Kundalini.Tantra.by.Satyananda.Saraswati

5. a magnetic field of opposite polarity, pulsating at 7 cycles/second, and interacting
with the environmental fields, especially the ELF field resonating at about 7 1/2
cycles/second.
As we meditate over a prolonged period, we begin to progress and lock in more and
more of these systems so that eventually all the systems of the brain begin to harmonize
and resonate at around the same frequency. We can speculate that this ultimately unifies
the whole brain and results in unlocking of our dormant potential, a quantum leap to a
new field of experience that yogis tell us is powered by the explosive release of
kundalini. Yogis state that if we can sit still for three hours, completely immobile and
aware, we will awaken our internal energies and enter into samadhi. Bentov's model
explains this.
Another interesting point is that Bentov feels that these changes in the brain most
probably start in the right hemisphere, because many meditative practices develop the
non-verbal, feeling, intuitive, spatial, right brain, balancing out the almost constant
dominance of the logical, reasoning, rational, linearly-thinking left brain in our day-today
extrovert, tension-filled, energy-demanding existence. He came to this conclusion
because many meditators he talked to felt their experiences started on the left side of their
bodies which is governed by the right brain. (6) This agrees with the work of D'Aquili
who posits that inner experience is governed by activity in the right brain (7)
Kindling the kundalini
We know that a log on a low flame is likely to blaze up suddenly on its own, even
after the original fire goes out. A threshold point is reached and internal reactions take
over spontaneously. The same mechanisms are thought to occur in the nervous system to
lead up to a series of events analogous to the kindling of wood. Scientists are using this
model to explain such diverse phenomena as everyday learning memory, epilepsy, the
radical mood swings of manic depression and kundalini.
The kindling phenomenon was first identified by C. V. Goddard and his associates at
Waterloo University in Canada in 1969. (8) They observed that repeated, periodic, lowintensity
electrical stimulation of animal brains leads to stronger brain activity,
particularly in the limbic system, the part of the brain that handles emotions. For
example, stimulating the amygdala (part of the limbic system) once daily, for half a
second, has no effect at first, but after two or three weeks, produces convulsions.
Goddard also observed that kindling can cause relatively permanent changes in brain
excitability. Animals can have seizures for as long as a year after the initial kindling
period.
According to John Gaito of York University, over a period of time the bursts of
electrical activity kindle similar patterns in adjacent brain regions. (9) Also the threshold
is progressively lowered so that smaller doses of electricity trigger convulsions.