"A man's spiritual consciousness is not awakened," said Sri Ramakrishna, "unless his Kundalini is aroused." Kundalini is the vehicle for superior health and greater consciousness; it is the ultimate principle of spiritual development. This has been known for centuries. The challenge has always been to find a safe method for activating Kundalini. Up to now there hasn't been one. Gopi Krishna recognized this when he declared that we have yet to discover, "...the safest methods for awakening Kundalini."
JJ Semple didn't start out to explore Kundalini; he stumbled into it years ago, when a stranger handed him a book called, The Secret of the Golden Flower. At first, he didn't understand the book. Although it was about kundalini meditation, the text was difficult to penetrate. He wondered if such an ancient text might apply to the modern world. Did the method really work? Was there more to it than poetry and symbolism?
Only after practicing the method did he find the answer. Along the way there were lots of twists and turns, false starts and missteps. Nevertheless, he persisted, working his way through the method one technique at a time. Condensing The Secret of the Golden Flower into a viable modern method of meditation took time, over thirty years, in fact. These discoveries are described in JJ Semple's books, Deciphering the Golden Flower One Secret at a Time and The Backward-Flowing Method: The Secret of Life and Death.
"First off," says JJ Semple, "this method is the Buddha's meditation, passed down through the Chinese and Tibetan traditions. If it was good enough for him, it must still have a place in the world of today. I've modernized it into a six-step method I call Golden Flower Meditation (GFM). When people ask me what GFM is about, I reply, 'The purpose of Golden Flower Kundalini Meditation is to divert the sexual energy (the seminal fluid or, in the case of a woman, the cervical fluid) to the brain. If you thought it had any other purpose, you were mistaken.' This is the Secret of Life — plain and simple. Only by sublimating sexual energy, can one reach the very heights of spiritual development. What's more, GFM is more than Kundalini; it's a self-study course in personal transformation, an approach to living that prioritizes healing bodily imperfections and restoring overall health. It's a system for people who've given up on other methods, people who tell me, 'I don't want something to study or believe in; I want something to do.'"
As a result of his practice, JJ Semple has wholly reconditioned his body and restored his health. Moreover, GFM Kundalini Meditation corrected a childhood deformity. This healing miracle was due to a secret breath control technique — the backward-flowing method — the application of which, led to the safe, permanent awakening of his Kundalini. The backward-flowing method is the safest, most dependable method of sexual sublimation, an alchemical process for upgrading the body and perfecting the spirit. The closest modern equivalent to this alchemical process is the notion of neuroplasticity, the idea that brain cells and neurons can regenerate.
"When people ask me, 'Why is having a safe, repeatable method for permanently activating Kundalini important?' I tell them they need to understand that when we speak about method, we automatically exclude involuntary Kundalini experiences. Why? Because, by definition, if we talk about involuntary, we are talking about a Kundalini experience that can happen anytime, anywhere, in any set of circumstances, and cannot, therefore, be the result of any method. A method must be a systematic process with documented controls and predictable results. It must be a system that any properly trained person — man or woman — can apply in order to produce the same results over and over, time after time. Moreover, to be scientifically viable, it must be a method that is safe, repeatable, and standardized.