Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Genesis, Dark Matters, and the Legacy of the Stars

Part One
Darkness and Light
1 Medical Background to the Perennial Science of How Darkness Enfolds the Light
2 Light as a Fifth-Dimensional Force

Part Two
Embodiment through the Anatomy of the Sleeping Serpent
3 The Spine, Brain Stem, and the Deep Brain Core
4 The Eye, Evolution, and the Pineal Gland
5 The Inner Ear Melanin, Vibration, Sound and Perception, and the Nose

Part Three
The Inner Preparation
6 The Process of Projection
7 Practice, Discipline, and Goals
8 A Brief History of the Serpent Powers

Part Four
The Luminous Work
9 Ethics, Energy, and the Bodily Disciplines
10 The Dynamics of Breath Control and the Discipline of Bodily Absorption
11 The Family of Kundalini Risings

Part Five
Realization and Legacy
12 Other Methods for Awakening the Sleeping Serpent
13 The Goal and the Attainment

Appendix: The Twenty-Five Classical Mudras

Glossary

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Edward Bruce Bynum is a clinical psychologist and the director of behavioural medicine at the University of Massachusetts Health Services in Amherst. A student of Swami Chandrasekharan and Saraswati and a winner of the Abraham H. Maslow award from the American Psychological Association, he is the author of several books, including The African Unconscious.

Reviews

“In this fascinating book, Edward Bynum throws down a gauntlet to science that may very well result in the most revolutionary research ever done on consciousness. His groundbreaking ideas challenge not just what we know about enlightenment but the very nature of light itself and--more importantly for each and every one of us--our journey toward it.”
*Teri Degler, author of The Divine Feminine Fire and The Fiery Muse*

“Edward Bruce Bynum remains the preeminent and most prolific behavioral health scientist who can raise our higher state of consciousness by linking modern concepts of melanin, contemporary views on meditation, and ancient mysticism.”
*T. Owens Moore, Ph.D., professor of psychology at Fayetteville State University and author of The Sc*

“Edward Bynum has written a complex guide that brings together ancient and modern sciences, ethics, biology, spiritual teachings, and subtle physiology and provides specific energy and meditation practices to activate and explain the awakening of kundalini energy and its highest functioning in an individual. He has introduced ancient tantric understanding of subtle body energies rarely available to the public, along with practices that allow one to discover their existence for themselves. This book will be highly useful for personal growth and offers a foundation for new research and experimentation that can bring science and the realization of consciousness together. A true alchemy of the body and the spirit.”
*Bonnie Greenwell, Ph.D., founder of Shanti River Center in Ashland, Oregon, and author of Energies o*

“Dr. Bynum provides advice--with helpful illustrations too--on meditation, breathing and yoga practices to prepare for soul projection and help effect the connection with the superconscious.”
*Nexus Magazine, October 2012*