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KUNDALINI RESEARCH
Mr. George Tompkins
This is an extraordinary privilege for me, not only to speak about the subject of kundalini, but to address myself to this group. In all of my travels, I have never come across a gathering of people who are more seriously dedicated, who are truly earnest about their aspirations to become better messengers of spirituality. I sincerely wish to offer my pranams to you. I intend to talk to this group a little differently than I have spoken to many groups in India, primarily because of the authenticity involved in this search that I have discovered among you people.
The other reason that I consider it a privilege to be speaking about kundalini is because we are actually talking about the prana shakti as the creative power of the absolute. We are talking about prana shakti as the architect of all existence, who basically has two forms, one of a cosmic nature where she is spread everywhere and the other where she has her roots deep in our biological structure. This is the root of life and it is the subject of our research to discover what happens when this sleeping prana shakti, who is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent, awakens.
I have heard people refer to her as our higher intelligence. It would be like saying Einstein is just above average in terms of intelligence. We are dealing with an omniscient factor, that knows every aspect of our life, that has powers beyond our wildest imagination. So I always feel it an honor to be able to discuss this basic concept of life that has to do with the awakening of this energy. And I might add, the sovereign aspect of kundalini is something that is not too recognizable in the west. There are many people now totally aware of kundalini aspects, but they do not treat it as a sovereigh energy.
I would like to just give you a little background. I was a friend of the late Pandit Gopi Krishna. I met him in 1971, in Zurich, at a definite crossroad in my life. I had just sold my business, where I had been a hypnotic businessman. I am the
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