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What is Intelligence? 102
But let us try to be scientific about this, and steer clear in so far as we can
of unneeded jargon and “mystery mongering.”
We are simply saying, that in some smallish percentage of the population
there is a possibility that in later life – typically in one’s mid to late
thirties – there can be a reawakening of an “energy” in the body, however
we wish to name it, which functions in the same manner as did whatever
“Natural laws” or energies in the womb that constructed the foetus and
baby from a single cell, in particular in developing its mighty and
complex human brain.
This kundalini energy apparently seems to gradually fizzle out somewhat
in most of us as we mature into our teenage years.
Then the body after passing through adolescence reaches a comparatively
stable state, which we regard as “adult”, and we are able to successfully
apply ourselves in most cases to living a balanced adult life, and to
mating and reproducing to continue the race.
That is to say, if we wish, we could call this kundalini (literally kindling,
as in “fire”) a “growth process”, though far too complex and
comprehensive in its actions and effects to be attributable to any single
hormone or combination of known biochemical effects.
Or do we really think it is so easy to grow a baby from one single
fertilized cell, when we are alleging the two transformational phenomena
and forces are one and the very same?
And the evidence for this, is as we have seen for example in the cases of
David Icke, Krishnamurti and Gopi Krishna, there is generally a
transformation of the personality, and if the “awakening” of this energy
proceeds rightly, it is a socially healthy and personally enlightening one.
These beings (and they are all still human beings we should point out)
also report states of “inner bliss” and “expanded consciousness” that
have got nothing whatsoever to do with any drugs they may or may not
have ever taken.
To use a slightly misleading but still relevant example, as an adult, having
active kundalini can be at times rather like being on an LSD trip that
never ends.