Campbells Charkas Kundalini is coiled at the base of the spine. The goal is to awaken it and bring it up the spine.

The serpent is female, Shakti. It is thin and white and coiled 3.5 times around a lingam before the Brahman door. Root 1st chakra = muladhara psyche is practically inert. Image is of a Dragon they guard things they can do nothing with (virgins (image of the second chakra) and gold), no zeal for life, no positive action only reaction, behaviorism groveling before sheer fact. Art sentimental naturalism no breakthrough to radiance. It is symbolized by a lingam in a womb. Note - The lingam is not antecedent to the womb. Elephant brahma and his consort Sex 2nd Chakra = svadshistana Freud everything is exciting, eros. Frustrations are also recongnized here sublimation when the frustration is turned to something else. The moon, the tides. The beast of the ganges. Vishnu as Krishna. The love of diety for the world Gita Voginda poem. The Tristan romance the rule breaking erotics. The five orders of love master and servant, friend for friend, parent for child, spouse for spouse, mad rule breaking passion (courtly love). Navel manipura aggression, to conquer, to consume - Adlerian psychology will to power. Fire, movement. A ram. Transforming fires. Shiva as the destroyer and his consort, Rakini. Those were the three animal levels. Peoples at this level must be controlled by social laws or dharma. Wishes for health, wealth and progeny. Chakra four the heart chakra anahata = ohm is the sound of the radiance of God. Shiva and the dancer. The wishfulling tree. The yoni of the virgin birth, the notion of the spiritual life. The animal is a gazelle. The center of transformation. Shiva with 5 heads Chakra 5 sublimating the physical, Mahayana. Killing the buddha Chakra 6 - the vision of God, The six headed goddess maya. Love for god, Dante beholding Beatrice. Chakra 7 I and the father are one.

The ideal is to return to chakra 4 where the body and spirit, the soul and god are one.