Kundalini: The Evolutionary Energy in Man

Coiled like a snake at the base of the spine, kundalini is the spiritual force that lies dormant in every human being. Once awakened, often through meditation and yoga practices, it rises up the spine and finds expression in the form of spiritual knowledge, mystical vision, psychic powers, and ultimately, enlightenment. The author gives a first-person account of his experience of this awakening and how he found balance with the many psychic and physiological changes the experience fostered.

With a psycological commentary by James Hillman
Foreword by Gene Kieffer"

Gopi Krishna never felt that what took place was personally his. From the beginning he was a mere instrument; therefore, at the end, he is merely a mouthpiece of a vaster truth."-James Hillman, author of The Soul's Cafe

Coiled like a snake at the base of the spine, kundalini is the spritual force that lies dormant in every human being. Once awakened, often through meditation and yoga practices, it rises up the spine and finds expression in the form of spiritual knowledge, mystical vision, psychic powers, and ultimately, enlightenment.

This is the classic first-person account of Gopi Krishna, an ordinary Indian householder who, at the age of thirty-four, after years of show more unsupervised meditation, suddenly experienced the awakening of kundalini during his morning practice. The story of this transformative experience, and the author's struggle to find balance amid a variety of powerful physiological and psychic side effects, forms the core of the book. His detailed descriptions of his dramatic inner experiences and symptoms such as mood swings, eating disorders, and agonizing sensations of heat-and of how, with the help of his wife, he finally stabilized at a higher level of consciousness-make this ne of the most valuable classics of spiritual awakening available.

Gopi Krishina (1903-1984) was born in Kashmir and later lived in the Punjab region of India. He is the author of numerous books on yoga and kundalini. show less

Kundalini is a great pyschic force not to be used erratically. It may grant and does great genius in those whom start normal and grant such unknowable heights of genius in the original genius that it may be only very little until ultimate empires and domains of earth hell and heavens are granted to the yogin

This is Gopi Krishna's autobiographical account of what happens to the mind and body when the Kundalini is aroused spontaneously. It describes the perils, upheavals and final balanced entry into another dimension, as well as the traditional theories about this force.

A rather boring book only interesting for the short commentary by James Hillman and its mild touching on the erotic.

Gopi Krishna, an Indian government bureucrat and practicioner of yoga relates his twelve year struggle to understand and master the primal life force known as kundalini that is released in his body as a result of his yogic practice.

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> KUNDALINÎ, de Gopi Krishna, éd. J.-C. Lattès. — Rares sont les ouvrages traitant avec intelligence et profondeur de la kundalini, cette énergie qui, d'après la tradition yoguique et tantrique hindoue, serait lovée au bas de la colonne vertébrale et pourrait s'éveiller parfois en passant à travers les chakras, autres centres énergétiques situés sur l'axe du corps jusqu'au sommet de la tête, créant ainsi une forme d'extase spirituelle. Ayant connu, après des années de méditation régulière, et sans rien chercher, cette fulgurante expérience, l'auteur, brahmane hindou élevé dans un collège britannique, raconte le profond show more choc physique et émotionnel qu'elle engendra, les doutes et les souffrances qu’elle lui infligea durant des années jusqu'à ce que, petit à petit, cet état d'élévation mystique se stabilise en lui.
Les commentaires du célèbre psychiatre jungien James Hillman nous aident à bien comprendre le processus engagé.
—Nouvelles Clés, (29), Printemps 2001 show less