Kundalini Matters: Science, Psychosis or Serpent UK Kundalini
Kundalini in the concept of Dharma, identifies a kind of primal energy or shakti reported to be located at the base of the back. Different spiritual practices teach ways of awakening kundalini for the intended purpose of reaching religious enlightenment and a range of supernormal capabilities. Writer Joseph Campbell explains the concept of Kundalini as the figure of an coiled feminine serpent a serpent goddess not of gross but of subtle substance which is usually to be regarded as surviving in a torpid, slumbering express in a subtle center, the first of the seven, nearby the base of the spine the aim of the yoga exercises then being to rouse this serpent, lift up her mind, and bring her up a delicate nerve or route 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 middle, will pass through and wake the five between, and with each waking the psychology and personality of the practitioner will be