Kundalinibronnen

Bij het artikel ‘De Grote Kundalini-Mythe’ uit ParaVisie, juli 2026, p.57-61 van Prof. dr. Jan M. Keppel Hesselink

Primaire klassieke bronnen

Patañjali. Yoga Sūtra’s. Diverse edities en vertalingen, bijv. Edwin F. Bryant (2009), The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali.

Bhagavad Gītā. Vertaling en commentaar bijv. van J.A.B. van Buitenen of Winthrop Sargeant.

Haṭha Yoga Pradīpikā. Vertaling bijv. Brian Dana Akers (2002).

Śiva Saṃhitā. Diverse Engelse vertalingen.

Sat-Cakra-Nirūpaṇa. In: Arthur Avalon (Sir John Woodroffe), The Serpent Power (1919).

Historische en academische studies over yoga en tantra

Georg Feuerstein. The Yoga Tradition (1998).

James Mallinson & Mark Singleton. Roots of Yoga (2017).

David Gordon White. The Alchemical Body: Siddha Traditions in Medieval India (1996).

David Gordon White. Sinister Yogis (2009).

Gavin Flood. The Tantric Body (2006).

Mark Singleton. Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice (2010).

Theosofie en westerse herinterpretatie

Helena P. Blavatsky. The Secret Doctrine (1888).

Charles W. Leadbeater. The Chakras (1927).

Arthur Avalon (Sir John Woodroffe). The Serpent Power (1919).

Carl Jung. The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga (seminar 1932, gepubliceerd 1996).

Kundalini in de moderne spirituele cultuur

Gopi Krishna. Kundalini: The Evolutionary Energy in Man (1967).

Philip Deslippe. “From Maharaj to Mahan Tantric: The Construction of Yogi Bhajan’s Kundalini Yoga.” (Sikh Formations, 2012).

G.I. Gurdjieff

George Ivanovich Gurdjieff. Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson (1950).

P.D. Ouspensky. In Search of the Miraculous (1949).

Neuro-wetenschappelijke context

Antoine Lutz, Richard Davidson e.a. (2008). “Attention regulation and monitoring in meditation.” Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

Judson Brewer et al. (2011). “Meditation experience is associated with differences in default mode network activity.” PNAS.

Andrew Newberg & Eugene d’Aquili. Why God Won’t Go Away (2001).