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whether or not they would be spiritually beneficial. I am not sure, but I believe that it was an American psychologist who had become a yogi under the tutelage of an American yogi and under whom Dr. Sutton had been practicing kundalini awakening.
Anyway, one day Dr. Sutton called me on th telephone and he was crying uncontrollably. I asked him what was wrong. Then he told me about his kundalini practices and what he had been experiencing and that he feared he would go insane. I asked him about his yogi and he only replied that he could not talk with him anymore.
When I went over to see him he was huddled in a corner, whimpering like a child and it took fifteen minutes of chanting, meditating, and projecting of the white, healing light to bring him to his senses and some selfcontrol. I asked what had happened to bring him to that psychological state. He said that he encountered some repressed memories and experiences from childhood in one of his meditations upon kundalini energy and the effect was so great he lost all self-control. I asked him about his American yogi, but he merely mumbled that he had been unable to reach him.
For several weeks I took Dr. Sutton into my keeping at the ashram and under guidance he got much better and he reached the degree of self-control that he wanted and needed. Afterwards, I lost contact with him until I in
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