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SCIENTIFIC PARAMETERS AND PROTOCOLS

The scientific models and protocols proposed will be designed to monitor the levels of transformational changes with emphasis on the following:

BIOLOGICAL METAMORPHOSIS OF THE BRAIN

To document accelerated activities in the brain.

To identify the reversal of the reproductive system.

Absorption of generative fluids and hormones into the visceral organs as they ascend into the brain

To establish that the brain is still in an organic state of evolution toward what could be the next plateau in human evolution.

Every major organ begins to function at new levels of activity.

Cells are charged with more potent bio-energy.

Metabolism is greatly amplified or enhanced.

Biochemistry of the organism is significantly altered.

Hormonal variances charted.

Accelerated activity of the entire nervous system.

Verify the transformation of the genes.

Identify the heart-mind-body connection.

Affects upon the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems.

PSYCHOLOGICAL

Emergence of a new, more refined personality.

Identify powerful new modes of cognition and perception.

Demonstrate greater mental abilities as natural byproducts of extended consciousness.

To demonstrate that genius can be cultivated.

To verify that noble traits of character are prerequisites to higher states of consciousness.

To identify what sort of lifestyle most ideally conforms to the laws of evolution as they are hypothesized.

To build a database of individuals reporting higher states of consciousness and comparing their descriptions of these states and experiences with those recorded by saints, sages and prophets.

INTUITION AND PSYCHIC ABILITIES

To demonstrate that the same disciplines designed to awakening Kundalini can lead to the development of enhanced intuition and psychic abilities.

SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVES

The goal of this research project is to demonstrate what happens upon the awaking of Kundalini psychologically, mentally, psychi- cally, and physically. So long as genius and mystical experience continue to be regarded as subjective phenomena, without any relation to the organic frame of man, it will always be difficult if not impossible to show their common factors and design methods to cultivate either one.

The mechanism of Kundalini can be understood in the following way: Upon activation, two different activities start in the body. First, the whole network of nerves begins to manufacture a more potent form of psychic energy, called prana or nerve energy and to pour it into the brain through the spinal duct. This altered form of prana is distinguished by its appearance as a luminous cloud in the brain.

Operating in average men and women, the energy does not have this property. But for the mystic, the visionary experience is almost always bathed in light. This is one of the most important points on which the research will be focused, and it is the reason why virtually all of the ancient texts refer to Kundalini as the sun or moon, or to lightning or fire. The flashes of light or other forms of luminosity experienced by many people during the course of meditation are often due to a sudden, brief upsurge of the more potent prana into the brain.

At the same time or shortly afterwards, another activity begins in the genital region. Upon the awakening, the reproductive fluid is drawn up in an unknown way, in a form of radiation, into the spinal canal. Exactly how this suction is applied will have to be determined by research. This stream rising through the spine represents the nectar or ambrosia repeatedly mentioned in the texts on Kundalini. Its entry into the spinal cord, and then into the brain, is marked by exquisitely pleasurable sensations far exceeding those of an orgasm. This phenomenon is referred to as Urdhava-retas in the yoga manuals.

During the course of its ascent into the brain it is ramified into smaller streams which irrigate the visceral organs through the nerve plexuses or the chakras, and this can be distinctly felt moving into the various organs; the stomach, liver, intestines, heart, lungs, etc., thus preparing the body and the brain for a higher manifestation of consciousness. The flow of a more potent prana, and this stream of secretions into nerve centers and the brain, is what is implied by the phrase penetration of Kundalini.

"A new centre - presently dormant in the average man and woman - has to be activated and a more powerful stream of psychic energy must rise into the head from the base of the spine to enable human consciousness to transcend the normal limits. This is the final phase of the present evolutionary impulse in man. The cerebrospinal system of man has to undergo a radical change, enabling consciousness to transcend the limits of the highest intellect. Here reason yields to intuition and Revelation appears to guide the steps of humankind."

"I am in particular trying to draw the attention of the world to a very important fact, that at the present moment, our scientists, our learned educators, leaders, and politicians, are only aware of natural laws, and even those are not known completely or perfectly.

In addition to material laws, there are also spiritual or psychic laws in the universe. We have absolutely no awareness of these laws. Time and again, a glimpse of these laws has been given to mankind by the great prophets and Messiahs who appeared in different parts of the world. We have rejected their teachings as pure myth or superstition. But actually those teachings contain germs of truth that are essential for the safety and survival of the race.

The tragedy is that we have rejected the evidence of religion or of the teachings of great sages about the spiritual world and the soul which dwells in the human body. Since spirit, mind or soul is not perceptible to any of our senses, or to any of our scientific instruments, we presume that they have no independent existence apart from the body or the organic organ, the brain, and therefore we need not worry about what happens to them. But actually they do have an independent existence. They have a universe of their own, and they have profound influences onall that we do, on all that we think, on all that we create.

But this influence is conditioned by certain laws which are totally a sealed book to us. These laws are operating at present and driving mankind to a catastrophic war to end the present order, which is against the evolution of the human brain."- Pandit Gopi Krishna

This is what Pandit Gopi Krishna said when he first proposed that science should do its utmost to discover the Law of Evolution. He made this appeal to scientists, scholars and world leaders in "The Biological Basis of Religion and Genius", a landmark book published by Harper & Row in 1972. The noted scientist, Prof. C. F. von Weizsacker, director of the Max Planck Institute of Life Sciences, wrote the introduction.

In that book, Gopi Krishna pointed out that the mounting tensions in the world, increase in crime and violence, the trend towards more and more destructive machines of war, revolutions, terrorism and massacres, were the red-light signals of Nature foreboding disaster. If the leading minds of the world fail to interpret these red lights in the right way, a catastrophe is inevitable.

A VERITABLE TOWER OF BABEL

But the political leaders of almost all countries are entirely occupied with their own problems, and the leading scholars are lost in the labyrinth of their own learning. The result is that in spite of all the progress made, the earth has become a veritable Tower of Babel where the essentials needed for human survival, peace and happiness are lost in the hunt for faster cars, planes, computers or other extravagant additions to the existing flood of technologies and luxuries.

This is the reason why there is a virtual avalanche of interest in the study of consciousness at this time. The number of conferences, Web Sites, books, and other publications on consciousness is growing month by month. There is even talk about a new "science of consciousness", but it is not clear what this term means.

"The recent surge of interest in consciousness studies has left many commentators scratching their heads and looking for an explanation," says the publisher of the Journal of Consciousness Studies. "Seeing as science has effectively ignored the problem for most of this century, then why the sudden change? This used to be the province of religion, but we now look to science to provide a more authentic description of what it is to be a conscious agent."

When once the experiments proposed here are confirmed, there will be no subject that will receive as much sustained attention from scholars and scientists as this. The evolution of consciousness will shortly be taken up by scholars in all its different aspects - spiritual, psychological, sociological and biological. But the most colossal task will be to explain the evolution of the mind in terms of the organic evolution of the brain.

MYSTICAL CONSCIOUSNESS DEFINED BIOLOGICALLY

This would mean, for example, that the transcendental state of consciousness, experienced in the form of ecstasy by prophets and mystics, does not signify a special favor from God but only a more extended dimension of the perceptual faculty towards which mankind is irresistibly evolving.

As far as we know, this is the first time that Mystical Consciousness, or the organic mechanism leading to it, namely Kundalini, have been defined in this way. Credit for this monumental discovery must be given to the illuminated sages of ancient India. We are only presenting their discoveries and knowledge in the language of science.

Western Science and Eastern Wisdom

This is the point where Indian wisdom and western science will be in confluence soon. This is the place from where the domain of Yoga begins. This is the crucial frontier beyond which the existing methods of science will prove of no avail in the study of consciousness. It is precisely at this bend of the road that science will have to look for guidance to Yoga adepts and illuminati of the past. We see that this has already started to happen, but not in a systematic way.

Scientists and Yogis will have to work hand in hand in the times to come unravel the mysteries of Kundalini. Science and religion have to coalesce to produce the savants of the future to lay the foundation of the super-science of the soul.

We have still to grasp the true proportions of the discipline of Yoga. It is a colossal enterprise. It is designed, by means of arduous psychosomatic exercises, to accelerate the process of evolution, condensing millennia into the duration of but one life. This is what the Indian classics mean when they say that the bonds of Karma can be cut asunder and the chain births and deaths brought to a close with the successful practice of Yoga leading to the union of the human soul with Universal Consciousness.

This is achieved by the rousing to activity of the dormant power of Kundalini and stirring up the inactive center in the brain. A new life then pulsates through the system, new light illuminates the mind and a new pattern of consciousness presents a new picture of the universe.

In order to enable this dream of an emancipated humanity to come true, the existing gulf between religion and science must cease. The knowledge of the spirit must become as precise and universal as the knowledge of the physical world. The dichotomy of matter and mind must end forever.

The scientist must become the Yogi and the Yogi act as the men of science. In this lies the safety and survival of mankind In this lies unity, universal brotherhood and peace. Kundalini provides the only channel for the exploration of the mind. It is the only road aligned by nature to reach the territory of consciousness. There is no other way.

The effort directed now to know the force behind psychic phenomena or nature of the healing radiation must always end in failure, the realm of the spirit can only be reached through inner exploration. This involves discipline of both the body and the mind.

This needs, in turn, adherence to certain noble principles of conduct and a well-ordered, harmonious life of dedication, siurrender and service in the pursuit of Truth. For obvious reasons nature has imposed certain restrictions to safeguard against the abuse of spiritual power. These devices are embedded in the subtle levels of the brain.

The kingdom of heaven cannot be wrested by force nor by one prone to abuse the power gained. It is here that India ought to take the lead now. It inherits a priceless documentary treasure from the past. It has the dedicated scientific talent available, as competent as anywhere else in the world. It has the erudite scholars thoroughly conversant with the ancient tradition and it has the self-sacrificing spiritual teachers and Yoga-adepts who can all combine to take up the colossal project of research on Kundalini.

Greatest Project Ever Undertaken

This would be the greatest project ever undertaken by any country in the world, greater than the famous Manhattan Project which resulted in the development of the dreaded atom bomb. The Kundalini Project will not only exceed it in magnitude but also excel it by far in the harvest gained and will undo the evil which it has done or has the potentiality to do.

It would be far better and lead to speedier results if a combine of nations were to pool their resources for this giant undertaking. But since the ranks of science are still divided about the issue of mind and consciousness and there is very little awareness of the Indian tradition about Kundalini, there is hardly any hope that such a joint venture would materialize at this stage. This may come to pass a little later. Till that time, great strides can be made in the research. The first golden harvest of this activity would be that the Indian masses would awaken to the glory of their land.

Throughout the past India has been regarded, and with justice, as a center of spiritual knowledge and the cradle of occult science. There is still a wealth of hidden knowledge in the Vedas which a study of Kundalini will bring to light. The fame of India, as the fount of spiritual thought, was so wide- spread that Alexander the Great went to seek wisdom from the hermits of Taxila, like an aspirant seeking guidance from a master. The discourses of Aristotle, his teacher, must have planted the seed of this thirst in him.

After some effort he succeeded in persuading one of the hermits to accompany him on his way back to Greece. Greek writers narrate breath-taking stories of this religious man whom they name Calanus. In Susa he was burnt alive sitting on a flaming pyre, no doubt after fixing himself in Samadhi and immunizing his flesh to pain. Alexander tried his utmost to dissuade him from this course, but he was adamant.

A fever which he contracted on the way made him decide that his body was no longer fit for the spirit to reside in. At the last moment, when he bade farewell to all the generals, turning to Alexander he said: "We shall soon meet in Babylon. There, in Babylon, Alexander the Great died of an unidentified disease shortly after in the prime of his life. This is at to show the type of prodigies which the practice of Yoga can produce.

Even after centuries of servitude and suffering, and despite its poverty, the seekers after spiritual knowledge first turn their gaze to India. The names of great Indian saints, like Rama-Krishna, Aurobindo and Maharishi Ramana are almost household words in Europe and America.

The world desperately looks for an answer to the problem of survival in the contest of the explosive conditions of today and the always over-hanging threat of a nuclear war. Even the preliminary steps taken in the research on the Serpent Power would be watched with keen interest in all parts of the world.

Dominate the Whole Horizon of Science

A breakthrough would instantly draw the highest plaudits and raise India to a pedestal in the world of science which no country has occupied before. I am confident of this outcome as, in the first place, I am certain about the success of experiments and, secondly, because when once proved, Kundalini would dominate the whole horizon of science.

It is not by imitating the West, but by the revival of its ancient and now almost forgotten science that India can create that renaissance in the thinking of mankind which is vitally needed to clear the cobwebs of skepticism from the intelligent mind and bring the race back to the ascending path she has lost.

There is not the least suspicion of doubt in my mind about the truth of this discovery or about the fact that it would win the recognition of science. It has stood the acid test of time for thousands of years and thousands of Indian Yoga-adepts from their own personal experiences have confirmed it time after time.

The Gayatri of the Vedas or the Kundalini of the Tantras stand proved according to the testimony of some of the greatest Indian thinkers, as for instance Shankaracharya, who were themselves the beneficiaries of the power. It is now only a matter of time and the use of a suitable technique for the operation of this amazing force to be empirically detected and confirmed.

Even the announcement of this discovery and the awareness of the spiritual force in human beings, ruled by a universal law, which can be demonstrated by the methods of science, is sure to have a highly beneficial effect on the public mind. It is sure to make many of those who vacillate and waver in their belief to pause and ponder the issue over again more deeply than before. Healthy spiritual food is as necessary for the proper development of the human mind as healthy nutriment is necessary for the body to function and live.

There is nothing so vital for peace among nations, nothing so vital to avert the danger of an annihilative war and nothing so vital for the welfare, progress and happiness of the race as the knowledge of Kundalini. The world is now in doubt about the fact that there is purpose and design in the universe, that the human body already in it the potential for a higher dimension of consciousness and that the aim of human life is to transcend the narrow limits and to reach a state of awareness where s seen pervading the universe.

The world is still in the dark about the fact that the religious ideals and the revealed literature of mankind are the outcome of the activity of a chamber in the brain which is silent in the normal individuals but can be activated with certain disciplines and religious practices. It is this paranormal chamber that has given all the scriptural teaching, all the ethics, all wisdom, all the inspired poetry and prose, all the discoveries of science and all the masterpieces of art to mankind. The lever that regulates the activity of this marvelous compartment is Kundalini.

The Evolutionary Growth of the Brain

The implications of this discovery of the ancient sages are staggering. Why I am so insistent for a thorough scientific investigation of the phenomenon is because it would to the thinkers and political leaders of mankind that the brain is already designed for a supersensory performance in the same way as the brain of an infant is already completely fashioned at birth for its performance during the whole of life.

A wrong social or political environment can stunt or distort the evolutionary growth of the adult brain as surely as a wrong or adverse family environment can disrupt the harmonious growth of a child.

Nothing about this ceaseless evolutionary activity of the human organism is yet known to science. But the knowledge is of paramount importance both for the individual and the race. When this fact is known, all social and political environments will have to be oriented to suit the evolutionary needs of every human being.

I advocate the research because it would prove that talent and genius can be cultivated, as was done in India in the past. It would prove that human beings can reach a state of conscious awareness in which the highest secrets of life and existence be intuitively learned. It would prove that nature has a provided a safeguard against the abuse of power in this age of highly advanced technology and science. This safeguard lies in the fact that the knowledge will tend to a recurrent crop of spiritual geniuses to handle the affairs of mankind.

The research will show that Kundalini provides the only avenue for a bloodless total revolution in all spheres of human activity and thought to bring about those healthy social and political changes all over he earth which are absolutely necessary now to provide a congenial milieu for the collective evolutionary progress of humankind.

Kundalini alone can officiate as the Divine Harbinger of a New Age and the Architect of a war-free united world in which the resources now wasted on mutual aggression, violence and bloodshed would be utilized for the uplift of the weak and poor.

A demonstrable spiritual discovery alone can put an end to the horrors that are witnessed all over the earth from day to day, It is neither wealth nor power that can bring repose to the restless mind of man. If it were so, then the people of the wealthiest countries would be the most serene and happy on earth. But this is not the case.

Inner unrest tension, worry, anxiety and fear are no less rampant there. Material prosperity alone has definitely not proved to be the panacea of all ills as some thinkers had supposed. Man needs something more than bread to keep himself contented, happy and at peace with himself and his fellow human beings.

A true Yogi is not one who strives for his salvation alone, who is indifferent to the world, who has no compassion for others, no feeling for the suffering and the poor. Practice of Yoga which neglects to develop the humane properties of the heart results only in the inflation of the ego, self-deception and a twisted intellect. On the other hand, the practice of Yoga should make one more sensitive and more perceptive of his unity with fellow human beings. How can he then live for himself alone? How can he then trade on the credulity of the ignorant, the simple and the weak?

The time has come when the correct image of a true Yogi should be projected on the world. This is necessary to present the lofty science of Yoga in its true proportions, that Yoga is not meant for self-aggrandizement or to appease the hunger for uncanny sights or miraculous power, but to confer those rare faculties of the mind, that soundness of the intellect, that humility of the spirit and that compassion of he heart that have been possession of all great sages, prophets and mystics, both of the present and the past.

In short, Yoga provides what modern science has not been able to provide so far — well-tested methods for the voluntary activation of those noble, superior qualities of the head and the heart which in real life have been associated with the geniuses and the most enlightened minds. The time is near when the greatness of a nation will not be measured by its industrial development, by the wealth it owns the armies it commands but by the stature of the yogis it can produce. It is to this revolution in the whole of the sociopolitical structures of mankind that a scientific investigation of Kundalini will ultimately lead. This is the so far hidden, vital knowledge, that India can give to the world. What is written here may appear incredible at first sight, but there is no doubt that these seeds would soon germinate to cover the whole earth in the course of time. This is the miracle of Truth. Its power is resistless.

BEYOND ANYTHING CURRENTLY PROPOSED

We are not saying that the human mind is evolving towards an undefined summit, as Teilhard de Chardin and others have said. What we are suggesting is that human consciousness is evolving towards a predetermined target and that this target is the mystical or illuminated state attained by thousands of mystics and enlightened human beings in the past. The religious scriptures of the world are a harvest of the revelations received from a higher Intelligence in this state of exalted being.

Investigation into Kundalini, therefore, goes far beyond anything currently under way or proposed by scholars in other fields of consciousness research. By penetrating to the very roots of consciousness, the research will attempt to unravel the mysterious world of intuition, creativity and evolution, and by doing so seek to uncover the source from which all knowledge, science, art and philosophy has sprung, namely genius.

A GREAT NEED FOR GENIUSES

The world at this time stands in desperate need of geniuses, especially political geniuses who could bring in line the existing systems of politics with the needs of millions of fast-evolving human beings.

In jurisprudence, geniuses are needed to revise the outmoded, cumbersome systems dating from the Romans. In science, in healing, and in social science, geniuses are needed to remedy the present imbalances and plant society firmly on the path to the sublime state which is its destined evolutionary goal. Kundalini research would be based on the premise that there is a potentiality in the human brain, not merely a spiritual but an organic potentiality as well which, when actualized, can alter the state of the mirror through which average men and women perceive the image of the universe. With this alteration, the whole aspect of creation is changed and a new horizon opens.

It is only in this state of transformed consciousness that the real nature of the mind stands revealed, and the conclusion becomes clear that the cosmic image, presented by our senses, is not a reality in itself, but a reflection of the mind. And this reflection can vary with alterations in the state or dimension of the mind itself.

KUNDALINI MECHANISM, THE EVOLUTIONARY ENERGY IN MAN

For thousands of years, mystics have been unanimous in their avowals that the physical universe is the creation or projection of a Divine Immanence, but they never succeeded in imparting the vision to their compatriots or convincing the learned that such a transformation of the world image and the observing mind is possible. Or that it is only in this state of enhanced perception that the real nature of the Cosmos is exposed.

They did not succeed because all human beings, except these few specially gifted ones, view the universe through the same sensory channels and the same mirror of the mind without ever having a chance, except rarely in dreams, to transcend this state of confinement.

What we are saying about creativity, genius, and evolution, is not intellectual or theoretical but born of the experience gained by Gopi Krishna over a period of nearly fifty years. He observed himself as meticulously and dispassionately as an empiricist would observe an object under study in his own laboratory. He never allowed his feelings to influence his judgment in the least.

His experience was so extraordinary that it is hard to imagine another recorded narrative anywhere of similar happenings. Even so, he purposely refrained from narrating some of the more bizarre incidents, even in his autobiography, "Kundalini: The Evolutionary Energy in Man", because he felt they would be unacceptable to a rational mind.

THE TRADITIONAL VIEW OF KUNDALINI

From the time of the Vedas to the present day, there has existed a tradition in India that there is a force in the human body, residing at the base of the spine, known as Kundalini, which means "the coiled," that can be aroused to activity, with certain mental and physical disciplines, including meditation and a righteous way of life. When aroused, this force rises to a certain region in the brain, known as Brahmarendra or the cavity of Brahman, which, also, is simultaneously awakened to activity.

It is said, that when this happens, the human mind is transformed and attains to a state known as mystical ecstasy or samadhi. This mystical ecstasy has been a repeated feature of history and is confirmed by the self-written narratives of mystics and saints, both of the East and the West, in different cultures of the world.

The basic features of the phenomenon tally with each other, which shows the uniformity of the experience and its objective nature. This very same force is said to be the source of inspiration and genius in numerous treatises on the subject from the Vedas to our day.

Inasmuch as Gopi Krishna’s own experience coincided in almost all respects with the ancient Kundalini traditions, concerning its transformative effects on the human brain, he considered it his solemn duty to make it known to the world for investigation and confirmation.

THOUSANDS OF TEXTS ON KUNDALINI

The volume of literature on Kundalini (or the Serpent power) is enormous. In India alone there are thousands of books, including the Tantras, dealing with this holy subject in Sanskrit and other regional languages of the country. Kundalini has also been known for thousands of years among occultists, alchemists and esoteric brotherhoods in Europe.

The serpent symbol on the forehead of the pharaohs, the hermetic doctrines and the mystery cults of Greece and Rome are all related to the knowledge of the Serpent power. The caduceus or the rod of mercury, which serves now as an academic emblem, is a symbolic representation of this power as clear as the diagrammatic symbols used in India.

There is conclusive evidence to show that Kundalini has been known throughout the past, both in the old and new worlds as a jealously guarded secret of a few. The only period in history when the subject has been delegated to the dustbin of superstition and myth is the present rationalistic era of the last two hundred years.

SCIENTIFIC HYPOTHESIS

Introduction

Our science-oriented culture has created a peculiar social environment ideally suited for highly sophisticated minds with a strongly marked polarity that makes them talk in one way and act in another. In other words, the evolution of political thought has not kept pace with the speed at which knowledge has expanded. We now need a much more balanced and penetrating intellect than that which is operating at present in order to adjust the society to it.

This anomaly has a marked subconscious effect on every man and woman, each experiencing the effect without awareness of the cause behind it. The main reason why there is discontentment in almost every country, including the most advanced, is not because the leaders are less competent than before but because the human mind has attained a degree of sensitivity, and the environment a state of complexity, where a more evolved type of men and women are needed to create confidence and enlist the cooperation of the general public.

THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS WITHIN YOU.

According to various estimates, most of us use only ten percent of the brain. That means 90 percent of the brain is un-utilized, that there is still a large margin in the brain which could be used for other purposes and that nature has provided it for certain purposes which have not yet been discovered.

Among the adepts in ancient India, this untapped region of the brain was called the Brahma-rendra, or cave of God. This region can be activated by certain disciplines, and when activated it can give to the individual the same vision of the universe which all great mystics have described.

But when it is awakened, the normal energy of the body or the blood is not able to fuel the center. It needs a more powerful and concentrated psychic fuel. This fuel comes from the reproductive system, which is transformed into a kind of radiation, and that radiation awakens and makes the center function. A current of silvery light rises from the spine and radiates through the whole brain, causing a tremendous expansion of consciousness.

When this occurs, one does not continue to see the world as a solid, real, objective creation but as consciousness. The real objective creation is then seen as consciousness everywhere. For example, the ocean, the sky, the earth, the mountains, are seen as if they are living. This life or consciousness is not something which is dead or which can be understood. It is infinite, deathless. It is something so unique, so elevating, that there are no words to describe this extraordinary state of being.

But those who have experienced it have become geniuses of the highest order, and it is repeatedly said in the ancient manuals that they would not change this state of consciousness for any treasure, not even a kingdom. This is probably what Christ meant when he said that the kingdom of heaven is within you.

From a scientific point of view, it can be said that a certain region in the brain has been awakened to activity. It means that nature has already provided a potential in the brain which has to be awakened in order for it to evolve to a higher level of performance. It also means that the human brain is still organically evolving in the direction of the great mystics and prophets, in the same direction of the great geniuses.

For this evolution a certain type of life is necessary. For instance, throughout our life evolution is going on and we have to cooperate with it. When we do not cooperate with the inner evolution we create problems for ourselves.

All of the religious teachings of mankind, beginning with the Vedas, then the Buddha, the Old Testament and New Testaments, the teachings of Moses, Christ, Mohammed, Guru Nanak, and all the ancient prophets of the Bible, were meant to give directions for how to live, how to regulate our lives, while the brain is still evolving.

At the present time, the human brain is evolving much more rapidly because from morning until evening we are applying our brain to some task, reading, watching television, working in an office, solving problems, etc. This was not the case when people hunted or tilled the soil. They had not need to apply their brain in such a concentrated way as we do today. In other words, we are meditating almost continually, although on material objects, and this is accelerating the evolutionary processes at work in the brain and nervous system. This has resulted in many thousands of partial awakenings of the Power, especially in the industrialized countries, albeit in a haphazard and often unhealthy manner. Often in the case of such awakenings, the benefits can be quite fruitful, transforming such individuals into more productive, creative, loving and more compassionate personalities.

A great many of the patients now crowding our mental institutions, whether for schizophrenia or manic-depressive states, could be correctly placed in this category. Psychiatrists and psychologists are at a lost to explain why. Because of the limited extent of our current knowledge about this phenomenon, it is extremely rare far more rare than genius itself that the Kundalini raises to the highest center in the brain in a healthy way, resulting in Illumination or Enlightenment. This is one more reason why research such as proposed herein is of such vital importance at this time.

In order to bring about a harmonious change in society, the leaders of the world have to be convinced of the existence of Kundalini and its effect on our everyday lives, and for that to happen a scientific experiment is necessary. We have to demonstrate that the brain is evolving, and that this evolution needs a certain kind of harmonious way of life.

In the experiment, a number of healthy young men and women will practice mental and physical disciplines designed to greatly increase the brain’s activity, and its effect will be found all over the body. There will be metabolic processes and other physiological changes which can be measured. The goal will be to awaken the dormant center in the brain responsible for mystical experience and genius. Once the evolutionary mechanism, called Kundalini by the ancient adepts, has been activated, there are definite biological changes in the blood, the nervous system, the cerebrospinal fluid, and in the composition of the brain itself.

The experiment is designed to prove that there is the potential in every human being which can transform him or her from a mortal into an immortal and that in within each of us there is an eternal source of happiness. A more harmonious, more peaceful, happy, more contented humanity can be expected to result from this research. More importantly, it will show the way for every generation to produce people who have reached the higher dimensions, and they will become the political leaders, scientists, and educators, who will help to guide the race higher and higher and higher.

KUNDALINI IN TIME AND SPACE BY GOPI KRISHNA

THE ROLE OF THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM

The lingam-yoni symbol, which has been in India from the remote past, denotes the reversed action of the cerebrospinal system, utilizing evry spare ounce of the bio-energy normally used for amatory purposes, for the remodeling of the body and the brain under high pressure, in which all the organs of the body become inextricably involved. With the flow of the nectar, distilled by the nerves from all parts of the body into the brain, the area of rapture is transferred from the genitals to the cerebrum. The phonomenon is ancient and so widespread that it is amazing that modern science has no inkling of it even now. Gopi Krishna.

It was because of the tremendous physiological effects on the body experienced on the awakening of Kundalini that the ancient yoga masters devoted so much attention to the enumeration of the signs and symptoms that occur at that time. For instance, they would not have made repeated mention in their writings of the phenomenon of lights and sounds even describing the nature of the sounds heard and the lights seen comparing the former to thunder, the humming of bees, roaring of waterfalls, or the pealing of bells; and the later to the luster of the moon, the radiance of the sun, the glow of fire or flash of lightning.

In their treatises, these authors provide precise descriptions of the chakras and specify their particular location on the cerebrospinal axis. In fact, the ancient masters took pains to pinpoint the exact location of the Kanda, i.e., the inverted triangle below the navel, on which Kundalini rests, leaving no doubt that it is the region intimately connected with the reproductive organs.

Today, scientists are expanding their knowledge of the higher states of consciousness and subtle energies. At the Institute of HeartMath, for instance, they are investigating the role played by the heart in the transformative process, making giant strides in charting the changes made in the autonomic nervous system by our thoughts and feelings, among other things. All over the world, the transformation of consciousness is becoming the focus of leading-edge scientists and scholars.

GLOBAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE RESEARCH

Bio-Energy Research Foundation, together with its affiliated Foundations and Institutions, stand alone in the research we are proposing. There is every likelihood that eyebrows will be raised and open doubts expressed both from the sides of religion and science, inasmuch as every important discovery in knowledge invariably took the world by surprise. As Gopi Krishna writes in The Biological Basis of Religion and Genius, once the possibility of spiritual rebirth with the arousal of Kundalini is accepted by science, the knowledge obtained through this research will point the way to the most sublime enterprise for the pure-minded and intelligent spirits of our age.

As we propose to demonstrate, the finished products of Kundalini must tran- scend the normal limits of the human brain. If this transcendence does not occur, the visionary experiences are either a delusion or myth. This raises another important question: If Kundalini is the source behind genius and extraordinary intellectual or artistic talents, as postulated, it must also be a factor behind the evil geniuses of history, the highly talented military commanders, dictators and demagogues, and also the human monsters who, dead to every moral sentiment, commit the dreadful acts reported almost daily in the media.

What we are suggesting, and intend to demonstrate through this proposed research project, is that one single law is at the base of all phenomena of the mind that science, at the present moment, finds inexplicable. Only one remarkable series of changes, caused in the psychic or nerve energy that serves as fuel for thought, is responsible. The greater incidence of insanity among the men and women of genius, for instance, and the seeds of eccentricity in many of them, clearly establishes the existence of a common link between the two.

The research will tend to show that the evolutionary impulse cannot be active only in the individuals but must be operative in a collective sense as well. The influence of evolutionary processes on the ecological development of a whole species or group is now clearly recognized by the biologists and that in order to meet the needs of the evolutionary growths, changes in the environment social, political and moral would be necessary from time to time to meet the demands of the development of the psychomental fabric of the individuals and of the race too.

Where this adjustment is delayed, causing a retardation in growth, revolts, revolutions, and wars intervene to effect, with widespread suffering and bloodshed, what could have been achieved by peaceful means provided the underlying Law were known and its mode of operation understood. The ancient civilizations and cultures, after attaining a certain level of achievement, fell victims to decadence because the lives of the people did not conform to these standards. Actually, a revolution in the life of humanity should have occurred a century ago, when the theory of evolution was first propounded. But the evolutionists at that time, due mainly to prejudice against religion, and for a long time afterwards, held to a theory that cut at the roots of the idea of Intelligence and design in creation, effectively blocking any further discussion based on a spiritual point of view.

A single man or woman of the stature of a great prophet or scientist can have the power to change the world. Imagine what possibilities can be held forth if a crop of dozens of such geniuses were to be cultivated in each century or generation.

Gopi Krishna summarizes the foregoing in these words:

We live in an age of surprises. At the same time, we experience the horror of man-caused calamities. But no surprise has been so great as will take place when this Law is empirically demonstrated, and no calamity has been so devastating as might befall it, in the present stage of technological development, if the law is still ignored. The development of the human brain and the intellect is an unavoidable consequence of evolution, but without spiritual discipline and enlightenment the results can not only be unwholesome but also fatally poisonous.

In other words, it is essential in order to ensure smooth progress and safety on the hazardous path of evolution that humanity should not only be possessed of temporal knowledge but should also know the laws that rule her spiritual growth.

Since the kundalini mechanism is a biological mechanism, given a properly conducted research program based on a serious scientific study of a group of suitable candidates, it should be possible to measure the biological and intellectual changes using suitable tests and equipment.

Memorandum for Kundalini Research

"Gopi Krishna (1903–1984) was a pioneer in the land of spirituality." - Deepak Chopra, M.D.

"Worked with this man in the late 1970's. There's no doubt that he was one of the most important human beings of the last century. Atheists like Hitchens and Dawkins are important in that they oblige religion to account for itself: through the avenues that Gopi Krishna proposed, actual progress will be made. If science was more interested in the brain and less in sending toy tractors to Mars, all this would happen a lot quicker" - iain399

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ON THE NATURE OF OUR MISSION. . .

“We are extremely frail human instruments of destiny. What we are giving out or what we are doing, however humble it my appear at this time, has a great historical significance. Our humble contribution and all we have done or plan to do will be considered by our progeny to have been the most important event of this century.

The high and might of our day—the presidents, the prime ministers, the ministers and other elite, as also the great academicians and scholars—with all that they have done, will pale into insignificance before the grandeur of this discovery.

How did it happen that we, a few humble individuals in a society of over 7 billion human beings, have been chosen for this colossal task, no one can explain. It will remain a profound mystery to show how Nature can act and show what instruments it can use to achieve her Purpose” – Gopi Krishna

GOPI KRISHNA THE LAST INTERVIEW (Note about video) ... I am the webmaster of this site my name is Tom Kay this is a interview I did with Gopi Krishna a long time ago...I was in my early twenties at the time...

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PROPOSAL FOR
A SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION
INTO THE BIOLOGICAL KUNDALINI MECHANISM
BEHIND HUMAN EVOLUTION

THE LAST INTERVIEW WITH GOPI KRISHNA

Excerpts from an interview conducted by Tom Kay

TK: The research of Kundalini Mechanism is the most urgent task of our time.

GK: It is the most urgent. I have been saying it, after observing my own state for at least 30 years. For 30 years I said nothing because I wanted to confirm that my experience was real experience, and not a delusion and that it is corroborated by ancient tradition. I made a study of those traditions, and I found that my experience is in conformity to the ancient traditions. After that I wrote my first book, and now in my 80th year I solemnly say this and this alone is the answer to modern crises.

The answer is this: The brain is evolving and present science doesn't know how. There is complete darkness about it because you cannot see this evolution of the brain. By external observation can see only neurons and their connections. It has to be seen from internal observation by awakening this power. When this power is awakened, then you are able to observe the internal working of the brain and that shows you that you are still evolving.

TK: What do you propose? How do we investigate this?

GK: I think any sane government, any good government, should first make research on the brain, on the nervous system. The ancient religious traditions, the ancient occult traditions. After all, we have to understand that religion has always been a companion of man. We have evidence that man was religious even two hundred thousand years ago. The first relics found show that those people were performing religious rituals, so it means religion has always been a part of human life.

What research have we made on it? We have made research on psychic phenomena. But no research on religious tradition and religious experience. If we were to devote as much time and resources as we devote to other scientific experiments, the results would be a hundred-fold more precious.

TK: The results would prove...

GK: The results will show that the human brain is still organically evolving, that certain lifestyles, certain ways of behavior are necessary to live in conformity to the inner changes, and that religion came in time to guide mankind on this path.

TK: And it is the path that will lead us to the stars, if it is our purpose to.

GK: It will lead humanity to this new dimension of consciousness. It will lead to the goal which nature has assigned for her. It will lead humanity to a peaceful co-existence, to happiness, to long life, to much greater achievement than she has done, even now. It will lead her to the exploration of the universe.

TK: How will this affect the political structure?

GK: I need not say, for the experiments will show what kind of life and what kind of environment a human being must have to evolve completely in harmony with the law of evolution, there will be more freedom.

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