Decoding the Serpent Power:

An Exploration into Kundalini from the Edge of Science

by
Jeanne Lim

August 1, 2012

Professor: Dr. James Oschman

EMP825 Biophysics - Personal Research Project (Spring 2012)
Energy Medicine University
 Introduction

“Thou art diverting Thyself, in secrecy with

Thy Lord, in the thousand-petalled lotus,
having pierced through the Earth situated in
the Muladhara, the Water in the Manipura, the
Fire abiding in the Swadhisthana, the Air in
the Heart (Anahata), the Ether above (the
Vishuddhi), and Manas between the eyebrows
(Ajna) and thus broken through the entire
Kula path (central channel - Sushumna).”
Shankaracharya, “Saundarya-Lahari.”
(The Ocean of Beauty, 9th poem, Adya, 1977)

“For the Holy Ghost will not be held in the sinful flesh, but rises up like a
lightning flash, as fire sparkles and flashes out of a stone when a man
strikes it. The Holy Spirit rises up, in the seven unfolding fountain spirits,
into the brain, like the dawning of the day, the morning redness… though
an angel from heaven should tell this to me for all that I could not believe
it. But the Sun itself arises in my Spirit, and therefore I am most sure of
it.”
Jacob Boehme, Christian mystic

“The valley spirit not dying is called the mysterious female.

The opening of the mysterious female is called the root of heaven
and earth. Continuous, on the brink of existence, to put it into
practice, don't try to force it.”
Lao Tze
(Tao Te Ching, #6, by Lao Tze,
Translated by Thomas Cleary)

“I saw the world in a new way – and it was warped and

uncontrollable and I was unable to be rational. I was manic-
depressive, with mood swings from euphoria to total contraction,
expansion to suicidal, and thinking the energy would probably kill
me anyhow.”
Rob
(Greenwell, 1990 p. 40)

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 The above accounts seem to describe very different experiences. Yet, they are

referring to the same phenomenon: Kundalini awakening. It appears that the awakening

experience is a personal one that varies widely depending on the individual’s state of

body, mind, and spirit, but Kundalini itself is a universal phenomenon that is recognized

throughout history and across cultures. Francesca McCartney in her book Intuition

Medicine®: The Science of Energy lists different names by which Kundalini has been

called in other cultures or practices. These include: qi or chi in Chinese; toumo fire in

Tibetan Buddhism; the fire of the Holy Spirit in Christianity; Manu Like in Hawaiian

culture; Kundalini in Native American cultures; bio-energy by modern Russian

researchers; orgone energy by psychologist and researcher Wilhelm Reich.

Kundalini has been a phenomenon cloaked in the mystery and myth of ancient

traditions, and continues to be a subject that fascinates ancient sages and modern

scientists alike. It is ironic that in the East, Kundalini is perceived as a spiritual

awakening to be revered, but in the West, Kundalini has sometimes been diagnosed as a

physical or psychological disorder. Lee Sannella, in Kundalini: Psychosis or

Transcendence, says the spiritual process often triggers alterations in thoughts and

emotions and bodily symptoms that “result in this process frequently being mistaken for

mental illness” (Sannella, 1987, p. 10).

Spiritual traditions and culture play an important part in creating this dichotomy

in perception and interpretation between the East and the West, but another reason is in

spite of an increasing body of theories and experiential accounts about Kundalini in the

West, there are no academic institutions governing and validating this knowledge, and

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there seems to be a lack of funding for proper research. In a survey of published

information, there have apparently been many attempts in piecing together physical,

mental, and spiritual interpretations of the Kundalini awakening experience, but relatively

few explorations on the origin of Kundalini as energy and the actual cause of the

awakening phenomenon. As a result, the Kundalini phenomenon has remained very

much a mystery.

Purpose and Scope

The purpose of this research is to explore, through secondary sources, the

Kundalini phenomenon and develop a Western theoretical model to explain its origin as

energy and the cause of the awakening process from the lens of science. As such, this

paper will not include an exploration of the Traditional Chinese Medicine’s view of

Kundalini-type energy, since Chinese medicine is based on a different system of

understanding and interpreting human bioenergy.

I call this an exploration from the edge of science since some of the hypotheses

made and references used in this paper may be outside of the paradigms of mainstream

science. In order to explore new solutions, we need to ask different questions, as well as

give careful consideration to information outside of published scientific work. To do so,

it is important that this exploration includes the latest theories and studies derived from

logical contemplation of quantum and energy theories, even though some of the

hypotheses have not been empirically tested and validated.

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 As an energy phenomenon, Kundalini can be explored as a mystical, spiritual,

emotional, or mental process, or as a biological, biophysical, or biochemical event. I

believe that all explorations are valuable and valid and that the various aspects of

physical and spiritual experiences are not mutually exclusive. They are all real and

integral to the individual and collective human experience. It appears that the Western

interpretation of Kundalini, with some exceptions, tends to focus on the Kundalini rising

process--the intense sensation where Kundalini energy surges from the base of the spine

upwards through the spinal column to the crown of the head. This may be because many

Westerners first became aware of Kundalini’s immense power through Gopi Krishna’s

personal account of his own Kundalini rising experience; and also, ancient yogic

practices aimed at raising Kundalini, as described by Raymond Bernard in the Serpent

Fire, tend to focus on concentrating the breath at the base of the spine then directing it up

the spine to the brain. In ancient Indian traditions, Kundalini is often described as an

innate or universal energy, and the awakening and subsequent rising experience as the

process by which the energy potential is fully realized.

This research will discuss Kundalini both in terms of its energy origin and the

cause of its awakening. The key questions that the research will address are as follows:

1. What is Kundalini?

2. What is the origin of Kundalini energy?

3. What is the primary cause of Kundalini awakening?

4. What is the path of Kundalini awakening?

5. What are the implications of the Kundalini awakening?

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 What is Kundalini?

An attempt in answering the simple question: What is Kundalini? uncovered a

myriad of different interpretations and definitions of Kundalini. A key problem seems to

be that Kundalini is a word from Hindu scriptures and there is no real equivalent for the

word in English. Even the translations of many of the Hindu texts are either incomplete

or incorrect as they try to fit Eastern spiritual concepts into the Western construct.

The word Kundalini is derived from Sanskrit: kund, which means to burn; and

kunda, which means to coil or to spiral. It is often described as the primordial dormant

energy present in three-and-a-half coils at the base of the spine in a triangular bone called

the sacrum. Kundalini is usually presented as sexual energy that is with us from birth, in

either a manifested or un-manifested form. It is said that as one progresses through life,

Kundalini becomes increasingly blocked and diverted from its normal path through

conditioning and behavioral patterns that one memorizes consciously and unconsciously.

There are some who make references to different Kundalinis. In his book

Spiritual Nutrition, medical doctor and spiritual teacher Gabriel Cousens distinguishes

three types of Kundalini: Spiritual Kundalini, Shakti Kundalini, and Mundane Kundalini.

In his view, Spiritual Kundalini is the universal vibrational cosmic energy called cosmic

prana. He says this energy condenses into a physical form and manifests as a residual

cosmic energy in the body, which he calls Shakti Kundalini. In a potential energy state,

it is said to be coiled like a serpent below the first chakra near the base of the spine.

Shakti Kundalini is the potential energy that powers the energy that runs in the body,

which Cousens calls Mundane Kundalini. A discernment of Kundalini energies is also

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made by Mary Scott (2006) referencing ancient Hindu texts. In The Kundalini Concept,

she distinguishes Kundalini-Shakti or Kundalini-Prakriti as the specialized energy

located at the base of the spine, and Mahakundalini (Great Kundalini) or Kundalini-

Shabdabrahman as the cosmic force.

Kundalini rising is the theoretical construct often used to describe the forceful

sensations that usually start at the base of the spine, which then progress rapidly with a

powerful surge upwards through the body to the crown of the head. The full Kundalini

awakening experience is said to lead to higher and more desirable states of awareness,

such as mystical consciousness, and even the manifestation of paranormal phenomena.

Stripped of its esoteric connotations and symbolism, Kundalini is viewed by some

as simply the life force energy that emanates from all living things. McCartney (2001)

says: “Every human being has Kundalini energy within. It is an essential and vital

current that animates the potential of evolutionary change . . . and because Kundalini is

always present in your body, you may have already felt its power” (p. 57). This is echoed

by John White (1988), who says “Kundalini is at work all the time in everyone, and is

present from birth in mystics and seers, but in most people there is only a ‘dripping’

rather than a ‘steaming’” (p. 79).

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 The Source of Kundalini Energy

The Sun as the Source of Light Energy

What is the origin of Kundalini energy? In order to trace back causation to find

an origin, we would first need to ask where all energy comes from. Textbook science

says we receive energy from the sun indirectly by eating plants, or eating animals that eat

plants. However, evidence has started to emerge that we may be able to receive energy

from the sun by directly taking in the sun’s electromagnetic waves. In Eat the Sun, a

documentary about the practice of sun gazing, director Peter Sorcher portrays individuals

who fasted for long periods of time and may have been nourished only by direct sunlight.

In addition, recent researches into the pineal gland may hold the key as to how we

can absorb energy directly from the sun. They seem to point to the possibility that the

pineal gland directly senses light energy and absorbs photons. The pineal gland is a pea-

sized gland that produces melatonin, which is a neurotransmitter that is responsible for

making us relaxed and putting us to sleep by enabling us to sense light and darkness. The

pineal gland is called the third eye in spiritual traditions, and is believed to be connected

with spiritual and psychic abilities. Russian scientists studying embryology discovered

that a two-month old human fetus develops a third eye with photoreceptors, lens and

nerve cells that are similar to the retinas. Furthermore, an article in Russian online media

Pravda.ru says there seems to be a link to the pineal gland from the retina. In his book

The Source Field Investigations, David Wilcock cites research that says the cells of the

pineal gland closely resemble the photoreceptor ganglion cells (nerve cells) of the retina.

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Wilcock also says many sub-mammals, such as fish, frogs and birds, already detect light

with their pineal glands. He also quotes A. F. Weichmann as saying that “the presence of

proteins in the pineal which are normally involved in phototransduction (light sensing) in

the retina, raises the possibility that direct photic events may occur in the mammalian

pineal gland” (Wilcock, 2011, p. 58). Wilcock interprets Weichmann as saying that the

cells in the pineal gland are detecting photons and sending them to the brain through

phototransduction.

The retina in the back part of our eye contains two types of specialized cells called

photoreceptors that respond to light. These are called rods and cones. Rods and cones

are known as classic photoreceptors that convert light into signals that stimulate

biological processes and enable sight. In a landmark discovery in 2007, scientist Farhan

Zaidi (2007) and his research team found a non-rod, non-cone photoreceptor in humans.

These photoreceptors can synchronize circadian rhythms to the twenty-four-hour

light/dark cycle as well as enable sight. This non-rod, non-cone photoreceptor is a

special type of photosensitive ganglion cell that responds directly to light by increasing

the rate at which it fires nerve impulses. Unlike other retinal ganglion cells, these

photosensitive ganglion cells are intrinsically photosensitive, which means they are

excited by light even in the absence of classic photoreceptors. From these discoveries,

Zaidi and team conclude that there are two parallel and anatomically distinct

photoreceptor pathways: One through the classic photoreceptor located in the outer

retina of the eye, the other through a non-rod, non-cone photoreceptor that seems to be

activated by light first.

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 It also appears that the pineal gland has other interesting but not well-known

functions. In Energy Medicine: A Scientific Basis, James Oschman says “the pineal gland

is the primary magnetoreceptor. Between 20 and 30% of pineal cells are magnetically

sensitive. Exposure of animals to magnetic fields of various intensities alters the

secretion of melatonin, the electrical properties of pineal cells, and their microscopic

structure” (Oschman, 2000, p. 102). Hence, he believes pulsations of the geomagnetic

field, caused by Schumann resonance, may be detected by the pineal gland.

Light and Sound in Our Cells

Russian embryologist Alexander Gurwitsch and German physicist Fritz-Albert

Popp discovered that the cells of all living beings emit a weak glow in the form of

ultraviolet light. Popp calls these biophotons, and says that although they are ultra-weak,

they are highly coherent, so they have a laser-like light and quality. Popp believes

biophoton emission connects cell, tissues, and organs within the body and serves as the

main communication network and regulator for all of life’s processes. In her book The

Sage Age, MaAnna Stephenson states: “This was an astounding discovery. What Popp

suggested was that light, in some manner, was responsible for life” (Stephenson, 2008, p.

53). Physicist David Bohm says: “All matter is frozen light” (McCartney, 2005, p. 217).

Popp identifies DNA as the source of biophoton emissions and calls DNA the

“master tuning fork in the body" (McTaggart, 2001, p. 44). He demonstrates that DNA

gives off a large range of light frequencies that would cause a variety of frequencies in

other molecules of the body. From this, he postulates that different functions of DNA are

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performed based on different frequencies, and that cells may use light to self-repair. He

also found that living organisms exchange light emitted from each other, and concludes

that wave resonance is used to communicate between living things. Also, the biophotons

create a biophoton field that is described as “a holographic field of standing waves which

is able, through a broad spectrum of frequencies and polarizations and in close interplay

with all material structures, to transmit signals with the speed of light to any place in the

organism and to activate or to inhibit biochemical processes, to organize matter, and

much more” (Bischof, 2005, p. 3). The biophoton field may well be the field that B.

Rubik (1994) calls the Human Biofield.

How does DNA store light? Wilcock discusses findings by Russian scientist

Peter Gariaev that DNA absorbs all light in its vicinity by apparently creating a vortex

that attracts the light. Even more interesting, even after the DNA molecule is removed,

there seems to be a force that holds the spiraling light in the same place for up to thirty

days. This phenomenon is known as “The DNA Phantom Effect” (Wilcock, 2011, p.

161). Wilcock believes that the DNA molecule creates a duplicate energy field of itself

within the universal energy source, which entrains the light even in the absence of the

DNA. In Wilcock view, The DNA Phantom Effect means a perfect hologram of our

physical body can be created. He calls this “one of the most significant scientific

discoveries in modern history” (Wilcock, 2011, p. 162). Wilcock also reports of a

phenomenon called delayed luminescence. When light is shone on living cells, they

would “first absorb it, and then release an intense burst of new light after a brief period of

time” (Wilcock, 2011, p. 171). Wilcock believes that the DNA has a light energy store

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with a given capacity; if there is too much light, it would send it back out. He posits that

this is for a specific purpose--to transmit information that heals and establishes order in

the body.

Even more interesting, Rein and McCraty (2001) says that coherent brain wave

patterns such as those produced by intention can change the structure of DNA. Emotions

such as anger, and fear, can contract or compress DNA. On the other hand, emotions

such as joy, gratitude, and love can unwind or decompress DNA. Rein also found that

people with coherent heart energy can wind or unwind the DNA at will, while those with

incoherent heart energy cannot do so. Furthermore, it seems as if the change is effected

by first energetically changing the DNA phantom, which then changes the physical DNA

molecule itself.

In addition, Gariaev’s experiments show that acoustic waves radiated by DNA

can also create The DNA Phantom Effect. Dale (2009) cites Leonard Horowitz’s

research that demonstrates DNA actually emits and receives both photons (the energy

from light) and phonons (the energy from sound). Other researchers say sound stimulates

the DNA to create information signals that spread through the body, and that the primary

function of DNA is “not to synthesize proteins, but to perform bio-acoustic and bio-

electrical signaling” (Dale, 2010, p. 143). Research conducted by Richard Miller shows

that superposed coherent waves in the cells “interact and form patterns first through

sound, and secondly through light” (Dale, 2010, p. 143).

Gariaev’s research also shows that DNA can be activated by sound, as well as can

transmit sound. In an article entitled “The DNA-wave Biocomputer,” Gariaev and his

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associates postulate that the DNA-wave functions as a biocomputer. They conclude that

DNA can convert laser light into radio waves by producing solitons, which are ultra

stable waves, to form diffraction patterns first in the acoustic domain and then in the

electromagnetic domain to create a quantum hologram, which enables the translation

between acoustical and optical holograms. Gariaev also shows that sound in the form of

language frequencies such as words can repair chromosomes damaged by X-rays. He

concludes: “DNA can be activated with linguistic expressions, such as mantras,

affirmations, or other meaningful sounds, like an antennae. In turn this activation

modifies the human bioenergy fields, which transmit radio and light waves to bodily

structures” (Dale, 2010, p. 143).

The Universal Energy Source

Many scientists believe the vacuum of the universe, including the vacuum within

our cells, is not empty at all. Quantum scientists also hold that there is a pervasive sea of

quantum energy in the universe. Nobel Prize winner and father of quantum theory Max

Planck, in a 1944 speech given in Florence, Italy, stated: “All matter originates and exists

only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this

most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the

existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter.” This

universal energy provides a scientific basis and validation of the belief in many spiritual

traditions that we are connected to each other and to a universal consciousness. It is

likely this energy that has been known for thousands of years in many ancient spiritual

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traditions. In an article entitled: “Senses, Filters, and Sources of Reality,” Robert Jahn

and Brenda Dunne postulate the existence of a source of reality that they call source but

which has been given different labels in different cultures. They identify these labels as:

“tao, qi, prana, void, akashic record, unus mundi, unknowable substratum, terra

incognita, archetypal field, hidden order, aboriginal sensible muchness, implicate order,

zero-point vacuum, ontic (or ontological) level, undivided timeless primordial reality”

(Jahn & Dunne, 2004, p. 4). Other names have also been used by contemporary theorists

and researchers to describe the universal energy source. These include The Field by

Lynn McTaggart, The Source Field by David Wilcock, universal consciousness by

quantum physicist Amit Goswami, quantum plenum by Mark Comings. This is also

likely to be the collective unconscious described by Carl Jung and the morphogenetic

field of Rupert Sheldrake. It may even be the unified field that Albert Einstein had long

postulated but had not been able to prove. Many others call it the zero point field. For

the purpose of this paper, I will use the term the universal energy source to denote this

energy.

In her book The Field, Lynne McTaggart says the universal energy source

connects all matter in the universe by waves. Citing research by physicist Hal Puthoff,

McTaggart describes the universal energy source is a “repository of all fields and all

ground energy states and all virtual particles--a field of fields” (McTaggart, 2001, p. 25).

She also believes this field is the basis of the interconnectedness of all things. “If all

matter in the universe was interacting with the zero point field, it meant, quite simply,

that all matter was interconnected and potentially entangled throughout the cosmos

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through quantum waves” (McTaggart, 2007, p.13). It is believed that the universal

energy source is in a state of perfect balance so that it appears as a vacuum, since all the

energies cancel each other out, and that any imbalance will create a disturbance that will

eventually manifest as matter. Hence, even tiny fluctuations of energy can disturb the

field. Furthermore, perhaps it is the universal energy source that keeps the structure and

the very existence of the atom intact. Research scientist Daniel Dzimano (2003) sheds

light into how this process may occur. He cites Puthoff as saying that if an electron is

orbiting too far out from the nucleus, it radiates more energy than it receives from the

universal energy source and spirals inwards to the position of stability. However, if the

electron is orbiting too far in, it receives more energy from the universal energy source

than it is radiating, and so it moves outwards to a stable position. Dzimano believes that

the stability of matter itself is mediated by the universal energy source.

The universal energy source is believed to have virtually unlimited energy.

Michael Talbot, in The Holographic Universe, quotes David Bohm as saying: “Every

cubic centimeter of empty space contains more energy than the total energy of all the

matter in the known universe” (Talbot, 1992, p. 51). Nobel Prize physicist Richard

Feynman, in attempting to give some idea of the magnitude of the energy within the

universal energy source, says: “the energy in a single cubic meter of space is enough to

boil all the oceans of the world” (McTaggart, 2001, p. 24).

What exactly is this universal energy? There is some evidence that ultraviolet

light at a specific frequency may be an energy carrier of the universal energy source.

Wilcock (2011) reports of experiments by Gurwitsch which demonstrate that ultraviolet

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light may be a signature of the universal energy source, but not the actual source itself,

“much like the ripple in the surface of a lake, from a stone you just dropped in, is not the

stone itself” (Wilcock, 2011, p. 159). McTaggart (2001) reports of an experiment where

DNA can absorb and scramble ultraviolet light and send it back out at a different

frequency. Popp found that cells can be destroyed with ultraviolet light, but if they are

then given a very weak pulse of the same wavelength, especially at 380 nanonmeters, the

cells can almost completely recover in a process known as photo repair. Hence, Popp

postulates that energy from the universal energy source is strongest and most healing at

the 380-nanometer wavelength. Rollin McCraty (2003) from the Institute of HeartMath

suggests that information is enfolded outside the space/time world in the energy

waveforms of the universal energy source.

Furthermore, a number of scientists and researchers believe there is a medium of

energy exchange between the physical world and the universal energy source, although

different people call it different names and there are different hypotheses about what

effects the energy exchange. In the early 20th century, Nikola Tesla discovered the scalar

wave. His experiments show that scalar waves propagate over long distances with

virtually no loss in strength, unlike electromagnetic waves that dissipate and lose energy

with distance. Dale (2009) describes scalar waves as standing waves that can go through

matter and run at one and a half times the speed of light. She also says some scientists

consider scalar waves the originating fields of the universe and the energy basis of the

universal energy source. Oschman (2000) says scalar waves “propagate instantaneously

everywhere in space, undiminished by distance” (p. 206). Benor (2004) quotes Rein as

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saying that scalar energy (which Rein calls non-Hertzian energy) can profoundly

influence biological systems. Benor claims that a number of scientists have researched

scalar energy and have given it many names, including: “Non-Hertzian energy, scalar

energy, longitudinal waves, motional fields, time-reversed waves, radiant energy,

gravitational waves, free energy and cosmic energy” (Benor, 2004, p. 430).

Others focus on particles as the energy carrier of the universal energy source. In

an article entitled “Neutrino Experiment Replicates Faster-Than-Light Finding”

published in Nature, Eugenie Samuel Reich reports that physicists found that the

subatomic particles called neutrinos seem to travel faster than light and postulate that

neutrinos are the particles responsible for energy exchange with the universal energy

source.

Cousens (1986) cites physics philosopher Tom Bearden as saying that anergy is a

fundamental component of universal energy, and that this energy has no mass but has a

limitless charge. He believes universal energy manifests as tachyon fields, which can he

describes as “a slightly contracted form of anergy, or of the virtual state trying to become

a particle. A tachyon field, sort of a quasi-state of matter, is thought to be made of quasi-

particles. It exists at the interface of energy and matter” (Cousens, 1986, p. 108).

Cousens also cites entomologist Philip Callahan as saying that the tachyon field energy is

manifested as “whirling, vertical forms of energy that precipitate near the speed of light

as a particle of matter called a photon” (Cousens, 1986, p. 109).

Many researchers use the term virtual particles to describe particles that come and

go from the universal energy source and do not stay permanently in the physical world.

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Virtual particle is a concept derived from the Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, which

says that it is impossible to know both a particle’s position and its momentum exactly

because the more precisely we determine one, the less we know about the other. This

provides a basis for the existence of virtual particles-- high-energy particles that exist

only momentarily in the physical world. In addition, the Quantum Electrodynamics

(QED) theory says charged particles like electrons interact by emitting and absorbing

photons that are virtual, in that they cannot be seen or detected in any way; and, as a

matter of fact, the photon exchange is merely the force of the interaction.

Virtual photons are said to be a medium of light energy exchange between the

universal energy source and the physical world. Referring to Popp’s biophoton research,

Wilcock (2011) says “we now have very strong evidence that all life-forms on earth must

continually absorb photons of light, and store them in their DNA in order to survive. The

Source Field apparently creates these virtual photons when there is rotating, vortex

movement within the field itself” (Wilcock, 2011, p. 243). In her book Souls of

Distortion Awakening, Jan Wicherink says: “Randomly virtual photons jump back and

forth between the universal energy source and our physical world…the photon is called a

virtual photon since it comes and goes from the zero point field and is not here to stay in

the material world. It is only used in the energy exchange between the zero point field

and the material world” (Wincherink, 2008, p. 44). Although there is still much debate as

to whether virtual particles are real or just a hypothetical concept, there seems to be some

support within the scientific community that they are indeed real entities. In a 2006

Scientific America article entitled: “Are virtual particles really constantly popping in and

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out of existence? Or are they merely a mathematical bookkeeping device for quantum

mechanics?” physicist Gordon Kane gives credence to the existence of virtual particles,

saying that they are indeed real and have observable effects that physicists have devised

ways of measuring.

The Origin of Kundalini Energy

Kundalini as the Combined Light from Individual and Universal Consciousness

As discussed above, many theorists and researchers believe there is an input of

energy or an energy exchange with the universal energy source at the quantum level.

McTaggart (2001) postulates that our electrons may be constantly “refueling by tapping

into these fluctuations of empty space” (p. 25). In Toward a Deeper Meditation, Edgar

Cayce and John Van Auken say: “Virtual photon cloud is the electric field of energy and

light that the mystics describe and correlate to their chakras and Kundalini energy”

(Cayce & Van Auken, 1992, p. 113).

I hypothesize that Kundalini energy originates from the combination of light

energy from universal energy source and our biophotons at the quantum level. This

happens when virtual photons at the same frequency manifest from the universal energy

source and interact with the electrons in our body. Philip Ball, in a 2003 article in

Nature, says that Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle holds that subatomic particles or

photons can appear spontaneously in empty space, provided that they disappear promptly

again. David Shiga, in a 2010 article published in New Scientist, states that physicists

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predicted in the 1930s that “a very strong electric field would transform virtual particles

into real ones that we can observe. The field pushes them in opposite directions because

they have opposite electric charges, separating them so that they cannot destroy one

another” (Shiga, 2010). Perhaps our biofield, which is energized by vibratory thoughts

and sound, induces virtual photons to stay in the physical world permanently and interact

with the electrons in our cells.

The energy input from virtual photons causes our electrons to become excited,

resulting in the release of a large number of biophotons from our cells. One of the bases

for this postulation is Popp’s assertion that unstable atoms in our body cause the release

of light energy in the form of photons. He maintains that biophotons are constantly being

emitted from our cells, but says that energy from an external energy source causes us to

emit more biophotons in order to achieve an equilibrium energy state.

What is the mechanism by which biophotons are emitted? The electrons in our

atoms exist in orbitals representing discrete energy states. Electrons always first seek the

nearest electron orbital, representing the lowest energy state, which is called the ground

state. At the ground state, the spins of both the electron and the proton are in opposite

directions. When there is energy input, in this case virtual photons at a specific

frequency, electrons will absorb the virtual photon and jump up to the next orbital and

enter into an excited, or unstable state. When an electron de-excites and drops back down

to lower energy states, it meets another electron in the same energy state in another atom,

and another photon of the same frequency is released.

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 The vibration of virtual photons and biophotons at the same resonant frequency

produces an intense, coherent, laser-like light that is Kundalini. Since both the triggering

virtual photons and emitted biophotons are in phase, have the same polarization, and

travel in the same direction, a quantum leap in light energy is produced. As a matter of

fact, this is the amplification process that produces laser light. Stephenson (2008) says “a

laser produces light waves that are all in phase with one another, which radically

amplifies the signal, making it highly coherent. Some of this coherent light beam is fed

back into the system making it even more coherent and thus more powerful” (p. 227).

Oschman (2000) reports that as early as the late 1960s, physicist Herbert Fröhlich

predicted that the body’s living matrix would produce laser-like oscillations. Stephenson

(2008) describes an experiment in which Fröhlich applied energy to excite molecules,

causing them to emit light in the form of photons. When he increased the energy input,

the molecules began to vibrate in unison and eventually became so coherent that “they

transmitted light as one unified antenna” (Stephenson, 2008, p. 81).

I believe this coherent laser-like light energy is stored in our DNA from birth, and

may be considered the potential form of Kundalini energy prior to activation. However,

this does not necessarily mean that Kundalini energy remains constant throughout our

lives. McTaggart’s postulation that our electrons may be constantly “refueling by tapping

into these fluctuations of empty space” (McTaggart, 2001, p. 25) may also hold true for

Kundalini energy—that it is replenished through constant interaction with virtual photons

from the universal energy source.

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 Earlier, we discussed the delayed luminescence phenomenon, where the cells first

absorb light, then release it as an intense burst of new light, and how this light is believed

to contain information for healing and balancing the body. Can this be the process by

which Kundalini energy is stored and released from our DNA? Interestingly, the sensing

of light is often reported during spiritual experiences, including Kundalini awakening. In

her book Energies of Transformation, Bonnie Greenwell says “experiences of light are

commonly reported by mystics during extremely heightened states of consciousness, but

also occur in lesser degree to meditators, and spontaneously to those in Kundalini

processes” (Greenwell, 1988, p. 57). It has always fascinated me as to why the symbol of

Kundalini is often presented as two coiled serpents. Perhaps this symbol refers to light

stored in the double helix of the DNA molecule, before it is released as a burst of

Kundalini energy to heal and elevate our entire system in order that we can reach our

highest potential?

I call Kundalini energy the combined light from individual and universal

consciousness as it arises from the integration of our individual energy with the universal

energy. The process integrates universal energy that spans time and space, which may be

why Kundalini awakening often generate immense force through the body as well as

produce a nonlocal, unitive experience.

Furthermore, Kundalini may have long-term, transformational effects. As a

coherent, laser-like light, it may be strong and focused enough to change the very

structure of our DNA, causing it to unwind and replicate, effecting permanent changes to

our cells and our collective evolutionary path. I surmise this is the reason why Kundalini

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energy seems to lie dormant in us prior to activation, that is, when the photons are coiled

in the double helix of our DNA; why it needs to go through an integration process after

activation; and why it seems to be an energy that leads to permanent changes in our

psychophysiological states.

It is also sometimes reported that Kundalini energy is individualized. Popp’s

research show that DNA has the capability of absorbing ultraviolet light and sending it

back out at a different frequency. Perhaps each of us, within our DNA, can scramble the

light and send it back out at a slightly different frequency based on our genetic code?

I would also like to mention an alternative hypothesis of Kundalini energy that is

proposed by dark energy and plasma researcher Jay Alfred. In an article entitled: “Subtle

Bodies And Dark Matter,” he makes a bold claim: “The dark matter and energy of

physicists is the subtle matter and energy of metaphysicists” (Alfred, 2007). He claims

that qi or prana comes from the sun and Kundalini originates from the core of the earth,

and that they are all dark energies; and eventually these energies will be explainable by

science under dark matter and energy theories. From my preliminary research, there do

not seem to be other researchers or sources that lend direct support to his hypothesis, so I

will not attempt to discuss his theory in this paper. Nevertheless, I believe Alfred’s

postulation is extremely interesting and may become a credible theory with further

scientific validation.

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Kundalini and Other Forms of Energy

Kundalini may be only one of many universal energies we can generate, resonate

with, and emit through our bodies. In fact, our DNA may contain instructions for

collecting, using, and emitting different forms of energies. The genes in our DNA contain

instructions for making all the different cells in our body, so it seems reasonable to

consider that our DNA also contains instructions for energies. If we assume other

energies are also universal in nature and extend beyond time and space, it is likely that

they all involve an energy exchange with the universal energy source. However, I

postulate that there are three key differences between Kundalini and other energies:

Frequency, form of interaction, and whether the energy is temporarily or permanently

integrated in us.

The first point of differentiation is frequency. Frequency is defined as the number

of complete oscillations per second of energy (as sound or electromagnetic radiation) in

the form of waves. As Kundalini is hypothesized as a photon exchange, this postulation

that Kundalini is light energy vibrating at a specific frequency is supported by the

quantum theory that only photons with the same frequency can interact with each other.

In a 2011 article published in New Scientist entitled: “They Do It with Mirrors,” under a

principle called stimulated emission, only photons of a given frequency can trigger the

emission of photons of the same frequency.

Other researchers have also found that frequency plays an extremely significant

role in the biosystem all the way down to the DNA level. In his book The Biology of

Belief, Bruce Lipton says that cell receptors read vibrational energy fields such as light,

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sound and radio frequencies, and if the receptor is attuned to the particular frequency it

can alter the proteins and change the shape of the receptor. This is one of the ways our

cells are impacted by the universe. “Specific frequencies and patterns of electromagnetic

radiation regulate DNA, RNA and protein syntheses, alter protein shape and function, and

control gene regulation, cell division, cell differentiation, morphogenesis (the process by

which cells assemble into organs and tissues), hormone secretion, nerve growth and

function” (Lipton, 2005, p. 80). Other researchers also believe frequency is of prime

importance in biological processes. Gariaev (2000) says “semantic resonances in the

biosystems’ space are realized not at the wavelength level, but at the level of frequencies

and angles of twist of the polarization modes” (p.4).

Also, from her years of direct experience as an energy healer and educator,

Francesca McCartney observes that different energies carry different color frequencies.

She says Kundalini energy always carries the color of opalescent sheen, an observation

McCartney uses to decode the various types of energy frequencies that are vibrating in a

person’s field. Since color comes in frequency bands, perhaps color is our perceptual

shortcut to discern specific frequencies of electromagnetic energy.

The second point of difference between Kundalini and other universal energies is

the form of interaction. In an article entitled: “Bioscalar Energy: The Healing Power,”

Valerie Hunt describes scalar energy, which she calls bioscalar energy, as being created

when two electromagnetic waves at the same frequency come together from two different

angles so that they cancel each other out, leaving a standing wave. She claims that

thought and intent can create and direct scalar energy for healing purposes, and calls

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scalar energy a “force by expansion” (Hunt, 2000) as intent can expand it throughout the

body. She also cites Tom Bearden as saying that scalar energy is a repository for

information and posits that intent can make major changes in tissue by creating and

informing the scalar energy at the microscopic level--the nucleus of the atom.

I posit that Kundalini energy arises from a photon exchange at the quantum level

whereas other energies arise from the interaction between our electromagnetic fields and

scalar waves from the universal energy source, where information is enfolded into the

scalar waves and distributed to our body’s many electromagnetic fields. In her book The

Biology of Kundalini, Jana Dixon says scalar waves transmit information, not energy, and

may be the point of fundamental intersection where matter and consciousness influence

each other. Oschman (2000) has an interesting perspective about scalar waves. He says

when the body comes into anatomical and energetic balance with the field of gravity, the

biomagnetic fields may partly cancel each other out, creating scalar and/or vector

potentials. He speculates that “an individual capable of generating significant scalar

waves would be relatively protected from negative effects of environmental energies” (p.

208).

Interesting, Hunt says scalar energy cannot be stored indefinitely and must be re-

created every time, which may infer a third point of differentiation between Kundalini

and other universal energies--that other energies are temporarily generated and emitted

whereas Kundalini is permanently integrated within us.

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 The Cause of Kundalini Awakening

To trace the cause of Kundalini awakening, it is useful to understand what

activities or events typically occur prior to awakening. A number of pre-awakening

activities are listed in the book Kundalini Rising and the book Energies of

Transformation, as well as in an extensive questionnaire developed by Kundalini

Research Network. These may be summarized into the following types: Brain activities

(meditation, prayer); sound (chanting, music); initiation by a spiritual person (shaktipat

diksha); and specific body posture and movement (yoga, tai chi).

Although the diversity of pre-awakening activities may indicate that there is more

than one mechanism that triggers Kundalini awakening, there is an intrinsic commonality

among the activities—coherent vibration. Scientists and spiritual thinkers alike believe

vibration is a major component of life. Dale (2009) says “everything in the world

vibrates, and everything that vibrates imparts or impacts information (the definition of

energy)” (p. 13). Lipton (2005) says “we are immersed in living fields of vibrational

information” (p. 80). Cayce and Van Auken (1992) say raising one’s physical and mental

vibrations causes the stimulation of electrons and movement of charged particles,

resulting in “energy output, field generation, luminous radiation heating effects, and other

manifestations so typical of electrical and electromagnetic activity” (Cayce & Van

Auken, 1992, p. 113). They claim that mystics’ description of their spiritual experiences

closely resemble heightened electrical and magnetic activities.

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 Dixon (2008) observes that Kundalini “doesn’t really start anywhere, but starts

everywhere” (p. 21). I believe that Kundalini starts everywhere as it is initiated at the

quantum level.

Coherent Heart Vibrations and Resonant Entrainment as the Primary Cause

My hypothesis is coherent heart vibration that creates resonant entrainment in the

heart, the brain, and the breath is the primary cause of Kundalini awakening. And heart-

based activities such as meditation, chanting, the generation of love and positive

emotions can produce these coherent heart rhythms.

How does this process occur? Coherent heart rhythms oscillating at a given

resonant frequency activate the electromagnetic field of the heart, which modulates brain

activities and creates entrainment of brain waves and respiration. McCraty (2009)

explains that heart rhythm coherence is associated with “increased order, efficiency, and

harmony in the functioning of the body’s systems” (McCraty, 2009, p.23). Coherence

describes the ordered distribution of energy within a waveform. The more stable the

frequency and shape of the waveform, the higher the coherence. Resonant frequency is

the maximum-amplitude frequency that an object vibrates at that is natural to it and most

easily sustained by it. At resonant frequency, even small forces can produce large-

amplitude vibrations because vibrational energy is stored. Resonant entrainment is when

two or more objects that vibrate at nearly the same frequency become coupled so that

they all vibrate at the frequency of the dominant rhythm.

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 The premise that coherent heart vibrations that create resonant entrainment in the

heart, brain, and breath is the primary cause of awakening is based on several sources,

many of which are studies conducted by HeartMath that highlight the important role of

the heart in orchestrating our entire system. McCraty (2003) says “the heart generates the

largest electromagnetic field in the body. The electrical field is about 60 times greater in

amplitude than brain waves, and the heart’s magnetic field is around 5000 times stronger

than that produced by the brain” (p.1). He also says the heart “is the most powerful

generator of rhythmic information patterns in the body, acts effectively as the global

conductor in the body’s symphony to bind and synchronize the entire system” (McCraty,

2009, p. 15).

There is apparently a strong correlation between heart rhythm and emotional state.

McCraty (2003) says particular emotional states are correlated with measurable changes

in heart rate. He explains that natural fluctuations in the heart rate, or what he calls “heart

rate variability” (McCraty, 2009, p. 20) is a measure of the naturally occurring beat-to-

beat changes in heart rate. The feelings of love and appreciation lead to a more regular

variation in heart rate, which is referred to as coherence. This is further explained by

Oschman (2000), who says coherence reflects “a balance and coherence between the

heart rate and the rhythms of the two branches of the automatic nervous system--the

sympathetic and parasympathetic--that regulate heart rate” (p. 238). Furthermore, he says

the absence of variation signifies “a calm, peaceful, harmonious, and highly intuitive

feeling state, in which one becomes aware of one’s electrical body and of the minute

currents flowing throughout. This state is associated with a coupling, or entrainment, or

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phase-locking of a variety of electrical and mechanical rhythms, including the heart,

respiration autonomics, and the baroreceptor feedback loop to the brain” (Oschman,

2000, p. 239).

The heart appears to have direct and immediate effect on brain activities.

McCraty says the heart is in a constant two-way communication with the brain, but in

fact it sends many more signals to the brain than vice versa. There are approximately

40,000 sensory neurites in the human heart involved in relaying information to the brain,

and the input from the heart to the brain directly affects the activity of frontocortical areas

and the thalamus, driving our perceptions, thought processes, and emotional experiences.

It appears that brain rhythms, especially alpha, beta, as well as lower frequency brain

rhythms, naturally synchronize to the heart’s rhythm. Therefore, a change in heart

vibrations can directly affect brain activities and our entire physiology. In addition, the

heart communicates information to the brain and throughout the body via electromagnetic

field interactions, and electromagnetic waves generated by the heart are immediately

registered in the brain waves.

In addition, research by HeartMath highlights how certain emotions create

coherent heart rhythms that entrain the brain and the breath. McCraty says: “We have

found that positive emotions are associated with a higher degree of coherence within the

heart’s rhythmic activity (autocoherence) as well as increased coherence between

different oscillatory systems (cross-coherence/entrainment)” (McCraty, 2003, p. 4). In an

article entitled: “Brainmapping the Effects of Deeksha,” researcher Eric Hoffman says

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spiritual beings have a much stronger neurological communication between the brain and

the heart and decreased metabolism coupled with an increase in cell membrane voltage.

How does the heart create these system-wide effects? According to McCraty, the

heart generates a pressure wave with each heartbeat, creating what is known as the pulse.

Pressure wave patterns vary with the rhythm of the heart. Furthermore, information is

encoded in the inter-beat intervals of the heartbeat that orchestrate body-wide effects.

McCraty explains that the heart generates continuous electromagnetic waves that give

rise to fields within fields, which interact with other structures and encode information

within the interference patterns of the waves.

Even more interesting, McCraty further believes that the heart’s energy field is

coupled to a field of information that is not bound by the limits of time and space. His

studies show that both the heart and brain appear to receive and respond to information

about a future event, and even further, the heart appears to receive intuitive information

before the brain. He believes that the heart is directly coupled to energetic fields of

information including that of the universal energy source. McCraty also says information

about a person’s emotional state is communicated throughout the body and into the

external environment via the heart’s electromagnetic field. Positive emotions, such as

love or appreciation, are associated with a sine wave pattern, denoting coherence in the

heart’s rhythms. In turn, these changes in the heart’s rhythms create corresponding

changes in the frequency of the electromagnetic field radiated by the heart.

McCraty (2009) and his team found that “sustained, self-induced positive

emotions generate a shift to a state of system-wide coherence in bodily processes, in

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which the coherent pattern of the heart’s rhythm plays a key role in facilitating higher

cognitive functions” (p. 15). A study of long-term Buddhist practitioners shows that

while they meditated in a state of unconditional loving-kindness and compassion,

increases in gamma band oscillation were observed. In addition, different emotions are

associated with different degrees of coherence in the activity of the body. Positive

emotions such as appreciation, care, and love drive the systems of the body toward

increased coherence.

Furthermore, McCraty and team found that coherence can be sustained for an

extended period if the individual has the intention to maintain a heart-focused positive

emotional state, because “this appears to excite the system at its resonant frequency, and

coherence emerges naturally, making it easy to sustain for long periods” (MCraty, 2009,

p. 26).

McCraty’s research also shows that the heart manufactures and secretes oxytocin,

which is often referred to as the love hormone. Recent research indicates that this

hormone is also involved in cognition, tolerance, trust, sexual and maternal behaviors, the

learning of social cues, and bonding.

As discussed before, Rein and McCraty (2001) found that coherent heart energy

generated during the loving state can alter DNA. Wilcock believes Rein’s experiment

shows that love is the key quality of the universal energy that can generate coherence in

our brain waves. Furthermore, he claims that this gives us a “scientific definition of

love…that love can now be seen as a basic principle of universal energy. The more

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coherence, the more structure, the more harmony we have, the more love there is”

(Wilcock, 2011, p. 173).

Meditation and Prayer

An activity that is frequently reported to trigger Kundalini awakening is

meditation. I believe that meditation is intrinsically a heart-based activity even though it

can directly influence physiology in the brain and the entire body. And it appears that

focused thought, or intent, can direct and amplify the effects. Bentov (1988) says that

prolonged practice of meditation causes many physiological changes in the body

including a change in the mode of functioning of the nervous system. He also draws a

link between meditative states and resonance. He says one of the meditative techniques

is to slow down breathing so as not to disturb the natural resonance of the heart-aorta

system, which then entrains the entire body to resonate at the natural frequency of about 7

cycles per second. He also says meditation causes “elevation of levels of consciousness”

(Bentov, 1988, p. 43) which for different people will be at different rates. Bentov also

believes that meditation produces coherent waves in the body, and that the body’s

micromotion (small body motions accompany the motion of blood through the circulatory

system) is similar to the resonant frequency of the planet’s electrostatic field. Therefore,

a person in a meditative state will produce waves that propagate through the planet’s

electrostatic field and entrain others who have similar vibrating frequencies. Based on

this, Bentov postulates that a group of “meditating bodies” will emit harmonic sounds of

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approximately 7 Hz through the electrostatic field of the planet, and that “the more bodies

are locked in, the stronger the signal becomes” (Bentov, 1988, p. 44).

There is also evidence that meditation has significant effects on brain physiology;

these effects include increased blood flow in the prefrontal cortex, interior pariental

lobes, and inferior frontal lobes (Newberg et al, 2003). In addition, Dixon (2008)

believes meditation increases blood flow to parts of the brain that activate the

sympathetic nervous system.

Another theory says meditation causes changes in brain physiology because it

integrates the right and the left brains. Sannella (1987) reports of a study by Hiroshi

Motoyama showing that in ordinary consciousness, the micromotion on the left brain is

50% greater than the right. However, when subjects go into deep meditation, the

micromotion in the right brain and the left brain becomes nearly equal. Furthermore,

when the brains are in perfect balance, the subjects feel “profound peace and tranquility”

(Sannella, 1987, p. 50). Other researches seem to support this. An

electroencephalography (EEG) brain mapping study was conducted in 2006 by a research

team that includes Erik Hoffmann, Harald Kjellin, and Inger Spindler (2006). They

found that the two brain hemispheres of meditators function more symmetrically after

meditation. This balancing of the left and the right brain was most pronounced in the

posterior (occipital-parietal) areas.

Neuroscientist Andrew Newberg (2008) discusses various developments in what

he calls the yogic brain in the book Kundalini Rising. He says focusing on a mantra or an

image of a sacred object activates the frontal lobes, and once the frontal lobes are

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activated, they interact with other brain structures such as the thalamus, which then

affects the parietal lobe and reduces the sensory information that it takes in, which he

says is responsible for creating “a sense of our self, and orients that self in the

world…Hence, one experiences the losing of the sense of self and a sense of space and

time that are commonly reported during spiritual practices” (Khalsa, 2008, p. 169).

Newberg says brain-imaging studies of practices such as meditation and prayer have

shown a decreased activity in the parietal lobes. He also says the hypothalamus plays a

key role in spiritual experiences as it controls the automatic nervous system that regulates

the sympathetic and parasympathetic functions in our body. In particular, he believes the

autonomous nervous system directly causes arousals and intense feelings throughout our

body during spiritual awakenings as it is connected to virtually every organ in our body.

He also found that meditating Tibetan Buddhists seem to have their neocortical areas

functionally disconnected from the rest of the brain, while both the limbic hippocampus

and amygdala remain active.

There is also some evidence that meditation causes entrainment of the breath,

heartbeat, and brain waves. Stephenson (2008) says studies on meditating monks show

that when their breath forms a steady rhythm, the heartbeat comes into synch, then the

brain waves also comes into synch, so that eventually all three are entrained with each

other.

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Shaktipat Diksha

The heart may also play a role in the Kundalini awakening that is said to be

initiated by a spiritual person--a practice called shaktipat diksha. Shaktipat is a Sanskrit

word that means descent of grace, and diksha means initiation. Shaktipat diksha infers

that the presence of a spiritual person initiates the transmission of spiritual energy, which

is said to awaken Kundalini in the receiver. The transmission of energy may be made

through a sacred word or mantra, or by a look, thought or touch. Dixon (2008) calls

shaktipat “the contagion of spirit between individuals” (Dixon, 2008, p.15) and posits that

it is due to quantum wave functions that extend beyond time and space. She claims that

in shaktipat, the opening of the heart is what initiates Kundalini awakening. Perhaps

love is the enabling force behind shaktipat? In a paper called “Kundalini Yoga Through

Shaktipat”, Yogi Amrit Desai says shaktipat involves “complete surrender and love for

the guru, accompanied by a special technique of meditation on the guru. The link which

binds guru and disciple in divine love grows, creating an almost irresistible pull on the

aspirant to be near his master. Shaktipat opens an inner door which enables him to

experience a tremendous amount of love” (Desai, 2008, p. 71). Recent research at

HeartMath may lend credence to this view. In his book The Energetic Heart, McCraty

says the heart acts as “a synchronizing force within the body, a key carrier of emotional

information, and an apparent mediator of a type of subtle electromagnetic communication

between people” (McCraty, 2003, p. 17).

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Thoughts as Brain Waves

Meditation is sometimes more narrowly defined as a thought pattern that

translates into brain waves. What is thought? In his book Stalking the Wild Pendulum,

Itzhak Bentov describes thought as “energy that causes the neurons in the brain to fire in

a certain pattern” (Bentov, 1988, p. 100). Greenwell (1988) says that certain states of

consciousness promote waves of movement through the brain that sets off patterns of

physiological and emotional responses. She reports that researchers have noticed unusual

brain wave patterns when Kundalini is activated.

Rael Cahn (2006) says meditators show slower alpha and theta brain waves,

corresponding to lower brain frequency (p. 191). Penny Peirce in her book Frequency

holds that brain waves correlate to different awareness levels, and that lower the brain

frequency, the higher the awareness level. She says that slow brain waves, like those

arising from meditation, correlate with heightened awareness, and also facilitate the

production of neuropeptides and hormones (for example, endorphins, serotonin,

acetylcholine, vasopressin). Fast beta waves correlate with daily reality; alpha waves

correlates with perception of subtle energy; theta waves correlate with the realization of

one’s true self where the ego dies and soul awareness arises, and a feeling of unity; delta

waves correlate with out-of-body experience, and a collective and universal feeling.

Oschman (2000) suggests that the healing energies emitted by healers involve

conditioning of the brain waves and other body rhythms with the slow electrical and

magnetic rhythms of the earth’s atmosphere. This is echoed by Richard Alan Miller and

Iona Miller in a paper entitled “Schumann's Resonances and Human Psychobiology,”

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which describes the characteristics of the different brain waves. Fast beta waves (14

cycles per second and above) are said to be associated with the normal waking state of

consciousness when attention is directed towards cognitive tasks and the outside world.

Alpha waves (7-13 cycles per second) are associated with dreaming and light meditation.

Theta waves (4-7 cycles per second) are associated with sleep and the deepest state of

mediation where senses are withdrawn from the external world. Slow delta waves (0-4

cycles per second) are associated with the deepest meditation and dreamless sleep. Other

studies indicate that low frequency fields, specifically at the frequency of the Schumann

Resonance, can synchronize brain waves and have predictable effects on behavior. In an

article entitled: “Planetary Harmonics and Neurobiological Resonances in Light, Sound,

and Brain Wave Frequencies,” Nick Anthony Fiorenza reports that the Schumann

Resonance of 7.83 Hz frequency is often detected in the brain waves of psychics in their

intuiting mode.

Another interesting finding is there is an increase of fast gamma wave activity

(25-42 Hz) in the frontal lobes after meditation. This aligns with research by Professor

Richard Davidson, which is reported in a 2004 Wall Street Journal article entitled:

“Scans of Monks' Brains Show Meditation Alters Structure, Functioning” (Begley, 2004,

p. B1). Davidson found that in spiritually evolved Zen monks, there is a dramatic

increase in high-frequency brain activity called gamma waves during compassion

meditation. Gamma waves are thought to reflect higher mental activity such as

consciousness. Davidson postulates that high gamma levels, especially in the left

prefrontal area of the brain, reflect enlightenment.

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 Other researchers say brain waves can lead to coherence in the entire body.

Oschman (2000) says the brain’s magnetic wave can cause the entrainment of the body’s

living crystalline matrix. The molecules in cell membranes, connective tissues, muscle,

and DNA molecules orient themselves in the same direction, which leads to the entire

system being more coherent.

Thoughts Beyond the Brain

However, thoughts are likely to be much more than brain waves. Furthermore,

recent research shows that brain waves are not confined to the brain. In the movie Living

Matrix, McTaggart says: “a thought is a physical energy.” As early as the late 1800s,

Edwin Babbitt (1967) posited that around the brain there are “magnetic curves circulating

in almost infinite numbers in a vast variety of directions” (p. 217).

Fig. 187: The Psycho-Magnetic Curves.

From The Principles of Light and Color (Babbit, 1967, p. 219)

Recent research seems to confirm Babbitt’s belief. In an article entitled:

“Magnetic Energy of the Brain,” Michael Bukay and George Buletza says “our brain

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generates an ever-changing electromagnetic aura that extends into the environment.

Theoretically, these electromagnetic fields have no boundaries as they travel outward into

an electromagnetic universe” (Bukay & Buletza, 2009, p. 138). Oschman (2000) also

describes thought as not simply a brain wave, but as a pattern of magnetic energy. And

Bentov (1988) says: “When we think, our brains produce rhythmic electric currents.

With their magnetic components, they spread out into space at the velocity of

light…They all mingle to form enormous interference patterns, spreading out and away

from the planet” (p. 32). This is echoed by Oschman, who says that the fields of all

organs spread throughout the body and into the space around it, so the brain field extends

far beyond the brain.

Oschman (2000) also says thought is a lever because a small fluctuation can

produce a big effect. Bentov (1988) also emphasizes the immense effect of thought. “It

starts out as a tiny stir eventually develops in to a full-fledged thought producing at least

a 70 milivolt potential somewhere in the cortex…the energy of the thought was broadcast

in the form of electromagnetic waves, and at the velocity of light into the environment

and, finally, into the cosmos” (p. 100).

And perhaps mind does control matter. Dale (2009) cites Harold Saxton Burr as

saying that thought has the properties of a field. Burr claims that “for centuries—even

millennia—humans have observed that the mind manages matter” (Dale, 2009, p. 117).

Scott (2006) holds that Burr’s thought fields (T-field) dominate and control life fields (L-

field), which means that “the way we think, however subconscious or even unconscious

such thinking may be, determines the way we direct our vital energies, thus influencing,

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at one more, the way our tissues function” (Scott, 2006, p. 46). She also cites Russian

scientist L.L. Vasiliev who found that concentrated thought can attach to matter. Scott

also says prayer, especially group prayer which involves holding a focused thought for

healing on behalf of someone else, can impact the target through remote influence.

Sound as Vibrational Energy

Sound is a vibrational energy that takes the form of waves. Dale (2009) says

sound functions as a field and also vibrates, and since all matter vibrates, all matter makes

sound. Bentov (1988) says rhythmic vibration affects the environment, be it air, water,

solids, electromagnetic, or gravitational fields, and all these disturbances are called sound

even though they may be sound that we cannot perceive. Furthermore, he says “we could

actually associate our whole reality with sounds of one kind or another because our

reality is a vibratory reality, and there is nothing static in it. Starting with the nucleus of

an atom, which vibrates at enormous rates, the electrons and molecules are all associated

with characteristic vibratory rates. A most important aspect of matter is vibratory

energy” (Bentov, 1988, p. 32).

Sound can affect us at many levels and even organize matter. Bentov (1988)

demonstrates that sound can turn a disorganized suspension of particles into highly

ordered crystals. As a matter of fact, he infers that the orderly pattern of atoms in matter

is the result of the interaction of sound waves in matter. Furthermore, Bentov believes

sound has another very important function—the ability to store information in the form of

a hologram, which he calls a record of superposed sounds, which is an interaction that

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creates “a complex pattern that is called an interference pattern of waves” (Bentov, 1988,

p. 15). Stephenson (2008) says sounds “not only strike our ears, they also strike our

bodies including the internal structures” (p. 208). She explains that the wave motion of

sound directly impacts piezoelectric crystals, especially those found in the bones, teeth,

and intestines, and that deep, low tones especially impacts the internal body cavity.

Oschman (2000) also draws a link between sound and piezoelectricity. He says a very

important aspect of sound is it produces phonons that spread through the living matrix,

affecting every part of our body. Dixon (2008) even suggests that cerebrospinal fluid

produced in the roof of the lateral ventricle creates sound waves and may be the physical

source of the sound heard in the om mantra. The relationship between sound and

piezoelectricity is discussed more extensively in a later section on the propagation of

Kundalini energy.

As a matter of fact, sound may be pre-programmed into our very being. Recent

research provides evidence that sound and language are integrated into our genes. In

Potentiate Your DNA, Sol Luckman discusses the discovery by J. Delrow that the four

nucleotides of DNA have fractal structures closely related to human speech patterns,

which means human language may have emerged from the structures of our DNA. This

is further expanded by Gariaev through his research on junk DNA, the portion of the

DNA genome for which no function has been identified but which accounts for over 90%

of our overall genome. Gariaev found that the genetic code in junk DNA follows

uniform grammar and usage rules that are virtually identical to those of human language,

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and hypothesized that genome has a capacity for recognizing semantically meaningful

phrases.

Chanting

The chanting of mantras is often reported as a trigger of Kundalini awakening.

Mantras date back to ancient times. Stephenson (2008) identifies some of the sacred

sounds in ancient cultures: Kung for the Chinese, om for Hindis, AMN for the Egyptians,

which became amen today.

Earlier, we identified meditation as a form of heart-based activity that can trigger

Kundalini awakening. Chanting has deep emotional and healing impact because it is

often conducted in meditation; but in addition, chanting also produces sound with

resonant frequency that can synchronize the rhythms of brain waves, heartbeat, and

breathing. This synchronization is through resonant entrainment, where a rhythmic

vibration of a wave or an object changes the rhythmic vibration of another wave or

object, causing them to vibrate at the same frequency. This is also the mechanism by

which tuning forks work.

Even further, chanting may create harmonic resonance that results in even more

powerful vibrations. Stephenson (2008) explains how harmonic tones are produced:

“When one vibrant note is sustained in close, reflective surroundings…a standing wave is

created. This intensifies the volume of the sound. The delayed echoes begin to interfere

with the standing wave and a new sound is created, namely the second harmonic”

(Stephenson, 2008, p. 147). Since mantras are typically repeated continuously, chanting

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would produce increasingly more harmonic tones. A series of harmonic tones lead to

harmonic resonance, which can produce very powerful vibrations. Another important

aspect of resonant frequency is it produces standing waves in an enclosed system.

Standing waves are created when “two identical waves with the same frequency,

wavelength, and phase are travelling toward each other from opposite directions”

(Stephenson, 2008, p. 219). As such, a standing wave is essentially a wave and its

reflection where energy is transferred back and forth between its two parts. As we will

discuss later, standing waves are an important component of the Kundalini awakening

process since they are a key propagating carrier of Kundalini energy throughout our

body.

Dixon (2008) says that high and low pitch tones of mantras resonating within the

body can enhance cerebrospinal fluid flow, in that lower pitch tones resonate in the chest

and abdomen areas, facilitating the flow of the fluid within the spinal column, whereas

higher pitch tones resonate in the head, and therefore impact the fluid around the

cranium.

In addition, as mentioned earlier in this paper, according to Gariaev, linguistic

expressions such as mantras have the potential to activate DNA, which then changes the

human bioenergy fields.

Heart Sounds and the Physio-Kundalini Model

Bentov (1988) has written quite extensively about Kundalini in terms of its cause

and effect. In his book Stalking the Wild Pendulum and in a 1988 paper: "Micromotion

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of the body as a factor in the development of the nervous system,” he explains his physio-

kundalini model of Kundalini that says Kundalini awakening is attributed to heart sounds

and the action of the five oscillators in the body. He says vibrations, electromagnetic

waves, or sounds can produce standing waves in the brain, which in turn produce currents

in the sensory cortex, leading to the Kundalini awakening experience. He presents an

extensive explanation as to how this process happens. The blood from the left cardiac

ventricle flows into the aorta where the heart empties, forcing the elastic walls of the

aorta to bulge. The pressure pulse passes down to the iliac bifurcation where the vessel

divides. Part of the pulse is stopped there and rebounds, generating a reflected pressure

pulse. The standing wave is the result of these two pulses—one going down and the

other coming back. The standing wave causes micromotion in the skeleton, including the

skull. He postulates that the oscillating heart-aorta system, which includes the skeleton,

skull, and upper part of the body, then entrains four additional oscillating systems as

follows:

• The vibration of the skull accelerates the vertical movement of the brain,

producing acoustical waves reverberating through the brain.

• The acoustical waves are directed by the skull into the cerebral ventricles, creating

standing waves within the third and lateral ventricles.

• The standing waves within the cerebral ventricles stimulate the sensory cortex,

resulting in a stimulus traveling in a closed loop around each hemisphere, which

Bentov calls circular currents.

• The circular currents result in each hemisphere producing a magnetic field.

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According to Bentov, the amplification of the energy by the five oscillators including the

heart leads to the production of increased magnetic currents in the cerebral cortex, the

ionization of the cerebrospinal fluid, which then creates a current that is Kundalini.

Furthermore, Bentov’s physio-kundalini model describes a typical sequence of symptoms

when Kundalini is awakened, and its journey from the left foot to the spine, the head, and

down to the front of the body, and says symptoms appear only when this journey is not

stress-free. Bentov, however, cautioned that his model only describes the mechanical-

physiological portion of Kundalini awakening and acknowledges that Kundalini is “a

much larger concept in which planetary and spiritual forces come into play” (Bentov,

1988, p. 178).

I believe Bentov’s physio-kundalini is a plausible model for explaining the

spontaneous awakening of Kundalini, as he believes this cycle can be initiated

spontaneously by extended mechanical or acoustical vibrations at between 4 to 7 Hz. He

says: “People with sensitive nervous systems might react spontaneously to exposure to

certain frequencies for prolonged periods of time, such as by riding in a car whose

suspension and seat combination produce a specific range of vibration, or by sitting for

long periods next to an air-conditioning duct” (Greenwell, 1988, p. 113).

Propagation of Kundalini Through the Body

Kundalini can be amplified and propagated rapidly throughout our body both

because Kundalini is coherent energy, and according to Oschman, coherent vibrations

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“recognize no boundaries” (Oschman, 2000, p. 62), and because the body is composed of

a living matrix that is “highly organized and exceedingly sensitive to the information

conveyed by coherent signals” (Oschman, 2000, p. 62). Coherent energy can amplify

weak signals across larger distances and is a means for non-local, zero latency

coordination of energy transfer and use within quantum systems. Mae-Wan Ho (2008)

says: “Coherent excitations can account for many of the most characteristic properties of

living organisms… long range order and coordination; rapid and efficient energy transfer,

as well as extreme sensitivity to specific signals” (p. 92). She also explains that the living

system is a coherent photon field, or coherent electrodynamic field which stores and

transfers energy at the electronic and electromagnetic level. These energy exchanges at

the subatomic level happen everywhere in the organism because of coherence, perhaps

even down to the quantum level. Ho also says quantum theory holds that “the wave-

function of each electron is actually delocalized or spread out over the whole system, so

that the electron has a finite probability of being found anywhere within the system" (Ho,

2008, p. 105).

Fröhlich discusses how coherence leads to quantum coherence at the subatomic

level. He says once energy reaches a certain threshold, molecules will begin to vibrate in

unison until they reach a high level of coherence. The moment molecules reach this state

of coherence, they take on certain qualities of quantum mechanics, including nonlocality.

Quantum coherence means that subatomic particles are linked by bands of

electromagnetic fields so they can communicate together.

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 Once Kundalini energy is activated, several important interlocking and

interdependent mechanisms work together to amplify and propagate the energy within

and throughout our body’s living matrix, activating a series of psychophysiological

mechanisms in the body that lead to the full Kundalini awakening experience. Within

this context, the next section will discuss how piezoelectricity, solitons, resonant

frequency, and standing waves all play a critical role in the amplification and propagation

of Kundalini energy.

Piezelectricity

Oschman (2000) defines piezoelectricity as pressure electricity, and says

piezoelectricity causes every movement, every pressure, and every tension in the body to

generate oscillating bioelectric signals. He says “virtually all of the tissues in the body

generate electric fields when they are compressed or stretched. The piezoelectric effect is

partly responsible for these electric fields” (Oschman, 2000, p. 52).

Why is piezoelectricity such an important component of the Kundalini awakening

process? First, piezoelectricity in the living matrix produces phonons from sound waves,

including sounds created from the cranial-sacral system, heart, breath, muscles, which

then spread through our entire body and into our cells. Furthermore, Oschman (2003)

says energy can be converted back and forth between phonons and photons in connective

tissue, which is piezoelectric, because mechanical waves (phonons) moving through the

piezoelectric materials produce electrical fields, and vice versa. He says this is because

phonons are essentially electromechanical waves in a piezoelectric medium.

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 Secondly, piezoelectricity helps to activate Kundalini awakening by facilitating

entrainment between heart rhythms, brain waves, and respiration. In fact, Oschman

(2000) attributes the rhythmic coherences described in HeartMath’s research to the

piezoelectric properties of the living matrix.

Also, many parts of the human body are piezoelectric and work together to

amplify the Kundalini signals. These include the intestines, bones, teeth, connective

tissues such as ligaments, tendons, and cartilage, the aorta, the trachea, and perhaps even

the pineal gland. Recently, scientists found that the pineal gland may also contain

piezoelectric crystals. Wilcock (2011) cites a study by S. S. Baconnier that found calcite

crystals inside human pineal glands that are very similar to crystals the inner ear called

otoconia. These inner-ear crystals are known to be piezoelectric--which means they

expand and contract in the presence of electromagnetic fields. Wilcock explains that

electromagnetic waves can make piezoelectric crystals expand and contract and these

movements can then make sound. Also, piezoelectric crystals give off varying amounts

of light in a process known as piezoluminescence. And through a process called

piezochromism, some piezoelectric crystals release different-colored photons from the

same crystal, depending upon the signal they receive. Wilcock’s claims are supported by

other researchers. In an article published in 1996, Lang and team (1996) also found that

pineal tissues are piezoelectric.

Some scientists believe that pineal gland secrets a chemical called

Dimethyltryptamine (DMT), and Wilcock believes that “flooding the bloodstream with

DMT may load up the pineal gland with piezoelectric microcrystals. This in turn may

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cause the third eye to pull in many more photons--which might be emerging directly out

of the Source Field” (Wilcock, 2011, p. 61).

Solitons

Solitons may be the carrier of Kundalini energy from the cells to other parts of the

body via the living matrix, which is described by Oschman as “an excitable

medium….Every organ, tissue, cell, molecule, atom, and even ‘empty’ space has a

rhythm of its own. The living matrix is a medium that can propagate rhythmic signals of

many kinds, small or large, fast or slow, to every portion of the body” (Oschman, 2003,

p. 300).

Earlier, we discussed how the light energy of Kundalini is converted into acoustic

waves either through the DNA quantum hologram translating between the acoustical and

optical holograms, or through the piezoelectric connective tissues within our living

matrix. Gariaev (2000) shows that DNA can convert laser light into acoustic waves by

producing solitons. In addition, acoustic waves usually weaken as they spread out, but

Kundalini energy does not seem to decrease in strength as the awakening process unfolds.

Oschman (2003) says the soliton is a coherent wave and can propagate vibratory energy

without losing energy. It is an ideal means of transferring energy in living systems as it is

“an extremely stable solitary self-organizing wave that can transfer a large amount of

energy with a constant velocity and without loss or dispersion or dissipation” (Oschman,

2003, p. 249). He says one characteristic of a soliton is that as its velocity approaches the

speed of sound, its energy rises exponentially. He also says when two waves are of the

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same frequency and are in phase, their amplitudes add together to create larger waves.

Oschman (2003) also notes that some therapists perceive waves resembling solitons

occasionally appearing in their clients’ bodies, which appear to have therapeutic effects.

Resonance and Standing Waves

The solitons carrying Kundalini energy may be propagated into a series of

standing waves with increasingly higher amplitudes due to resonant frequency.

Resonance is defined as the frequency at which an object most naturally wants to vibrate,

or when the driving frequency applied to an object equals its natural frequency.

Resonance enables a dramatic increase in amplitude of the resulting vibrations.

Furthermore, in coherent systems, resonance enables one object to set another object into

motion if it shares the same resonant frequency, which is how tuning forks work.

McTaggart (2001) describes coherent waves as “a multitude of tuning forks that all begin

resonating together. As the giant waves get into phase or synch, they begin acting like

one giant wave and one giant subatomic particle…The end result is also a bit like a large

orchestra” (p. 43). How does resonance produce larger vibrations? First, when waves

are in phase, which means they have the same frequency, amplitude, and wavelength,

they will combine to create a single wave of greater amplitude in a process called

constructive interference.

Secondly, resonance produces standing waves, which are waves that have the

highest amplitude but require the least energy input. A standing wave is created when a

wave with the same frequency reflects off of another wave or object, resulting in

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alternately constructive or destructive interference as the two waves move past each

other. Standing waves entrain other fields in our body so all the separate electromagnetic

fields of the body come together as resonating standing waves.

Activation at Psycho-Physiological Level

The propagation of Kundalini energy through the living matrix activates the

nervous and endocrine systems, which then initiates a series of psychophysiological

processes in the body. These processes include:

• Changes in receptors due to the body's light generation and electromagnetic field.

• Increased cellular charge--ATP production and changes in hormone and

neurotransmitter spectrum.

• Magnetization of the blood via the iron content of hemoglobin, superfluidity of

membranes and heightened polar charge differentials.

• Ionic current created by the electrolytes in the plasma of the blood (sodium,

chloride, potassium, bicarbonate).

• Ionization of cerebrospinal fluid.

• Proteins became semi-conductors.

• Heightened action potentials in nerves.

• Changes in the fascia.

• Changes in the bonding angles of water.

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 Although this paper aims to explore the origin of Kundalini energy and the cause

of awakening rather than the effects, that is, the signs and symptoms and post-awakening

experience, Kundalini awakening activates crucial physiological and biochemical

mechanism in our body that may form part of the awakening process. Hence, I will

discuss two of the more important effects: Biochemical effects and the generation of

heat.

Meditation, breathing practices, body postures, visualization, and other sensory

input are believed to activate chemicals in the brain. Dixon (2008) hypothesizes that the

increased flow and ionization of cerebrospinal fluid in our central nervous system plays a

major role in the Kundalini awakening process. Cerebrospinal fluid flows primarily in

and around the central nervous system, and has the greatest concentration of

neuropeptides. In her book Molecules of Emotion: The Science Behind Mind-Body

Medicine, neuroscientist Candace Pert says neuropeptides initiate all life processes.

Another important aspect of cerebrospinal fluid is it contains electrolytes such as sodium

and potassium, maintaining an electrical balance that controls the functioning of the

nervous system through electricity. Yoga postures and breathing techniques are said to

enhance the flow of cerebrospinal fluid within the cranial bones and spinal column by

activating the sacral pump, increasing pressure in the lungs, and keeping the spine erect

to facilitate circulation.

Dixon (2008) also believes the activation of serotonin plays an important part in

the awakening process. Serotonin enhances mood and feeling of wellbeing, and is

released from the cells that line the walls of the ventricles—the two cavities within the

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upper part of the brain where cerebrospinal fluid is produced. It is also secreted from the

cells that line the central canal of the spinal cord--the major pathway of cerebrospinal

fluid. As the cerebrospinal fluid flows more freely around the brain and spinal cord, it

stimulates the release of serotonin. Arnold Mandell (1980) hypothesizes that a decrease

and/or release of serotonin (which can be caused by meditation) inhibits the regulation of

hippocampal pyramidal cells, leading to their hyperexcitability and the loss of the cells’

tendency to match external events with internal responses. This may lead to unitive

experience as one is no longer using the comparative and evaluative functions of the

brain.

Greenwell (1988) states that endorphins may play a role in Kundalini experience,

in that when endorphin levels increase in the brain, they are reduced in the spine. So it

may be that certain yogic breathing and visual practices, or activities like kriya yoga,

where concentration is focused on moving energy up the spine, may be moving

endorphins from the spine into the brain receptors until high level of pleasures are

produced. Greenwell also hypothesizes that dopamine levels rise during Kundalini

awakening since increased dopamine levels induce “hallucinations, delirium, murderous

rages, involuntary movements, delusions, ticks and compulsive growling, and some of

these symptoms are occasionally reported in cases of Kundalini awakening” (Greenwell,

1988, p. 109). This is echoed by Newberg (2003) who says brain studies show that

dopamine is released during meditation. In addition, Dixon (2008) says glutamate is a

major excitatory amino acid neurotransmitter accounting for an estimated 40% of all

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nerve signals in the human brain. Hence, the activation of glutamate receptors in the

spinal cord may cause its neurons to become more responsive to all sensory inputs.

Generation of Heat

The generation of heat is often reported as part of the Kundalini awakening

experience.

One hypothesis is heat generated from Kundalini awakening is due to dipole

rotation. Dipoles refer to molecules where the ends have different charges or polarities.

Dipoles rotate when atoms move in an oscillating electromagnetic field to continuously

align with it. As the field alternates, the atoms reverse direction. Rotating atoms collide

with and distribute the energy to adjacent atoms, generating heat. Thus, dipole rotation is

a mechanism by which energy in the form of electromagnetic radiation can raise the

temperature of an object. For example, dipole rotation occurs in the interaction between

electrons and light, where the oscillating dipoles from electrons in orbitals interact with

the oscillating dipole field of the electromagnetic wave from light. The hypothesis is the

activation of Kundalini increases electricity flow through our nervous system, which

further activates the body's electromagnetic field, which causes the dipoles in our protein

and water molecules to flip, generating heat in our body. Maggie MacKee, in a 2012

New Scientist article entitled: “Exotic Electrical Effect Pops Up in Soft Mammalian

Tissue” reports of a study by Huajian Gao that demonstrates that impact can deform

proteins and cause their dipoles to flip, and when electric dipoles switched, energy is

dissipated as heat.

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 A second hypothesis is heat is caused by non-ionizing radiation generated in the

initial stage of Kundalini awakening, when coherent, laser-like light is radiated from

within our cells. This is the stage when Kundalini energy is initiated but not yet

amplified into sufficient light and heat energy in our body that can cause ionization, that

is, the removal of electrons from the orbit of an atom. Non-ionizing radiation involves

the parts of the electromagnetic spectrum where there is an insufficient intensity of

energy to cause ionization. Non-ionizing radiation is said to excite electrons into higher-

energy orbitals. When the electron eventually falls back to a lower-energy state, the

excess energy is given off to neighboring molecules in the form of heat. Hence, exposure

to non-ionizing radiation can result in an increase in body temperature. Radiologist

Kwan-Hoong Ng (2003) says some lasers can even heat tissue to a high enough

temperature to produce rapid physical change. Perhaps the coherent light of Kundalini

energy is a form of non-ionizing radiation that creates heat and facilitates transformation

in the cells and tissues of the body. This is speculative and would need to be validated

with further research.

Another hypothesis is the heat from Kundalini activation is created from the

nervous system. In many reported cases, heat is highest during the peak of Kundalini

awakening, and thereafter the body may stay at a permanently higher temperature than it

was prior to awakening. Dixon (2008) says majority of the heat produced occurs in the

sacral and lumbar spine, where there is more gray matter of the spinal column than

elsewhere in the nervous system. Gray matter has larger numbers of mitochondria, which

are organelles that produce both energy and heat. Our mitochondria produce more than

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90% of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which is the energy used by the cell to sustain life

and support growth. Dixon postulates that free radicals increase during Kundalini

awakening and holds that the generation of the heat in the nervous systems is due to the

body's antioxidant capacity being overwhelmed by the concentration of free radicals,

which causes damage in the mitochondrial membrane, which then interferes with the

production of ATP. Since the energy cannot be used in ATP production, it is instead

released in the form of heat.

The Path of Kundalini Awakening

If Kundalini activation happens at the quantum level, then the phenomenon of Kundalini

rising from the base of the spine to the crown of the head is not the only manifestation of

Kundalini awakening, but only the path that the energy travels through the

psychophysiological system in a fully awakened state.

In the following section we will discuss a number of possibilities as to why in the

full awakening of Kundalini, many seem to experience Kundalini energy as flowing

upwards helically from the base of the spine to the crown of the head.

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Coccygeal Body

Anatomically the base of the spine includes the coccygeal body or gland, which is

fed by sympathetic nerves and parasympathetic nerves.

Coccygeal body at sacrum

Sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous trunks

feeding into coccygeal body at base of spine

The parasympathetic system is responsible for stimulation of rest-and-digest

activities that occur when the body is at rest, including sexual arousal, salivation,

lacrimation (tears), urination, digestion, and defecation. Its action is described as being

complementary to that of the sympathetic nervous system, which is responsible for

stimulating activities associated with the fight-or-flight response. A hypothesis is during

Kundalini rising, the pathway it takes is around the spine between the two sympathetic

trunks, which discharge two streams of energy flowing from ganglia to ganglia that feels

like it is rising up as a double helix around the spine.

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Spinal Wave

One hypothesis as to why Kundalini rises from the base of the spine has to do

with spinal wave. This says when the spinal wave of the vertebrae of the body is in a

special alignment and resonates with the standing wave of the earth at Schumann's

Resonance at 7.86 Hz, Kundalini rises up through the spinal column.

Generating spinal wave is the key to a practice called Network Spinal Analysis

(NSA). In NSA, the practitioner manipulates two healing waves: a breathing wave that is

said to release tension in the spine and in the body and a somatopsychic wave™ that is

described as a “dolphin type undulation” or movement of the spine. In an article

document entitled: “Network Spinal Analysis™: A Research Perspective,” NSA

specialist Donald Epstein says there are “two types of natural body waves, one

respiratory and one somatopsychic, that develop uniquely in Network Spinal Analysis™

care. These waves are believed to dissipate tension and re organize the functioning of the

spine and nervous system…The “somatopsychic wave™” is a consistent, repeatable

physiological phenomenon which can be studied as a non-linear mathematical

model…Moreover, in a group of people expressing the “somatopsychic wave™”, it has

been observed that movements of the larger spinal muscles exhibit synchrony, or

“entrain” within the population” (Epstein, 2000).

The Sacrum and Cerebrospinal Fluid

With a spinal wave initiated, it may activate a very important component of the

endocrine and the nervous system—cerebrospinal fluid. As mentioned earlier,

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cerebrospinal fluid flows primarily in and around the central nervous system including

the spinal column. It contains neuropeptides that initiate all life processes and indirectly

controls the functioning of the nervous system through maintaining an electrical balance

in the system. The base of the spine is the location of the sacrum, which is the location of

one of pumping mechanisms of the cerebrospinal fluid. Taoists regard the sacrum as a

pump that holds sexual energy in check. They believe that if the opening of sacrum is

blocked, the life force cannot enter and flow back to the higher centers. The cranium of

the skull is regarded by Taoists as a major pump for the circulation of energy from the

lower to the higher centers. In a book entitled Taoist Secrets of Love Cultivating Male

Sexual Energy, Mantak & Maneewan Chia says cranial movement is responsible for the

production and function of the cerebrospinal fluid surrounding the brain and spinal cord

and this movement is necessary to maintain normal nerve and energy patterns in the

entire body. The medical industry has also confirmed that there are movements in the

cranium. The book Foundations of Osteopathic Medicine published by American

Osteopathic Association has the following statement: “the overall motion of the cranium

is similar to the motion of the chest during respiration, but the two do not occur

simultaneously” (American Osteopathic Association, 2010). John Davidson, in his book

Subtle Energy describes how each vertebra has been found to resonate with a certain

(vibrational, or sound) frequency.

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Nadis and Meridians

Nadi is a Sanskrit word that means stream. Dale (2009) describes nadis as

transport channels for subtle energies throughout the body. She says they “operate like

channels, or a delivery system, for the chakras, to help clear and manage the physical

system and to play a vital role in the rising of Kundalini” (Dale, 2009, p. 272). Dale

identifies three main nadis: The sushumna, or main nadi; the ida, on the left side of the

body; and the pingala, on the right side of the body. She describes the ida and pingala as

crossing like a double helix, and that they relate to the sympathetic nervous trunks on the

sides of the spinal cord, and says “as Kundalini rises through the sushumna, the chakras

are activated, one at a time, by the three main nadis: The central sushumna and the

surrounding ida and pingala” (Dale, 2009, p. 243).

In discussing Kundalini energy in her CD set: The Body of Health: The Science of

Intuition Medicine®, McCartney describes three meridians that Kundalini energy flows

through in three currents. She says the major meridian begins at the base of the spine and

extends to the top of the spine and continues to the crown of the head, then fountains out

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into the aura where it circles the body to the edge of the aura. The minor meridians start

at the bottom of the feet, up the legs and torso to the shoulders, down the arms, and out

the hand and into the aura, where the current moves in concentric circles around the body

to the edge of the aura.

The meridians of Kundalini energy

(McCartney, 2000, p.62)

Movement of Charged Particles in a Magnetic Field

Another hypothesis as to why Kundalini rises up through the spine has to do with

what happens at the subatomic level. The spine cord is the main pathway of the central

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nervous system and produces immense electrical current, which produces a large

magnetic field around it. According to the theory of electron cyclotron resonance, when

charged particles come into a region of a strong magnetic field, they may be trapped by

the magnetic field and will then circle around it. In fact, particles tend to spiral around

magnetic field lines, moving along the lines as they orbit around them.

But why does Kundalini energy apparently move upwards? Stephenson (2008)

says the head has a positive charge, whereas the feet have a negative charge. If we take

her analogy of a battery where the buildup of electrons at the negative terminal push to

get to the positive side of the battery, then perhaps this explains why in some accounts

Kundalini current flows in the direction of our feet to our head. Why is there is a

difference in charge between our head and our feet? Bentov (1988) says the earth is

negatively charged whereas the ionosphere is positively charged. Hence, standing on the

earth, there is a difference in electrical potential between our feet and the top of our head.

In his book Earthing, Clinton Ober gives an estimate of that difference: “There is an

electrical charge of some 350 volts between the Earth and the top of your head” (Ober,

2010, p. 80).

The Bioplasma Explanation

Jay Alfred, in an article entitled: “Bioplasma Bodies - Formation of the Central

Pranic and Kundalini Currents,” hypothesizes that the helical movement of the Kundalini

current is due to our bioplasma bodies. He holds that that we have bioplasma bodies that

are coupled to and exist independently of our carbon-based body. Plasma is an ionized

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gas that contains charged particles and is created when the electrons are separated from

the nucleus in a gas due to heat or the force of an electric field. For plasmas immersed in

strong magnetic fields, electric currents tend to flow along the magnetic field lines, which

act like wires guiding the current. The current creates its own magnetic field, and, when

added to the original magnetic field, results in a twisted or helical magnetic field.

Alfred says at the center of the bioplasma body, which coincides with the lower

abdomen, is a pool of high-density charged magnetic plasma composed of heavy

particles. At the top of the body, coinciding with the head, there is a pool of low-density

magnetic plasma of an opposite charge or polarity that is composed of light particles. As

a result, there is an electric field created in the bioplasma body due to the polarization.

From that, a helical magnetic field is created, and as Kundalini rises from the base of the

spine, the currents are guided by the helical magnetic field lines and move upwards in a

spiral.

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The Torus Connection

Another hypothesis is Kundalini energy moves in a toroidal pattern with the

spinal column in the center of the torus.

The torus

In the “Thrive” movie, the torus is described as an energy pattern that has a

continuous doughnut-shaped surface with a hole in it. The energy flows in through one

end, circulates around the center and exits out the other side. Scientist and philosopher

Arthur Young explained that a torus is the only energy pattern that can sustain itself and

is made out of the same substance as its surroundings; for example, a tornado, a smoke

ring in the air, or a whirlpool in water. It is believed that both our body and the

electromagnetic field around us form a toroidal energy pattern. Through the torus energy

flow, we are connected to each other and to the universe in a continuous loop of infinite

energy. Most toruses actually come in two--one spiraling one direction towards the north

pole and its opposite spinning towards the south pole.

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 Stephenson (2008) cites a hypothesis by P.M.H. Atwater that says within the torus

there is a colloidal state where things are in suspension, and “particles caught in this

unique state between implosion and explosion transmute and remain forever changed by

it. On a molecular level, these particles show evidence of enlargement and of having

taken on different and enhanced characteristics” (Stephenson, 2008, p. 311).

Toroidal shape of overall biomagnetic field of the human body

(Oschman, 2000, p. 77)

Oschman (2000) illustrates the shape of the biomagnetic field of the body in

polarity therapy that mirrors the torus shape. He says “the overall shape of the field

results mainly from currents set up in the body by the heart, which produces the strongest

biomagnetic field….It is centered around the body axis because of the helical flow of

heart electricity through a variety of tissues. The main flows are through the circulatory

system, which is a good conductor because it is filled with a saline solution,

plasma…blood flows up and down through the aorta and major arteries is helical.” (p. 77)

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The Long Tide

Craniosacral therapist and researcher Franklyn Sills describes the long tide as a

primary form of respiration that maintains cohesiveness and balance in the human body.

His theory is based on osteopath William Sutherland, who discovered the stable, tide-like,

respiratory phenomenon that he calls the tide. Sutherland believed the tide has healing

attributes as it permeates the fluids, cells, and tissues of the body, maintaining order and

orchestrating healing processes. In describing the long tide, Sills says Austrian scientist

Viktor Schauberger perceives that the long tide manifests locally via spiral-like

centrifugal and centripetal motions and that this is a universal principle at work in all

levels of creation. He says this is because when an equilibrium is established within

these centrifugal and centripetal forces, a stable ordering field is generated that underlies

the organization of the human system.

The long tide: The primary form of respiration

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 Kundalini Awakening as a Human Revolutionary Process

Gopi Krishna calls Kundalini an “evolutionary mechanism” (Krishna, 1970, p.

241). His view is echoed by others. In an article entitled: “Evolution and Kundalini”,

Frank Pollard says Kundalini is “an energy converter” (Pollard, 1989, p. 90) in that it

converts material energy into spiritual energy and that this has long-term significance

since the energy that we use every day is chemical or mechanical energy and has entropy.

From a physiological standpoint, perhaps Kundalini is transformational because it

effects permanent changes to our cell membranes. Lipton (2005) identified a protein

called integral membrane protein (IMP) as the “awareness protein” (Lipton, 2005, p.51)

and says that the more an organism has of this protein, the more awareness it possesses.

He also says the only way to increase this protein is to increase the surface area of the

membrane. Lipton claims that fractal geometry is “the best way to get the most surface

area (membrane) within a three dimensional space (cell)” (Lipton, 2005, p.166). If so,

Kundalini is not just an energy surge but also a force that permanently changes our

membranes. Even further, Dixon (2008) says Kundalini awakening permanently takes us

to “a higher degree of homeostatic balance by upgrading the body's four homeostats:

energy, adaptive, reproductive and immune” (Dixon, 2008, p. 490).

In addition, recent research into evolution and genetics may provide some clues as

to why Kundalini awakening may be an evolutionary process. Recall one of the premises

of this paper is that the primary cause of Kundalini awakening is coherent heart rhythms

that create resonant entrainment in the brain and in the breath. This vibratory effect is

also amplified and directed by intent, or focused thought. Some scientists believe that

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thought can alter genetic expression. Lipton (2005) says “…the matrix conveys thought

information to all parts of the body, including to the DNA, where genetic expression is

influenced.” Also, recall The DNA Phantom Effect where the DNA creates an energetic

duplicate of itself that continues to store light. And that focused thought and sound can

energetically change the DNA phantom, which then changes the physical DNA molecule.

This implies that genetic expression has the potential to be changed by the same focused

thought or sound vibration that triggers Kundalini awakening.

Also, microbiologist Colm Kelleher (1999) states that transposons--segments of

DNA that can move around to different positions in the genome of a single cell and may

cause mutations--are engines of evolution. He postulates that changes in transposons

may explain some of the transformational phenomena associated with spiritual

experiences, which include Kundalini awakening.

Recently, evidence has started to emerge which shows DNA may not be the key

to evolutionary changes. Epigenetics is the field of genetic study that says changes do

not need to involve alterations to the genetic code, but can still be passed down to at least

one successive generation. It is the cellular material called epigenome (or epigenetic

marks) that tell the genes to switch on or off. Dawson Church in his book The Genie in

Your Genes says beliefs and emotions can trigger the expression of DNA strands. He

says a class of genes called Immediate Early Genes (IEGs) can be switched on within a

few seconds of a stimulus. This stimulus can either be thoughts or emotions. Epigenetics

implies that evolution reacts to its environment in a much higher speed than Darwin

envisioned. Furthermore, epigenetic changes may be permanent even though the DNA is

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not altered. This is because epigenetic changes represent a biological response to an

environmental or biological stressor, so if the pressure continues, the epigenetic marks

will continue to take effect.

Another theory, Rupert Sheldrake’s hypothesis of formative causation, holds that

the forms of self-organizing living things are shaped by morphic fields. These fields,

which Sheldrake believes are different than electromagnetic fields, have a morphic

resonance--a cumulative memory--through cultures and time, so that species of animals

and plants remember not only how to look but also how to act. Sheldrake calls this

influence of like upon like “morphic resonance” (McTaggart, 2001, p. 47). Sheldrake’s

morphogenetic field apparently has memory and can evolve. Since living organisms

inherent both their genes and morphic fields from their ancestors, they also inherent their

ancestors’ habits and will pass them to future generations. Perhaps this is why Kundalini

awakening is both an individual and collective evolutionary process and the change can

happen within a single generation. There is no need to wait for the many generations to

pass before the Darwinist evolutionary process unfolds.

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 Conclusion

The purpose of this research is to develop a theoretical model to explain the origin

of Kundalini energy and the cause of awakening from a scientific viewpoint. Below

summarizes the key postulations of this paper:

Kundalini energy is the combined light energy from the universal energy source

in the form of virtual photons and our biophotons, and is stored in our DNA from birth.

The integration of the two produces an intense, coherent, laser-like light energy that is

Kundalini. Kundalini is stored and activated as light energy in the form of photons, but

propagates through our body as sound energy once activated. The conversion from light

into acoustic waves can either be through the DNA quantum hologram translating

between acoustical and optical holograms, or through piezoelectric connective tissues

within our living matrix. As the acoustic waves are carried through our body,

piezoelectric crystals in our connective tissues, skeleton, brain, and pineal gland facilitate

entrainment of heart rhythms, brain waves, respiration, facilitating awakening.

Piezoelectricity also carries phonons and amplifies acoustic waves throughout our body.

They are carried in solitons, which, through resonant frequency, propagate into a series of

increasingly powerful standing waves that reach all levels of our body through the living

matrix. As the standing waves move through our nervous and endocrine systems, a series

of psychophysiological processes are activated. Hence, Kundalini awakening process is a

complex, multi-level, nested process that is initiated at the quantum level and propagates

to the psychophysiological level.

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 Also, as Kundalini is a coherent, laser-like light, it is strong and focused enough

to change the very structure of our DNA, which effectively changes the course of our

individual and collective evolution. The difference between Kundalini and other

universal energies that we can generate, resonate and emit through our bodies is

Kundalini energy vibrates at a specific frequency and involves a photon exchange with

the universal energy source at the quantum level, and its integration creates permanent

changes to our DNA and physiology, whereas other universal energies involve scalar

waves from the universal energy source interacting with our electromagnetic fields.

The primary cause of Kundalini awakening is hypothesized to be coherent heart

vibrations oscillating at a resonant frequency that create resonant entrainment between

the heart, the brain, and the breath. These coherent heart rhythms are triggered by heart-

based activities such as meditation, chanting, the generation of love and other positive

emotions. Furthermore, focused thought, or intent, can direct and amplify the effects.

These postulations have not been proven within the realm of mainstream science,

and admittedly there are many gaps and some of the hypotheses are at best speculations,

although a sincere attempt was made to leverage the spirit and intent of scientific

investigation when developing these ideas. It may also seem like more questions were

raised than answers provided. The only thing I can really say for sure is there is a

pressing need for further research, especially one that brings together cross-disciplinary

experts who can explore the Kundalini phenomenon from the perspectives of both

science and metaphysics. Being a scientific exploration, this research attempts to

discover and understand Kundalini in energetic and physiological rather than in

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metaphysical terms. However, I do believe Kundalini is a much greater phenomenon

than what science can define and explain. In its very essence, Kundalini is likely to be

much more than energy and experience.

Christopher Hills (1990) has a unique insight about Kundalini. In his view,

Kundalini is not energy at all, but a basic component of life that we only perceive as

energy when it moves. He even calls Kundalini a byproduct of consciousness, and

compares it to light prior to being absorbed or released as energy. He explains his view:

“Only when it (Kundalini) moves through the system can it be described as

Kundalini because only then do we become conscious of its existence as an
ambrosia which melts and burns. To describe Kundalini in chemical or energetic
terms alone is to avoid the real cause and look only at the effects. Without the
light of consciousness moving through our receptors we would not see, smell,
taste, hear, or touch anything. Yes we do not see Kundalini described as ordinary
consciousness but always as something special. Kundalini is a basic component
of life and it is only when it moves from one place to another that we sense it or
feel it as ‘energy.’ To call it ‘Kundalini energy’ is therefore a misnomer…
Kundalini is actually made of consciousness and the actual sensation is merely a
message of our consciousness passing through the psychic veil or skin which acts
as a membrane between one world of experience and another” (Hills, 1990, pp.
110-112).

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 My personal view of Kundalini may be best expressed by a poem that I was

moved to write after this exploration and humbly present here:

The tale of Kundalini

I am a tiny wave,
You see the ocean,
But you do not see me.

I was born of the universe.

And live amidst the ocean.
But I am always with you.

Your heart opens,

I resonate,
The universe entrains.

The earth quakes,

The ocean trembles,
I become a tsunami.

Rushing up the shores

And piercing through
All that is in my way.

Darkness is illuminated,
You finally see all of me,
And you become One.

I am Kundalini.

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