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Near-death experiences and kundalini awakening: Exploring the link.

1994; International Association for Near-Death Studies; Volume: 12; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.17514/jnds-1994-12-3-p143-157.

1573-3661

Yvonne Kason,

Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs

This article explores the historical and research evidence that the awakening of latent spiritual energy is the biopsychospiritual basis of near-death experiences (NDEs).This spiritual energy is known in various sacred traditions as Holy Spirit, Vital Winds, chi, dumo fire, mana, and, in the yogic tradition, kundalini.I outline the modern kundalini hypothesis, as first proposed by Gopi Krishna; how this hypothesis can account for the physical symptoms and psychospiritual transformation associated with NDEs; and preliminary evidence from my own NDE and from research underway through the Kundalini Research Network.On March 27, 1979, I had a most extraordinary experience, which prompted me to research spiritual and paranormal states of conscious ness and which has, over the years, led me to the conclusion that kundalini awakening is the mechanism responsible for the phenomena currently known as near-death experiences (NDEs).On that day, I was a young medical doctor, a medical resident, completing my specialty training in family medicine at the University of Toronto.I was as signed that month to work at a remote northern Canadian community, Sioux Lookout, and that day I had been designated by the supervising staff physicians to accompany a critically ill Native Indian woman on a