Kundalini.Tantra.by.Satyananda.Saraswati

There is nothing miraculous, abnormal or supernormal about psychic phenomena. Most
of us just do not look at things long enough to allow the subtle to register in our
brains. We see something and are immediately distracted, thinking that there is nothing
else to see or learn from a situation. But if we take our time we can learn, much more.
We know that vision is our major information processing system and therefore tied
into many other neurological systems. Defects in the visual system are now linked to
other problems such as allergies, anxiety, insomnia, postural problems, and a whole range
of physical and psychological problems. (8) Connecticut optometrist Albert Shankman is
quoted as saying "The skill of seeing relationships is a principal object of visual training.
Visual training is essentially brain training." (9) Shankman and others have observed that
visual flow and flexibility are associated with a more flexible, creative thought style.
Yoga follows the same principle, for example in trataka, an essential component of
kundalini yoga. Trataka teaches us to gaze at things without preconceptions and to allow
the information to impinge on our brains, to allow the connections time to come together
and the inner knowledge, the processed information within the brain, time to formulate
itself fully and rise up to the conscious plane. This is what yogis mean when they say that
yoga balances the external and the internal, the right and left sides of the brain, ida and
pingala, and awakens faculties that lie dormant within us all but which we do not know
exist and which we do not develop.
Psychic vision, a side-effect of kundalini yoga and part of the awakening of intuition,
inner vision and inner knowledge, is one of these capacities. All it means is that we are
relaxed and we take our time to look at things without preconception. Hunt's research
verifies that this faculty is not a myth and not confined just to yogis practising sadhana
for years in isolation in the Himalayas, but is also verifiable within the confines of a
laboratory.
Verifying the chakras
The work of Motoyama and Hunt points to the fact that within the physical body
there are locations which, though they may not have any obvious physical or structural
demarcation, have definite functional characteristics which differentiate from other parts
of the body. It verifies the fact that the yogic descriptions of these points correspond to
physical emanations in the case of Motoyama's research and psychic emanations in the
case of Hunt's research.
We see then that the chakra locations have both a physical component and a psychic
component. This scientific description fits the yogic definition of chakras as vortices of
energy, the interacting points of the most powerful psychic and physical forces which
control our total human existence. The studies also confirm that the traditional chakra
locations, when activated, are related to emanations of light and color, and to emotions
and experiences which are subtle and usually stored in the subconscious mind, beyond
our usual conscious capacity. When we concentrate and focus psychic energy, chitta
shakti, on the chakra, or if we manipulate the areas of the body under its control, by asana