Kundalini Express
Kundalini in the idea of Dharma, refers to a form of primal energy or shakti said to be located at the base of the vertebrae. Different spiritual customs teach ways of awakening kundalini for the purpose of reaching religious enlightenment and a variety of supernormal powers. Writer Joseph Campbell details the idea of Kundalini as the body of the coiled female serpent a serpent goddess not of gross but of simple substance which is to be thought of as residing in a torpid, slumbering express in a understated center, the first of the seven, near to the foot of the spine the aim of the yoga exercise then being to rouse this serpent, lift up her head, and bring her up a simple nerve or channel of the vertebrae to the so called thousand petaled lotus Sahasrara at the crown of the head. She, rising from the lowest to the highest lotus center, will go through and wake the five between, and with each waking the mindset and personality of the practitioner will be completely and fundamentally ch...