Interesting comments in relation to how we frame experience in terms of our culture and understanding of what certain particular, individual elements of experience may mean. I am somewhat familiar with the Kundalini experience (I spent a lot of time after my first psychotic episode avoiding the diagnosis I was given and now take it with the proverbial "grain of salt), and the concept of dark night of the soul.

Thanks for your post and alternative perspective.

For more details about my own experience with so-called "mental illness", see Stark Delusions.