Gopi Krishna's toughts on the phenomenon of kundalini.

Gopi Krishna on the phenomenon of Kundalini

Modern psychology is unaware of this resistless impulse in the human brain. The main actor in the drama of life is entirely missing in the learned dissertations on the human mind. The alarming increase in the psychic disorders is the outcome of obstructed evolution on account of unhygienic social conditions, but statistical data and study of abnormal mental behavior cannot helpt to bring this hidden actor to light. Another kind of study is needed to reach to the bottom of this mystery. The greatest potential for a complete revolution in the sphere of modern thought lies hidden in psychology.

Prophets, philosophers, and political revolutionaries have failed to bring about an era of lasting peace because the divine estate destined for man and divine mechanism designed to lead to it have never been empirically demonstrated.

There are well-known and well-attested cases of individuals who, in trance or semitrance, bloom into great healers, clairvoyants, expounders of religious truths, propheciers, oracles, and the like. With voluntary cultivation there is no end to the possibilities of the metamorphosis. With better knowledge of the mechanism and discovery of safer methods to activate it, the products of kundalini can bloom into prodigies in every sphere of human knowledge, into geniuses of the highest order, into prophets, seers, healers and clairvoyants of surpassing stature, beyond anything we can image at present. They will be the leaders in every field on knowledge and activity in the future world.

The study can be divided into five broad parallel departments. The first would consist of a thorough study of the oral and written tradition. There are thousands of books of kundalini and yoga extant in India. The ancient esoteric treatises, including the Tantras, contain valuable hints about the serpent powers. The Vedas, the Upanishads, and the Puranas provide another fertile source. A study by a team of scholars can provide valuable material to initiate an empirical investigation of the phenomena.

The second province of research would cover those cases in which kundalini is congenitally active. There are five categories of the individuals belonging to this class – the born mystic, the man and woman of genius, the prodigies, the mediums, and the psychotics.

The third province of research can be provided by born mystics, geniuses, mediums, and prodigies in whom kundalini is more or less active from birth.

The fourth province for study can be furnished by those in whom there occurs an activation of the serpent power later in life without in any way affecting the sanity of their mind.

The fith and most important area of research would be provided by those cases who voluntarily offer themselves for the bold exploit of rousing the serpent power.

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Most writers on genius are agreed on the borderline condition of high talent.

Gopi Krishna, The phenomenon of Kundalini, in Kundalini, Evolution and Enlightenment by John White.