Table 3.
Top 10 (A) highest and (B) lowest scoring items of the 76-item Kundalini Awakening Scale (KAS; Sanches and Daniels, 2008).
| Items | M | SD |
|---|---|---|
| (A) Highest Scoring Items | ||
| I experienced an elevation of my consciousness. | 6.67 | 0.97 |
| I felt that my mind started to function differently. | 6.61 | 0.86 |
| I felt in touch with something measureless. | 6.57 | 0.90 |
| I experienced an expansion of my being. | 6.53 | 1.06 |
| I had experiences of elevation and bliss. | 6.47 | 1.16 |
| My consciousness has become wider than it was before my experience. | 6.47 | 1.07 |
| I'm aware of some deep changes in my personality since my experience. | 6.45 | 1.07 |
| I've felt humbled by the contact with a transcendent reality. | 6.36 | 1.13 |
| I had an experience of union with some divine force or energy. | 6.34 | 1.41 |
| I feel that I have developed a new channel of communication within me, since my experience. | 6.27 | 1.26 |
| (B) Lowest Scoring Items | ||
| I experienced seeing people or objects that weren't materially present and this made me feel scared and frightened. | 3.07 | 2.10 |
| I experienced an unusual cold only in a specific part of my body. | 3.14 | 1.83 |
| I experienced an unusual cold in my body moving from place to place. | 3.22 | 1.97 |
| I experienced a temporary incapability to read. | 3.36 | 2.17 |
| I experienced a halo in my head which increased after a spell of prolonged concentration. | 3.45 | 2.12 |
| I felt very depressed. | 3.54 | 2.31 |
| I experienced an odd functioning of my reproductive system. | 3.58 | 2.13 |
| I experienced an odd functioning of my excretory system without an apparent physical cause. | 3.65 | 2.23 |
| I sensed unusual cold inside my body, or on my skin. | 3.68 | 2.27 |
| I experienced a shining halo emanating from my head. | 3.76 | 2.16 |