This is a talk from the one-day Shaktipat intensive Mark Griffin gave on May 19th, 2012.
"The key point of the talk is about the Paramahamsa - the great swan. The Paramahamsa is the universal form of the kundalini. First at the immediate crown of the head is where one would first merge into pure consciousness. At the very crown of the head, we say that this is Shiva; the kundalini rises up and merges into Shiva. That first station sits just at the crown of the head, perhaps a quarter inch above the nap of the skull. If you go up maybe a second finger, there is another seat. It's like a chakra – it looks like a chakra, but there's nothing there; it's just pure light. This is the seat of the Paramahamsa. It looks just like a hamsa, an open swan, but is vast. It's like an aurora, where the rampant wings of the bird are open. The seat just above the Paramahamsa is the seat where the condition of the nirvikalpa is generated."