Krishnamurti: Kundalini or epilepsy
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 4:05 am
I came across J Krishnamurti's notebook in which he describes perception of great pains and energy. In the foreword it is noted that.
Krishnamurti's notebook can be located online at.
http://www.freeweb.hu/tchl/krishnamurti ... ebook.html
Interview with the guardian was lifted from.
http://www.prahlad.org/gallery/Krishnam ... utyens.htm
Christopher Calder's webpage.
http://home.att.net/~meditation
In an interview Krishnamurti says that:"the process". In 1922, at the age of twenty-eight, Krishnamurti underwent a spiritual experience that changed his life and which was followed by years of acute and almost continuous pain in his head and spine. The manuscript shows that "the process", as he called this mysterious pain, was still going on nearly forty years later, though in a much milder form.
I wonder if this notebook is a confirmation of the kundalini myths of yoga. On the other hand another writer Christopher Calder notes that:"I wrote it [Krishnamurti's Notebook] as a diary while I was traveling?but I did not write it for publication. I describe what I call the process-my sensation of being outside the ordinary world, of being completely at peace and removed from conflict. This happens only from time to time and clearly it is impossible to describe to anybody who has not experienced it. But I have attempted to put into words the actual pain and sensation which goes with the heightened consciousness. It is not intended in a romantic way: if you lead a certain type of disciplined, quiet life you realize a kind of energy-that's scientific fact-and this affects the non-mechanical part of your brain so that you enter into a new dimension. The physical organism is incapable of meetings it and so you get the pain. I am not suggesting that everyone should try to attain this, but it may be of interest to some people who have followed my thoughts and ideas to know what happens on a more personal level."
- J. Krishnamurti
[interview with The Guardian]
So I am wondering whether enlightenement leads to these strange and intense pains in the spine and head, which would give credence to the kundalini theory. Or Krishnamurti confused his epilepsy with the arising of the kundalini. Any comments? Did someone else also experienced these strange phenomenon concurrent with his/her enlightenment?Matthew Alper points out in his book that some forms of epilepsy cause hyper-religiousness and mystical experiences. J. Krishnamurti's mother was an epileptic, and we know epilepsy can be genetically transferred. J. Krishnamurti never had fits, but he often mysteriously passed out, giving those near him warning that he was about to lose consciousness
Krishnamurti's notebook can be located online at.
http://www.freeweb.hu/tchl/krishnamurti ... ebook.html
Interview with the guardian was lifted from.
http://www.prahlad.org/gallery/Krishnam ... utyens.htm
Christopher Calder's webpage.
http://home.att.net/~meditation