Kundalini Experiences and Spiritual Emergency in India

Record summary

Contemporary Indian clinical writing and ethnography discuss kundalini-related sensations, visions, changes in identity and episodes interpreted as spiritual awakening. The material can be compared with possession, meditation-induced psychosis, panic, dissociation and other altered-state categories. It is heterogeneous rather than a standardized case series. Some accounts are religious narratives, some are psychiatric presentations, and some are retrospective autobiographies. Cultural formulation is essential because the same experience may be framed as illness, initiation or spiritual progress.