Welcome to the on-line home of The Soul’s Journey. For each of us, our soul’s journey takes us along many paths, through innumerable forests, deserts and oceans of experience as we cross countless lifetimes in our quest for love, power, wisdom, peace and our true connection to the Divine, the Source, our Buddha nature or the many other ways this Essence is called. Your search has brought you here for a brief stay. At this site you will discover the works of Lawrence Edwards, Ph.D., LMHC, a meditation teacher and transpersonal psychotherapist, as well as a medical school faculty member and neuro-biofeedback clinician. For more information on Dr. Edwards' clinical work please visit optimalmind.net.


Lawrence is a recognized expert in the field of Kundalini and regarded by many as a modern mystic known for his love of the Divine. He is the founder and director of Anam Cara, Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to teaching meditative practices.

While you’re here you might explore the resources and links that can serve to connect you with other realms of wisdom, guidance and support available to you.

Every spiritual tradition has its name for the power of the Divine that compels us to seek the highest, to look beyond the mundane to know the Knower. It is known as the Holy Spirit, Shekinah, Chi, N'um, Shakti, Consiousness, and by many more names. Kundalini is the yogic term for the power of the Divine that propels us along our journey, like the winds of fate that blew Odysseus across the seas on his quest. This awesome, transpersonal power, Kundalini, is often misunderstood, especially in the West. Kundalini is referred to as a Goddess in the East, as the Divine Feminine is the archetypal form of the power of creativity and embodiment. Her effects, while transformative and supremely uplifting, may feel challenging at times and dis-integrative, especially as She does the work of setting the mind and body free from the many layers of conditioning that bind them. This allows for a higher order of integration and wholeness of Self to emerge.

Kundalini awakening is the esoteric goal of all yogas and has been sought by sages for thousands of years. It leads one into the profound depths of meditation, states of rapture and union with the Divine, dissolution of self and the direct experience of the infinite spaciousness of Being. Kundalini Shakti, the power of the Infinite to reveal itself, gives numerous types of spiritually transformative experiences, visions, and can even spontaneously move the body into hatha yoga postures during meditation empowered by this supreme inner force. These phenomena may be misunderstood or even pathologized by traditional Western psychological perspectives. People undergoing Kundalini or spiritually transformative processes need to have an accurate understanding of what is happening to them and receive the kind of support that respects the workings of the Divine that are occurring to them. This site and Lawrence's work, as well as that of many others, are offered to help meet that need. In addition Lawrence created a Kundalini support site, www.kundalinisupport.org, with answers to commonly asked questions about Kundalini and additional resources.

Kundalini empowered meditation is one of the most potent forms of meditation and Lawrence is one of the few meditation teachers who offers this, along with the traditional techniques and practices he teaches. He offers instruction in meditation and visualization practices that span Buddhist, Vedantic, yogic and shamanic schools and include Western transpersonal approaches that lead into the depths of archetypal experiences, visions and states of unity awareness.

While studying clinical psychology in graduate school at Temple University, Lawrence did his doctoral thesis on the extraordinary effects of Kundalini. His own mystical experiences had begun years earlier and he was able to integrate these with his professional training and his extensive training in yoga and meditation. This comprehensive perspective, grounded in personal mystical experience, is made available through his book, The Soul’s Journey: Guidance From The Divine Within, and through the workshops, courses and individual consultations offered by Lawrence.

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