Kundalini syndrome
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Kundalini syndrome is a set of sensory, motor, mental and affective experiences described in the literature of transpersonal psychology, near-death studies and other sources covering transpersonal, spiritual or medical topics. The phenomenon is sometimes called the "Kundalini-syndrome", the "Physio-Kundalini syndrome", or simply referred to as a "syndrome". Other researchers, while not using the term "syndrome",Note a have also begun to address this phenomenon as a clinical category, or as a recognizable symptomatology."Kundalini syndrome" is a term employed by Western researchers and commentators to refer to the condition which occurs when experiences traditionally associated with kundalini awakening arise, often unsought, which overwhelm or cause distress to the experiencer.However, Greyson notes that the physio-kundalini syndrome is connected with the kundalini awakening of Hinduism "only by theory and circumstantial evidence". He also argues that a true measure of this phenomenology, interpreted as a state of higher consciousness, is beyond the ability of psychology and/or psychiatry to measure.Kundalini syndrome has been reported predominantly by people who have had a near-death experience, or by practitioners of Asian spiritual practices. Other factors that may trigger this symptomatology include a variety of intense personal crises or experiences.According to writers in the field of transpersonal psychology the process is not always sudden and dramatic, it can also start slowly and increase gradually in activity over time. If the accompanying symptoms unfold in an intense manner that destabilizes the person, the process is usually interpreted as a spiritual emergency.
^ Ring & Rosing, 1990:226
^ Sovatsky,1998, p. 180.
^ Grof & Grof: 1989:15
^ Greyson, 1993
^ Greyson, 2000
^ Prosnick & Evans, 2003:138
^ Valanciute & Thampy, 2011: Title
^ Ring & Rosing, 1990
^ Thalbourne, 2001
^ Turner et.al,1995:440
^ Scotton, 1996
^ Kason, 2000:222
^ Greyson, 1993b:288
^ Greyson, 1993:45,55-56
^ Ring & Rosing, 1990:226,237
^ Kason, 2000
^ Kason, 2000:259-60
^ Scotton 1996: 262,269
^ Sovatsky, 1998:180
^ Psychiatric literature notes that:
Since the influx of eastern spiritual practices and the rising popularity of meditation starting in the 1960s, research has expanded on those who practice them, and has shown that some people experience psychological distress, either while engaged in intensive spiritual practice or spontaneously.
^ Kason, pg.163; Table 4.
^ Valanciute & L.A. Thampy, 2011
^ Kason, pg. 51
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"spiritual emergency" (i.e., an uncontrolled emergence of spiritual phenomena with significant disruption in psychological/social/occupational functioning)
^ Vernon-Johnson, 2004:19
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