3.
Considerable withdrawal of energy from the vital organs, efferent
nerves and externally oriented musculature.
4. Gradual opening or activation of the various
energy centers and associated glands of the body resulting
in the exploration of the higher levels of consciousness as
the regular practice of meditation continues from day to day,
from month to month, from year to year.
The tantric philosophy
of India is in agreement with modern science that there is,
in ultimate analysis, only one stuff of all existence, and
that is energy. The primordial energy is known as mahashakti.
According to Vedanta, the superconscient divine energy is
experienced by the meditator at the highest peak of cosmic
consciousness.
According to some, the kundalini or primal energy is the right
vagous nerve that controls the nerve phlexes of the autonomic
nervous system. When the vagal center in the medulla oblongata
is stimulated, the functions of heart, lungs and larynx are
inhibited. At the same time the functions of the stomach,
intestine and digestive glands are accelerated.
The most authoritative interpretation postulates the kundalini
as the nuclear energy of the psychophysical system. When awakened,
this energy is simultaneously experienced as physical, vital,
mental and spiritual. So in a sense it is immaterial whether
it is described as the physionuclear or bionuclear or psycho
nuclear or somatonuclear energy. It is the nuclear energy
of the enormously complicated organized structure of man's
existence, which we call the psychophysical system.
There are varying degrees of awakening or dynamization of
the coiled energy, which is the static pole and positive nucleus
in relation to the rest of the bodily energies, which are
dynamic. Whenever a person enters into the condition of immensely
intensified consciousness due to his total concentration on
an absorbing project, whether scientific, artistic, commercial
or political, he feels the thrill and excitement of overflowing
energy. What happens is the partial awakening of the coiled
energy. His concentrated vital energy (prana), withdrawn from
all other affairs of the world, puts pressure at the base
of the spinal cord. The coiled energy reacts by rechanneling
the mobilized vital energy along the spinal cord toward the
brain. This results in the flow of new creative ideas, or
exciting new solutions to the problems concentrated on.
A greater measure of rechanneling of energy from the outer
to the upward direction takes place. If and when there comes
a time when the coiled energy undergoes total conversion from
the static to the dynamic form, the yogi attains what is called
bodiless liberation. He leaves the body and becomes one with
the vastness of cosmic Being.
Under the impact of their concentrated attack, the positive
nuclear of the psychophysical system (kundalini), the apparently
static positive pole of the body's magnetic field, sends forth
an emanation or ejection, some kind of "etheric double," as
theosophists call it, which shoots up like an electric current
along the central canal of the spinal cord.
Under the impact of breath-control and intense concentration,
the root center, like an electromagnetic machine, becomes
over saturated. It then produces an inductive action, analogous
to electromagnetic action, by which the mobilized dynamic
energies operative in the body are converged along the axis.
In this case there is no need to postulate the conversion
of the static pole into its dynamic equivalent. The root center,
like an over saturated electromagnetic machine, induces in
the neighborhood an equivalent and opposite kind of electromagnetism
without losing its own stock of energy.
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