Lee Sanella, Kundalini: Psychosis or Transcendence, 1976 see here
Kundalini in the idea of Dharma, identifies a form of primal energy or shakti reported to be located at the base of the vertebrae. Different spiritual traditions teach methods of awakening kundalini for the intended purpose of reaching religious enlightenment and a range of supernormal forces. Copy writer Joseph Campbell details the idea of Kundalini as the number of an coiled girl serpent a serpent goddess not of gross but of refined substance which is to be thought of as residing in a torpid, slumbering talk about in a delicate center, the first of the seven, nearby the foot of the spine the purpose of the yoga then being to rouse this serpent, lift up her brain, and bring her up a subtle nerve or channel of the spinal column to the so called thousand petaled lotus Sahasrara at the crown of the top. She, rising from the lowest to the best lotus center, will go through and wake the five between, and with each waking the mindset and personality of the specialist will be completely and