Kuṇḍalinī
Academickuṇḍalinī · kuṇḍalī, the coiled one
Neo-Tantric"awakening" · "the rising"
Somaticsympathetic activation with sensory phenomena
ScientificThe experience is well documented in case reports and self-report surveys, and the adjacent literature on adverse effects in intensive meditation is genuinely rigorous. The mechanism as described in the tradition has not been tested. Two different claims, routinely merged. Mixed
In the corpus: the single most common word people arrive with, and the one they are least able to define when asked.