Wisdom of today.

The ecstatic visions of the mystic, the creations of genius, the performance of the prodigy, the phenomenon of the medium, and the nightmares of the insane are all, without exception, the products of this enhanced flow of a more potent form of bioenergy into the brain.

In the case of the born mystic, the genius, the medium, and the prodigy, the brain cells are already attuned to the flow of bioenergy of a higher potency. But in the case of those in whom the power is aroused as a result of certain disciplines, a certain period of time is needed to accustom the brain to the altered condition of this force. This is the most critical period in the discipline of yoga and other spiritual exercise.
Even in the case of individuals born with this peculiarity, crises continue to occur throughout life.

The susceptibility to mental derangement in the case of some of the most outstanding specimens of the latter, like Newton, is also due to this fact. Research into kundalini must make it possible to avert these crises in the lives of the most creative section of the race. The crises in the lives of the great mystics and saints – their tormenting desire for spiritual experience which sometimes goes to the point of mania – also owe their origin to the effect of this psychic radiation on the brian.
The mystic can attain such a state of absorption in his visionary experience that he can become entirely oblivious to the world and his surroundings. The very words “trance” or “ecstacy” denote this state of intense engrossment. This is also one of the characteristics of samadhi. The individual is lost to the world round him. To a lesser extent this is also the case with creative genius.

Gopi Krishna, The importance and some implifications of a scientific investigation of the phenomenon of Kundalini. From “Kundalini, Evolution and Enlightenment, by John White.

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