The Kundalini Awakening: Guest Chris Harrison From Canada on the Fire That Rose Through His Body and Changed Everything
Two years after his first appearances on the show, Chris Harrison from Canada returns to TheAlexShow.TV for the conversation host Alex has been anticipating since he began his two-episode series on the Kundalini serpent earlier this year. Chris is, in Alex’s own words, the person he considers the most credible and the most illuminating account of a genuine Kundalini awakening he has encountered — and in this extended, deeply detailed conversation, Chris walks through exactly what happened to him, what it has felt like in the years since, and what he believes it means for every human being navigating this reality.
This is not a theoretical discussion. It is a first-person account, delivered with the kind of specificity that only genuine lived experience can provide — the sensations, the timeline, the uncertainty, the eventual clarity. And it offers something that theory alone cannot: a real answer to the question so many spiritually curious people ask but rarely hear addressed with this much honesty. What does it actually feel like when the fire rises?
The Spontaneous Request That Started Everything
Chris begins his story at the moment of origin: roughly five years ago, sitting in meditative contemplation, wrestling with a question that many spiritually oriented people eventually ask themselves — how do I know if I incarnated to fulfill a specific soul purpose, and how do I make sure I actually do it? In that state of contemplation, without any expectation that anything would happen, he spontaneously spoke aloud to his guides, to the universe, to whoever might be listening: I request a most benevolent outcome for surrendering to the waves of the cosmic ocean.
He is disarmingly honest about how the request felt in the moment — a little hokey, thrown out somewhat casually, with zero expectation of a response. What happened instead was instantaneous. His full body took what he describes as a single deep breath, and something began rising from the base of his torso — slowly, steadily, like a glass filling with water from the bottom up. He could feel a line moving upward through his body, and simultaneously an internal sensation he did not yet have language for. He had read enough about Kundalini to recognize what was likely happening, and crucially, he was not afraid.
Waves of Emotion: Tears, Giggles, and Uncontrollable Laughter
As the energy rose past his heart and into his throat, Chris experienced what he describes as beautiful waves of emotion pouring out of him with no apparent external trigger. First tears of pure joy. Then the tears transitioned into uncontrollable giggling — a fit of laughter he could not stop, driven by nothing except the sheer intensity of what was moving through him. Just when he thought the experience had settled, deep belly laughter built up from within, again with nothing external to explain it. The entire sequence left him in a blissful state that lasted for roughly two weeks afterward.
The crown chakra and third eye activated during this initial event, manifesting as tingling sensations — thousands of tiny buds of light opening across the top of his head, combined with pressure that varied in intensity. Watch Chris describe the full sequence of sensations in his own words on TheAlexShow.TV.
The Power Washer on the Spine: Physical Sensations That Are Not Physical
One of the most vivid images Chris offers throughout the conversation is his description of what happened to his spine and rib cage in the months following the initial activation. He compares it to the sensation of a dental water sprayer — the small, focused power washer used to clean teeth — but applied to a single vertebra at a time. He would feel this concentrated, almost mechanical clearing sensation working on one specific point along his spine, and then it would release, followed by a soft flow of energy through that area. This happened progressively, vertebra by vertebra, over an extended period rather than all at once, and the same pattern occurred along his rib cage — a felt sense of a blockage or kink being worked through, followed by release.
He is careful and precise in his language throughout: these were not physical changes in the sense that an X-ray would reveal anything different. They were, as he puts it, metaphysical — real experiences, felt clearly and consistently, occurring within a layer of the body that conventional physical examination cannot detect. This distinction matters enormously for anyone trying to understand their own potential experiences: the absence of visible physical change does not mean the process is not genuinely happening.
The Liquid Light and the Ancient Sanskrit Word for Divine Nectar
Among the most consistent and striking sensations Chris describes is something entering through his left temple — a soft, cool, thick liquid sensation seeping into his skull. He connects this to the ancient Sanskrit concept of Amrita, meaning divine nectar, a term used in yogic traditions to describe exactly this kind of experience. During periods of intense activation, he would feel this liquid light pouring into his skull, filling it, and then seeming to drip down his spine and back — an experience he describes without hesitation as magical.
He shares a moment of genuine and relatable uncertainty from this period: as the sensations intensified, he found himself wondering whether some outward physical sign would eventually appear — would he start to glow, would something visible occur. Nothing did. The transformation, however profound it felt internally, produced no outward change in his appearance. This is an important clarification for anyone who might associate spiritual awakening with dramatic external markers: the most significant inner transformation can occur without a single visible sign.
Inner Work as the Companion Process
Chris is emphatic about a point that Alex finds especially important to highlight: the physical and energetic changes he experienced did not happen in isolation from deliberate inner work. Throughout the entire process — which continues to this day — he engaged in an enormous amount of conscious effort to bring himself into a state of inner peace. One of the central understandings that crystallized for him through this process is that this reality functions as a mirror: outer peace is impossible without inner peace first. The inner state sets the tone that gets projected outward, not the reverse. Everything begins within — a principle that resonates directly with the foundational message Alex has built his entire channel around.
Fear Stops the Process: Why Chris’s Composure Mattered
Alex identifies something in Chris’s account that he considers critically important for anyone who might be undergoing similar experiences without a framework to understand them: Chris’s explicit statement that he was not afraid when the energy began rising. Chris confirms this is a genuinely pivotal factor, sharing the story of a friend who experienced the same initial rising sensation during meditation, panicked, assumed it was anxiety, and deliberately stopped the process by ending his meditation. The friend, in effect, closed the door on his own awakening out of fear born from lack of understanding.
Chris wants to make this point unmistakably clear: this is not something to be afraid of. He acknowledges the perspective some hold that a Kundalini activated too early or too abruptly can create real difficulty — but frames the guiding intelligence behind the process, whether understood as the higher self or something else, as fundamentally oriented toward bringing the person’s life into balance. Once activated, the energy tends to surface whatever in a person’s life is out of alignment, prompting the changes needed to bring things into harmony. This is not random disruption. It is guided recalibration.
The Snake That Undulates: Sensations at the Base of the Spine
Chris offers one of the conversation’s most concrete physical descriptions when discussing the classic imagery of Kundalini as a serpent. He describes genuinely feeling, at the base of his spine, a sensation precisely like a coiled snake — undulating, squeezing, unmistakably present in a way that leaves no doubt about what is happening. During meditation, he sometimes experiences what feels like small electric currents moving up his spine in serpentine patterns, activating at different points along the way. His approach to meditation, he explains, is simple: sit quietly until sensations begin arising in the body, then follow wherever they lead rather than directing the process.
He describes additional sensations — a sparkling quality at the base of the brain or in its center, chakras that seem to activate or become perceptible in sequence, pressure that sometimes feels like a thumb pressing on the spine from outside and other times from within. The overall effect, he says, is a growing awareness that the body is vastly more than what conventional understanding suggests — that there is an entire additional layer or dimension to physical form that most people never become conscious of. And the word he keeps returning to, the only word he finds adequate, is magical.
Alex Pushes Back Gently: The Difference Between High Vibration and Genuine Harmony
In one of the conversation’s most substantive exchanges, Alex raises a criticism he has voiced across many episodes of his channel — one he considers essential to distinguishing genuine spiritual practice from performance. He observes that many people who claim to operate at elevated frequencies or vibrational states behave in ways completely inconsistent with that claim: fighting with family members, shouting in traffic, becoming belligerent when confronted with bad news. He shares an observation from a past guest on his Spanish-language channel: someone can leave a guided meditation surrounded by crystals feeling perfectly aligned, only to arrive home and shout at their spouse or children minutes later.
Chris agrees completely, and their exchange develops into one of the conversation’s most valuable practical insights: genuine spiritual elevation is not measured by claims about frequency or vibration but by the actual, lived capacity to remain in harmony regardless of external circumstances. The outer world — traffic, bad news, conflict — does not determine internal peace. Internal peace is a choice, however difficult, that belongs entirely to the individual holding it. Alex frames this using language he has returned to throughout his channel’s history: the power of reaction is always yours, and the system benefits enormously from convincing people otherwise, from making them feel powerless in the face of external events.
The Amnesia Is by Design: Remembering as the Point of the Game
Chris introduces a framework that resonates powerfully with themes Alex has developed across many episodes: the veil of forgetting that accompanies incarnation is not an accident or a flaw in the system. It is deliberate, by design, because it is precisely what makes the experience of physical incarnation possible in the first place. From the perspective of the higher self on the other side — the part of consciousness that knows itself to be eternal, limitless, literally a piece of the creator — coming into a physical body means voluntarily taking on limitation as the entire point of the exercise.
If incarnating on Earth is understood as a game, Chris explains, the game itself is structured around forgetting who you are and then, through the course of a lifetime, remembering. The awakening moment — the recognition that you are not merely this small physical being but something vastly larger, literally a piece of creator in the flesh — is not incidental to the experience. It is the objective.
Difficult Questions: A Child’s Death and the Limits of “Everything Happens for a Reason”
Alex raises one of the most difficult challenges to any framework that claims everything happens for a purpose: how does that framework hold up against genuine tragedy — specifically, the death of a child? Chris does not retreat from the question or offer an easy resolution. He engages it directly, acknowledging how genuinely hard it is to accept, even intellectually, that something as devastating as losing a child at a young age could serve any comprehensible purpose.
What he offers is not a justification but a possible frame: sometimes profound loss becomes the catalyst that turns grieving parents inward in a way nothing else could have. Sometimes a soul incarnates specifically to provide others the opportunity to develop the capacity for forgiveness or radical acceptance — capacities that anyone who has genuinely forgiven something major knows carry an almost physical sense of relief and release. Alex, in turn, shares the story of close friends who lost their thirteen-year-old son five years ago and who still cannot bring themselves to move houses or enter his untouched room — grounding the philosophical discussion in the raw, ongoing reality of human grief that no framework fully resolves, and that both men treat with genuine respect rather than tidy spiritual explanation.
Discovering Your True Self: The Path That Leads There Naturally
As always at TheAlexShow.TV, the conversation returns to the foundation that anchors everything the channel explores. Chris’s own trajectory illustrates something Alex has said consistently: the Kundalini awakening is not a special gift reserved for extraordinary individuals. It is, as Chris puts it, an organic and natural evolution of the human being — something that has been suppressed and mischaracterized as dangerous precisely because those who benefit from human disconnection do not want people discovering the genuine power that comes from remembering who they truly are.
You are not what you have been taught to believe. You are an incredible being without limits, carrying eternal life, amazing strength, infinite wisdom, and a big beautiful heart. All your limits are self-imposed. Your best version in this reality is inside you, and your only mission on this life is to become a beacon of love and to serve others. The discovery process is personal — no one can do it for you. Dedicate five minutes a day to talk to the universe. Simply ask: Who am I? Where do I come from? What is my purpose? As Chris’s own experience demonstrates, when this inner work is genuinely undertaken, whatever needs to awaken — however it manifests, on whatever timeline, in whatever order — tends to happen naturally, as the organic unfolding of a process every human being carries the capacity for.
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