The Kundalini Experience: Psychosis or Transcendence by Lee Sannella

Kundalini in the concept of Dharma, refers to a kind of primal energy or shakti reported to be located at the bottom of the spine. Different spiritual practices teach methods of awakening kundalini for the purpose of reaching spiritual enlightenment and a range of supernormal powers.

Article writer Joseph Campbell details the idea of Kundalini as the amount of a coiled woman serpent a serpent goddess not of gross but of simple substance which is to be regarded as residing in a torpid, slumbering status in a refined center, the first of the seven, nearby the base of the spine the purpose of the pilates then being to rouse this serpent, lift her mind, and bring her up a understated nerve or channel of the spinal column to the so called thousand petaled lotus Sahasrara at the crown of the top.

She, increasing from the cheapest 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 transformed. Kundalini awakening is said to result from profound meditation, and consequently enlightenment and bliss.

However, as each individual is exclusive, Kundalini awakenings can happen through a number of methods not limited by deep deep breathing. This awakening includes the Kundalini actually moving up the central channel to reach within the Sahasrara Chakra at the top of the top. Many systems of yoga give attention to awakening Kundalini through meditation, pranayama deep breathing, the practice of asana and chanting of mantras. In physical conditions, the Kundalini experience is generally reported to be a feeling of electric energy running over the spine.