Pandit Gopi Krishna

Gopi Krishna (1903–1984), born near Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir, was a yogi, mystic, and social reformer who recorded his personal experience of spontaneous Kundalini awakening in 1937 after years of meditation practice. His autobiographical account of the physiological and spiritual transformation that followed introduced this phenomenon to Western readers and appeared in eleven languages. He wrote seventeen books in total exploring consciousness, brain evolution, and the relationship between spirituality and biology.