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Kundalini in the idea of Dharma, refers to a kind of primal energy or shakti reported to be located at the base of the spine. Different spiritual traditions teach methods of awakening kundalini for the purpose of reaching religious enlightenment and a variety of supernormal power. Article writer Joseph Campbell represents the idea of Kundalini as the shape 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 state in a simple center, the first of the seven, close to the foot of the spine the purpose of the pilates then being to rouse this serpent, lift her brain, and bring her up a understated nerve or channel of the vertebrae to the so called thousand petaled lotus Sahasrara at the crown of the head. She, growing from the cheapest to the best lotus centre, will pass through and wake the five between, and with each waking the mindset and personality of the specialist will be entirely and fundamen...