Kundalini: The Evolutionary Energy in Man

Gopi Krishna

London

:

Robinson & Watkins

,

1970

.
Revised Edition.

22cm x 14.5cm. 252 pages. Red cloth, gilt lettering, illustrated jacket.

First printing of the revised edition. “This is the classic first-person account of Gopi Krishna, an ordinary Indian householder who, at the age of thirty-four, after years of unsupervised meditation, suddenly experienced the awakening of kundalini during his morning practice. The story of this transformative experience, and the author’s struggle to find balance amid a variety of powerful physiological and psychic side effects, forms the core of the book. His detailed descriptions of his dramatic inner experiences and symptoms such as mood swings, eating disorders, and agonizing sensations of heat-and of how, with the help of his wife, he finally stabilized at a higher level of consciousness-make this one of the most valuable classics of spiritual awakening available.” (publisher’s blurb)

Cocked. Some foxing. A few lines of annotation in ink to rear endpaper. Bookseller’s stamp of The Craftsman Bookshop, Sydney. Clipped jacket worn and soiled with some loss to top edge of rear panel. Good Condition.