meditation, there is a feeling as though ants were crawling at the top of my neck and in the spinal cord. Does this have any value?Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
3. The Mother and the Practice of the Integral Yoga
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From time to time, I feel a pressure above my head and also in my head and forehead. For the last few days, when I sit for meditation, there is a feeling as though ants were crawling at the top of my neck and in the spinal cord. Does this have any value?
You can write to him1 that the pressure he feels on his head is the pressure of the Mother’s force (the force of the higher consciousness) preparing an opening through the three upper centres (brahmarandhra, base of sahasradala; inner mind centre in the forehead; and the heart or psychic-emotional centre). The feeling in the spine is due to a very slight flow of the current of the Shakti from above – the spine being the base of all the centres and the channel through which the Force tends most easily to flow from one centre to another (Sahasradala = the centre where the human or mental and the higher or spiritual consciousness meet).
15 September 1935
1 Written by Sri Aurobindo to his secretary, who replied to the enquirer. – Ed.