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Kundalini experiences can range from chills in your spine,to energy ecstasies, to visions of assorted Divine Beings. Almost all psychiatrists will interpret such experiences as forms of mental illness. Can you imagine a shrink going before his colleagues and claiming his patient is really having visions of Krishna. They would pull his license.


People having spiritual experiences are not psychotic. People who are psychotic have psychotic experiences.

It is not the experience that determines the state of consciousness. It is the state of consciousness that determines the Quality of the experience. A mystic sits in front of a tree and sees the tree to be God and all is blissful. A psychotic sits in front of the tree and believes it is going to eat him and is in fear.

The Reason this is so is the psychotic person is actively separating himself from the experience he is having and the more intense the separation the greater the fear that is created.This separation can get to the point where the psychotic individual believes his own thoughts are separate from him.

The spiritual person is actively Understanding and Intuitively knowing there is no separation. The less separation the less fear . Enlightenment is when there is no separation and no fear.

Thus it is said in the Hindu traditions that a spiritual person may appear to go mad but in fact he cannot go mad once he has entered into that spiritual state which is called Satsang. (also called being born again or reborn, little satori.)

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