Samyana I Am Yoga: Kundalini Awakening
Kundalini in the concept of Dharma, identifies a form of primal energy or shakti reported to be located at the bottom of the vertebrae. Different spiritual traditions teach ways of awakening kundalini for the purpose of reaching spiritual enlightenment and a range of supernormal forces. Article writer Joseph Campbell represents the concept of Kundalini as the figure of an coiled woman serpent a serpent goddess not of gross but of refined substance which is usually to be thought of as surviving in a torpid, slumbering condition in a understated center, the first of the seven, near the base of the spine the purpose of the yoga exercises then being to rouse this serpent, lift her mind, and bring her up a refined nerve or route of the spine to the so called thousand petaled lotus Sahasrara at the crown of the head. She, rising from the cheapest to the highest lotus centre, will go through and wake the five between, and with each waking the mindset and personality of the specialist will be ...