I have been studying the Kundalini-Maya connections for several years and have found it extremely fascinating. Recently I was seriously disappointed by the lack of open mindedness and intelligence displayed when someone ferociously and unreproachably decided to deny any and all possible connections between the Maya and their knowledge of Kundalini. Not only were they completely unaware of what they were talking about but the person ignorantly and childishly decided to cast perjoritave and vitriolic comments about a well known and highly respectable Mayan Elder and Shaman (who they had never met and knew almost nothing about). I have read much of this Shaman's work and found it to be without question of a high value and integrity.
The words of any shaman, yogi or healer are always debatable. As Yogi Bhajan said,"Every opinion has an objection". I have no problem with anyone challenging a teaching based on their own understanding, personal or professional experience or on factual grounds. It is also essential that the focus be on the teaching itself and not on an emotional reaction or unconscious prejudice towards the "teacher" or the subject itself.
"Anytime time you project negatively about anyone, a person you know or a spiritual figure whom you don't know, and you don't create a space or way for that person in a neutral mind to respond in a graceful manner, it is slander." Krishna Singh Khalsa
You also create a karma and and are negatively projecting your own face or "lack of grace" onto another. The blatant and unjustifiable criticism which has no other ground or basis than another person's authority is a poor method of achieving any sort of higher understanding. Knowledge can occasionally be expanded upon and even uncovered from an intelligent dialogue or an intellectual debate. However, knowledge can never be discovered by a closed mind that has no other method of communicating than criticism, slander, and denial. It is precisely because there exists in this world such a large number of people that rely on this type of intellectual process and procedure of criticism and denial that the ancient wisdom was kept secret, passed down orally and preserved only in analogy and symbolism. The ancients knew that wisdom was to be reserved for those who could use it to help others and be of service to their environments . To share this wisdom with people who cared solely for power over others and who wished to intellectually justify their own egoic desires was to potentially create a situation that would be harmful for everyone involved.
The person who challenged the validity of Hunbatz Men and other indigenous shamans,"scholars", or the many individual truth seekers (many who have personally done their own research that shows that the Mayan culture had advanced knowledge of Kundalini yoga) was probably, in her own mind, engaging in valid discrimination. One unidentified source claimed that Hunbatz Men was notorious for saying anything, "To the New Age community just to make a buck". This statement was supposedly made by a leading expert and Mayan "scholar". This perfectly illustrates the lack of ethics and the abundance of slander and negative intentions which plague the so called "scholarly" community.
I am curious if the poster had bothered to read any of Hunbatz Men's published books herself or was she merely relying on the authoritative claim of another person.
The reliance on discriminative knowledge is what sets the scientific community aside and which theoretically, and on occasion, actually elevates them above other sources of information. How much so called "scholarly" or "scientific" wisdom is actually regurgitated and unquestioned authoritative knowledge rather than true discriminative knowledge based on a thorough and neutral analysis of information and facts? I have read several of Hunbatz Men's books and found them to be as "scholarly" as any other books on the subject. It is true that he is presenting throries that may be unique to a few but they are always backed up either through mayan iconography, archeology or some other factual basis, including the authentic lineage of the various wisdom traditions. It also may be that this specific Elder, Leader,Healer,Teacher and Shaman is coming to his own conclusions, many which contradict or ar are controversial to more traditional (european and american, non-indeginious) interpretations but isn't that precisely what we are trying to do as yogi's and truth seekers. Our goal is to explore mind, space and world with wakefulness and discover for ourselves what we already know to be true within the very core of our beings. As Yogi's we can appreciate and rely on our own intuitive knowledge and will hopefully respect the intuition of others, in addition to valuing discriminative and of course authoritative knowledge. These three types of knowledge do not have to be opposed to one another and in fact compliment each other greatly, provided that the source is reflecting of their own highest wisdom and not of their negative intentions to remain in duality and separate from all of existence.
If Kundalini phenomenon and symbolism is truly "Universal" as Joseph Campbell found it to be, then it should not be hard to believe that it can be found in every culture which had a mystical tradition of looking within. In all cultures this mystical core was often encoded in symbolism, "the universal language" and the true significance was predominately passed on orally through familial lineage. Why would this also not apply to the Mayans as Hunbatz Men himself claimed? There are living Maya in Guatemala and other areas who also believe they are holding on to missing pieces of this rich and ancient legacy and do not feel the world is ready for it to be revealed quite yet. I wonder if this attitude is reflective of the serious prejudice, lack of ethics, and narrow mindedness of the "sholastic" community in the US and in Europe.
The prolific work of Gene D. Matlock has tried to shine light upon what might be one of the largest and overlooked mysteries in sociology and anthropolgy. Namely, a verifiable connection between the indigenous cultures of the Americas, like the Maya and the Nahuatl and their distant brothers in the East including specific populations in areas of India, Turkey, and Ceylon. Anyone desiring to know more about the true history of the Americas; as well as the Eastern origins of most Western philosophy and religion would do well to study Matlock's abundant research. In over 40 years of research he acquired an extensive but by no means exhaustive collection of evidence of an ancient and undeniable connection between the East and the West, as well as between the religions of Christianity and Krishtaya.
