Jan passed away on July 5, 2025.

Jan was born 1960 and grew up in Bury, England. His parents were Danish. In 1967 the family moved to Denmark. Jan’s dad is an engineer and there was no spiritual influence from either parent. Yet Jan showed strong spiritual yearnings since an early age. Jan trained as an artist under the Danish painter Niels Hermann Wamberg; he also studied art restoration at the Royal Academy in order to learn the traditional craft. Jan also studied at the university and acquired an MA in history of modern culture. Today Jan works as a full-time professional artist and also has a software company developing photo retouching plug-ins for Photoshop.

After doing Transcendental Meditation and the TM Siddhi Programme for six years, Jan felt the need for a guru and found Gururaj Ananda Yogi whom he stayed with for three years. Then Jan’s Kundalini was so active, that he did not need any other guidance than what the Shakti gave, so he gave up on gurus and meditated by observing the inner Shakti’s workings. Following this, Jan began to be contagious and the Kundalini might spontaneously awaken in those that meditated with him. After some years, Jan met Amma and related to her as a spiritual master for about ten years. But again the Shakti guided Jan to meditate on his own and follow the inner guidance of the Shakti. Today Jan would describe his spirituality as being grabbed by Mother’s grace. The Divine Mother who resides in everybody as Kundalini Shakti and patiently waits to unfold as a vibrating field of love, bliss, and grace.

Interview recorded 7/10/2011.

Jan's sites:

Spirituality

Art

Software Development

Books:

Lovebliss: The Essence of Self-Realization

Enlightenment 101: From Ignorance to Grace

Kundalini Tantra: Song of Liberation

Transcript of this interview

2nd interview with Jan

YouTube Video Chapters:

00:00:00 - Introduction to Jan Esmann and his Spiritual Journey

00:04:59 - Out of Body Experiences and Blissful Samadhis

00:08:13 - The Blue Pearl and the Blue Being

00:11:15 - An Encounter with God

00:14:54 - Saturated with intelligence and consciousness

00:17:30 - The God Consciousness and the Blue Being

00:20:06 - An Interesting Experience on a Meditation Week

00:22:37 - Glimpses of Past Lives

00:25:59 - Past Life Memories

00:28:41 - Pure Being

00:32:23 - The Paradox of Bliss and Meaninglessness

00:35:05 - Meditation and Kundalini Awakening Journey

00:38:17 - A Spiritual Connection with Amma

00:41:03 - Kundalini Awakening Journey

00:43:39 - Work in Meditation

00:46:28 - Shaktipat and Blissful Meditation

00:50:02 - The Bliss Transmission

00:52:41 - Awakening of the Crown Chakra and Self-realization

00:56:47 - Recognition of Pure Being in Others

00:59:32 - The State of Passive Awareness

01:02:24 - Progression of Consciousness: From Cosmic Consciousness to Unity Consciousness

01:05:35 - Understanding, Realization, and Liberation

01:09:15 - The Maturation of Spiritual Teachers

01:12:28 - The Transition from Duality to Unity Consciousness

01:15:40 - Awakening Spiritual Growth

01:18:01 - The Nature of Bliss

01:21:15 - Levels of Awareness vs Levels of Experience

01:25:25 - Kundalini: Unfolding Ignorance into Enlightenment

01:29:15 - Kundalini and Shaktipat

01:32:59 - Expansion of Unity Consciousness

01:35:56 - Interview with a Local Phenomenon in Copenhagen