Now mind his li'l fontanelle!

The first time, I'm ashamed to admit, that I ever heard the word "fontanelle" was when Edwina McDunnough in the film Raising Arizona says in her special drawl, "Now mind his li'l fontanelle!" I had only ever heard that little, vulnerable spot on a baby's head called a soft spot. But most things anatomical tend to have a more official name, and in this case the soft spot is officially known as the fontanelle. It seems Edwina McDunnough noughs more than her name implies!

Edwina McDunnough from Raising Arizona

But it wasn't until a few months ago that I learned that the word fontanelle is actually a French word that means "little fountain" or "little spring". Where is the correlation here? What does a baby's soft spot have to do with a fountain or spring? At this same time I was studying the nature of kundalini energy and discovering the winding path it travels up the chakras. This led me to Sahaja Yoga Meditation, founded by Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi. It was in reading her words that revealed to me for the first time the profound correlation between this seemingly inane label "fontanelle" and the experience of kundalini awakening. In her own words:

"Self-Realization is the awakening of the Kundalini through the central channel, as it pierces the six chakras above the sacrum bone and emerges at the top of the head (at the fontanel area) as a gentle "fountain" of coolness. (The word fontanel means "little fountain" which indicates again the ancient knowledge about this phenomenon of Self-Realization.)"

She even points out that it was the ancient Greeks who gave the sacrum its name, which means "sacred or holy bone"and is the medical term still used today. How beautiful that some truths weren't lost, only forgotten. The truth is often staring us in the face--or we're sitting on it, literally. Kundalini resides in the sacred triangular bone called the sacrum and achieves self-realization upon piercing through the fontanelle as a gentle fountain.

Hmm. I have to hand it to the French and the ancient Greeks. Did they know the truth?