Marleen Thaler
Researcher and historian of religion based in Austria who studies the modern transformation of Kundalini and is affiliated with the University of Vienna and University of Graz.
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Feb 6, 2026 • 1h 3min
Black Beryl: The Modern Remaking of Kundalini, with Marleen Thaler
Marleen Thaler, a historian of religion at the University of Vienna and Graz, traces Kundalini’s journey from a Hindu goddess to a modern psychiatric and spiritual concept. She explores Theosophy’s translations, Gopi Krishna’s distressing account, 1970s Kundalini clinics and therapies, the Spiritual Emergence Network, and how religious and medical vocabularies clash over meaning and care.
