urdhva means “upwards”, and reta means “seed,” so the literal translation is to send the seed up.
A comment about Urdhva Retas
It’s not simple abstinence, and in fact it’s not necessarily abstinence at all, but it’s really a surrender of one aspect of the Self to another aspect of the Self, and the harnessing of biological data flows to accomplish Wholeness through what we call in Platonic Surrealism
Liquid Love Practice, The Art of Becoming, Ack Practice, Aplomb and other practices.
In the very beginning practices, you encounter all this ‘energy’ and you think that’s
the Kundalini, and in a sense, it is, but not in the way you think.
That initial ‘energy’ is the impurities, the ‘karma’ in your body… the ‘corruption’
of the pure flow.
By getting the ‘corruption’ trapped in your muscle tissue tension all excited,
and by focusing on it as ‘divine’, you create a tulpa of your shadow,
then surrender to it, and call that ‘Kundalini’.
As I’m sure you know, ‘Kundalini’ is the mother of deception.
For men to do ‘urdhva-retas’ they have to surrender their sex drive and their
‘primal desire for dominance’ to the ‘mother’ (the anima).
For women to do ‘urdhva-retas’ they have to surrender their sex drive and
Their ‘primal desire for safety’ to the father (the animus).
Once the student is clean and well-organized in their instrument (their body),
they might consider the unification with the slumbering power within them,
the reservoir of bioplasma in the pelvic girdle.
Kevin Cann
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7/30/2025