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 kundalini arousal, 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 are the energies one is dealing with
here, 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 make 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 have had exclusively 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 consumer society, based
on material 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.
- 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 running through the spine and up into my brain
after the yoga exercises, where it felt so good that I can only describe it
as a "brain-orgasm".
- During this time I became so acutely psychotic, 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 it
felt like burning fire and was very painful - it affected my health. It was
as if I was being devoured from the 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. Some of the other releasing factors
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 completely crazy, my Kundalini has been 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, diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic,
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 of what had happened
to me. Yes, I understood that the secret purpose of yoga and meditation actually
is to release the kundalini force. 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 kundalini process, and about half
of them did not know about Kundalini beforehand. It was a shock 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 thing 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 long 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 tell their students, that some of them might be disposed for Kundalini
arousal, and that this could turn their life upside-down.
In an investigation concerning the kundalini
process in 76 people, it was shown that 42 of them had never been informed by
their yoga and meditation teachers 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 receive, Else Johansen continues.
- 8 got to know they were psychotic, 8 received the diagnosis schizophrenia,
borderline psychosis, 7 anxiety neurosis, 3 manic-depressive, 2 hypochondriac,
and 2 inflammation of the brain.
- 32 of the investigated people had been taken into psychiatric care, 3 in a
neurological ward. 12 could manage with help from the outpatient department;
many of these periodically received 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 diagnosis: 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 something like a red-hot iron bar in my back,
and my head felt like it was burning up." In his case, the kundalini arousal
happened due to unhappy love.
- There are meditation teachers who have
advised people who have Kundalini arousal to meditate even more. This is like
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. At the acute stage, it is good
to do earthly things, like cooking, which is a fine therapy, and heavy, nutritious
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.
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 in the 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 the proximity of other people.
Orgasm-like 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 the 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.
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