Re:kundalini psychosis

Thanks for the input... I just noticed it!

In my case, it was not an altered mental state, but altered physical states, that led to my questions re: kundalini.

I tend to think that all of the above -- altered physical and mental states, disruptions and openings in consciousness -- run along a continuum and are not solidly bound within "syndromes" like kundalini. Someone once said to me that spiritual awakening (whatever "spiritual" means!) can happen out of sync with one's overall psychological development. This seems to me astute. Perhaps the difference between "kundalini" and psychosis is not the phenomenon itself, but how the person is able to articulate that phenomenon. So if someone identifies as having had a kundalini experience how does a mental health professional ascertain that this is or is not the case?

I am trying to say that whether an experience is a spiritual opening is probably due to whether someone possesses ego strength to deal with such an "opening", not with whether it is truly "spiritual" or not. I think it's the ego strength that lets someone integrate the experience, control it and grow with it... without such ego strength, there is just "insanity".

I've found that meditation is both ego strengthening, if done with care and "supervision" (whether from a teacher or from that peculiar subset of teacher: psychotherapists) and ego disrupting, if not handled with such care.

As for kundalini, I decided to get a grip on my ego first and not worry about what precisely I was experiencing. It seemed wise to leave such larger questions for a time when I am able to answer smaller questions more adeptly, like what to eat for dinner...?

Thanks, again...

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