Awakening the Serpent Power: The Truth About Chakras & Kundalini (Beyond Psychology!) Title: The Serpent Power: The Chakras Tags: #Evola #Tantra #Yoga #Kundalini #Metaphysics #Tradition #Chakras #ShivaShakti #Initiation #HathaYoga 1. The Microcosm-Macrocosm Analogy The body mirrors the cosmos; inner forces correspond to outer powers. 2. The Three Bodies Material (waking state), subtle (dream state), causal (deep sleep). The fourth state (turiya) transcends all. 3. Hatha Yoga’s Goal To awaken superconsciousness, not regression into trance or hypnosis. 4. The Chakras Seven centers along the spine, each corresponding to a tattva (element) and a divine power. 5. Kundalini Shakti Latent at the base (muladhara), coiled like a serpent. Awakening it reverses polarity from procreative to spiritual. 6. Prana and Apana Opposing currents unified in yoga—solar (pingala) and lunar (ida)—consumed in the sushumna (central channel). 7. The Awakening Kundalini rises through the chakras, dissolving duality (Shiva-Shakti union at each center). 8. Beyond Time Sushumna’s ascent suspends temporal consciousness, leading to immortality. 9. The Sahasrara Crown chakra—Shiva’s abode—final reintegration beyond form. 10. Rejection of Modern Distortions Psychoanalysis (Freud, Jung) misinterprets yoga as therapy; it is a path for the elect, not the neurotic. The Serpent Power: The Chakras Hatha yoga, particularly in its Tantric form, is synonymous with Kundalini yoga. Its Buddhist counterpart is vajrarupa-guhya—the "mystery of the diamond-thunderbolt body." This discipline operates on the premise of a microcosmic-macrocosmic correspondence: all cosmic forces are mirrored within the human body. The Tantras declare: "That which appears without only so appears because it exists within." The human body is not merely physical but comprises three dimensions: the material (sthula-rupa), the subtle (sukshma-rupa), and the causal (karana-rupa). Ordinary c