Making of a Man: Initiation Through the Divine Mother

By John C. Woodcock Ph D

In 1982 I was travelling in a suburban train between Boston and New York. I suddenly felt a stirring at the base of my spine and a trickle quickly turned into a rush of energy moving upward. Another will seemed to be working within me and I felt a mandate to shift my posture. Feeling awkward and embarrassed I assumed a lotus posture in the public carriage and waited for the next event. A flood of blissful fluid rushed up my spine emerging out of my heart. My journey with Kundalini had begun which would dominate and shape my life for the next twenty years.

Making of a Man is a personal disclosure. Dr. Woodcock tells for the first time those intensely intimate experiences with Kundalini (the divine mother) that both deconstructed his personality and transformed it. The content of the book may look like poetry but in fact is the residue of a poesis, a making. These word forms are virtually unedited since the time he wrote them down during a long period of ecstatic vision.

This book is thus the record of an intense sustained spiritual process during which Dr. Woodcock reached a region of reality where he experienced the love, power and wisdom of the creative word. What was spoken thus became so! A man was transformed and an aspect of spirit incarnated.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Sep 19, 2012
• ISBN: 9781475950458

John C. Woodcock Ph D

John C. Woodcock Ph. D. has devoted his life to the comprehension and communication of a sustained and intense encounter with Kundalini energies which stripped away everything familiar to him in the most concrete ways, over a period of twenty years or so. His ordeal took place in the USA, culminating in a long period of ecstatic vision. His Ph.D. (1999) became an early vehicle for his attempts to make a bridge between his inner experiences and the modern world. His web site www.lighthousedownunder.com contains his books, essays and poetry which are also published with iUniverse. He now lives with his wife Anita in Sydney, Australia where he continues to affirm and describe the soul connection between his own journey and current world events, through writing, consulting, and offering presentations. He is also a practising Jungian therapist.

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CONTENTS

Dedication

Preface

The Gift Of Sai Maa

Introduction

The Poems

My Body A Trembling Leaf

Love Agony Of Creation

Goddess

Song Of Creation

Temple Of The Moon

Lovesong

Crossing The Edges

Love Ritual

Tahagata

Let These Words

In The Night

Shameless

Until I Surrendered

Path

My Visions Weigh Me Down

Echoes In The Chambers Of My Mind

You Came To Me

And So You Come To Me

I Am Not Alone

The God Desires You

To Cherish A Woman

Education Of A Man

He . . . who has been the spectator of many glories in the other world is amazed when he sees anyone having a godlike face or form, which is the expression of divine beauty; and at first a shudder runs through him, and again the old awe steals over him . . . And as he warms, the parts out of which the wing grew, and which had been hitherto closed and rigid, and had prevented the wing from shooting forth, are melted, and as nourishment streams upon him, the lower end of the wing begins to swell and grow from the root upwards; and the growth extends under the whole soul-for once the whole was winged . . . The whole soul is in a state of ebullition and effervescence, bubbles up . . . the soul is beginning to grow wings . . .

Socrates

DEDICATION

I met Russell Lockhart for my first Analytical session in 1986 in Port Townsend, Washington State. It would prove to be a template for our work together over the next twelve years. I arrived twenty minutes late and he listened quite calmly as I flustered my anger about, secretly masking a fear that he would somehow penalize me for being late. When I was done he then told me what had happened to him during those twenty minutes. As he waited in his chair, a snake crawled into the living room and he watched it until it crawled away. In those twenty minutes our work had begun. He trusted the psyche and acted upon its hints and he taught