K and paranoid schizophrenic per one Else Johansen

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I found this on the internet and it has a GREAT example of a true

person who was diagnosed with Paranoid Schizophrenic when she had

diagnosed her own symptoms and went to her doctor for help. I also

gives the reaction of her doctor. I hope you enjoy

 

 

@@Else Johansen has herself experienced the risky side of Kundalini

arousal.

 

 

- It happened 22 years ago (article written 1996), she tells. I had

been practising yoga and breathing exercises for one year. Then

something peculiar happened. I felt sexually excited directly after

the exercises, and got the feeling of being " high " , like when you

have smoked hash. Some weeks later I felt an electric current

running through the spine and up into my brain after the yoga

exercises, where it felt so good that I can only describe it as

a " brain-orgasm " .

- During this time I became so acutely psychotic, that is I lost

control. This, however, only lasted for three weeks, and never came

back. The current kept on flowing upwards, and when its power

increased - and from time to time it felt like burning fire and was

very painful - it affected my health. It was as if I was being

devoured from the inside by this terrible energy, which roared

through my body and caused a most unpleasant over-pressure in the

brain. When this had lasted for a whole year, I happened to see a

book by Narayananda, " Primal Power in Man: The Kundalini Shakti " ,

and there I found the answer to the strange thing that had happened

to me.

- Later I found other books, most of them written by Indian yogis.

Kundalini arousal and its effects are familiar things in the East,

but it is not until recent years that people have noticed this force

in the West, a force which can bring people to heavenly states, or

down into a hell of sufferings.

 

Else Johansen continues:

- Kundalini arousal especially occurs as an unintentional side

effect of yoga, meditation, healing or body-and psychotherapy. Some

of the other releasing factors can be: Births, unrequited love,

celibacy, intense studies, physical traumas, deep sorrow, high fever

and drug intake. But Kundalini arousal can also occur suddenly

without apparent course.

- When the process of Kundalini had lasted in me for about ten

years, I was too tired out to be able to earn a living on my own. I

went to a doctor and said: " It is completely crazy, my Kundalini has

been aroused. What shall I do? " And then I told him about my state.

- " You are deeply psychotic " , he said. " I will send you to a good

psychiatrist. The energy you are talking about does not exist. You

have serious misconceptions " .

- I got sick pay and later disability pension, diagnosed as paranoid

schizophrenic, without first having been taken in for a mental

examination. No doctor that I spoke to concerning my pension

believed my talk about Kundalini.

- But in the yoga literature I got a reasonable explanation of what

had happened to me. Yes, I understood that the secret purpose of

yoga and meditation actually is to release the kundalini force. When

Kundalini reaches the brain, it is said to be stimulating the brain

cells that are normally not used, so that a higher state of

consciousness is reached.

Else Johansen continues and says that the doctors' ignorance of

Kundalini has led to diagnoses like hypochondria, escapism,

inflammation of the brain, and calcification of the brain.

- In a radio program, in which I participated, a psychiatrist said

that Kundalini is just an idea, imported from the East through yoga.

People hear or read about it, and therefore they think they have

Kundalini arousal.

- But that reasoning does not hold, Else Johansen continues. I have

met 250 (1996) people who have had a well-defined kundalini process,

and about half of them did not know about Kundalini beforehand. It

was a shock to them when the process started. They have been helped

a lot, knowing what actually happened to them, because in any case

it is an advantage to know what is going on. That they later found

an explanation to the odd thing that happened to them, has helped

them enormously, because it is in any case an advantage to know what

is going on.

 

 

Is it dangerous to throw oneself into techniques, said to heighten

your level of consciousness, as yoga, meditation, healing and

different physical- and psychic therapies?

- If somebody asks me for advice, I prefer to say that one should

avoid it if one has small children, since I know four women who have

been incapable of looking after their children for a long time owing

to Kundalini arousal. But I also know a few who have had exclusively

positive experiences, like feelings of bliss, deep well-being,

increased energy and creativity.

 

 

 

Else Johansen also says that it is a problem that yoga- and

meditation teachers do not tell their students, that some of them

might be disposed for Kundalini arousal, and that this could turn

their life upside-down.

 

Much Love,

Katherine