Alternate Perceptions Magazine, August 2026
Kundalini and UFO Encounters?
By: Brent Raynes
The late great Swiss psychologist Carl G. Jung delved deeply into the mechanics of human consciousness, the complex interplay between conscious and unconscious interactions and psychic processes that guided what Jung called synchronicity (meaningful coincidence). He came to study and gain truly comprehensive insight into archaic symbols (called archetypes) of what he came to refer to as the collective unconscious of the human psyche. Jung’s Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky (1959, The New American Library, Inc.) is a must read for “ufologists” interested in exploring his theories and extensive research as it applies to that field of study as well as Dr. Gregory L. Little’s The Archetype Experience: Resolving the UFO Riddle with Synchronicity (1984, 2022, Archetype Books}, who has followed up on Jung’s earlier works, applying it to ongoing research and findings.
Cover of C.G. Jung: The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga
Jung was early on deeply immersed in the significance of eastern wisdom concerning Kundalini as detailed in C.G. Jung: The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga, Notes of the Seminar Given in 1932 by C.G. Jung, edited by Sonu Shamdasani.
“I thought perhaps she was crazy, but she was only highly intuitive.” – Carl Jung
Here’s a YouTube video of Jung being questioned about Kundalini where he also described a young woman patient he worked with, about 37 or 38 years of age, who described a coiled black snake in her abdomen and how it eventually, over time, moved up and out of her mouth; a common archetypal form often associated with Kundalini. Kundalini is said to come from the word Sanskrit, meaning “coiled,” regarded as a form of divine feminine energy (Shakti) located at the base of the spine according to Hinduism and yoga traditions, and found in ancient tests like the Upanishads (500-1000 BCE). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oOebvtTKl4
“I had a very profound encounter many years ago where I believe that these beings actually triggered a kundalini awakening in me,” a lady therapist on the West Coast told me. “That really kind of shifted my focus on how I think about all of this. I’ve been through the whole gamut of emotional response to this.” She had experiences that began early in her childhood. Around ages 4-5 of giant white rabbits with red eyes taking her to a “round white room” where other kids in pajamas were present; during her teen years “light beings,” the main one wearing a “long hooded robe like a monk’s robe.” She claimed how in the middle of the night she’d be awakened by the glowing robed being and told, “It’s time to go for your lesson,” which she described as “deeply spiritual having to do with my own evolution and growth.”
Around age 13-14, she and a friend shared a UFO close encounter. “Still didn’t connect to UFOs,” she said. But then in 1987, Whitley Streiber’s book Communion was published and in a store there it was, with the Grey type alien face on the cover. “I’ll never forget that moment for as long as I live,” she said. “Seeing my spirit guide on the cover of that book. I remember buying the book. Brought it home and read it and I cried the entire way through it because I was like, ‘Oh my God, you mean this is real?! I have to actually deal with this?’”
On August 3, 1975, I met Donna, age 28, a resident of Akron, Ohio, who had a kundalini type of story to share that included a healing component. Her first memory consisted of how she was placed in bed early one night due to a toothache. This was sometime back around the summer of 1950, at age three and a half. As she laid in her bed she suddenly observed beside her bed an oval shaped thing composed of “shiny golden and silver light.” She rolled over to observe it directly. She recalled how something extended from it, touching her right shoulder. “Whatever it was it completely overcame any fear I had because I accepted it. I went right back to sleep immediately. Very nice too, but when I woke up I had the pain and the pain lasted off and on for three weeks. They finally took X-rays of my spine, and it was completely cured.” She then explained she’d had a severe case of spinal curvature since birth. The pain had been “excruciating,” felt like a burning sensation.
I inquired as to the appearance of the thing that had touched her right shoulder. Donna explained it was hard to describe. “I felt many fingers on my back,” she said. “Not five but like 20 or 30. It was like feelers,” adding “it was much more differentiated or diversified than a human arm or hand.”
Later, in July 1953, on either the 4th or 5th, she and several others she said observed a low-level object with “flashing multi-colored lights.” She added, “When the white light came on I noticed a similar burning sensation starting at the base of my spine that then went to the top of my head and centered in my throat. After that my defective vision in my left eye was corrected and I never had another epileptic seizure after that.”
“I was brain damaged at birth,” Donna explained. “My mother was 38 when I was born and she had toxemia and so I was a PKU child. It results from the RH Factor in parents’ blood not matching. So, I got a complete transfusion at birth that left me slightly brain damaged. My intelligence level went up after I was healed too.” She claimed her IQ at the time of our conversation was 150.
She recalled another unusual memory. “There was something passed to me. It was in the form of a golden ball, and it was lodged in my brain. It passed through into the base of my brain. I don’t know if my nerve damage began to be healed at that time or later at the later sighting when I was six years old.”
In January 2017, Robert Davis, Ph.D., a retired sensory neuroscientist was doing a lecture for the conference named Consciousness and Life After Death in Byron Bay, Australia, when he was introduced to a former obstetrician named Maree Batchelor who was said to be able to access and channel “off-world” energies. Soon after his return home to Florida, he phoned me and excitedly told me, “This stuff is real!”
“While relaxed with eyes closed Maree began speaking about energy, timelines, DNA, time and space, the greater good, cleaning and healing different parts of the body, negative and positive entities, past lives, emotional traumas, among other concepts that seem to perplex yet maintain my interest, as my body began to respond involuntarily to her words and intentions. Numerous physical reactions occurred which included excessive coughing, facial twitches, and rhythmic and repeated head turning. Moments of exhaustion mixed with feelings of high energy, euphoria, and positivity occurred throughout the session as she spoke.”
“Confused and amazed by my violent uncontrollable involuntary behaviors, which felt surprisingly positive and stimulating, was still questioned by my logical ego-based brain. My inability to maintain control defied all logic. And in the following few weeks, my perspectives on life and reality changed, which led to both blissful feelings combined with the anxiety of a spiritual crisis; my personal transformation became an emergency in need of control. I felt a non-ordinary state of consciousness which I questioned as being either a very positive outcome, spontaneous psychoses, or both. Except for the confusion and associated anxiety, I never felt better spiritually. It was like seeing the world through the eyes of a child again. I was amazed at the wonder of it all. This was a fundamental shift in identity from an egoic conditioned mindset into an awake, spacious, and ineffable awareness. I felt liberated from the complexity of my over-analytic and conditioned ego. Being able to experience oneself as awareness itself, and to experience greater unity with oneself, represented a new realization of what I am: a shift in perspective out of the ego as me and into something more true and unlimited that Life and I are one, with a dramatic shift in who and what I knew myself to be. I now realize, for some reason and in some way, who and what I am: an awake, alive awareness and not the mind, ego, emotions and body.”
In early August 2021, during a trip to Clearwater, Florida, I met with Bob and Nancy du Tertre, a fellow researcher, experiencer, and author of How to Talk to an Alien (2015), and it was during that visit, huddled together in a public library, engaged in lively conversations about our many mutual high strange interests, that Bob was able to allow the apparent kundalini energy (a state commonly called kriyas) to manifest for us to observe firsthand. He had earlier joked about how he feared some might think he needed an exorcist, but it wasn’t anything that extreme. When it comes to this particular phenomenon, this type of thing has been reported by others.
In Brad Steiger’s Gods of Aquarius (1976) he quotes a statement given to him by one Gene Kieffer of New York’s Kundalini Research Foundation who explored the area of UFOs and Kundalini. Kieffer had concluded that “Kundalini is responsible for most of the UFOs that abound in our times.” He recalled a personal experience back in December 1968, while when meditating (and before he had any knowledge about kundalini) he observed a “luminous green, slightly pulsating, amorphous vehicle.” Though he initially believed that this was a true visual sighting, he later concluded that it was a “projection of my own self.” He was also given instructions, he felt, to contact a certain person at NASA in Alabama and inform him that astronauts who were about to embark upon a lunar mission were going to have a “spiritual experience” when they entered lunar orbit.
Dr. Lyn Halper, a New York psychotherapist and the author of Adventures of a Suburban Mystic (Trafford 2001) and Mystic Souls: 19 Remarkable People Tell Their Stories, is a researcher quite familiar with kundalini.
I shared with Dr. Halper the same details about Gene Kieffer’s statement on kundalini and UFOs, as well as the details on Kieffer’s own experience. I learned that in 1990, a group called the Kundalini Research Network (KRN) sprang from the Kundalini Research Foundation (KRF) as a separate entity. The KRN’s main mission it seems is to maintain heightened awareness on the subject and document scientifically such instances throughout the world. “I’m quite familiar with the KRN and 20+ years ago, after having my first experience with kundalini raging out of control, I saw their call for submissions from people who had kundalini experiences for their annual conference,” Dr. Halper explained. “I wrote my submission essay and was invited to be a speaker. I also filled out a 20-page form describing minute details of the experience, and they were pretty much convinced I was the real thing. The following year I was invited back to speak again. I’ve always been impressed with the serious manner this group goes about their research. By the way, one statistic I’ve heard is that only 1 person in 100 will have a ‘mobile’ kundalini energy that can rise and be sustained over a long period, as mine was. I hope this group is still active because it’s very important that people who are having a genuine kundalini cycle have a dependable resource and hot line, because the experience can be terrifying.”
“As for Kieffer (of course I met and chatted with him back then), it’s a rather broad statement to say kundalini is responsible for most of the UFOs. What might he mean by this? If we say that kundalini permeates every atom in the universe, then UFOs are composed of that universal substance. As for his experiment, he made himself fodder for the mill. By that I mean, I believe there are interdimensional intelligences who wait for someone rather naïve to come along, and then they will supply the experience the person is looking for (in this case a UFO) and give them intriguing telepathic messages, and heavily loaded tasks, like contacting NASA, etc. It always amazes me that people who are supposedly knowledgeable in metaphysics are not aware of this phenomenon.”
A Hans Lauritzen of Copenhagen, Denmark, contracted a severe case of liver hepatitis in February 1966, when traveling in Africa. It became chronic and he had to stop working and was put on invalid pension. Then on the evening of December 7, 1967, Lauritzen went with four friends to a wooded area in Copenhagen to look for UFOs, and sure enough, at one point he claimed to have observed “two great, dim, yellow globes” at an estimated distance of 100 meters. One of his friends also saw one of the “globes.” For some reason, he felt compelled to walk into the forest alone, felt a “presence,” and also felt as though he were in a “semi-trance like” state. He also felt as though he was in telepathic contact with this “presence,” for when he sensed this “presence” he mentally asked that they let him help humanity. They told him that he had a “very strong power,” Lauritzen recalled, and that it would become stronger. Then he came to the place where he had seen the two yellow spheres, suddenly found himself standing in another spot nearby, looked at his watch and discovered that over an hour had inexplicably elapsed. His friends at this point were calling for him, so he ran to meet with them. He noticed he wasn’t tired anymore; he had lots of energy. Later he returned to his medical doctor who discovered that the liver condition had disappeared and the liver was of normal size again. Lauritzen wrote, “The blood tests showed that it functioned now as any normal healthy liver.”
Soon after this Lauritzen began to experience classic kundalini symptoms. “Something was moving up along the spine from the bottom to the neck and back of the head,” he wrote. “It was accompanied by a pleasurable feeling and made me stand up and make strange movements and turns. Because of the semi-trance state, I just had to follow it, but afterwards I became extremely afraid what it could be. It was like something spreading in the whole nervous system.” This went on for months he claimed, with a variety of different physical and psychological symptoms.
Jeremy Vaeni is a well-known UFO abductee and has been a columnist for UFO Magazine. I read in one of Vaeni’s columns a brief entry as to where he had experienced something along these lines, symptoms and sensations similar to Lauritzen’s.
So, I emailed Mr. Vaeni and requested a more detailed description of his Kundalini-like experiences, to which he replied:
I don’t know how long of a statement you’re looking for but briefly, this thing came into me or activated within me, however that works, not from aliens but from reading a bunch of Jiddu Krishnamurti books and finally “getting” exactly what he was saying, which is essentially: You are thought. If you want to see if there’s anything beyond thought then you have to stop thought (die while alive, basically) completely and without any motive, including the motive to see what’s there. Just stop and being happens.
So, I did (or not-did) this and in that very moment my head started to rotate as if doing an exercise. It felt completely natural in spite of the fact that I was not the one rotating “my” head. Only when pondering it and thinking “This shouldn’t be happening” does it seem unnatural. But when it’s happening there’s no question.
So, this evolved over time and was accompanied by psychic awakenings, chakra activation—ooooh a whole host of things I never believed in and always made fun of. In fact, I still don’t believe in them. Whatever they are, they’re real. I mean, it’s as simple as that.
So psychic awakenings, visions, what seemed like spiritual visitations and even possession…the details are too long to go into here, but I’ll add that there is ANOTHER form of energy that I’ve experienced since this began in 2000/early 2001. This second energy I’ve only experienced three times and always the same way: It feels as if a slit opens at the base of my spine going from the tail bone up horizontally. It’s a hairline of a thing and it feels like it’s being cut open and closed with no pain, just this feeling as if the area is numbed like a doctor would do.
The first time it happened, this blissful energy slid in and consumed my entire backside head to toe. It was like levitating on beads of energy. (I hate using that word "energy" because it has no real meaning, but I don't know what else to call it.)
After maybe 30 or 60 seconds, the energy slid back out the way it came, the cut sealed itself and I was back to normal. The second time it happened, same thing: Slit opens, energy washes in--only this time something rode in with it. Again, I have zero belief system for any of this I'm just reporting to you the closest thing I can compare it to—if it's not actually what it is. The "it" in question is a demon. I could see it superimposed over my own body and feel its feelings. It didn't have thoughts, really. Seemed ancient and dumb but immensely powerful. I had the impression that whether it was good, evil or questions like that are irrelevant, all it wanted to do was bask in the glow of being alive through this body for the few seconds it had. It did so, it washed out through the slit, slit closed. I'm saying "demon" but I don't really know, just that it looked like a muddy red gargoyle and gnashed my teeth like an animal.
But nothing evil happened so when I say "demon," really I'm thinking we have no clue what that word means and should rethink everything.
The third and so far final time it happened, I had the big I AM experience. Slit opened, bliss energy, and "I" seemed to wash out of myself. I dissolved into nothingness. The moment Nothingness became aware of itself there was a visual, like a drop of water expanding in all directions over black. I was nothingness, I was nothingness aware of itself and I was Jeremy aware of my own body all at the same time. I could feel the stretching in my brain as the visual of the "water" stretched. It felt like it had an elasticity to it and would snap and frankly I was scared shitless that I was dying. It did snap, finally, but I didn't die. Instead, at the moment it snapped, a light flared and from this banged big the entire universe.
I'm seeing the universe and I am the universe. Not just the macro but the micro. I am solar wind. I am hot rock forming planets. I am the stars and the debris. I am the trees and the wind zipping through them--I mean just on and on all of these awarenesses (points of view) happening AT THE SAME INSTANCE. It's indescribable.
Curiously, when I was the sun giving life to the nearest planets that could take it, I had the impression that I was alive unto myself. That is, that stars are alive unto themselves, like mini gods. They are alive and aware and alone but not lonely. This is confusing but I'll just say it: I had the impression that I am that right now as I write this. That there is some aspect of me that is that sun even though I have no clue how that would work. It could be that I'm misinterpreting and that the Egyptians had it right: We become stars when we die. I don't know.
Anyway, it was pretty friggen incredible and there's more to it than that but that's the basic gist.
I've had a few experiences that lead me to believe that these creatures we call aliens, whether they are or not, are aware of this energy and know how to use it. I think they activated it at least that third time for the big "god" experience because I had the feeling they were in the room with me doing this to my back. I never did see them but I did receive a message toward the end of this experience, when my vision rested on this giant red planet (maybe Mars; maybe not). A female voice I've spoken to but never seen during abductions said, "Do we humans not understand that other planets cannot help us if we continue to block them out and kill ourselves?"
Notice she said WE humans, not YOU humans, oddly enough.
Anyway, the whole thing ended because I was scared out of my mind (literally!) that I was dying so I pulled my awareness back into my body. I wonder what would have happened if I'd let it play out?
As for other abductees who talk about this...yeah actually I asked Whitley Strieber about it in an interview for UFO Magazine. He was shocked I hadn't heard about it before.
Dr. Lyn Halper reviewed Jeremy Vaeni’s description of his experiences for me and offered these observations:
Since Jeremy Vaeni had been exposed to non-physical energies through his UFO experience, it isn’t surprising that he could have, what appears to be, an activation of kundalini energy in his body, and that he has a predilection for energy-sensitive experiences. In his account, he says that he had been preoccupied with Eastern literature, “a bunch of Jiddu Krishnamurti books” and “getting” it, and this sort of immersion is often the trigger for the rising of the kundalini. His description of the “slit opening and closing” fits Hindu imagery of kundalini as a coiled snake with its mouth the aperture that opens to allow the energy to rise upward through the sushumna, or main conduit. Even in a partial rising, kundalini brings with it expanded consciousness from psychic openings to blissful states, the feeling of being one with the universe that Jeremy describes.
The visitation of a red gargoyle demon, or other such creatures, commonly accompanies the kundalini activity. These are thought-forms, or transmogrifications, that he aptly describes as “dumb,” yet senses the immense power behind it. Across the centuries, people have reported such phenomena…think of St. John of the Cross beset by demons as he struggled with his dark night of the soul. Similarly, individuals in the throes of kundalini often report seeing tall white-bearded men in hooded cloaks that assert themselves as their guides. Vaeni talks about having energy-beings around him (though he refers to them as “aliens”) and believes they are “aware of this energy and know how to use it.”
There may be something to that. In my case, just prior to my second kundalini phase, my so-called guides announced soberly that in connection with my life’s work a “great sacrifice” would be required of me. There followed a turbulent activation of the kundalini, so violent and tormenting to my physical and emotional self that I knew if it continued, I would die. It was one year in duration, and at its denouement, brought psychic and spiritual gifts. A year later there was another sustained activation, but it was gentle, presumably because the first two phases had done their work and incinerated the toxins in my body. As for energy-beings, where kundalini energy is sustained, they are there. Maybe we can say that since the kundalini is a nuclear etheric energy, it explodes open the portals to a host of inter-dimensional non-physical entities.
Saturday, April 12, 2025 (9 am to 10:30 am), at the Arkansas Ozark Mountain UFO Conference Penny Kelly stepped up to the podium. She had been described as someone who had had a diverse career spanning engineering, education, and consciousness, and to top it off had collaborated with scientists like Dr. William Levengood on crop circles and extraterrestrial phenomena. She had also described having a profound kundalini awakening and also her own UFO encounters, even the onboard variety, and since I had also come across UFO researchers and experiencers who identified with the kundalini experience, I arranged a private chat with her.
“When a kundalini experience first starts there’s this rumbling sound,” she explained. “It gets louder and louder and louder until it’s like you are standing behind a jet engine on a tarmac and it’s riving its engine full throttle, and you are engulfed in this roaring sound. Then there’s a rocking sensation. My thought was, ‘We’re having an earthquake!”
When it goes full blown the experience will be extremely disorienting, from the way she described it. “There’s this sound, a feeling, and a light, all at one time, that soars up the center of you and each nerve section of the spine experiences a full-blown orgasm. You have like eight orgasms and when it hits your brain you are done.”
Done sounds right. Penny shared how your individual identity slips away. “There’s no sense of having a past, a present, or a future,” she explained. “You become part of what I would call Source, or the Godhead, or Ether, or whatever you want to call it.” She says you find yourself initially surrounded by utter silence. There’s no movement.” She explained then you see “billions of little pinpoints of light in a totally black, 360-degree field of blackness. That’s it.”
“When you start to come out of that the first thing that happens is there’s movement and you see these waves form and they’re colorful. Then you see particles form and then the particles gather, and they create pattern, and the pattern creates plasma and the plasma becomes physical matter and then boom, you’re back in the body. I’ve experienced that multiple times over a series of years. Three years it took for things to quiet down.” Penny described how soon after the kundalini you have instant clairvoyance, instant out-of-body, instant psychic ability, and instant telepathy, but no context or idea how to use it. At one point in our conversation, I remarked how this experience sounded like schizophrenia, to which she replied, “It almost is.”
“I liken it to the same thing we have going on in the world today,” she said. “The Pentagon has all these incredibly dangerous tools, but they don’t have the matching consciousness. So, after kundalini you have all of these incredibly dangerous and intuitive skills and you don’t have the consciousness to manage that well. It took me 17 years to integrate all of that. It took me three years before I could turn it on and off."
It was a lot to take in. But it can certainly be a lot of fun to try and accept the challenge to further explore and understand these reported high strange aspects of ufology and its paranormal horizons. An intellectual exercise for sure. For those wanting to learn more about Penny Kelly and her very strange life journey, I can recommend her book which I purchased from her entitled Consciousness and Energy, Volume 1: Multi-Dimensionality and A Theory of Consciousness (2006).
