This is the first time I ever heard of Kundalini. I watched both videos. I am an Appalachian American (the politically correct term for hillbilly), and when I was very small, I was taken to the Holiness Church where people appeared to me to be out of control for hours on end. Both of my grandfathers were country preachers (hey, beats coal mining, and is legal, unlike moonshining). The people I knew back then were uneducated, simple, pure and sincere. They were true believers who "got the Holy Ghost" at church and gyrated, jumped around and shouted. I am grateful that there was no snake handling in the churches I had to attend.
In college, I took a cours in Introduction to the Study of Religion. In one class session, we watched a video of a woman in an Eastern country doing some sort of dance as a result of being "possessed by a spirit" of some kind. I told the professor that it reminded me of a Pentecostal religious expression. He agreed. In the video, it stated that the woman lived "in the middle of the country" wherever she lived. The point was made that people who are inclined to this type of religious expression are those who have little or no contact with other cultures. This was certainly the case where we lived when I was a single-digit child.
If the guy in the video thinks all of this jerking and shaking is something new, he is wrong. The rest of the world is simply finally catching up with us hillbillies! In fact, I read an interview with Tina Fey in which she was asked her family's favorite meal She said white beans with rosemary and cornbread. Beans and cornbread! We hillbillies were so ahead of our time!
You 'uns needs to know that I didn't always talk proper and so on 'til I moved to the big city and got tired of them a callin' me a "hick" and a "briar" an' throwin' off on me all the time.
Regards,
SandraC
