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Subject: [K-list] INVESTIGATION AND DIAGNOSIS OF 76 CASES OF KUNDALINI
From: Hen ry
On 2000/08/30 08:14, Hen ry posted thus to the K-list:
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fyi this is long but very useful and on topic. Henry
Kundalini-Network in Denmark
INVESTIGATION AND DIAGNOSIS OF 76 CASES OF KUNDALINI AROUSAL.
by Marja Savola
The Kundalini Network and Information in Denmark, is a non-profit-making
association, started by people who have gone through a process of Kundalini
themselves. The members wish to help others and themselves. About 250 people
(1996), who have experienced kundaliniarousal, have contacted the
association.
The Network's Else Johansen explains that they try to create a forum, where
different points of view can be discussed so that the knowledge about
Kundalini arousal increases. The Network urges emphatically all yoga- and
meditation teachers, and other therapists to learn how powerful energies one
here is dealing with, so that the damages can be reduced in severe cases of
Kundalini arousal. The education should naturally contain knowledge about
how to help those who have been stricken.
Many people take contact with the Network after they have experienced a
Kundalini-arousal which has caused a serious crisis including psychic
difficulties and problems in the family-life and at work.
But, fortunately there are also people who exclusively have had positive
experiences through the Kundalini-arousal, like well being, expanded
consciousness and creativity.
Else Johansen tells:
— More and more people nowadays find that the modern consumption society,
based on materialistic values, cannot make them happy. Many want to reach
something genuine within themselves, something eternal and imperishable.
This has caused the increased interest in yoga, meditation, psychotherapies
and body-therapies.
— Who would not want to learn how to relax in a stressed life? And since the
adverts promise you higher cosmic knowledge and expanded consciousness, it
is natural that many people try these techniques, unfortunately —in many
cases— without knowing anything at all about the slumbering powers in man,
which it can be most dangerous to release.
Else Johansen has herself experienced the risky side of Kundalini arousal.
— It happened 22 years ago (article written 1996), she tells. I had been
practising yoga and breathing exercises for one year. Then something
peculiar happened. I felt sexually excited directly after the exercises, and
got the feeling of being "high", like when you have smoked hash. Some weeks
later I felt an electric current through the spine and up in my brain after
the yoga exercises, where it felt so good that I only can describe it as
"brain-orgasm".
— During this time I got an acute psychosis, that is I lost control. This,
however, only lasted for three weeks, and never came back. The current kept
on flowing upwards, and when its power increased — and from time to time
felt like burning fire and was very painful — it affected my health. It was
like I was devoured from inside by this terrible energy, which roared
through my body and caused a most unpleasant over-pressure in the brain.
When this had lasted for a whole year, I happened to see a book by
Narayananda, "Primal Power in Man: The Kundalini Shakti", and there I found
the answer to the strange thing that had happened to me.
— Later I found other books, most of them written by Indian yogis. Kundalini
arousal and its effects are familiar things in the East, but it is not until
recent years that people have noticed this force in the West, a force which
can bring people to heavenly states, or down into a hell of sufferings.
Else Johansen continues:
— Kundalini arousal especially occurs as an unintentional side effect of
yoga, meditation, healing or body-and psychotherapy. Other releasing
factors, among others, can be: Births, unrequited love, celibacy, intense
studies, physical traumas, deep sorrow, high fever and drug intake. But
Kundalini arousal can also occur suddenly without apparent course.
— When the process of Kundalini had lasted in me for about ten years, I was
too tired out to be able to earn a living on my own. I went to a doctor and
said: "It is all crazy, my Kundalini has aroused. What shall I do?" And then
I told him about my state.
— "You are deeply psychotic", he said. "I will send you to a good
psychiatrist. The energy you are talking about does not exist. You have
serious misconceptions".
— I got sick pay and later disability pension, with the diagnose paranoid
schizophrenia, without first having been taken in for a mental examination.
No doctor that I spoke to concerning my pension believed my talk about
Kundalini.
— But in the yoga literature I got a reasonable explanation to what had
happened to me. Yes, I understood that the secret purpose with yoga and
meditation actually is to release the Kundaliniforce. When Kundalini reaches
the brain, it is said to be stimulating the brain cells that are normally
not used, so that a higher state of consciousness is reached.
Else Johansen continues and says that the doctors' ignorance of Kundalini
has led to diagnoses like hypochondria, escapism, inflammation of the brain,
and calcification of the brain.
— In a radio program, in which I participated, a psychiatrist said that
Kundalini is just an idea, imported from the East through yoga. People hear
or read about it, and therefore they think they have Kundalini arousal.
— But that reasoning does not hold, Else Johansen continues. I have met 250
(1996) people who have had a well-defined Kundaliniprocess, and about half
of them did not know about Kundalini beforehand. It became a chock to them
when the process started. They have been helped a lot, knowing what actually
happened to them, because in any case it is an advantage to know what is
going on. That they later found an explanation to the odd that happened to
them, has helped them enormously, because it is in any case an advantage to
know what is going on.
Is it dangerous to throw oneself into techniques, said to heighten your
level of consciousness, as yoga, meditation, healing and different physical-
and psychic therapies?
— If somebody asks me for advice, I prefer to say that one should avoid it
if one has small children, since I know four women who have been incapable
of looking after their children for a longer time owing to Kundalini
arousal. But I also know a few who have had exclusively positive
experiences, like feelings of bliss, deep well-being, increased energy and
creativity.
Else Johansen also says that it is a problem that yoga- and meditation
teachers do not give their students information, that some of them might be
disposed for Kundalini arousal, and that this could turn their life
upside-down.
In an investigation concerning the Kundaliniprocess in 76 people, it was
shown that 42 of them had never been informed by their teachers in yoga and
meditation, about the existence of Kundalini. It also showed that their
teachers — in most cases — were not able to give any help whatsoever.
— A Kundalini arousal never develops the same way in two different
individuals, which is mirrored in the different diagnoses they have got,
Else Johansen continues.
— 8 got to know they were psychotic, 8 got the diagnose schizophrenia,
borderline psychosis, 7 anguish neurosis, 3 manic-depressive, 2
hypochondriac, and 2 inflammation of the brain.
— 32 of the investigated people had been taken in on psychiatric clinic, 3
in neurological ward. 12 could cope with help from the outpatient
department; many of these got periodically sick pay. 24 now get disability
pension.
— There is a "gap of understanding" between patients and doctors, Else
Johansen points out. The patients feel that they — while sitting in the
waiting room — know the correct diagnose; Kundalini arousal, but when they
come in to the doctor, they have to shift their world picture to the
doctors' - and there the power of Kundalini does not exist.
— 17 of the surveyed persons admit that they have had thoughts of suicide,
since it has felt impossible for them to live with an active Kundalini. One
has committed suicide. In an interview a short time before he died he said:
"The times when I was in hospital, I had like a red-hot iron bar in my back,
and my head felt like it was burning up." In his case, the Kundaliniarousal
happened due to unhappy love.
— There are meditation teachers who have advised people who have Kundalini
arousal to meditate even more. It is as putting out a fire by pouring
gasoline on it. It is very hard to stop a bolting Kundalini.
One woman had use of rather violent yoga exercises, but generally yoga only
use to fortify the process. Some have had joy of healing, others got worse.
— From my experience, I want to advise highest caution. A form of therapy
that helps one person can make it worse for another. In the acute stadium,
it is good to do earthly things, like cooking, which is a fine therapy, and
heavy, nutritive food is a good thing. Long walks and easy gardening is good
since it is grounds with the earth. And it is wise to avoid spiritual things
in the acute phase.
Else Johansen has together with other people, who have experienced a
kundalini arousal, put together a list of the most typical symptoms:
Burning heat or ice-cold currents moving up the spine, and in most cases,
reaching the head.
Sometimes a feeling of air bubbles or snake movement up through the body up
to the head.
Pains in varying locations throughout the body.
Titillation of the genital area, spine, or head.
Tension or stiffness of neck, and headaches.
Vibrations, unease, or cramps in legs and other parts of the body.
Fast pulse and increased metabolism.
Sensitivity to sound, light, smell, and proximity of the other people.
Orgasms sensations in different places in the body, or total cosmic orgasms.
Mystical/religious experiences, revelations, and/or cosmic glimpses.
Parapsychological abilities. Light phenomena in or outside the body.
Problems with finding balance between strong sexual urges, and a wish to
live in sublime purity.
Persistent anxiety or anxiety attacks, due to lack of understanding of what
is going on.
Insomnia, manic high spirits or deep depression. Energy loss.
Impaired concentration and memory.
Total isolation, due to inability to communicate inner experiences out.
Of course you can have some of these symptoms without having a kundalini
arousal.
Translated by Anders and Marja
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