Kundalini.Tantra.by.Satyananda.Saraswati

In an effort to penetrate the mysteries of prana shakti, the physical side of psychic
energy, and chitta, the mental side of psychic energy, a few respected and eminent
pioneers, honoring the rigorous demands of the scientific method, have accumulated a
solid core of evidence which explains in scientific terms the phenomenon of psychic
energy and validates the teachings of yogis. Science has substantiated the yogic
knowledge that a subtle energy exists which is body-based and has both physical and
psychic properties. This energy, which powers our awareness and transforms and
expands our conscious dimensions, is not just a myth or idea; it is not a metaphysical
concept, but a fact. Kundalini is defined as the ultimate, most intense form of this energy,
which lies dormant within each and every one of us.
Parapsychology
Phenomena such as telepathy, psychic healing, psychokinesis (the moving of matter
by mind power), dowsing, telegnosis (psychic reading of history and association of
objects), and other paranormal events, are receiving serious attention from the more
pioneering members of the international science community as a means of understanding
the relationship of energy and consciousness.
Hard-headed scientists in the USA, UK, Germany, Holland, Scandinavia and
Australia, are taking the lead from the scientists of the Soviet Union, many of whom are
financed by their governments. Called bioelectronics or paraphysics in some circles, this
field of study is generally known as parapsychology.
In Czechoslovakia it is known as psychotronics, and one of the leading Czech
researchers in this field is Dr. Zdenek Rejdak, whose association with Swami Satyananda
began in the early seventies when he stayed at the Bihar School of Yoga. Speaking in
Japan at the fifth annual conference of the Internationa! Association for Religion and
Parapsychology in 1976, Dr. Rejdak defined psychotrotiics, and therefore, the whole field
of parapsychology as, "the science which, in an interdisciplinary fashion, studies the
distant interactions between living organisms and their environment, internal and
external, and the energetic processes underlying these manifestations in order to
supplement and widen man's understanding of the laws of nature."
Psychic energy
Psychic energy has been found to affect a whole range of laboratory equipment, from
voltmeters to Geiger counters to magnetometers. Yet this does not mean that psychic
energy is electrical, magnetic or radioactive. Rather, it seems to both encompass and go
beyond these properties. Most researchers agree with the Soviets who state that psychic
energy may have its origin in electrical activity, but the nature of the energy is entirely
different. However, yogis state that prana is the substratum of our material universe,
interpenetrating and organizing all matter and being the common ground for all energy.
They see prana from a different and higher perspective.