Kundalinipsychosis or transcendence?: Lee Sannella: Amazon.com
Kundalini in the concept of Dharma, identifies a kind of primal energy or shakti reported to be located at the base of the backbone. Different spiritual practices teach ways of awakening kundalini for the intended purpose of reaching spiritual enlightenment and a variety of supernormal powers. Writer Joseph Campbell details the concept of Kundalini as the number of an coiled girl serpent a serpent goddess not of gross but of delicate substance which is to be thought of as residing in a torpid, slumbering state in a subtle center, the first of the seven, near to the foot of the spine the aim of the pilates then being to rouse this serpent, lift her head, and bring her up a delicate nerve or route of the vertebrae to the so called thousand petaled lotus Sahasrara at the crown of the top. She, growing from the cheapest to the highest lotus centre, will pass through and wake the five between, and with each waking the mindset and personality of the specialist will be completely and fundamen...