This powerful formula was based on the Tantric Pranayama (yogic breathing), aiming for spontaneous awakening of Kundalini, which symbolizes the Serpent Power without the lengthy meditation and the years of spiritual training. The serpent is normally asleep while man is awake to the outside world, and is coiled up around the axis of the body. According to the Tantric texts, Kundalini is a mysterious psycho-spiritual force, a conceptual and practical mainstay of Tantra, which originally served as a road map to awaken the Kundalini power. If it is uncoiled and raised to the thousand-petalled lotus at the crown of the head known as the seventh chakra, which represents spiritual unfolding, it obliterates the sense of individuation and floods the body with divine nectar, the Kula-amrita, thus allowing you to have inexplicable beatific state of experience. When Kundalini begins to ascend through the chakras, it brings increasing powers into play, until it reaches the highest point of total awareness and realization. To awaken and uncoil it is to break the ontological plane and attain the sacred center or enlightenment.
The course of Kundalini's path is depicted as an undulate motion through the spinal cord similar to the sinuous move ment of a white serpent in rapid flight. According to Yoga- Shikha-Upanishad (1.114.), the constant stimulation of the Kundalini produces an electric sensation in the pivotal nerve similar to that of ants crawling up the spine; her rising energy awakens each of the seven chakras. These centers of energy symbolize unity, balance, seeing things whole, deliverance from duality and the pairs of opposites, seeing sub specie aeternita- tis; transcendental wisdom, the crystallization of light, spiritual consciousness, and enlightenment. This is also often illustrated as the Caduceus of Hermes, the wand or herald's staff. It is called the axis mundi (world center), the complementary nature of the two forces operative in the universe. In Alchemy they are the male sulfur and the female quicksilver, the power of transformation, the solve et coagula of the Great Work, the synthesis of opposites and the transcendent function of mediation between the upper and lower realms. The outspread wings at the upper portion of the Caduceus represent divinity, which protects and pervades the power of the deity and the power to transcend, freedom, swift victory, and the golden harvest.