Kundalini Rising by Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa

Author:Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Body, Mind & Spirit/New Thought
ISBN: 978-1-59179-842-2
Publisher: Sounds True
Published: 2009-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Kundalini

Sex, Evolution, and Higher Consciousness

JOHN WHITE

John White, author of fifteen books, including The Meeting of Science and Spirit and What Is Enlightenment?, has long studied the kundalini phenomena. In the following essay he examines the relationship between sex, consciousness, and kundalini, journeying to the heart of erotic mysticism. Touching on the modern challenges psychology and philosophy face in the context of kundalini experiences, he focuses on Gopi Krishna’s influence and his thoughts on the evolution of consciousness. Exploring Gopi Krishna’s writings and legacy, he probes the ultimate question: Is kundalini the biological basis of both religion and genius?

Sexuality and spiritual experience have traditionally been linked in the literature of mysticism. Religious ecstasy seems strikingly similar to erotic excitement in the accounts of saints and holy people who have spoken of enlightenment—knowing ultimate reality or, in their usual term, God—in language that resorts to sexual imagery. Such images, they said, were the best they could find to describe an otherwise indescribable experience. Such terms as rapture, passion, union, and ravish occur frequently. St. Teresa recorded that she felt stabbed through and through by Christ’s spear. Madame Guyon wrote that “the soul ... expires at last in the arms of love.” St. Francis de Sales spoke of sucking heavenly milk from the breast of God. Likewise, the poetry of Sufi and Hindu mystics is highly erotic.

Orthodox psychology tends to smugly dismiss such language as the products of aberrated minds whose main trouble was repressed sex, causing a regression to infantile behavior. But conventional psychological interpretations could be wrong. Why? Because in an ironic turn of events, a physical linkage between sexual and spiritual experience is emerging, and it promises a major upheaval in Western psychology. From this emerging view, sexuality is really unexpressed or unfulfilled religious experience.

Notice that term religious experience. The common element between it and sexual experience is consciousness. The states of consciousness experienced by lovers in union and mystics in God-intoxication are states in which the usual sense of self as a separate, isolated, lonely individual is dissolved. The individuals are no longer locked in the prison of ego, no longer in conflict with the world because of a socially conditioned image of who they are. Lovers sometimes attain this momentarily during orgasm, and afterward universally regard it as one of their most cherished experiences. It has a sacred quality, as if they had contacted something greater than themselves, something at the wellspring of life itself, something that transcends the merely human and takes them into a higher state of existence.

Mystics, of course, experience this with greater frequency, intensity, and duration. Some of the greatest have declared they are constantly in that state of mind, although to outward appearances they are simply performing their daily activities.

Try to imagine that: working, eating meals, driving the car, and doing everything else with the same sense of cosmic wellbeing you’ve felt at the peak of lovemaking. It’s not just exquisite pleasure or intense passion. It’s actually beyond emotion. It’s tranquil, peaceful, serene,

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