Here is what we can learn from his extraordinary account. Unlike monks who spend decades in meditation, Gopi Krishna was a ordinary man with a job and a family. One morning while meditating, he felt a "brilliant light" at the base of his spine. Suddenly, a "fiery current" rushed up his spine into his brain.
Living with Kundalini details the decades that followed. He experienced ecstatic visions, heightened intelligence, and poetic genius. But he also endured crippling anxiety, physical pain, insomnia, and the sensation that his nervous system was burning from the inside out. The most vital takeaway from this PDF is a warning. Gopi Krishna realized that the human nervous system is an evolutionary vehicle. If you force too much energy through an unprepared chassis, you will crash.
He expected bliss. Instead, he got chaos.