A kundalini experience while meditating
These are the notes I wrote for a video I made about this experience. My apologies if you have already seen that but I know some people would rather read than watch a video. Many people have heard about kundalini yoga or kundalini experiences generally and so might be interested to know what a kundalini experience feels like, to the extent that that can be expressed in words. It might help open some possibilities for you and also save you some time – as you’ll see below! At the time this happened, in the summer of 1978, I had no history of meditation. I don’t think I even knew then what the word meant! I had a materialist perspective on the mind, consciousness etc. and I was doing research for a PhD in cognitive psychology. The setting was my office, which was a caravan in the garden of my university department, the Applied Psychology Unit in Cambridge, on a quiet summer evening. I was typing up some notes when, for no reason that I was aware of, I had the urge to close my eyes a...