The Awakening of Kundalini

In this book Gopi Krishna deals specifically with the subject of meditation and with the question, what should everyone know about higher consciousness? He shows that the science of Yoga is far more complex, comprehensive and profound than is generally supposed. The book also deals with many commonly-asked questions about meditation, mysticism, drug experiences and the phenomenon of partial awareness. With the exception of his autobiography, Living With Kundalini, this is perhaps the best of all his books to serve as an introduction to the subject.

Table of Contents

1. What Everyone Should Know About Higher Consciousness
2. The Ancient Concept of Kundalini
3. Is Meditation Always Beneficial?
4. The Goal of Meditation
5. The True Aim of Yoga
6. The Dangers of Partial Awareness: Comments on Alan Watts' Autobiography
7. An Interview with Gopi Krishna: On Mystical Experience, Drugs, and the Evolutionary Processes

Excerpt

All the systems of Yoga and all religious disciplines are designed to bring about those psychosomatic changes in the body which are essential for the metamorphosis of consciousness. A new center-presently dormant in the average man and woman -- has to be activated and a more powerful stream of psychic energy must rise into the head from the base of the spine to enable human consciousness to transcend the normal limits. This is the final phase of the present evolutionary impulse in man. The cerebrospinal system of man has to undergo a radical change, enabling consciousness to attain a dimension which transcends the limits of the highest intellect. Here reason yields to intuition and revelation appears to guide the steps of humankind.

129 pages, 5 ¼ x 8 ¼, paperback.