Kundalini, The Seduction of Paradise

"...And above all, Kundalini is not anything desirable or useful for man's development.  It is very curious how these occultist have got hold of the word from somewhere but have completely altered its meaning and from a very dangerous and terrible thing have made something to be hoped for and to be awaited as some blessing.
In reality Kundalini is the power of imagination, the power of fantasy, WHICH TAKES THE PLACE OF A REAL FUNCTION.  When a man dreams instead of acting, when his dreams take the place of reality....
Kundalini is a force put into men in order to keep them in their present state.  If men could really see their true position and could understand all the horror of it, they would be unable to remain where they are even for one second.  They would begin to seek a way out and they would quickly find it, BECAUSE THERE IS A WAY OUT; but men fail to see it simply because they are hypnotized.  Kundalini is the force that keeps them in a hypnotic state.  'To awaken' for man means to be 'dehypnotized.'  In this lies the chief difficulty and in this also lies the guarantee of its possibility, for there is no organic reason for sleep and man CAN awaken.
Theoretically he can, but practically it is almost impossible because as soon as a man awakends for a moment and opens his eyes, all the forces that caused him to fall asleep begin to act upon him with tenfold energy and he immediately falls asleep again, very often DREAMING that he is awake or is awakening.
....He tells himself that he is awake but, in reality, he continues to sleep-and this can happen several times before he finally awakes..."

P.D. Ouspensky's "In Search of the Miraculous"
Chapter 11, pg. 220

footnotes
"men" can be "women" too
in lieu of italics, which facebook no have, I use CAPS