Kundalini: Evolution and Enlightenment (John White)
A Thick Anthological Volume on Kundalini
[My 3-star Amazon review (NDA) of “Kundalini: Evolution and Enlightenment” by John White.]
“Kundalini: Evolution and Enlightenment” was one of many texts sent to me several months ago from from my storage unit in Texas. I have just reread it and my opinion of it now is the same as it was when I first read it many moons ago: It is a thick volume packed with loads of information on Kundalini -- but unfortunately, most of the information is faulty. Nonetheless, amid all the specious nonsense in the text, one can find enough useful information to make it a worthwhile read for anyone interested in the subject of Kundalini. The question is: Will you be able to separate the wheat from the chaff?
Author John White originally compiled this anthology in 1979, and the edition I have is the 1990 revised one. The text is divided into five sections: What Kundalini?; A Handful of Personal Accounts , Explorations in Kundalini Research; Kundalini and the Occult; and Sage Advice to the Seeker. Each section consists of articles by various gurus, authors, and researchers -- and there is hardly agreement among them regarding the phenomenon of Kundalini. Again, it will be up to you to attempt to make sense of the disparate information and conflicting points of view.
The sheer number of big names who contributed articles to this volume is staggering. The writers include: Swami Rama, Swami Sivananda, Yogi Amrit Desai, Christopher Hill, Ken Wilber, Yogi Bhajan, Lee Sannella, Gopi Krishna, Marilyn Ferguson, Itzhak Bentov, Sri Chinmoy, and Roy Eugene Davis. Excerpts from, or on, the Kundalini teachings of Swami Muktananda, Sri, Aurobindo, M.P. Pandit, and Alice Bailey are also included.
If you don’t mind sifting through loads of dross to get to occasional nuggets, this book can be a worthwhile source of information on Kundalini.
[My 3-star Amazon review (NDA) of “Kundalini: Evolution and Enlightenment” by John White.]
“Kundalini: Evolution and Enlightenment” was one of many texts sent to me several months ago from from my storage unit in Texas. I have just reread it and my opinion of it now is the same as it was when I first read it many moons ago: It is a thick volume packed with loads of information on Kundalini -- but unfortunately, most of the information is faulty. Nonetheless, amid all the specious nonsense in the text, one can find enough useful information to make it a worthwhile read for anyone interested in the subject of Kundalini. The question is: Will you be able to separate the wheat from the chaff?
Author John White originally compiled this anthology in 1979, and the edition I have is the 1990 revised one. The text is divided into five sections: What Kundalini?; A Handful of Personal Accounts , Explorations in Kundalini Research; Kundalini and the Occult; and Sage Advice to the Seeker. Each section consists of articles by various gurus, authors, and researchers -- and there is hardly agreement among them regarding the phenomenon of Kundalini. Again, it will be up to you to attempt to make sense of the disparate information and conflicting points of view.
The sheer number of big names who contributed articles to this volume is staggering. The writers include: Swami Rama, Swami Sivananda, Yogi Amrit Desai, Christopher Hill, Ken Wilber, Yogi Bhajan, Lee Sannella, Gopi Krishna, Marilyn Ferguson, Itzhak Bentov, Sri Chinmoy, and Roy Eugene Davis. Excerpts from, or on, the Kundalini teachings of Swami Muktananda, Sri, Aurobindo, M.P. Pandit, and Alice Bailey are also included.
If you don’t mind sifting through loads of dross to get to occasional nuggets, this book can be a worthwhile source of information on Kundalini.
