'Kundalini represents the cosmic vital energy lying dormant in the human body, coiled round the base of the spine, a little below the sexual organ, like a serpent, asleep... When roused, Kundalini rises through the sushumna, the hairlike duct rising through the spinal cord, like a streak of lightning carrying with her the vital energy of the body, to join her divine spouse Shiva in the last or the seventh center in the brain.' 'The Awakening of Kundalini is a ...