Author: Travis Saunders
Date: 2014-07-23T03:00:00+00:00
Publisher: Dragon Intuitive

Spiritual Psychic Health

Exploring the chakras from the base consciousness to the higher self.

Travis Saunders - Dragon Intuitive

Spiritual Psychic Health

Travis Saunders - Dragon Intuitive

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Chakras

Mind to Mind

Life is like an onion. All you know of life comes to you in layers.

Your interface for life is your personal energy which is not confined to the boundaries of your flesh. We don’t experience life directly and even science admits this. So you filter life with your energy at the same time as you take life energy in. This filtering causes the aura to have phases which represent a diffraction of life energy like white light being split by a prism, but in this case the prism is your mind.

You don’t have one mind or some phantom that lives in your head. You have many minds, and thus there isn’t a mind body connection. There is a mind to other mind connection. Sometimes they communicate partially, sometimes only very poorly, but each mind (or chakra as they are also called) has its own language. It is very coherent, and normally we do this thing called thinking where we pretend that we direct the filtering of the life energy. We do to a lesser or greater degree.

What do chakras and kundalini have to do with each other? Kundalini is the font of all the chakras, and really of all creation. The first energy that differentiated into the Taoist thousand strings. We think we see a world and kundalini is the force that makes us think we see a world. It unifies all the chakras, all the many mansions of mind in our being. This is why we don’t see the world in layers or in multiple dimensions. We just see one world. The Kundalini merges together the dimensions we see from the chakras.

How can we activate our kundalini? It rarely is active. It is like that first formative stage of biological development. Creates one dramatic push then for most usually goes dormant after. With awareness of the chakras and of the energies flowing through you, more neural connections are formed. The more you let your energy flow, the more it tries to flow, always pushing. In the case of kundalini rising, it’s a return to that first root force and it stresses the chakra system. It stresses those minds in us and it is usually why it’s not advised. People don’t self manage very well, and instead of revealing the mysteries of the minds, it just splinters them.

Some like Gopi Krishna say it is required to get us into higher states. Do I think this is true? I think that in time it’s inevitable. Whether you move quickly or slowly, apprehend in meditation or move it by more intensely physical means, it will happen. You can know the minds, and the more you know them and the energy that lingers there, the more awake they become. If your body is like a house, what usually happens when only one person is sleeping? Everyone else keeps them up or wakes them if they did slumber.

Can psychedelics help to activate some of the chakras? They usually hinder more. Again it’s the self management problem. Someone takes LSD and it makes them more aware. They respond with “What the hell is this?” and fail to keep their center. Thus they get lost in the new pathways rather than be awake. It becomes a waking nightmare rather than enlightenment. So it is possible, but most people aren’t equipped to do it that way.

To elaborate, those who advocate psychedelics say that the old shamans used them, but in the case of the Native American tripping on peyote they had someone like me. If you saw a shaman interacting with the peyote user, the shaman would seem cruel, even psychotic, but they understand the context of the experience and through force of personality manage the trip for the voyager. You can become trained to manage in an altered state, but that isn’t where people start.

Can drugs like antidepressants/Ritalin/Adderal impact the chakras? Yes. They leave a memory in your energy. Even the cause that made you start taking them. They are an artificial altered state and usually doesn’t address the linked chakras. In fact, all of your experiences leave this imprint.

Primal Emotion and Heart Chakras

The minds (or chakras) do correspond to stages of both biological and psychic development. The root chakra is the first center to be visible in a growing body. It is the tail. From our roots we have the simple animal drives and rapidly on its heels develops the enteric nervous system also known as the stomach brain. Still animal drive, but it distinguishes good from bad. Perhaps the reason for our fall from Eden.

Can you feel physical sensations for activity in various chakras? Yes. When aroused or frightened the perineum tenses, and it tends to mesh intimately with the stomach brain. What’s the perineum? It’s the nerve center that governs sexual organ function right at the very base of the torso between the structures there. It is a very active center and is part of why men have such compulsive thoughts of sex.  As do women, but they deny it. Part of why women deny it is their sacral chakra, the stomach brain. It is more developed than in men, thus the whole “that is food and it’s good, that is food and it’s nasty” is a stronger process in them. It is also the seat of the nesting instinct.

Now moving up from the primal emotions you have the solar chakra. It is the gate between the primal and what is considered higher function. It is the mind that decided what we will act on. The lower chakras know what we want to do, the solar chakra decides if we will do it. It’s also the seat of the nerve center that is the most direct interface between the voluntary and involuntary nerve systems. Breath control exercises exist because of this interface. Control the breath, and control the mind.

Is the solar chakra will or self confidence? Actually, self confidence is a compounding of the functions of the sacral chakra and the heart charka. The stomach brain and the very responsive and receptive cardiac nerve plexus. The heart tends to be the keeper of balance for all other functions.

The heart is focused on keeping balance, but it is inherently receptive. So your heart doesn’t think, it feels and it gathers input from all other minds. It is the first brain like center only a little less complex than the brain. If someone says “I think with my heart”, criticising them shows your own limitations, not theirs.

Feeling Energy with Chakras

If one wants to feel more energy and more focus, how can one do it via the chakra system? This varies from individual to individual, but start where you started to find more energy. More focus comes from broadening awareness. So start in your root. How so? Well, I will elaborate.

Some ridicule or mock thinks like ritual practices, and taken out of context I guess they make no sense, but they had a purpose. The chakras are impacted by experience. They all are. They have a perfect memory of everything that happened to you. Some say they can’t remember stuff, but that isn’t really true. They are trying to remember with the meat in their head something they experienced at a different level. This can’t work so they just say they forget. In the case of the Tantric practices, they engage in ritualized intercourse and thereby encode the sacred symbolism on the root chakra. Alter it, and you alter everything on up from it. The energy works like a fountain.

Now there is a big debate. Is it push or pull? Does the energy rise on it own or must it be lifted? The purists say that only through sacred contemplation can it be aroused and not do harm. Be pulled from the root to the head. Basically, the “think good thoughts” school and it can work that way. For many it’s possibly best, but the lower centers aren’t evil, they are just more wild, primal. For some of us, we fail in the “think good thoughts” approach, but succeed because we take the original teaching of the path to heart. Bottom up or top down the truth is there.  Left handed path or right, the truth is there. We need not go outside further for lies. Our own ignorance of self does that just fine.

Some see the evil as inherent in the world. Some see it as an independent spiritual force. If any such thing exists it has little to do with us. Experiencing the kundalini makes that abundantly clear, thus the role of the serpent in the garden. It didn’t lie. It told a truth humans were ready for. Humans love their falsehoods. The basis of their virtue, of their hope. We screen the world with our energy for that reason.

The life is in you and the breath of God exists externally also. People want to claim self, soul, and yet they don’t want to see what this is. The snake I spoke of is a force of entropy, the tendency falsehoods have of decaying. Of man coming to know good and evil whether they like it or not. There are those of us who are more children of the snake than of the garden. It runs in our blood like the naive innocence does in humans. We are no ones enemy.

Think of snake imagery across the world. The benign feathered serpent. The sea serpent of Norse belief. The Aztec feather serpent was benign. Of the Aztec Gods it asked for no sacrifice. As a matter of fact, when the white man came and told the natives to stop, they saw him as the serpent returned. They didn’t worship the serpent alone.

Why do I assume the “snake” is better? Not better, different. I am not pushing a belief, just discussing something that might help. Choose what you choose, free will my friends.

Much in the spirit is symbolised.  Things manifest in a reiterated way, variations on things. Seen with other senses than the flesh a serpent looks quite different, as does a human soul, and I see the world differently from you.

Activating Kundalini

Can you give us a step by step methodology to activate our chakras/kundalini?

1. First be still, in being still you head the body. Still all choice, still all will, still feeling, still speech. Look not here or there.  Be still and know. The crown chakra is the seat of knowing. It’s the first link.

2. Then choose from stillness.  Know it. From stillness know right or left, good or bad. Let them join.

3. Then be moved. Know that neither day or night are complete and you move from day to night, night to day. Any extreme is you, and in seeing both extremes you are free of extremism. But you don’t know it until you are moved to act.

4. Then feel. Love. Know this wisdom in the world that is also in your body, in your central being.

5. Then see, for at that point you will see. The life in you will have moved out into the world, and then return to knowing.

Acting in this way your spirit never dies. The inner fire only knows growth. The soul is fed. You know who and where you are.

Can you recognize the levels of consciousness? Do you know the root influence when you feel it? Focus at root first, then work your way up. Be the animal before you can be the man. Engage the chakras.

So the way to activate them is to focus on them while meditating? Well, yes and to engage their consciousness. Their impulses. Be the root. Be the animal. Take a lazy day and feel your body. Eat some food you might not just because it smells appetizing.  You will move on from there.

How do you engage their consciousness? Place your awareness there. We have a point our minds create. It’s where we focus our attention and it is movable. It might be easier to place your focus beneath your seat without moving your eyes. Literally beneath that part of ourselves we euphemistically call a seat, under your torso between your legs. No worries about limbs. See what happens when you think under there. Focus on that area until you note something. Is there some vibration that emanates from there? Is the quality of your focus changed? More driven? That is the consciousness of the root chakra.

This is your chakra, but you can’t seem to harness it? Breath into it. Like breathing from the bottom up instead of the top down as people tend to do. You can pull energy through the vibrating point. All chakras both absorb and emit. Imagine the energy or air flowing through it as you breath. Imagine it flowing up. But first you must know the chakra, then empower it.

How do you know the chakra? They are natural centers of consciousness. Focus your attention now in front of you, as if you were covering your belly perhaps just over the navel. Do this for each chakra. Get to know each chakra, then know and move your energy. It is like bootstrapping your energy.

Working with Chakras

‘Working with Chakras’ is an interview of a conversation on the chakras. What they are, and how you can work with them. We hope you find it of value in furthering your understanding of energy and personal growth.

Dragon Intuitive (DI): I got interested in chakras a number of years ago and did some reading, but was interested in how you see them.
Travis: Well you have likely heard even scientists say that the difference between ‘in your mind’ and ‘in the world’ basically doesn’t exist.  Yes?

DI: Meaning I simply perceive what exists?
Travis: Well yes in part. Your aura is your mind and spirit, as well as physical energy emissions in the world. Your chakras are the spiritual realm penetrating you. Just as the physical world must, and you are penetrated every time you eat or breath or make love.

DI: So auras are a mix?
Travis: Yes. They are the interface. Auras are basically the morphogenetic field you may have heard of responsible for shaping the biological material as much as it can.

DI: The auras or chakras are the interface?
Travis: The auras are memory. The chakras are a communication channel. Each linked to a different layer of spiritual existence.

DI: What do you mean by layer? A dimension or plane?
Travis: Yes. Though they aren’t walled off from each other. This is where the Manichean heresy does so much harm. The whole “flesh is evil” trip.

DI: The other day you talked about Norse mythology and their nine dimensions. I have heard of 7, or possibly 8 chakras. Is the nineth this physical place, which would mean we have a chakra to link into each dimension even as defined by physics?
Travis: Yes. According to Don Juan from Castaneda’s writing there is a chakra sort of outside the aura. He called it the assemblage point.

DI: High above the head?
Travis: Actually no, the assemblage point is usually in front of you. Roughly between your eye level and your heart level under normal circumstances.

DI: Ok, so lets review. The chakras are?
Travis: Energy exchange conduits, both output and input, a.k.a communication channels.

DI: Located where?
Travis:

1. At the base of the spine, corresponding to the perineum externally.

2. At the center of the abdominal cavity, corresponding to the navel.

3. The bottom of the thoracic cavity, corresponding to the solar plexus.

4. Centered in the cardiac nerve plexus.

5. At the base of the brainstem corresponding to the larynx.

6. At the base of the skull corresponding to the visual center in the brain.

7. At the cranial fissure corresponding to the corpus callosum.

DI: So aligned along our back?
Travis: Yes, though the visual is complex. It is also linked to the light sensitive pituitary gland which is as electrically complex as an actual eye. That chakra is called the third eye.

DI: Is there not one above the head as I’ve heard?
Travis: That from my experience is an assemblage point, and is why maybe that is not a commonly agreed on chakra. It shifts. The over the head chakra you heard of was Hindu perhaps? Someone who spent a lot of time contemplating Brahma? Have noted it isn’t spoke of by all sources?

DI: Oh yes, it isn’t mentioned everywhere.
Travis: From my personal experience the physically anchored chakras are all there. I have noted and interacted with every one of those, and there is possibly a chakra over the head. More or less the only “disincarnate” chakra is above and behind the head. This is why our eyes go up and to the left when visualizing.

DI: Is that the assemblage point one?
Travis: No, but for all intents and purposes it’s a hyper chakra. To learn by stages it need not be tackled. You will gravitate more toward it as you master the others.

Dragon Intuitive (DI): What are the characteristics of the chakras?
Travis: Well, I feel moved to talk more on the assemblage point. Your mind creates a chakra using the main ones. It is in this way that you process the world. It is your filter. What is not commonly known is it is mobile and mutable. So example, do you feel your assemblage point right now? It is likely focused on your computer screen.

DI: Being my input of data, yes.
Travis: Now try this. Without moving your eyes (as that isn’t necessary, your vision will still work fine), move that point of awareness under your perineum, between your genitalia and your anus. Now notice how you feel.

DI: It is like a weight goes to there.
Travis: Normally the perineum is your root. And yes, find you are thinking differently, perception altered?

DI: Less cerebral.
Travis: Likely is growing more and more altered as your assemblage point lingers there.

DI: Yes, I find it hard to define, but it feels different. So assemblage point is where your focus goes?
Travis: Basically, but it isn’t object oriented. It is more like a spiritual center of balance.

DI: Do all the other chakras root to the assemblage point?
Travis: Basically yes, so change the assemblage point and you change your whole interface. Ever notice when you orgasm, though you feel with the obvious part, the reaction is in your perinium?

DI: Yes, so in the root.
Travis: It is the same for either gender, and yes it is. It isn’t just sexual. When you feel threatened does that region tense?

DI: Yes
Travis: Badly anxious etc. It is the root drives; fight, flight, and sex, and hunger. Your lower intestinal tract is digestive, and thus it does send hunger signals. Ok, move your assemblage point to your navel. Just in front of your navel, not in the body. The more outward focused your assemblage point, the more in the world you are. Bring it in and you move into the spirit. For conversational purposes we will stay at least a bit out. So assemblage point moved? How are you feeling?

DI: More in need of action.
Travis: Yes. The sacral chakra is slightly higher in function if you want to call it that. It is still very linked to root needs, but it is selective. High priority needs versus low. It is the root of general desire. When you feel frustrated does your abdomen tense?

DI: Yes
Travis: General desire being blocked. The sacral is also the center of emotional bonding. It is the part that says I want sex, but I want it with that person specifically. So feel clear on the base two?

DI: Yes
Travis: lol, the spiritually refined supposedly disassociate from those.

DI: True, the lower hells or something…and actually I’m reminded of the realms spoken of in Buddhism.
Travis: Interestingly, the Japanese see sex and yearning as forms of tragedy, as hellish. Even saw images of a sexual hell on an anime I watched.

DI: Even if not frustrated yearning?
Travis: Actually yes, because they are all consuming. To be lost in ecstasy they still see as torment.

Travis: So move your assemblage point to the base of your chest, just inside your arms as if you would be carrying something.
Dragon Intuitive (DI): Feels like a stable point.
Travis: For you it likely is. What else do you feel? Find yourself thinking?

DI: Just stable…confident..
Travis: Interesting you say confident, this is the center of your will. The solar plexus and it is the first “thinking” chakra. It is action/reaction/adaptation.

DI: Well, it does feel like a point of balance for action.
Travis: Oh, but what if unrooted? If there is a block between it and say the sacral? Will not act without selection?

DI: Then off balance.
Travis: Action without desire, but supposedly that is sane.

DI: True, so again we don’t incorporate the bottom. People often block the heart from getting there as well.
Travis: The heart is blocked by the will, which can be very rigid conditioned doing. Move your assemblage point up to the space just in front of your sternum, where you might have hugged a teddy bear or beloved pet when you were a child.

DI: Is an expansive feeling.
Travis: Ah, this is the second “thinking” chakra, the heart, and yes, it isn’t as narrow as the solar. It is the part that notes what you feel about what you do. It is not the center of your emotions, that is the sacral. It is the center of your feelings.

DI: Yes, emotions are often not what we feel. Like anger covering for fear.
Travis: And often misinterpreted because they are demonized. Emotions are the sacral and root feedback mechanism interpreted by the higher conditioned chakras.

DI: How so?
Travis: Emotions are seen as we are conditioned to see them, but in fact true emotion is just instinct. All the evil part is overlaid by the thinking charkas who believe instinct is bad because you were indoctrinated to believe it’s so. When you resist an instinct as a child, like to say pleasure yourself, and your caregiver praises you for it that feels good, and the heart chakra is very pleased and is mislead.

DI: So we’ve programmed our chakras against each other?
Travis: Yes. Each is a level of awareness and each has its own level of the aura. In a sense, each chakra has its very own aura. It’s one filter through which it sees the world. The world as you know it is the consensus of these filters.

DI: I see… I'm just imagining the multitude of imbalances set up. Do we innately have a dominate chakra or do we have a dominate based on conditioning? Do we have a dominate at all?
Travis: Oh, we have a dominate chakra, but if healthy it is very integrated. Basically, it is like the overhead chakra, it evolves into a hyper chakra in a way. If permitted.

DI: What do you mean by hyper?
Travis: Digital instead of analog communication, multi channel.

DI: A fast working hub?
Travis: Yes. Example; there are people who for lack of a better word seem very sexy, and it isn’t about their looks or about them being sexually obsessive though that happens in imbalance. These very sexy people still process everything and pursue the full experience of life, but the theme runs all through them. This person has a dominant root charka. If balanced they are just very primal people, they don’t create disturbance though there are some who revile that, and those who are uncomfortable with that level of themselves see it as disturbing.

DI: How do you find your dominate chakra?
Travis: Your mind goes to its level as a root. The root chakra is the root of your life-force, but is not necessarily your touchstone for being.

DI: The dominate chakra is the root you mean?
Travis: Oh, of your soul, yes. We don’t all connect the same way. This is why the soul chakra doesn’t seem clearly connected.

DI: Why is it not the touchstone?
Travis: It is source, not contact point. To be incarnated, the first act is that contact. Your aura forms around that first chakra too, being there is only one. The fertilized ovum is a whole chakra. It has readable characteristics.

DI: And then gets divided up?
Travis: Yes, needs to be. Fissions like those first cells do. This is why ghost researches see “orbs.” They are seeing the one chakra.

DI: Ah I see, so it collapses all down after death?
Travis: Condenses, like a singularity. This is why biological life doesn’t endure. It doesn’t support the existence of the chakra, the chakra supports it and eventually exceeds its capacity.

DI: How so?
Travis: It, like a black hole, absorbs energy over time. All energy types. They aren’t differentiated on that level. At first the singularity was non local. The act of localizing would make it appear to be low energy. Just like an electron jump in an atomic shell, eventually it picks up more spin and speed and jumps back to the non-local.

DI: Is this how our evolution happens? Depending on what we absorb in a lifetime?
Travis: Yes. The singularity picks up karma, a spiritual spin. This resolves and the cycle repeats.

Travis: So next chakra, move your assemblage point to the space just at the top of your sternum and at the base of your neck.

Dragon Intuitive (DI): Yes, I always feel tightness there.
Travis: Ok, this is a blocked chakra. Is another thinking chakra, but it expresses the lower ones and tries to tie it all together. It is the chakra of expression rather than action, words not deeds, but words and deeds are mixed. How you talk will be how you act.

DI: Oh, I thought the heart tied it together?
Travis: The heart knows. It is the knowing of the lower chakras, is the assimilator sort of like a spiritual stomach. And in fact stomach problems are linked to heart problems. To understand the body to mind relationship flip yourself upside down and overlay that image. The crown being at the root, and the root being at the perineum. This shows how energy is processed.

DI: How so?
Travis: Not absorbed, acted on. First you think, is the directed force. Then you express, is the “selective” action.

DI: From crown to root?
Travis: Yes, they pair in reverse. Then you feel. It is the center so is paired with the soul. Then you react to your internal process with physical action, and then await reaction to choose again. For me that’s all reversed, well, and fused.

DI: So the sacral is aligned with the eye and root to the crown?
Travis: Yes, you have your pairs right. The functions were repeated. The body/mind likes redundant systems. Makes it stronger.

DI: How does that work? Sacral desire is seen by the soul and I guess physical ecstasy is spiritual ecstasy?
Travis: Yes, you do understand. Ok, have moved your assemblage point to the throat chakra?

DI: Yes
Travis: It amounts to the higher heart. So what do you experience?

DI: Tightness and sadness.
Travis: Ok yes, and is a simple reason why. As you have likely noted these are all simple. You have a request and have conditioned yourself to believe you can’t ask. Thus are saddened because your heart moves you to ask.

DI: Yes, the message itself gets so buried though. How do you uncover that?
Travis: That is where your vision kicks in or the strong psychic sense of the person being vision, knowing, hearing or feeling. But for you, visual being strongest, you see what you want to say. You keep visualizing what you want to ask, thus the block, then rejecting it.

DI: Is this different things in different moments or a big single thing?
Travis: Oh probably a little of both, but for a block to occur and not just a restriction (which would feel stiff but not tense), one big thing had to occur.

DI: An occurrence of being conditioned not to express something?
Travis: Oh very likely, and in fact that occurs when the child asks and shocks/scares/repels their parent. This is why free association works in psycho-analysis, and just spit it out is very common and actually good advice. Can you?

DI: No
Travis: Ok, then will use your vision. Keep your focus on your throat, but see what blocks your throat. In Hinduism, the throat is said to block poison, it is a commonly used symbol and in fact we tend to universally hold tension in our neck which is the throat chakra. So what do you see at your throat?

DI: Hmm… Visions of me not talking as a kid, not expressing anger at my parents.
Travis: Which arose from wanting to express and hear affection. The throat chakra is linked to hearing also. This is why your neck tenses when someone yells at you. Ok and why is it retriggered? I suspect I know.

DI: They wanted to know why I did something they thought was bad. They thought I was being ‘evil’ or something. I thought it was pointless to tell the truth.
Travis: What was this evil and what was the truth?

DI: Oh the evil was just that I was being mean… and the truth that I wanted more autonomy.
Travis: Yes, this is that link. You don’t like being invaded and is why you resisted your dominance. It seemed immoral. You were taught to treat others like you want to be treated, and you don’t like being invaded.

DI: So my act of dominance there was seen as evil?
Travis: Yes. This is why you pushed a desire to invade off into your shadow self.

DI: So since I’m taught to treat others how I want to be treated, I can’t dominate them?
Travis: This is how you worked it out in your head. You weren’t given a natural model.

DI: So I want to dominate …
Travis: And yes, it feel natural?

DI: Yes.
Travis: Do you feel whole with this realization?

DI: Still looking into the evil concept of it, I am seeing that better. How I was conditioned to see it as evil.
Travis: Your dominate self knows what is natural and what is warped. Example, would you want to lacerate my flesh? Let the dominate self speak.

DI: No.
Travis: And that comes from instinct doesn’t it?

DI: I get angry when I’m questioned, and my solution has been not to speak. Keep it all a secret so I don’t have to hear it.
Travis: It broke you up inside and wasn’t a solution. Speaking was natural and the adaptation just dulled your energy.

DI: Yes.
Travis: Is your throat block still there?

DI: No, it faded during this.
Travis: Good.  What would your dominant self do to me based on its drives and instincts? There is a reason I ask.

DI: You mean in terms of what, treating you or hurting you?
Travis: Treating me or hurting me, whatever it would move you to do. What would it move you to do? Describe it interacting with me at its will.

DI: I am at a loss for context.
Travis: True, so that raises one point on the morality issue. It isn’t on a rampage is it? It doesn’t lack control. If anything it is more capable of being in control.

DI: So it isn’t even always a direct attack on anyone, it could be to just be left alone.
Travis: Yes, and could be debated as to if its even an attack at all. Force isn’t violence by definition.

DI: Yes, it is the others interpretation.
Travis: Yes, and they show where they are by their behaviour. They show nothing about you, but you were young so still impressionable. Psycho-social-sexual are all mixed. They aren’t really separate things. When you demur does it feel bad, skin crawl etc. or wasn’t that extreme a reaction? Did demurring make you cringe though conditioned?

DI: I don’t cringe, I shut up.
Travis: Ah true, which is worse. Less awareness there.

DI: Let's go to the next chakra, it might be my strength perhaps.
Travis: Yes, next chakra. Move your assemblage point in front of you and over your eye level. Centered in your field of vision other than being over eye level. What do you experience?

DI: Lightening of being…energetic.
Travis: Cool, will test a theory. Now move it over your head like an umbrella. How does that feel? Then back to vision.

DI: Oh the vision is where I want to go to, the other doesn’t seem to feel like much at all.
Travis: The other is potentially too much. Is so simple it’s complicated. Now think of the other charkas. Do you want to go to them more than vision?

DI: No.
Travis: Perhaps less?

DI: Yes.
Travis: And it isn’t from shunning yourself is it?

DI: No.
Travis: It is because on a deep level you know you can engage any of it from vision?

DI: Yes, that makes sense.
Travis: Ok, we will try that. Are you receiving a flowing visual? Seem to be free associating a bit or is one visual lingering?

DI: Connected to the previous topic, images flashing of people who block the throat, times I’ve expressed and the other retreated.
Travis: So I think your block is permanently gone. You have seen too much and can’t go back.

DI: Wow, that is magic.
Travis: This is part of what I do in my personal practices.

DI: So really it is no more complicated then the truth.
Travis: Yes, my life doesn’t seem at all complicated to me, not on a metaphysical level. The complications for me are elsewhere.

DI: So this is how we work with chakras, to use this assemblage point?
Travis: Basically yes, but there is also another way. Because your assemblage point naturally gravitates toward your dominant chakra. For you with visual, you can focus on your visual and free associate. So what are you thoughts on all this? Your insights or feelings on what you have discovered about yourself?

DI: Like it’s been everything and nothing.
Travis: Yes, the sage does no great thing, but nothing is left undone. It is what they mean by saying that.

DI: There is a Tom Petty song, “took a world of troubles, took a world of tears, to get back here, is a dark victory”
Travis: Feel like you have?

DI: Yes.
Travis: Cool, so what will you do with your new life? These fresh moments?

DI: Ha, chop wood and carry water.
Travis: Yes.

Root

Aware You’re Aware

Today, we are talking about spiritual and psychic health. It’s the first class in a string I intend to do, but not necessarily consecutively. We will have more classes like this as it’s a very complex topic. Today, specifically, we will explore why people aren’t aware that they are alive.

Long story short, you aren’t aware that you are alive. You are aware that you are aware. A sort of Cartesian cultural meme that states, “I think therefore I am.”

So Descartes got that we are aware, but not that we are alive? Exactly.

Is it normal for that awareness to scare the hell out of you? Like in cartoons, they only fall when they are aware of the road being missing. I feel like if I am aware of being aware, it will suddenly end. It feels out of control for me. Some people even go so far as to blame it on demons, or some sort of supernatural intervention, when their life force takes over for a time.

Some people do extreme things to make them feel alive, like bungee cord jumping. Indeed, and it fails to have any lasting impact. This is why their seeking escalates, and why we call them adrenaline junkies.

The awareness that is perhaps most vital to our well being, and the one that people today seem to not possess, comes from a level of the consciousness that people consider subconscious. They are really well trained to ignore it. So well trained it even grows to cost them their lives. Stress related illnesses like cancer and heart disease. Since we need a term for it, I will call it the base consciousness.

I didn’t know cancer was stress related. Cancer is. Your body always has cancer cells in it. Cellular reproduction is an imperfect process, but normally your body eliminates them.

Even if you have it as an infant? Indeed, though in their case, it’s possible that the stresses are environmental rather than psychological.

You mean like feeling your blood pressure elevate. Would that be an example of base consciousness? It would. In fact, part of the reason base consciousness goes unnoticed is that people see it only in bits and pieces, and mistakenly believe it to be shallow and intermittent. Almost like a disease symptom itself.

It sounds like you are describing the bodily animal consciousness as opposed to a spiritual or intellectual consciousness. I am, and I will relate how it forms the root of those two consciousnesses as well.

That which is described in the Tarot’s Moon card? Well, somewhere between moon and earth, yes. The realization of it would be the star card.

First Delusion Of Thought

We have some horrible delusions. They create some serious malfunctions, both in our coping skills and our biological processes, as you cannot separate these two things. They are one and the same dynamic.

The first delusion is the privileged position of what we are calling thought. The unfocused tendency to try to force our sense impressions to synthesize what we consider a believable picture.

I think therefore I am, or so I thought. If you thought that, you were in fact wrong. Your ability to think arises from a level that precedes anything we consider thought. It is the base consciousness I speak of. The whole world itself is aware, and keeps rhythm across its systems with something we have often called empathy. It’s also called biophilia. Simply put, life seeks life.

It can arise in meditation. It’s like a bubble of energy rising that bursts into a thought. Indeed, but it doesn’t have to be submersed in opaque mud. Every bit of awareness you have arises from a set of patterns that take place not only in your body, but in everyone’s bodies, and in every body and life form on this entire planet.

I heard a Buddhist teacher make a bold statement once that every thought you have is because you are avoiding a feeling or energy in the body. That’s fair to say as far as conventional thought goes. But even if you didn’t engage in conventional thought, you would still have what is a parallel to thought. A sort of photosynthesis of energies that creates a complex of consciousness. But people don’t yet draw their awareness from their root. They refuse to see their life arises from the muddy water.

Hence “living in your head” is a common phrase. And is the delusion I am speaking of. Your head functions on the life force, but you give it an upset stomach by making it gag on nonsense based creativity. You force your mind to regurgitate its own essence and then mistake that for reality.

So is the root more like your instinct? It is. Unfortunately, people don’t seem to be well equipped to distinguish instinct from compulsive behaviour. They are not the same thing. Any idea of “must” is the hall mark of life essence gone bad. Your life force doesn’t reflect concepts of must. Necessity is a delusion. The base consciousness works on desire.

The little child who eats something doesn’t bemoan its loss. If we are attached, we resist processing. We choke off the life force at its root. Attachment is a style of thinking, as is aversion.

Second Delusion Of Choice

The idea that our consciousness works on a dynamic of seeking pleasure and avoiding pain is the second delusion. People believe that life is about choices, and although this makes thinking easier, it quickly becomes an obsession to the point that they think life or death is a choice.

The more choices we have, the less freedom we have? Exactly. Your base consciousness has only one drive, to live. There is no life and death, success and failure, none of this. This is why they say hope springs eternal. The life force won’t accept anything other than life, painful or pleasurable, and it will not accept stagnation. This is why for as long as you live, you will always engage in activity.

What is the force when it's not inside a soul? It just waits for another? This force is the womb of souls. It is the well of souls. All of our souls well up from this force and the source springs eternal. Though the exact form that any soul inhabits will change in the cycle of eternity.

The will of God is to live. Ultimately, God is love, and everything you think and do and feel is love. Even if you think you hate it, the life force is love.

The meaning of life is to live then? Indeed.

Now, I am not using the term love in the light and airy ethereal sense. The force of base consciousness doesn’t care that you want to transcend it, or that you consider things that it gives rise to as unspiritual or ignoble. This is why when you are deeply and powerfully depressed, you will hurt yourself. Because the life force or base consciousness loves everything, and everything you do comes from your love which has nothing to do with what you think you like. Love is both liberator and tyrant. How it seems depends on the clarity of your perception.

Every human God has been love. Even the darkest and most hateful seeming. They all represent humanities loves. But the ideas and beliefs about them, the practices and creeds that grew up around them, these became diluted and deluded. People cut themselves off from the Gods by trying to please the Gods. If God has seemed unreachable in your life, there is a reason. It’s because you have been spurning life in favour of your thinking, your sickened imaginings.

Enough of the rant.

Vigilance Patterns

Shall we go into how base consciousness is mirrored in thinking consciousness, even if distorted?

First and primarily it surfaces in our vigilance patterns. This is why you think that people, the world, or God, are watching you. Your life force prompts you to be aware and to seek the realities that support its growth and well being. These get confused though.

Is that not a basic instinct, to be aware to avoid being prey? A primal instinct? It is, but it’s more than avoiding being prey. Your base consciousness has a broader range of awareness than what people would consider obvious. As I said earlier, all the aspects of your awareness arise from causes that have their origin in the environment. The vigilance pattern is naturally meant to read the “body language” of the world. Not only to tell you where food is, or what wants to make you its food, but to keep you in touch with the patterns of your entire environment and the creatures in it. A vast web of energies that do directly impact your personal soul, though you might not be conscious of it.

Normally, your base consciousness would motivate you to consider these shifts of energy in making your choices, and lead you to consider how you might not just maintain your own well being, but restore the balance of life energy in your environment as well. Like maybe stop preying upon a specific creature, or migrate somewhere else so that your current region can rest and regenerate, but it goes deeper than even this.

The world itself is aware, not only of those things that naturally arise on it and in it, but it is also aware of what we might consider outside forces like knowing that you can’t eat the pencil you have in your mouth. Your base consciousness shows when an outside force will cause an unstable or unpredictable change in the world. Some people consider this to be reading the future, but to the base consciousness there is no future and no past. This level of your awareness is the infant you once were and the elder you will be at exactly the same time, and it is also all the branch parallels of your self as well. This is why it feels like we have choices. In the same way we are aware we have arms, we are aware that we have action potentials.

The base consciousness is not simpler than the thinking consciousness. It’s deeper. It’s human thinking that is in fact more shallow. We aren’t meant to think like we do now. If I could begin to describe what our powers of imagination are meant to actually do, well, it would easily exceed the capacity of the English language to describe.

So yes, what this has to with spiritual and psychic health is you have to lose your thinking to not lose your mind. All of our most passionate thinkers are in mental health institutions, because that is the only place they can go. We can help them by helping ourselves.

I Think Therefore I Am Not

I would very much like to be rid of some of the thoughts that occur to me at times. You cannot be rid of a thought by thinking. You cannot be rid of a thought by avoiding thought in any way. This is why a lot of new age thinking fails so miserably for people.

I believe that is a metaphysical principle. We always add to balance? Yes. Everything is always addition. Death is only a process of addition that pushes you outside of your current energy domain. The equation grows too big to fit your current parameters. Memory accumulates.

Kind of paradoxical isn’t it? This is exactly why the thinking mind doesn’t work well with it. It hates paradox. Yes, because it hates itself. It tries to defeat its own nature. This is why we think the way we do. Our minds grow for us one face and we paint for ourselves another. We think that we have learned things when all we have done is made a long string of decisions about what things mean, and like a psychotic, just kept repeating, “I’m an orange, please don’t peel me!”

We don’t have to learn what things are. We already know. When we get caught on a thought we do not want, it’s because we made a decision about something our base consciousness has presented to us and have resisted unmaking it.

It should be said, I think therefore I am not. I am that I am not. It’s the reason we all feel different, alienated, and alone, fearful and paranoid of others. We project the base power of the base consciousness onto others. We convince ourselves that other people are our life, and that we have to learn about these other people and the things that they have learned because these are somehow truth. Anyone found truth that way, yet?

I do not tell you truths in these classes. This is another paradox. What I tell you are bald faced lies. The trick to this statement is, they are not my lies. I cannot tell you the truth. No one can. Because truth is before words and after words. It’s not in the middle.

Your truth my lie? But not really a lie, just a different version of truth. Funny how paradoxical that can get, huh?

The way of the base consciousness is the way of the cat. They go crazy, react to everything, take part in everything until they are exhausted. Then they appear to sleep as they take it all in. All the life they experienced in that burst from their root energy. Then they don’t just blindly jump back into activity and do the same things again because that “is what they should do.” They watch, and to human thinking seem to plot and scheme, but in fact, they are just listening to the life force. This is why they always seem to know not only when there is something wrong with themselves, or you, or that they can get something they want, they know when the daily pattern is going to change also.

The life force will tell them what move to make? It does seem very automatic. It does. It is much like the force spoken of in the Star Wars movies. We are all, at our core, Jedi knights. We are just too busy thinking that we are something else.

We are just machines? Machines are not machines. They are the earth given a new form, tortured into taking a shape that conforms to human thinking, and they are quite happy to help humans hurt themselves while they insist on remaining so insane. Not to say that humans should shape nothing. We are, and have always been, meant to be creators. Like the famous artist who brought images out of the stone that were already there. We were meant to create new avenues of action in the world. We were just not supposed to stop listening. A machine is just a shape that does work. We are meant to create these shapes in our world, but they are meant to feed and support life, not kill it and grind it to sterility.

Feelings From Listening

Does our curiosity mean we are listening? Curiosity is exactly that. If you are curious, you are listening. If you see a bee labouring in your yard and you watch it because you are curious, or you see an ant doing something on a tree and watch it react to being interrupted, just to see what it will do, you are listening. Like watching a dog and cat interact, because you know that they really do have their own way about them, that is listening.

The range of things that we can attend to is limitless, but we have to start from where we are, and where we are is not what we think. We think after knowing. We don’t know after thinking. Then we feel after we fail to know. Thus we get sick. If we let our feelings come from listening, much of our life struggles would become non-issues. Stress related illness would be a virtual absence in this way of life.

This reminds me of when I’m shopping for an item. I immediately pick one thing and then spend a lot of time thinking about options. But I’ve learned that nine times out of ten, I’ll end up back at that original pick. Base consciousness doesn’t lie to you. You try to lie to it, but it isn’t listening to you. So instead you act like a little brat to your inner being and start doing the equivalent of “la la la la”, because you have trained yourself to want everything to appeal to your thinking. It takes a lot of energy to throw these internal tissy fits and fight with yourself. Whenever you fight yourself, it’s only you who loses.

This also reminds me of you shopping. You look at an item for five seconds and decide. I do have to take some time to check in, but it doesn’t take long to respond. Just sometimes it wants to tell me about more things than my choice. This is why people think I am so easily distracted. I have a lot of thinking going on in my environment. It’s really quite noisy.

I often end up not buying something I want because I think too much about it, then I go back and buy it later anyways.

This doest stay where it happens. What happens in the department store follows you home to your kitchen and goes to bed with you. Then gets up with you and goes to work. People think they live their life in a series of scenes, but life is whole. It’s your mind that is broken.

It isn’t just about whether you purchase the shoes or not, it’s about what you do when you are active and called to do something. If what you do is to “do not”, then that becomes a way not of life, but of living death. If you don’t buy the shoes because you are choosing something else over shoes, then that is life. If you don’t buy the shoes because you just don’t think the choice matters, then all choices will cease to matter. That attitude gets quite viral. If you can’t have the candy bar, can you have a hug from your partner? If you can’t have that hug when you feel like it, can you have forgiveness? If you can’t have forgiveness, can you have peace with your neighbour? All these questions just because you didn’t think you could have the candy bar.

Life is not about what you didn’t do. It’s not about rules. Does the bird care that it cannot vote in human politics? Do you see house cats picketing human adult book stores because they think human sexuality is offensive? Why do we waste time creating blockages when we could be making choices? Why do we waste timing cutting back and limiting when nature gives us the energy to grow? Is our judgement really so much better than natures? Did we self engineer after nature somehow failed to give the planet life?

Root consciousness is the first chakra, and all higher chakras stem from it. Root is first and last.

Is it paired with the thinking chakra, which is the sixth? It is. The crown chakra has no single center it links to.

Hence they get snarled I expect? Yes. If you want to feel what your thinking should really be like, and what the root chakra is supposed to be linking to, stare into the open sky as deeply as you can as if you were trying to see the universes farthest star. Your base consciousness or root chakra is meant to link to that.

They say listen to your heart. That’s good advice, but don’t stop there. Don’t criticise a man for listening to his sexuality, and you listen to yours. Don’t criticise the eater for listening to their tummy, listen to yours. Don’t look at anyone’s form and find fault. Whatever you see there, in their life and body language, listen to yours. What you will find when you listen to your kidneys, say, is that the reason humanity is so distorted is that they aren’t actually listening to anything. You won’t be able to judge, because it’s not a character flaw. It wasn’t even a decision. It’s just their thinking. It’s like everyone’s flesh and blood form is just a menagerie of funny sock puppets. Then you will be able to see the hand behind the puppet. The soul that would prefer to stop playing with the mask and actually go live their life. How can you hate that?

Sacral

Big Picture Awareness

Today, we are discussing the sacral or second chakra. Whereas the first is everything primitive and impulsive and alive, the second is the level at which our more complicated perceptions are formed.

The enteric nerve plexus (that centers more or less around the stomach and intestines) is almost as sophisticated as the brain. The cardiac nerve plexus (heart), as well as the brain, take their pattern from this first center of awareness.

You don’t have one brain, you have three, and just as the brain in your head has three parts, the other two brains also have three parts. This is the basic structure of the chakras, and it is a helpful way to remember what the chakras do.

The root chakra also corresponds to the r-complex in the brain, and the messages from that little bulb on top of the spinal cord are just translated impulses from the core enteric awareness. The second chakra layers over the root chakra, just like the limbic system in the brain layers over the r-complex.

The lower three chakras are like the three parts of the brain? Yes, exactly.

Just as you have repeated and supportive systems in the body, it happened with the development of the nerve centers as well. Each of these centers in the nervous system generates its own morphic field, or auras if you will, which broadcast out and attenuate around the higher energy centers in your energy field.

Do the three parts in the brain obtain sensory input from the corresponding chakra? They obtain their psychic energy from these centers. They aren’t as sensitive as the higher centers, but the higher centers cannot operate without the energy of the lower ones. Nor can they structure their perceptions in a way that is disconnected from the lower centers. Your higher reasoning is all based on the same pattern that controls your abdominal cavity.

The stomach and intestines seem very much to be thinking. They react to everything quickly. Yes, they do. But the regions of your stomach brain aren’t necessarily all in agreement. Just the same as the brain in your skull, they can be set to struggle with each other.

An imbalance gives you a tummy ache, so this is the gut feeling? Indeed, it is, and if the first and second charkas aren’t in balance, the senses as you are conscious of them, and your emotions, won’t be in balance either. Pleasant sounds will be aversive. Appealing scents will smell sickeningly sweet. These are just a few of the physical symptoms of a disconnected first and second chakra. Where the root chakra could be seen to be like an amoeba (seek out and eat whatever you find), the second charka is the more evolved organism that can consider that maybe it shouldn’t eat that, and it is even drawn to join into a colony with others of its own kind.

Without the second chakra, nothing seems connected or coherent, and nothing much makes sense except for whatever sensation your are feeling at the moment.

I think my chakras are out of line often. That is perhaps one of the most common breaks in the charka system, between the first and second. But if that bond is out of whack, it just escalates further up. It’s at the second chakra that you begin to be aware of the big picture, as they say.

I get tension in my stomach so often, always butterflies and stuff. If I feel stressed, my tummy is the first thing to alert me to it. It’s a common reaction. Some people stay out of whack so long and get out of whack so often they wind up with ulcers, or in men prostate cancer.

Is this a struggle because society is always telling us to be social and ignore the root chakra influence by saying it’s selfish? Yes. That does create an early developmental stress. It blocks our ability to make sense of our root chakra nature. They insist we accept invasive conditioning rather than grow into a more natural symbiosis, and this is perhaps the main killer of men.

It fits the sexual stereotype. Yes, but more than that. We are more or less forced to interpret our second chakra experiences in an objective and left brained way.

The root chakra is left brained, the second charka is right brained, and it alternates for part of the way up the ladder of the centers. So root is left, second is right, third is left, heart center is right, throat center is left, pineal is right, and they both join at the crown.

Is this why a gut feeling is often something we can’t explain logically? Yes.

The First Bullshit Detector

Perhaps an interesting related point on spiritual and psychic health. The left hemisphere of the brain cannot tell the difference between facts and convincing ideas. If an idea is logically cognisant, the left brain automatically believes it. This is why the root chakra seems to be so indiscriminating, and why many men revert to that level of awareness when they can’t resolve the first and second chakra conflict.

This explains how logic can result in such insane actions at times. No fact checking with the other half. The wise people will tell you to check with your heart or gut on a decision. It’s good advice, and the second chakra is your very first bullshit detector. This is why I described tonight’s class on the sacral chakra as trusting your gut.

No coincidence that it does separate out the shit literally, as well? Yes. A lot of our verbal metaphors are really very natural connections.

People think it is some great magic to tell when someone is lying. It really isn’t. At least, I don’t find it to be. No. Discerning a lie is quite natural. People do it poorly only because they try to shut the second chakra off.

The lower three chakras are all very “visceral”, very primitive, for lack of a better term. The experience of their awareness is very simple and no-nonsense. They engage in no embellishment. This is why people ignore the second charka and even develop habit to compromise its energy. The second chakras awareness is your first experience, not of what you want, but of who you are. It’s the most primal level of self reflection and makes you aware of emotional issues in a very blunt way. This is why, when someone gives you a dirty look, you get that subtle ick in the pit of your stomach.

The second chakra won’t rationalize. It doesn’t get confused. It knows exactly what the body language means. It knows why the touch of that person giving you a handshake feels so creepy. It doesn’t have ideas about it, and it isn’t subject to being persuaded that it’s experiences have been misinterpreted. This is why we dismiss so many of our reactions toward others as supposedly irrational. I promise you, your thinking about it isn’t any more factual or in touch with reality.

Our stomach problems get louder and louder as we continue to ignore it. Indeed. Our stress related illnesses originate in the second chakra.

Seat Of Species Memory

The root charka doesn’t learn. It just is. It’s the root of the natural, formative order of your being. The second chakra learns. It’s your very first center of learning, and it becomes aware in utero. This is why our parents psyches are so seemingly ingrained in our consciousness. It’s not explained by your genetics, and it’s not explainable if you believe that your brain is the only seat of consciousness.

That’s scary. Indeed, it is scary. Your memory goes back much further than you have allowed yourself to be aware of, and the seat of species memory is the second chakra.

I wonder why many of us get scared when we “turn into” our parents? We get scared when we turn into our parents, because we recognize the crisis energy that is making the second chakra dominant. Instinctively, we know that our advancement and experience has mostly gone out the window, and our free will, as we normally know it, has been compromised. But this doesn’t have to happen. As I was explaining earlier, the second chakra is the seat of the species subconscious.

Back when they said to us, “Just wait. One day you’ll have a daughter just like you, and you’ll do the same thing I did” and you say no way. They were right, but shallow and unhelpful in their statement. It isn’t just your parents in the second chakra. It’s your grandparents, your entire bloodline, and even ancestor species awareness.

What about people you idolise? Super heroes and teachers, etc. That is also located in the second chakra. This level of awareness is the seat of myth and “primitive” spirituality without religion.

It would be better parenting if they instead encouraged us to find another way? Actually, not better parenting. The only way second chakra awareness can be parented is by modeled behaviour. The second chakra cannot be reasoned with or educated in the conventional sense. It is educated in ritual, dance, or habit practice. It’s the level of our minds that watches peoples faces, but cannot hear their words beyond the Charlie Brown level. It just picks up tone of voice.

I’m imagining a new video game for chakra training. It could be done. Let’s hope someone figures it out.

But a lot of mysticism can be explained from the second charka level that doesn’t make sense to our conventional thinking. Shamans have a practice of sudden calls and shouts, odd seemingly formless vocalizations. They aren’t meaningless, and they do provoke a response, and thus understanding, on the level they are supposed to, the level of the second chakra. This is why having a good cry or yell can help as well. The second chakra has to express itself.

As a child, I used to make up rituals and spin around under the moon. Was that tuning into the second chakra? Indeed, it was. It was quite healthy and an important part of your growth in self awareness. It isn’t supposed to stop. So why does it?

It’s not logical. We’re told it‘s silly. All awareness is silly. Literally none of it is actually fact, nor does it hold up to any standard of data quality. It cannot. The only awareness we can have is the one we do have, but we break it up and try to take it in pieces. If I showed you a bolt I got off of a car without telling you it was from a car, could you tell?

I know someone who has to have everything make left brain sense, and he had bad ulcers at one time. Getting tired cured his ulcers, but that’s a third chakra mystery.

Trusting Your Gut

Not only do we try to understand our consciousness out of context, but we insist on trying to see it backward and inside out. Does your mind make sense to you, friends?

It often appears to be crazy.

The world doesn’t make sense.

Everything makes sense to me.

I think if things made sense then we wouldn’t be the curious creatures we are. We love mysteries, even if there is no solution, we can make one up.

We try to see our minds as if the truth originates from the top down and from the senses inward, but do the senses originate from themselves?

Top down thinking creates a world where we have to be convinced of the real, and yet we get seriously afraid as the real won’t come to us in a convincing way. This is why fear of change and xenophobia are almost universal. We believe that if we don’t see it, that means it isn’t there. When in fact, we have our eyes because the body needed a broader ability to perceive what was there all on its own. Your eyes don’t make the pictures. The presences made your body make the eyes.

What this all means about the second chakra is that it is aware of this. It’s from the gut that you get the instinct to be quiet and listen, or hold still and watch carefully. Your mind and perception will never be any clearer than that gut feeling guides you to. You aren’t more clever than your gut. Our brain is just louder, and the reason it’s louder is it’s an amplifier for two whole other worlds of awareness.

Are the best leaders good at simply reading their guts? Yes, and the best leaders are least willing to try, because they know that the average person cannot be convinced. They must be shown, and they know how much that takes and what it means to change people like that. The person who is influenced that way is seldom grateful.

I saw in business that the facts could present any argument you wanted. The trick was listening to them with the gut. Yes, and understanding the long term trend of people reverting to their gut awareness if they are women, or their root awareness if they are men. As they say, sex sells. It sells to men because that’s how they think, and it sells to women because that’s how they influence men. Our species is still pretty juvenile.

So yes, trusting your gut. Trusting your gut is putting your embellishments of thought aside. It’s really a good idea. Try it, and I promise you won’t miss them.

I am not telling you not to think, but think from a new context. Ground your thinking in the gut. This is why I seem able to read peoples thoughts. I’m actually doing no such thing. If I have to report the content that forms the noise in your head, I will get hopelessly lost. But my awareness is structured differently, so I look at more primitive things first.

Now take it from that gut level and then explain it with thought only to add footnotes, and you have my model of the world. But you don’t have to paint with my brushes, probably shouldn’t actually. You do have to deal with your own experiences and your own natural inclinations.

I usually say nothing when I’m asked what’s wrong, because I don’t know how to speak the words. And you don’t know, because of how you have been conditioned and trained.

I have been told that I am a genius of psychology. I neither know nor care about the discipline or its systems. I just operate from the origin out, instead of from thinking in.

Action Awareness

On the level of your gut, you have the primal memory of every sensory experience you have ever had, without embellishment so without delusion. This is why the second chakra can’t be lied to. It doesn’t track ideas about what it senses from people and places.

I’d like to be able to share with out someone wanting to fix it for me. I don’t want that unless I ask for help. If you try to share it, you will just do it, and they won’t know what to do about it, or why you did it. And when you move up in the chakras, you get more mental content.

So to discuss the second chakra further, I will speak some on the third. The third chakra is the center of action. Action awareness. Men block the second, but tend to overcompensate with the third. It’s natural as the energy system wants to balance itself out even without your thinking about it. It tries to throw more energy at the block. The third chakra is the first indirect interface between the voluntary and involuntary nervous systems. It’s connected to the solar plexus and diaphragm, and is why men have knee jerk reactions regarding all emotional experience.

Is this why men like sports and action movies so much? Indeed, it is, and both genders get stuck on the third chakra as well. I will go into that fully in the next class in this series.

They don’t want to get kicked somewhere sensitive, metaphorically as well as physically. It’s true. Metaphor and reality are really one and the same.

Where the confusion is, is this. Women want to wait on action, because they know they are sensing and processing things. Men, in order to be responsible and not get accused of being mindless dogs /sex addicts, try to focus on the third chakra, because they don’t feel validated in their root natures. They try to be by doing. This mars their understanding of their gut, and means men can be lied to more easily and tend to be more deluded about things socially.

How do you validate the fixer with out feeling like you can’t solve your own problems? You don’t validate the fixer. You show him where you are coming from. He has a blind spot in his awareness, but you can’t make him see. You need to translate for him, and this is the second part of the confusion. Women don’t handle the second chakra well either.

I tell him if it’s not broke don’t fix it. That isn’t a helpful thing for him to hear. From his point of view, it’s obviously broke because you are engaging in the actions of hurt feelings. This gap can be bridged, and either way, don’t mistake a mans desire to fix things as his being impatient or insensitive. If anything, he is hyper sensitive. In part, because his isn’t really experienced. He has had the experiences, but hasn’t processed them.

Yes. I get the hyper sensitive part. Sometimes it feels like impatience. It feels like impatience because his empathy is so strong it makes him really anxious. Your pain really hurts his feelings, and he doesn’t know how to handle that.

So he takes action to feel useful? Yes.

But I can tell him how he can be useful instead of him guessing? That’s also the problem. As I said, women don’t handle the second chakra well either. They are the blind experts, and they don’t clue their partners in. They inform them out. Like how tech support often makes you feel so insulted. It involves assumptions that aren’t fair.

I hate it when I hear women say, “I shouldn’t have to tell you. You should just know how I feel.” That is one of the unfair assumptions. The most obvious reason being men are hormonally and neurologically different, not superior or inferior. Women aren’t pulling anything over on their guys with the girl talk. He can follow it intellectually, and has one of a few ways of behaving regarding it. But women speak from their guts, and men speak from their lungs.

I think that is also the difference in physical center of gravity? Yes. It’s where both sexes feel most secure. This is also why men’s voices are louder, and why they don’t develop the habit of shallow breathing. Both genders can cross the gap. It’s really in their best interests to do so.

Smart Enough To Be Stupid

Regarding second chakra issues, if anyone is impatient it’s women. They often get so caught up in how they feel about his behaviour, they don’t realize he is patiently and continuously trying to do right. He will remain consistent until you get fed up with him. What men need to have happen, to get back in touch with the second chakra, is the thing women have forbidden themselves to do.

This is why husbands and wives should never do DIY together. Actually, they should. I strongly recommend it. Just don’t expect it to go quickly. Don’t think of it as a job to get done. It will in time, and better than either would have done on their own. Men have to go slower. Women have to go more steadily. Women overanalyze their second chakra. Men under analyze it.

Ladies. When you think your guy has overlooked something, you are right. But don’t assume he just didn’t notice, or that he is stupid. The part he didn’t process is the context. He may not know why the thing you think he overlooked was important. Just because he doesn’t automatically know, doesn’t mean he doesn’t want to know, or can’t understand if you show him.

What is the thing women have forbidden themselves to do? Women have forbidden themselves from showing their genuine reaction to their partners. They have the prejudice that it’s beneath them. They are actually being insensitive to themselves and projecting that onto their partners.

Women try to imitate the emotions of men, subconsciously thinking that they are making themselves clear or making their point, and they will fail miserably. You want a hug, but in your behaviour you are picking a fight. Men, being creatures of the root who act on it immediately, will withdraw from a partner who they don’t want to fight with and hurt.

Like a child throwing a tantrum, because he wants moms attention? That’s not it at all. That’s a female prejudice. He isn’t being a spoiled little boy. He is managing his instincts the best he knows how. If you cried, he would know he should be sensitive.

The woman is being the child, but even her yelling at him is better than none? If you yell, he sees that in the only way he understands yelling. He sees it as you want a fight, which seems absolutely crazy to him.

It does annoy him when he shouts and I don’t. Yes, because that’s the mode of dealing he is in. Remember when I said earlier that the second charka can learn, but it can’t be taught? You cannot educate it?

But then he says, “Well, I’m not talking to you if you are going to yell at me.” He might not actually know he is yelling, or he may not know how to step down from frustration mode at the moment.

I need to be the model? Yes. Don’t tell him what you are feeling, show him, and don’t show him just the obvious act. Show it all. Show the deep parts of it too. He really isn’t stupid. I see superficial responses in women when expressing emotions even gently, like they are dumbing it down.

So adults should throw temper tantrums too, if that gets the message across? Actually, from time to time you should, not losing the child like empathy that goes with it. Ever notice a screaming, ranting little child will stop and look shocked when another child starts crying? You don’t have to make your point. You don’t have to be right. You have to be smart enough to be stupid.

I’ve done that myself with my niece. I pretend to cry and she stops. It works, because this is human nature. This is the same for everybody. You have to be smart enough to be stupid. You have to be wise enough to be foolish.

With one niece who has downs syndrome, the effect is even more strong on her. It’s very interesting. Indeed, it is. Autism is human nature without the filters. I’m an adult example of it. To speak from my own experience, I have had people tell me I am both the most sane person they have ever met, and also the most crazy. From my own point of view, I am just crazy, and I don’t bother to try to be anything else.

Your nature makes these classes work so well for us. You don’t hide or preach stuff, you just talk. I’m glad. I have no use for preaching. I can’t tolerate it myself.

Take Time To Feel

If you want your feelings to make sense, you have to be honest about your desires. If you want your behaviours to make sense, you have to take the time to feel.

I love being inside a church, but I don’t like hearing ministers very often. Church is best when it’s quiet. Sacred places are wonderful. It’s too bad they profane them with pointless prejudice.

I’m guessing Jesus was a rather quiet person in his life. Yes, and anti-social. He spent long parts of it on retreat in the desert.

I think he had no blockages of these chakras, evidence the tantrum at the temple. He did have a tantrum. He beat some merchants and trashed their stalls, because they made a temple into a market square and that made him outraged. He had gone there for meditative reasons, and mocked him when he said their activities didn’t belong in the temple.

There is such a thing as righteousness. There is self righteousness, and there is being right with self. Being right with self is true honest righteousness, but having an elaborate system of self justification is hypocrisy. It doesn’t matter what reasons you have for anything, really. To the degree that your awareness is unfeeling, you are being a hypocrite. To the degree that you are thinking and not really looking, you are being foolish.

Again, I am not attacking thinking. Just conventional thinking, habitual thinking. Something strange happens when you stop trying to think and instead feel. Your thinking will go on no matter what. It’s a life function like breathing or a heart beat. But when you allow instead of try force to think, and instead focus your awareness on feeling, the thought that spontaneously arises is real, truthful, and natural.

A parting thought. Feeling is not the same thing as emotion. You will have all sorts of emotions. These are just reactions to how you are treating yourself. Feeling is a sense, like sight or hearing. It isn’t unstable or untrustworthy. Long explanation made short, trust your gut.

Solar Plexus

Powerful Awareness

This is the third in a series of psychic health classes. We are talking about the solar plexus chakra, and how it affects consciousness and our lives.

Tantien/piko? It is one of the Hawaii “chakra.” Yes, exactly that. It does correspond to the belly button. The sacral chakra is below that.

As we spoke of earlier, our animal instincts are governed by the lower chakras. It’s at the third chakra that we see the earliest level of what we would consider human awareness, and it is perhaps the most powerful part of human awareness, at least for most people. The part of awareness I am speaking of is opinion. New research in neuro-psychology has discovered that what was seen as a very simple part of the brain, the amygdala, influences all of our behaviour on a fundamental level.

Opinion as in judgement calls? Well, that too, yes. It’s the seat of judgement, and is the meeting point of the voluntary and automatic elements of the nervous system, and thus conscious function.

It goes “[opinion] therefore [judgement]“? A little bit more complicated than that. You have an opinion before you have a judgement, but you have a feeling before you have an opinion.

Is the third chakra what makes your hair stand up when you feel fear? Even if you aren’t sure why you are afraid at first? Yes, it is. The second chakra is a seat of memory, but the third is memory put into action.

Gut feeling? Gut is second, and the second chakra is subconscious. But it shows up on the level of the third to our conscious thinking. The third mirrors the gut, but at the same time it responds to the heart.

Interesting. A gut feeling and then we “catch our breath”. Second to third? Yes, exactly. Speaking of breath, it sets the rhythm for all conscious thinking. You cannot hold you breath and think clearly for very long. You cannot change your pattern of breathing and not change your flow of thought.

Most people have weird breathing habits because of conflicts between their heart and gut, between feeling and faith, and really those two fields are the whole ground on which we form opinions. You can act either on feelings or faith. Is anything else possible?

Some would say thought. You cannot act on thought. You plan action with thought, but you enact your plans based on feeling or faith. You even start thinking about things based on feeling or faith.

Choice Center

I find panic comes when I can’t decide which one to follow within me, heart or gut. That’s the problem for everyone. This is why the third chakra is so often out of balance, and really this happens because people see the conflict. So they create the conflict in their thought, model it very clearly, and then motivated by the feeling of fear they enact the thought which leaves them paralyzed. It’s why at the third chakra you are at your choice center. Ever notice you either speed up your breathing or slow it down every time you have committed a choice?

Hmmm. Hmmm is slowing down the breath.

A big sigh of relief, cleansing breaths. And a sigh of relief is speeding it up. Balance between the gut and heart comes with evening out the breath.

Does speeding up or slowing down take us to either the sacral or heart chakra? Yes. Speeding the breath takes you to the gut, and happens when the enteric nerve plexus is processing information about your body and the aspects of your environment related to physical and metaphysical change. Slowing the breath takes you to the heart chakra.

More of your thinking is in your breathing than might seem obvious. The breath is a physical metaphor for what has been called the serenity prayer.

For us in Hawaii it = life. It is life. Life in motion. Beneath the level of being able to breath air, you still have life. But it isn’t as capable of choice, nor capable of adaptive diversity, not on the level of breathing creatures.

ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono … Perpetuated is the breath/life of the land/earth, even in the righteous path/way. Well, that’s the big mystery of the third chakra. You breath, but it isn’t your breath. Not something you can claim creation of. No sky, no breath. No sea, no breath.

No earth, no breath. Also literally true. The mass of the planet is what keeps our atmosphere here. That big rocky core. Choice is the same. We struggle with choice. We think we have to make choices, and we make every choice a crisis forgetting that even if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

I think this is what the Buddhists mean when they say we have freedom when we have only one choice. We’re in balance then? Yes, exactly. No choice happens in a closed system, and you don’t breath in a closed system. No one thing lets you breath, not even you. If you choose not to breath, you will eventually faint and start breathing again, because breath is the order of life and our world. Really, the whole universe. It’s not your breath. It’s Gods breath. Does this deny free will? Does it mean we can’t make choices?

The third chakra is the seat of the will. If you remember the belly button as the center of your will, you will have the whole idea very clearly. You can’t choose not to choose. Nature has no empty spaces, but you can set the pace, set the rhythm. Even sound your voice. Sing, but you sing from your diaphragm. If you sing with any strength, you sing from the third chakra.

The diaphragm has been taught to me as the seat of will, the solar plexus. It is, but it’s not powerful by itself. If it were by itself, it would just be dead.

Choice And Free Will

What is it to make a choice when all choices are dictated by the spirit of the world?

Harmony or disharmony. Playing an instrument well or poorly comes to mind. And that is part of the choice making process, yes.

Choice and free will are acoustics. You can sing of your free will, and the world changes the sound by bouncing it back at you and you hear it differently, but it’s still a response to you. But the world isn’t passive. It isn’t just walls you are bouncing sound off of. It’s alive with the same life you share, and it’s listening. So as the world listens to you, it gets an ear for your song, and modifies it’s own. Sort of like the wave/particle paradox. You are exercising free will, but you aren’t moving or changing the world. Even if it looks like you are, you are changing yourself, your observation. It’s like being a spiritual bat. You understand the spirit of the world (or spirit world if you will) by taking an action, engaging in self expression, and listening to what happens after. Ever notice how variable that is? Is it literally true that the same action always get the same results? Science itself works by listening to the world.

So Einstein was not totally right? No, he wasn’t totally right, but it wouldn’t be fair to expect him to be. He was still a world changing genius. Science works by asking the world really well worded and persuasive questions.

His was just a theory. Wasn’t it not a proven fact? Much, but not all of his theory is holding up quite nicely. There were very few blind spots. Less than perfect is still good enough. All human understanding is automatically less than perfect.

Persuasive questions. That is where it gets tricky between the observer and the observed. Exactly, and that’s why people get to feeling their life is out of control and like they lack free will. They don’t realize they are choosing to be an object. Something is scary so I have to breath faster, or something is disappointing so I have to breath slower. The problem with choice is not having too many choices. It’s thinking that allows us to have too few.

I have been amazed at the totally new insight that can arise when I just regulate my breath. Well, even more amazing, the insights aren’t totally new. Your body already knew them. You just weren’t listening. Too busy with noisy, uneven breathing.

Is sleep apnea related to this solar plexus chakra? It can be, yes. Though I find it’s more tied to the chakra above the heart. The chakra responsible for informing, for giving or breath structure. The third just gives it pattern, rhythm. It’s the fifth chakra that sort of serves as the crack the light comes through.

Inner Dancer

You do nothing without the third chakra. So if you need to do new things, remember to catch your breath. This resets the chakra.

It doesn’t have memory, that’s lower in the gut. It has reactivity. It’s a membrane that changes as pressure from the gut and heart meet at it, and operates as a switch to balance the flow of energies back out, like turning a light switch on and off.

What happens when you press your hand hard against a light switch?

It goes on and makes a loud noise. And then stays on. This happens with us as well. This is why we get stuck and think we have no choice. We think we have no choice to the degree that we think we must make choices. Make = force. The third chakra is our inner dancer. The heart is our drummer, and the gut is our strings.

So if we can flow with choices that is when we have freedom? Exactly. When you think you have to make choices, you either get caught in the strings, the connections and relationships…

Then we get tense, tied in knots and the current can’t flow correctly. And yes, you get very tense, and even twist the chakra that you are supposedly choosing to favour. Press hard enough on a switch and you will break it. Distort your awareness of it.

Or pounded by the drum and feel beat up. A feeling people get when torn by the heart. Exactly. It comes from the idea of must, of have to, and yes, those who choose to favour the heart chakra are stuck on faith, principles and beliefs, and cut themselves off from any sensitivity to the object of their faith. How much does it matter that you love your partner if you will never hug them? Or that you love your child if you will never feed them?

You choose at the third chakra, but you do it at the second. Then you learn what you did at the root. Learning and thinking are not the same thing. We don’t learn a dang thing by thinking.

Kind of strange that the brain is literally in the arse. Evolutionarily, the simplest creatures had no difference between their arse and their stomach. They had just one center of activity that controlled their whole being. That simple creature is still in us.

My daddy always said, “Get your head out of your.…” People need to realize that is where their head belongs. They just need to have it there on purpose, then they would get their arse moving.

Rectal cranium inversion. You would get moving if a foot was headed there. We need to be head over heels. Makes the system flow. Energy flows by flopping from one pole to the other. We just have to realize we aren’t static objects, but dynamic presences. We are indeed dynamic presences.

The world really is upside down. It is. The eyes see it right. Your brain gets it wrong, but that’s not the brains fault.

At The Heart

You can’t really understand the third chakra without understanding the troubles of the heart. The heart is a grand temple. It’s the seat of the subconscious taken to a transcendent level.

At the level of the heart, you have a feeling of the expanse. At the heart, you have the awareness of heaven or the heavens. But your heart isn’t guaranteed to be a heaven, and the heart can be the seat of the Father of Lies, which is a term that predates Christianity. It was present in the wisdom of the Magi. The God Ahriman’s anme translates directly as Father of Lies.

Does the heart think lies are protection? Why do we lie in the first place? We lie because we believe, and we have jammed our third chakra switch. We lie when we believe we have no choice. The heart doesn’t think. It doesn’t even feel. It believes. There is an evolutionary explanation for this. The simplest creatures are literally heartless. They don’t need one as their simple structural and chemical systems are enough to provide them with all the energy they need to pursue what their little root consciousness is capable of. They don’t need anything more. The heart arose only when the organism had to have a wider range of adaptive options, and when it arose you got the parts of the body mind that could remember places it had been, and what that was like for it.

The second charka feels. The third chakra chooses. The fourth chakra believes, but it believes everything. It believes in anything. This shows up in a lot of the subconscious process of the brain. The hind brain reacts to scary pictures the same as it reacts to auditory threats or painful sensations.

So the heart remembers past lives? Yes, it does.

Gives you that feeling of knowing someone for a lifetime even if you just met yesterday? Yes, exactly.

The heart doesn’t choose. The heart is not wrong. It’s a wonderful synthesizer. It is the seat of wisdom, because wisdom is the synthesis of all experience, and the body mind experiences on all levels. It can only be made whole by a part of your consciousness that accepts everything, believes everything.

Now as I said earlier, my reason for talking about the heart was to understand the mystery of the breath. The solar chakra, the universal spirit or Holy Spirit to Christians and Jews, has always been represented by a flame. It’s an independent force from the individual, just like air exists independently from your lungs. But the will, being the wonderful sensor that it is, reacts not only to the heart and gut. It reacts directly to the electromagnetic fire of the world around it. It doesn’t know or care where the electrical stimulation is coming from, but it can misrepresent it.

The third chakra is a big holographic plate, and the gut and heart are the working and passive beams that allow images to be viewed on the third chakra.

We can get false signals? We don’t get false signals. We get bad synchronization. The gut is the working beam. It sets the actual strength or light level of the image. The heart is the passive beam. It broadens and deepens the image, and spreads it out so it shows in its proper dimension. The heart working properly gives us perspective, but you can’t work without the working beam. You make bad choices without the gut. Add in the spiritual sensitivity of the third chakra and it can seem like other things are making choices for you. Feel like God or a demon or spirit is making choices for you. No such thing is happening, but that third force is the substance of the choices you think you are making. You don’t choose objects. You choose subjects. You choose reactions.

A feeling like God is punishing you? Feeling like God is punishing you is an imbalance between the heart and gut. To speak of it theologically, God gave you your gut to house your spirit or drive. You are meant to allow for the gut. To express the gut in the heart. But instead most people think of the gut as evil, and thus jam the switch on heart.

Choice Making

People in relationships… Half are in the heart camp of everything is wonderful. Half are in the gut camp of just the facts. Very few are balanced in a relationship, especially a new one. Very true.

There are a few who make it to very mature relationships who are balanced. The balance is the secret to long marriages, I think. Indeed, it is.

Friends, ever hear someone announce, “My picker is broken?” It’s usually said after a string of bad relationships. It’s not the picker or chooser or third chakra that is broken. It’s that they don’t understand it so don’t use it, and wind up feeling used by it. Sort of like your heart will beat if you want it to or not, your chooser will choose even if you insist on ignoring it.

I think that is the case for people that like to dress in very revealing clothing when it doesn’t serve them well to do so. Yes. They have a distortion of self image. That arises from that clash between the heart and the gut.

They don’t understand their heart and think that is the way to meet a partner. They think that, and yes, they are wrong. I was attracted to my wife for her heart. It didn’t hurt that she is pretty also, but being autistic, I don’t really experience very strong hedonistic impulses. My drive to procreate and my procreative instincts are weak. They are there, but they aren’t strong. Neither is the gut level element of the parental and thus family bond. This is why I have no problem seeing peoples flaws / evils. They don’t upset me, so they are just objects of experience, and I make what seem like black and white judgments based on them though they seem irrational from a neurotypical individuals point of view.

My own view is these things are just energies, and I watch what they do. I don’t feel any qualms about inhibiting or eliminating the presence of some energies in my environment, or removing myself from the environment.

I used to be very much like that when I was younger, but I am much more attentive to bonds and loyalty now. I am also attentive to bond and loyalty, but I don’t experience them like you do. They are sort of fused beliefs and ideas. This is perhaps why those the aspergers have been described as literal and legalistic. My own style of legalism is more “crisis legalism”, but it’s still there. But that’s the ground of my choice making. Anyone want to share theirs?

I really like your description of how the chakras interact to form your decisions. Pleased to hear that. I do like clarity myself.

Heart Balance

Is there a difference between a panic attack and an attack of emotion? Yes. The attack of emotion is worse. A panic attack is situational. Even if it’s mal-adaptive, it’s still environmentally anchored. Emotion attacks tend to be more chronic and more pervasive. They leave more serious scars.

Like my breathing feels out of control when I’m really in a crying fit, but if I let it happen then I feel better. That is an attack of emotion. When you let the heart broadcast clear, you do feel better in that you feel clearer. Feeling being a function of the gut.

Do I get those emotional bursts because I’m in the habit of blocking my heart? No flow? That’s exactly why. Emotion is just an internal energy state. A syntax of your neurons and hormonal balance, if you prefer a material view. When it’s blocked from communications from the gut, it pools up without respect to the spirit state, becomes unanchored from spirit.

Is there a point when you should seek medical attention for these attacks? I have to be careful of giving medical advice, but I would say that if you are not able to see to your safety and well being effectively due to the emotional attacks, you might be better off with the prosthetic offered by medication, at least for a time.

Wine? Wine has benefits taken in moderation. And perhaps something you can use more freely, tea. It has an amino acid that sets your brain into a relaxed but aware state. It will let you feel your emotions without getting freaked out as much.

When I walked off my job, I felt for a moment that I should step in front of the bus as it pulled up. But then it went away even quicker thinking of the mess it would cause my loved ones. The heart isn’t foolish. It just needs better balance with the gut and head. That’s what you’re doing when you think you are making a choice. Otherwise you would feel fine and just do whatever you are doing. You wouldn’t make any new choices.

The master observer is the frontal cortex. This corresponds to the sixth chakra, and unfortunately most peoples sixth charka has degenerated into a raging bigot. But its job is to identify what it is you have focused your attention on to properly inform you of meaning. Unfortunately, it took the advice to get bent much too literally. The heart can fix that, but you have to have a grip on the fifth chakra for that. The fifth chakra is the seat of stories, of language, and we will explore it in depth later.

Any questions about the third chakra? Your chooser? Do you have answers? If so that will change. These classes should just set you onto an awareness. You don’t have a body and a mind that are separate. You have a body mind. Your endocrines in your belly and all the nerves there. Your vitals in your rib cage and all the nerves there.

I found that doing yoga helps me think clearer, gets more blood to the brain. It’s a good practice for that. Tai Chi also if you can’t stand staying still for long periods. Efficient brain metabolism is great. It links the flame/prana to your inner spirit and brings wisdom.

Tai chi for me is walking on the beach on a windy day. Having a good walk in a natural place is good for energy balancing also.

Heart

One Love

At this point in the series on Spiritual and Psychic Health, we are in a good place for a recap. We have covered the root chakra, the seat of the undiluted life force. We have covered the sacral chakra, the point of first awareness, feeling based awareness. We have covered the solar chakra, the decision center in our awareness. The point where our natural processes meet our conscious choices.

Today, we are talking about the heart. It’s not as well known a center as people’s use of the word would seem to suggest. We experience mating instinct at the root chakra. We experience the complexities of lust at the second chakra. We are faced with the decision to act on this or defer action at the third chakra. At the fourth, we experience the first traces of true love also called passion or devotion. It’s not a level of our awareness we typically engage on a day to day basis. It usually surfaces most frequently in the lives of those who pursue a path of exclusive spiritual devotion, monks and priests and yogis, mystics and people of that nature.

Is the heart chakra what allows us to bond with other living creatures? It’s the sacral chakra that allows us to bond with other living creatures. It’s the heart chakra that allows us to be aware of why. We bond first on an instinctual level. The feeling of being around living things and in a lush environment makes us feel secure in our own ability to survive.

It tells you the difference between your mothers love and love from a partner? Yes. That awareness originates from the heart chakra.

It gives you the difference in feeling. You still have to use your intellect to figure it out. Yes. The heart doesn’t possess the faculty of discernment. That isn’t for another two centers. The heart gives the capacity for range, breadth, inclusiveness and adaptation. On the level of the heart chakra, there is little difference. The heart has what is commonly referred to in reggae music as “one love”.

It’s not the function of the chakras to discern. It’s their function to generate energy from without and within and they help govern the meridians? There is a school of thought that sees the energy centers as divorced from direct consciousness. In my own experience this is partially true. Things tend to arrange themselves in this multiverse in a pattern of analogs, echoes of higher realities if you will. If it exists on our level, it has a parallel in the higher self. This is why we take the structure we do in the first place. Rupert Sheldrake refers to this phenomenon as morphic resonanceImage not found.

But yes, your flesh and blood organs and the subtle energy that moves through them are not the source of consciousness, but rather vessels of consciousness, and an injured heart organ does not necessarily mean that your spiritual heart has somehow been damaged. On the higher level things have a greater degree of (for lack of a better term) reproductivity. Things persist through a span of time by virtue of this higher force acting in the body. Otherwise, the subtle energy of the body loses direction and becomes arrhythmic until it decays all together.

Heart Felt

Perhaps a question. What is devotion?

Heart felt commitment.

Devotion could be strengthened by the chakras, but it’s not an expression of them. This is true. It’s sensed in them, but does not have them for its source. The chakras are just relay centers for our higher state of existence. The chakras are sort of like the input devices on your computer.

Still, unless you cleanse your chakras and manipulate them, your feelings (whatever they are) are going to be duller. I can always tell when I’ve been neglecting my chakras. Yes. Gum your keyboard up and communication can get much more garbled. The energy centers are also the channels that allow for the manifestation of the body in the first place, and they crystallize patterns for expression in this world.

So how do we know something is heart felt? There is also a sense of power. We know something is hot on many levels. We experience something so primal as heart and being burned on multiple levels. The internal proprioceptive pain, the sympathetic response of other parts of the body that aren’t suffering the injury, even the thoughts and fears associated with our idea of what it is to be burned. But we don’t normally consciously distinguish between these.

Is that why you often feel pain when your partner is in pain? Yes. Sympathetic pain can be a manifestation of that.

Could you explain internal proprioceptics? Proprioceptics is your sense of where you are in your environment. That is also your sense of where parts of you are in relationship to other parts, and it is the framework of your internal visualization of self. We experience a large aspect of ourselves only with the awareness of what we are not and where we are not.

So, what is the heart if it isn’t desire? And by the heart I mean that facet of awareness. It is not our desires. The heart is the seat of our perception of wholeness. It’s at the level of the heart that we become aware of wholeness, and we begin to perceive the meaning of wholeness in ourselves and the world around us. That sense we have when, though we may not like a thing, we are aware that it is still as it should be.

Book Of Life

The heart is the book of life, pretty much synonymous with what some call the akashic record. It’s at this level that we have our first real experience of full memory.

Isn’t the akashic record really an expression of the collective unconscious? It’s the heart of all of us, not just one person. Indeed. In fact, your flesh and blood have been inherited by you from a countless stream of other life forms. The matter that makes up your physical incarnation is borrowed and will be reclaimed after a time.

Is it the heart that makes a baby know his mothers voice? Yes, and the heart of the newborn has not yet begun to differentiate between the experience of the mother and the experience of the self.

So if “your flesh and blood have been inherited by you from a countless stream of other life forms”, then we really are not individuals are we? We are individuals in that we spring from a process of individuation in the world. The world brings distinct forms into appearance to encapsulate aspects of the broader awareness that is evolving in this world and all others. To speak metaphorically, the mind of God arises from a symbiotic interaction of all possible minds at all possible times in all possible spaces. No part can be negated without compromising the whole, and although a form might not seem to persist throughout all time, it persists indefinitely in collective memory.

Would you say the same way to reach higher intelligence is the way to the akashic records? I would. If the body is a temple, the heart is the altar.

The focus of awareness is not the active agent of change. When your heart is in something, you experience that moment or that event as all encompassing. In that moment of music or art or any endeavour really, or that moment of true rest, you feel a sense of oneness with all of existence. This is often a fleeting experience. This is why the Japanese compare the experience to being struck by lightning. It happens only very briefly, but you never forget it.

The eureka moment? Yes, exactly.

When I loose the heart of an activity it devolves into a bunch of parts. Scattered. That is a sign of being in an activity without your heart being in it, yes.

I got struck with an image of all the parts rolling to different parts of a room, under a couch, bed, book shelf. Indeed. When you have a to do list you cease having much room to be. The heart is the threshold of the being awareness. The elemental aspects of consciousness of being manifest in what some call the baser instincts. Sensations and drives, hunger, stress, lust, the base passions.

Do you see little benefit to having a bucket list? And how good it feels to cross something off? I think the bucket list is in a sense genetic. Genetic being having its root in a source or origin.

I am horrible with to-do lists. I find I am most productive when I follow what my heart wants. The heart awareness does spread the whole world out to your inner eye rather than structuring it in a series of opening and closing doors as the third chakra awareness presents it.

I think what your heart wants IS your list and you never forget what is on it and it’s ok to change you mind, right? A lot of people think it doesn’t count if you change. It is more than okay. It’s vital when there is disharmony in your inner being, and what counts is what occurs in your process. Not necessarily what happens in the often superficial events as they actualize in the physical world.

In the metaphor of alchemy, a spirit was an agent of change, a catalyst, and not a stable structure itself. The spirit combines with different things to express itself in multiple forms, but is not confined to any single expression. It cannot be isolated in any absolute sense.

Rule Of The Heart

How do you mend a broken heart? The heart never breaks. What needs mending is the perception of a broken or breakable world. When the heart is shut out by what we perceive to be some part of our world splitting, the perception of division, then we close off that aspect of the mind that I am calling the heart, and it’s manifest in sluggish energy in the heart chakra also. Things seem darker and our awareness dimmer. Hope seems more like fantasy in that state.

Hence the notion we talk about of building walls around our heart. We are dividing it. Engaging the heart can be difficult. We get lost in our heads or we hide in our guts. This is why we so often speak of things in terms of having the guts to do or say something.

I remember finding out a boy liked another girl was the end of the world to me in the 8th grade. Especially so when you are still trying to figure out the body’s weirdness. It takes guts to grow up. Actually, it takes heart. The guts handle themselves.

Would someone else like to share their experience of the heart?

So many. It took a long time for me to be able to trust men and I think it was a good thing I was distrustful at first. I did not let myself get into trouble. Ah, the level of the heart awareness is the level of trust. You might say trust is the rule of the heart.

It is what gives me a “feeling” when someone is being truthful or not. The heart only perceives truth, because it’s incapable of thought as we know it, and it receives experience from other centers. It trusts its eyes and ears and hands, even while the thinking part of the mind is busy making up reasons it should doubt things or be afraid. The heart is the seat of the power of belief and the center of faith as well.

When you say the heart only sees truth, does that mean it can be deceived? Or that it discerns lies at some level? It can’t be deceived, because it doesn’t separate things, and it can only be masked. The heart is not capable of insistence, not of it’s own power. The heart has been described as the small quite voice inside. It’s the spirit behind the conscience if not the set of dogmas most people call their conscience, and it is inherently permissive because it’s innately loving. Love is acceptance of the moment and the being in it exactly as they are. You cannot reject anything when you are filled with a sense of unity with it.

Take The Heart To The Root

Can the heart be conditioned? I find when I drink wine, then my heart opens up and I am more accepting and loving. The heart cannot be conditioned. But the will and the senses can be, and they can become quite rigid and noisy. The will can seem to relax when we partake of something like wine, and the drive of the senses become softer.

A small amount of alcohol can help can’t it? It helps a shy person be able to talk to a pretty girl? It does no such thing. It just quiets the other centers so the heart surfaces more obviously. This is the reason why they have said, “in vino veritas.” Forgive my spotty Latin. In wine, truth. It’s in the heart that we find truth. The wine just alters our experience of the body.

Are some people’s hearts more naturally loving then others? All hearts as a rule are loving, but love is not confined to a single expression.

Can music open the heart or is it just drowning out other centers too? Music opens the heart as it opens the channel between the heart and the next chakra above it. The seat of our story, the throat chakra, and the reason why we so often describe things as a pain in the neck.

What music opens ones heart is different for everyone. It is individual. Since the heart as a universal force is all inclusive, the objects of the individual hearts wisdom can include anything in existence. The heart is a reflecting pool, and you are the being gazing into it. Some people, when they first really experience the heart, fall into a narcissus like pattern. They become enamoured of what they see there until they lose their functionality. It takes great wisdom to get over ones own wisdom. This is perhaps something I myself have not achieved.

Is it as simple as use it or lose it? The heart must need exercise too. Use it or be lost in it. It isn’t enough to feel at one with God. To feel a sense of transcendent peace and love it needs to be grounded in the process of what we consider the mundane. One must bring it into the body, and in that sense follow the path of the worlds acknowledged avatars. Embody the God principle so that all may share in the bliss. You basically have to live your genuine conscience rather than get stuck in preaching or enforcing the choices that lock us into the throat chakra or the solar chakra.

Can we get stuck just enjoying the feeling? Yes. That is holding the heart in the sacral chakra. Just enjoying the feeling that the universe wants us and will let us be ourselves. We have to take the heart to the root, but that is frightening. The libido, or id to use terms from psychology, the inner animal or monster. It must enter the temple of the heart and become reconciled with the wisdom of the heart.

That would put the heart out in the world? Yes.

Experience Of Devotion

Experiences of devotion. Anyone care to share?

Coming to class here on Reflection Island. What is that experience like? I feel good that I am showing devotion to my spirit as well as to friends. They are both something I treasure. Feel whole with that in your life? Yes. What else makes you feel whole?

Cookies. Friends. Singing, generally. You have a life to the degree that you have a heart.

Maybe music because hearing is one of the first senses to develop? And nice sounds are always familiar ones. Touch is the very first.

Music seems to be at the heart of most of us. Music touches the heart in a special way. Oddly, cooking can do it sometimes. Making good wholesome food that everyone loves is a nurturing thing I guess. I feel happy when everyone is yumming over what I cook. The way of the heart can be found in the whole world. It’s a gentle breath that runs through all experience, but some things let us feel more free to breath than others.

Food is one of the first nurturing we get. People gather to eat. Gathering can be moments of awareness for us and we can either notice the elements of wholeness or become aware of elements of separateness.

Success is in the heart. Trying is in the will. Lying is in the throat. This is why we say words get stuck in our throat.

So lying will affect the throat? I’ve noticed that the voice often changes pitch when someone is lying. Yes.

It’s been said when Kundalini rises in men they have things like heart attacks, but women have lung/throat type stuff more because of the way we stifle. Women learn not to say certain things. Men learn not to feel. Withholding expression leads to lies of omission.

Then it makes a blockage? Yes. So as the heart is the seat of memory, every chakra retains elements of karma.

Then how do men (and women) have the Kundalini rise without the effects? Tantra attempts to answer that question.

We learn to clear those blockages? Blockages are resistance. It helps to get clear that non-resistance is not the same as obsession. The heart is a bridge. The messages are cars. Each needs to get off the bridge for it to serve as the vital path it is. Things have to be “gotten off your chest”.

You can try talking to the other persons higher self when you’re angry with them. That has been known to work wonders. Anger in a rigid form can be a problem. Anger is one state of the hearts energy and can transform when we let it.

Anger can be used as a bridge to higher emotions. It can be used to clear things. It is superior to apathy.

At some level, every path on the planet (all the worlds spiritual traditions) are to help you clear those blockages. I agree. In Hindu mysticism they say all paths lead to the absolute, just with differing degrees of directness and differing measures of suffering.

Hmm… I will be honest. My heart is in my part of these events only off and on. They often just seem to underscore a sense of difference and division between whatever I am and am supposed to do, and what people perceive and want these events to be. I respect peoples wills in these situations, but feel ill equipped to understand some things that occur. My heart differs.

I have no desire to force my will on the situation, but also not my presence either. My general disposition is to leave these topics and events in other peoples lives well enough alone.

Throat

Translator Of Everything

Today we are talking about the fifth chakra in the series on Spiritual and Psychic Health. The throat which includes the neck as well, and is all about communication.

It’s a more pervasive center than it might seem, because much of our thought and even our action is structured at this level. It is sort of like a binary switching mechanism and influences more than what we normally consider communication. Much of our potential comprehension is handled by this center as well as our expression. Have you noticed how much of an impact self talk can have on everything in your life?

I try not to do it out loud. Oh well, out loud or not doesn’t really modify its impact. But yes, talking to yourself gets you marked as a bit odd. For myself, talking to myself is a bit involuntary. The inhibition mechanism in my brain tends to get jammed. So as soon as an idea hits my awareness it can very often come out my mouth just as quickly. This is why I seem to talk well. I just let my stream of consciousness flow.

I guess comprehension comes in here because how we structure an idea to ourselves forms our comprehension of it? Yes, and in addition, what we talk about is what we pay attention to. I can talk about anything almost at random.

The fifth center or chakra is the neck, and we try to talk everything and everyone into submission. It’s like the tongue is a hammer and every ear a nail. This is not unique to those individuals conventionally considered a bit off. Most people use their words defensively or coercively, even those who don’t talk very much. The problem is you can’t do that and leave your own mind unchanged. The person you always convince is yourself.

A defensive throat would be a tight one? Exactly, where a coercive throat would be sore.

Then we’re strangling ourselves. Like trying to wrestle people with your speech.

The main impact of the throat chakra is lexicon. It’s the translator of everything, internal or external. Being the keeper of the Book of Life, it serves as the bridge between the heart and mind. Nothing really sinks in intellectually until it’s been expressed. But by expression, I don’t necessarily mean speech. When you developed habits of preference, patterns of attention, these are expressions of the state of the heart or the state of the head.

I find I understand things better after I am forced to teach someone else. Yes, exactly. I find I often get additional insights after these events myself. But the thing is, the throat center is also the seat of self hypnosis. Its impact is double edged. It has the obvious manifestation of self expression, but the interplay of the heart and the head in this center can create very realistic illusions.

You can talk yourself into or out of things. Yes. In fact, most of what people consider reality is just a really good sales pitch. Those who master this center master our world.

Someone I know has been rewriting history lately and exonerating herself. I was there for some of the events and she had been quite creative about what happened. This is true of everyone for the most part. Some are just more out there than others. They take more psychological license.

Reality Models

For most purposes there is no such thing as reality, not as far as anyone can effectively define it. But there is the virtual reality and the value of reality models is based on functionality.

How well does your model of reality empower you to deal with things that occur in your life? Manage, not fix. The idea that people have absolute solutions is delusional, nor is any solution so sound as to be universally applicable. But there is something that must be observed, and something that we often break from more than is good for us.

We are inherently social creatures which means we are inherently communicative. The seemingly meaningless small talk that people are forever doing, as well as the corporate interest serving media and political rhetoric, all serve to create an experience that we instinctively subscribe to. To a degree, this unwritten newsletter is functional, and we do need to check in with its reports. This has been called the consensus reality among other things.

Even in the discipline of philosophy where people stretch their intellectual legs as much as possible and consider some very strange things as well as mundane things in strange ways, there is still a definitive need for agreement of terms. Otherwise no meaningful philosophical discussion can happen at all.

There are people who will proudly declare that they are not philosophers. This is a philosophy. A rationale for eschewing any form of conceptual exploration usually because they have an ego investment in some sort of absolute reality model. Every time you speak a single sentence, every speech habit you have, is your philosophy. Any statement you make is one of belief. You chat with someone briefly and say that the weather is nice. That is a philosophical statement. It means you believe in nice days. It also means you believe that some days are not as nice as others.

Are you saying your observation is a philosophy? Yes, because your observation is a process of description.

So we see life through our own eyes? We see life through our own mouths. Until an experience reaches the level of articulation, it lacks much of what we consider reality. This is why the “unspeakable” is automatically suspect, and if you try to relate something to somebody and discover you can’t, you begin to doubt it yourself. What we see is the hologram created by the interplay between our hearts and minds.

Speaking is validating our experience? Well, speaking is more than validating. For our functional purposes, it’s perceiving. They say seeing is believing, but this isn’t correct, and people see a great many things that they don’t notice or recall in a day. This is so powerful a process that the person talking can forget simple things like what they had for lunch because they were busy talking about something else. You can’t think and chew bubble gum at the same time, to adapt a popular turn of phrase.

And it’s true of everyone, even those who aren’t talking out loud are doing so in their head. You are correct. It doesn’t matter if you are literally talking. Your brain talks on auto-pilot and most people rarely shift it out of gear.

They just filter it more. Analyzing. Yes. The person who always remembers what they ate last is also likely someone who thinks about food when not eating or needing to eat.

Is that why the mind goes blank when someone asks, “What are you thinking about?” That’s correct. The mind doesn’t switch tracks between talking in one way and talking in another. The heart can’t speak with a forked tongue, and the mind can’t speak on one thing at a time. So the whole shift just grinds your mental gears.

So do liars truly believe their lies? They wind up believing them, yes. The liar ultimately outwits themselves. The liar can’t retain knowledge of the truth for very long. They either rehearse their lie really well and forget what they were lying about, or they keep their mind on the truth and cease being able to lie about it.

The dissonance would otherwise break them. It does everyone. In fact, the root of our social mental health problems is not in our intellects. You will find that a great many of the mentally ill are rather clever, even down right sharp. Where their mind breaks is in the language. Their throat center starts taking in a spouting garbage. As they say, garbage in – garbage out. They don’t do it on purpose. They don’t need to. The consensus reality has some serious bugs in it. As Carl Jung said, “Insanity is a sane response to an insane situation.”

Open Throat

The throat chakra, or communication center, serves as the bridge and control switch between the heart and the head. Think of it as the telephone operator between your thinking and feeling consciousness. For some people, the control of this call center is outsourced which has a lot of possible complications related to it. For others, it’s one way which is equally bad.

Following the party line? Exactly. If you haven’t spoken your heart, you won’t be able to listen with your head. Likewise, if you haven’t given voice to your thoughts, then what your heart reacts to will be out of whack. Without articulating your thoughts, your heart center has to use what line static manages to get through on its own.

Is this where a diary can be helpful? I find writing down my ideas helps me sort them out. Exactly, or blogging, or chatting with a confident, or prayer in some of it’s forms. The list of possible throat balancing activities is as long as their are options for self expression.

Or Second Life? Yes. Even a virtual world like Second Life can help with it.

I’m reminded of relationship communication breakdowns. In a relationship argument, one party is usually stuck on the head speech and the other is stuck on the heart speech. True, and again they will only handle those in a mutually helpful way when they reach agreement of terms. They have to meet at the throat level.

The throat controls our focus, as well as the mouth music we make, and the hostile person is also the one forever rubber necking to find faults in others. In fact, when people speak of having an open mind, it should be an open throat. An open communication center in the brain.

Ever notice that sudden realization always has the same body language? The jaw drops, open mouth, eyes wide. The throat center is also where we remember to breath. We experience breath in the throat, and if we remember to breath, we slow down our speech even if we don’t intend to. It has the side effect of making us think that little bit longer about what we are about to say.

Does the physical condition of your throat affect your thinking? It indeed does. The physical condition of the throat is often linked to the condition of the thyroid. One of the most important endocrine glands in the body. It also directly links to your brain stem, and that part of your brain has executive override on literally all of the so called higher functions of the mind. This is why your thoughts can be totally interrupted by a sudden startle.

The business world has been dominated by neck ties, but they have been coming off in the last 20 years or so. How is that reflected in the business world? Open throat, more honest business, more creative thinking, and more willingness to abandon outmoded models of activity.

The internet revolution. Yes. Some of the most successful business people these days are not often seen in person. They do all of their moving and shaking, as they say, on line.

Say What You Say

If you are having a problem with the throat chakra, you often won’t notice it. This chakra, and those above it, tend to be projected out onto our experience. But the health impact is greater because of that.

The communication center has as much impact on every other aspect of your health as your heart does, literally. You could yell yourself to death and it wouldn’t be death by throat problems. It would be death of heart break. Your cardiac nerve plexus is not just the center for regulating your heart beat. It’s the pace maker for your brain as well. It sets the healthy rhythm for your default mode network. Aggressive speech jars the signal between heart and brain making it broken, disjointed and to some degree incoherent. But your use of the throat center is entirely voluntary, at least for most people.

If I am complaining about things, I find my mind gets one track. Yes, and then it rapidly gets fatigued, and you can’t think about anything which means you create new problems as you likely overlooked a lot when you got so upset.

The brain pain results in stress that cascades throughout. Exactly. You can’t scramble your brain and not damage the entire body, and your speech shapes every other pattern in your brain, at least in spurts.

So Mom was onto something when she told us to watch what we say? She was giving bad advice. Better to say what you say and know what that is in the moment. Using mind to monitor self expression creates that one way flow through the throat chakra. This makes the heart and all the lower centers rigid, inefficient in their function. It can cause things like arthritis and congestive heart failure. Inflammatory speech is literally inflammatory, and rigidly controlled speech is inflammatory.

I can see how the negative patterns could form. Negative patterns being chronic negative or chronic positive speech. It creates the pattern of inflammatory self talk. We also call that biting your tongue.

Brainstorming works best when you don’t censor yourself. Just let it flow. When you don’t censor yourself you tend to be able to watch your words more easily. As you gush, your mind starts moving faster than your tongue. The person who controls what they say never really masters avoiding the faux pas. They often make more. They call those Freudian slips. Over eating and alcoholism also arise from efforts to control speech, or I should say restrict speech. We drown our urge to yell or cry with strong drink, or stuff the feeling of emptiness with food instead of communication which is what it needs.

My ex used to critique everything I said by style and grammatical construction. Eventually, I started to stutter. There is a reason he is your ex, and appropriately so. You can’t critique and actually listen. I sometimes voice a substitute phrase for something my wife said, but that’s not to correct her. But instead to restate her idea so I can be sure I understood it.

You feel empathy at the heart level. You achieve comprehension at the head level, but understanding is at the throat. There is a part of your mind that recognizes the degree that your statements don’t match up with your sensations. Because at the root of your consciousness, there is a part that understands what you see and hear for exactly what it is. It only gets translated later, and the translation is necessary because we can’t act on the immediate sensory impact.

I heard someone say that you blush when your internal sensations don’t match what you are projecting externally. That’s a fact, and blushes always start at the neck. They are always there even if the person is practiced in controlling their body language.

Blend of Heart And Head

Song lyrics and poems are often a good blend of heart and head. Yes, and we perceive this person to sing well even when their voice is somewhat strange and even mildly irritating.

What about singing without words? That is in many ways the most expressive.

Your brain has two broad channels. Two general domains of operation. You have the top down channel which is how you make your self do things, establish voluntary control over your own actions. And you have what they call the bottom up channel which is how you become aware of your physical and perhaps also emotional states, and how you are capable of having reflexive reactions based on stimuli you “haven’t processed”. Flinching because of something you see but “didn’t really see”. You can react well before comprehension, but these both join at the throat chakra. Just as you can give an eloquent speech, you can give a startled yelp. Just as you can give voice to an angry rant, you can also be unable to voice anything other than moans of passion.

We often catch ourselves humming. Yes. So whether you think you are talking to yourself, you actually are and all the time, and it isn’t always your head talking. That humming is heart “speech”. Music is just the heart and head joining. In fact, even wordless singing has the head in it. The brain adds rhythm and structure. It likes things to be ordered, and it likes to work with the heart if we let it. This is why music is so good for cognition. Music is so general in our brains as to pretty much permeate all centers.

They say you learn better with music on. They say and have studied it. The studies back it up with the exception of the music being emotionally agitating. Though they can’t prescribe specific forms of music effectively, because for me heavy metal music is soothing and for other people its upsetting.

I have a friend who gets migraines and she says metal helps her as well. Like a mental deep pressure massage.

Stop Censoring

The term stupid originally meant to be mute or incapable of speech.

Deaf, dumb, and blind. Dumb = mute. Yes. So the dumb thing to say is the thing you censored. You won’t run off at the mouth if you stop censoring. Your voice doesn’t speak on it’s own. You can and will get tired of your own speech, either because no thoughts come or because you don’t feel like speaking. I would even go so far as to say you don’t really appreciate quiet until you have talked yourself silly.

And those that don’t say curse words tend to talk a lot anyway. The urge to curse stems from a throat chakra block. I do sometimes curse. My aspergers makes it difficult sometimes for me to convert my thoughts into speech that makes sense.

When you don’t know why you feel bad for example, using word association as a technique is partly to open up this channel? Exactly. Most psychotherapeutic techniques are dealing with the throat chakra.

Or to just start saying words of any kind? It’s saying words of any kind, because you can’t and won’t avoid speaking your thoughts or feelings. The brain is really not capable of avoiding self expression. It can just choke hard core or garble the message badly.

That’s interesting. I often find my partner doesn’t know why she is upset, but I’ve never had that issue. Perhaps that’s why she had the problem, too much self censorship. Very likely. What I find helps with people like that is to say something at random when they aren’t expecting it. Short phrases or even just a couple of words. Their thought loop will be broken by the unexpected and incomprehensible expression from you. Then you can get them to talk a bit more until they stiffen up again. This is how Zen koans work. They open your throat so you can see into your head. See clearly. Koans are riddles. Unanswerable questions designed so you see the errors in your internal dialogue. They teach you that you aren’t really aware while you are too busy thinking. My advice for guys, talk your ladies ear off, at least from time to time. It will do her good even if you just make her ask you to be quiet.

I think women in general have more problems with self censorship then men. All the teaching of little girls to be good and quiet. There are other reasons for that as well. Women have a different structure to their language center. The throat chakra gets blocked more because it’s more complex in women, more places the block can occur. Guys have an easier time grunting or blurting out their thoughts. The throat is less of a maze. Neither version of the throat chakra is superior to the other, but it can be helpful to both partners when they find the common terms there. If he makes a solid, strong statement of affection, that has more meaning than if he is being wordy. Men who are wordy are either exceedingly intellectual, and by wordy I mean really verbose, or the wordy men have learned a stupid pet trick because women find it charming.

Yes, and we can get suspicious that they’re trying to cover guilt if they’re too wordy. Another stupid pet trick, but that one is usually learned by their having been coerced rather than making an effort to coerce.

My advice tonight is simple. Talk to your plants. Talk to your pets. Talk to your neighbour. Talk to your boss. But your words are like your body. Let them be present but don’t lean on people. Just because you feel it’s important to communicate or to hold your tongue doesn’t mean you should either flee mentally or molest the other person mentally. Hell, realize you talk to yourself, and if you are worried about saying the right thing to anyone, make that be yourself. If you are speaking meaningfully to yourself, you won’t trip over your own tongue with other people.

I heard a Buddhist teacher comment once on how if someone next to you was speaking the way you speak to yourself, you wouldn’t be around them long. And that’s the essence of a healthy throat chakra. Making what you say to yourself and what you say to others balance, not be one sided.

Third Eye

Integrative Function

Today we are talking about what is commonly called the third eye. Though the ajna chakra itself includes the entire frontal lobe and is the seat of consciousness as we know it normally, the fundamental understanding to be had about the third eye is this.

Thought is not self awareness. It’s not consciousness. It’s a sense like hearing, taste or touch. Where it differs from the five senses is that it serves an integrative function. It’s the sense that merges the other senses and makes them available for real comprehension.

The third eye chakra is not even a single chakra as much as a unified field generated by a set of chakras. Current neuro-psychology is discovering that our awareness is handled by a set of modules in the forebrain. Our ability to perceive anything in what could be thought of as an extrasensory way takes place in this chakra or region of the human energy field.

Is this between the two sides of the brain or at the front of the head? Between and at the root, just in front of the amygdala, behind the eyes.

So it is where your subconscious and conscious thinking happens as it does when you’re dreaming? Our dreaming perception is based here, and in fact our theta wave activity is centered here. The theta wave in the brain is the carrier signal for all other forms of consciousness. The theta wave signal in your brain gives rise to what they call the twilight state of consciousness. That point just between waking and sleeping when images first start to emerge in your minds eye on their own.

It’s the linking point between your mind and your brain. It’s in the third eye that awareness of your mind is received by your nervous system. There are cases in which a person is experiencing almost normal brain function in all other respects, but they are catatonic.

Like a waking dream? Exactly, unable to respond in any clear way to any experience.

Third Eye Training

You don’t need to be psychic to have an active third eye. In fact, everyone’s third eye is really very active. Perhaps the primary function it fills in most people is the projection of their perceptual filters onto their outside experience. It’s not only the reason you notice things, but it is also the reason you don’t notice a lot of things as well. It’s conditioned by your habits of attention and will. Hysterical blindness takes place not in the occipital lobes which are in the back of the brain and where the visual signal is first received. It happens in your forebrain, in the third eye itself.

Astral travel? This ability is centered in the third eye as well. Ever notice when you’re drowsing in bed your sense of your body becomes a bit strange? Either larger than normal or smaller, even maybe not there at all. It even shows up in those early images before you fall asleep. You can see images that look like people but their dimensions are all wrong, inflated, or too skinny, squashed or stretched out in a weird way. Recent research has even found that the phenomenon of synesthesia is not abnormal, just not active in most people.

Can you train the third eye? You can indeed. The first step being to remain calm in the middle of all the strangeness. The third eye registers light in a non visual way, and it registers parts of the energy spectrum that we don’t even consider light. The reason the visual images are so strange is that what the third eye is showing you is non-local reality. The objects of perception don’t have physical dimensions.

Like ghosts you see in the corner of your eyes. Yes. The peripheral vision often triggers a sort of visual release. It makes us analyze less, so we often first pick up on the sixth sense or inner vision in those situations. This is where many people first see an aura, but learning to use the third eye is really not much more complicated in practice than doing something like learning to drive. The biggest part is just learning what to look for and recognize what it is when you see it.

The reason it can seem complicated is because it’s also the center where we experience hallucinations and psychological projection. So a lot of what you see with your third eye at first is just your thoughts.

I’m guessing that blockages of this chakra often explains the high number of people wearing corrective lenses? We’re straining to “keep it real”? Indeed.

Basis Of Knowing

What does the third eye enable you to see exactly? Is it like a door to another dimension? Good question. Actually, the third eye just sees more deeply into reality around us. We train our perception to eliminate a lot of what we sense early on. We get into patterns of strained focus that in time stop feeling strained. It can even require stress to interrupt in extreme cases. Our external reality is a composite of multiple dimensions, about ten. In Kabbalah, they call them the sephira.

So it’s more of a heightened insight and contact with things we already know but can’t get in touch with? Exactly. It’s the basis of knowing. The reason we often know things without knowing why we know.

In the European renaissance Descartes believed the third eye, or then so called pineal gland, connects the physical realm with the non physical realm. Nowadays string theory assumes twelve dimensions. Good point, and beyond the ten spheres of “normal” reality they do have threshold states though they differ in describing what might be beyond that threshold. People fear the unknown. Strangely, they do themselves more harm by exerting their minds in the constant strain it takes to supposedly stay anchored. What they consider grounded and down to earth.

Is there a threshold or does it rather all hang together? It does indeed hang together. The perceptual threshold is described as a veil. Perhaps a manifestation of curved space time.

All of our capacity for thought arises from our capacity to sense or perceive. You cannot think of something outside of a sensory framework, and our mind will create metaphors to translate stimulation into an intelligible form. This comes up when they experiment with brain surgery patients and stimulate regions of their brain with mild electrical current. Well, even stranger energies than the photo-electrical and electromagnetic spectrum effect our nervous system.

My point about linking thought to sensation is this. The objects of thought are like phantom images of deeper and more complex presences in our external reality. We are just perceiving things in a dilated way, like looking at reality though binoculars backwards, or through a fish eye lens.

So all my thoughts are real things that my mind is just perceiving and translating to my brain. And being non-local phenomenon, they may be emerging as constructs of states of being or activity we consider internal. We “see” inside our body. We also see inside other peoples bodies as well. This is why the mirroring response can kick in even without overt sensations to pick up on.

Theory of mind does not refer to them as phantom images. They rather call them mental representations, but can we really go beyond representations? What comes first, mind or matter or information. Without mind we cannot perceive anything. But matter composes things and information arranges things. I somehow think human beings are still too incomplete to solve the quest for reality. I agree with you. This is why I function not from an idea of absolute reality, but finding an optimal “virtual” reality. A fuller range of perceptual and cognitive tools so that we can embrace what measure of reality is possible given our limitations. I don’t advocate any single practice as the one proper way of development either. I strongly suggest that each persons developmental needs are rather individual.

Inner Eye Sight

Much of what we are now discovering is factual, and even material data was originally intuited far earlier. I will ask, how was this possible?

They had more developed third eyes?

They were less confined by logic?

They favoured two states of cognition. It showed up strongly in their habits. The first being gamma wave activity or the gamma state. A state of pronounced vigilance without actual analytical thought. It’s what we get into when we are watching a fishing line closely, or when we are driving but otherwise go on autopilot. And the other state being theta. A disengaged state we often achieve when we nap very lightly, or are exhausted from intense thought or stimulation or perhaps too much coffee. Many of the great thinkers were known for craving stimulants or napping more than usual.

Thank God for autopilot. It is what I use to get to work each morning. It’s really a pretty vital faculty, and it’s going on all the time because the process we call dreaming doesn’t stop while we are awake. We just stop focusing on it.

The oracle at Delphi was thought to be under the influence of fumes seeping up from the ground. These great thinkers describe their creative process as being not so much making something up, as remembering it, or seeing it in their inner eye.

Now whether you believe it’s just a process of bringing together genetic memory in a novel and situationally appropriate way, or if you believe your inner eye like you do your external eyes and accept that it’s a real world you are seeing, doesn’t seem to make much difference to me. What do you think?

Author Of Causes

Do any of my thoughts come from my brain? Originate in your brain in the literal sense? Even science says no.

That would be like getting something from nothing? Yes. That’s the secondary purpose of the brain, as a memory medium, either genetic or quantum or something else. But most psychology is based on the assumption that the function of your mind and the patterns of your thoughts are mostly genetic which means they don’t originate from your brain. They even have a word for it in India. The collective memory that’s referenced by the third eye. They call it the akashic record. They believe that much of what governs our behaviour originates from this source of memory. This is why they say you can’t avoid your karma. It’s hardwired into your consciousness. You don’t at first know any better.

Are blockages in the third eye also causing stress, depression, psychosis, mental disorder? Yes. They influence all planning and processing.

So if people act horrible, are they referencing the collective memory too? They are referencing the collective memory, but the focus of your attention is still entirely yours to direct. Where you direct your minds eye dictates what part of the shared consciousness, and thus reality, you activate for yourself.

Like searching for bad websites on the internet? Yes. You still control your inner browser, or at least can.

This doesn’t negate free will? It doesn’t negate free will at all. Errors arise easily. People tend to make any powerful intelligence into a God, and assume the first one they encounter is God.

We can take it in. Can we modify it and put it back into the record? Indeed, because our attention is a broadcast energy. It’s our own signal of consciousness. Our mental radio frequency.

So we are constantly writing to the collective record? We are indeed.

This is perhaps our purpose here. To refine the record? Exactly.

The way God evolves itself. Yes, and time is an illusion. Even your present moment awareness is just a memory or delayed registration of what your eyes and ears originally picked up. Each time you reference some event from what you think of as your past, you change it even if only just a little. The experience of an event is said to change in hindsight as they call it. It clarifies.

Your future as well? That does affect your future, because whenever you plan and whenever you spontaneously react to anything, it’s your memory that triggers the response, gives you the emotion, tells you something is scary or that it’s okay, or even that it’s an opportunity to do something better.

If you dream about your future, can you change it? You automatically change your future by dreaming about it. Dreaming doesn’t include one future, but countless futures. The reason you remember only one of those futures is because it was likely the most emotional one. Emotion makes us remember things better.

Future and past are an outgrowth of what some scientists call strange attractor patterns. Structures that arise in what is otherwise a chaotic field of being and tend to reproduce themselves across the entire field like the aftershocks of an earthquake or magnetic spikes during a solar storm. It happens on a smaller scale as well. This process is also sometimes called formative causation. Our science describes energy dynamics at least reasonably effectively, but it fails to explain form or time. These are written into our genetic make up, our neurological development as well, and tell us everything from when we are hungry to when we would really like to change the television channel. This is why our mind often seems to have a mind of its own, and why sometimes things seem entirely unreal like we just make it all up in our heads.

The common mistake is to assume that because it’s in our minds, it’s unreal, or that we can find causes in effects. Our thinking is just a long string of special effects. Our mind, or soul if you prefer, is the author of causes, or can be if we awaken to it. The deep feelings we have that make us think that we can change reality, that there should be something more than this, these are just the tinglings of the arms and limbs of the inner mind. The soul that exists beyond the body. It doesn’t free you from the body, because it was for it’s purpose that our body came into being in the first place.

Human Potential

How do we tune in to the collective memory? You tune into the collective memory by tuning into bodily experience, by opening to the cycles of nature. The stimulation we get from the sun and the weather, from bird song and trees blowing in the wind, awakens those parts of our awareness that gave rise to our physical being in the first place. It’s a sort of awakening to the inner animal.

The potential release of energy is quite mind boggling to contemplate. Indeed. Human potential is staggering to contemplate, but you can’t move an arm until you feel the arm. You can’t move the world until you feel your connection to the world. Until then, you might feel more like a numb limb, or even worse an upset stomach, and feel like life is controlling you rather than working with you or as part of you.

If we would be able to tune into collective memory and even transform thought and memory into something physical… imagine that. It would be the observer effect raised to the umpteenth power. A degree of influence over probability that would seem nothing short of miraculous or magical.

This is what people are doing when they achieve their dreams? Yes. People do it to some degree today with even lesser degrees of awareness.

I believe that we possess yet to be unleashed powers. I agree with you. I also believe that we as a people possess not only incredible powers but an amazing range of individual powers.

I’m not talking about thinking of an object and poof there it is, but more in terms of energy. Yes, and even in the sense of art, science and technology. I feel we can achieve whatever insight we need to fulfill. Whatever vision we have of our own potential. There is no thing that we cannot learn or apply ourselves to do.

Side note. Once you make contact with another dimension, you see that their laws and our laws are connected even though their rules function in what we would see as unrecognizable ways, like bending time, or reversing entropy.

You mean laws of physics? Exactly. Even faster then light travel by perceptual shift alone.

Crown

Skeleton Of Human Awareness

We are discussing the crown chakra. In the crown, we have the collection of all other functions of human consciousness. It all comes together and projects outward to form our awareness from that point. But the crown chakra is also receptive. It receives input from all of the lower centers as well as input from the universe around us. In the crown chakra, we have the complete skeleton of human awareness, and it is also there that we typically experience it as a whole for the first time.

Normally, most peoples crown chakra is not fully activated. Only sections or modules, as they are often called, are usually activated at any given time. But there are practices that bring the various “petals” of the crown chakra into synch, as well as augmenting the signal between the individual mind and the universe. We also experience some measure of synchrony in our crown chakra in the states we consider to be altered, so to speak, like sleep.

Everyone familiar with what they now call the default mode network? They used to believe that the brain had periods of inactivity. Current research with functional magnetic resonance imaging has proven quite clearly that this is very far from the truth. Certain regions of your brain are always working no matter if you are awake or asleep. These parts are called the default mode network, because it’s the part of your brain that is doing something when you aren’t supposedly thinking anything.

Like the part that measures time? Yes. That particular part is also interesting and relevant to the topic of the crown chakra. They have found that the eyes do more than register visual images for the brain to process. They also tune and synchronize internal processes according to the external light cycle, and this particular process works even when the person is blind. Other factors come into play here of course. They have found that quantum entanglement is a dominant force, and that gravity may not be its own force at all.

Do visually impaired people still see light variances? They don’t actually see them, but they can be aware of them. They even train people who can’t see to tune into what they call “face sight.”

They could tell light from a TV apart from sunlight? Yes. They sort of feel it. They know if they are standing in the shadow of a wall or in the center of a room.

But to draw this back to the crown chakra, this center assimilates a wider range of awareness than we normally consider possible, but it models it differently. The parts of the mind that make up the default mode network function like the “dreaming” brain. In my case, my conscious forebrain is out of synch so the default processes bleed into my conscious awareness. So yes, much like the imagery people report experiencing when in sensory isolation tanks, your mind is always perceiving the world in ways more spiritual than logical or physical. All this while you are busy focusing your attention elsewhere.

Twilight State

Does the pineal gland have to do with the dream state? It does, yes, as it has a great deal to do with the inner cycle of the nervous system, and is influenced by external light stimulation as well. It has a nerve center around it that is structured much like the eye.

What are we “seeing” in the dream state? The default brain wave, that we rarely experience as the dominant state, is theta. The theta brain wave state is the signal your nervous system passes around to keep the neural channels open and accompanies all sensory and autonomic activity. When it reaches our conscious state they often call this the “twilight” state. This happens before we are asleep, but has dream like qualities. Everyone experience this before? When the weird spontaneous images just sort of flow through your minds eye?

This is where it gets interesting. The theta state is on the same wavelength as the background electrical activity of our natural world. There is always an electrical signal in our atmosphere even without radio or microwaves, just as there is a constant radioactive signal as well. They merge.

Other dimensions? Yes. They are also the source energy for the force we call gravity, and create the phenomenon we call time and space. So by default, our brain doesn’t pick up on light or heat or sound, they pick up on the background quantum signal but they cannot translate it into it’s own metaphor. We are adapted to perceive everything as our primary sense organs translate them. There can only be so many circuits in our brain.

This is why they use sensory deprivation tanks. To focus on what the brain picks up directly? It is what people came to use them for, yes. When your brain gets no other sensory stimuli, it focuses entirely on the one sense it has left.

We started out sensing the quantum universe, but evolved to interact with the physical world? Exactly. Single cell organisms perceive mostly on the quantum level. Through a process of symbiogenesis, our range of receptivity on this level broadened, embracing deeper dimension of the universe as we also incorporated different states of organic being. This is why viruses seek symbiosis with us. In a sense, they are looking to expand their consciousness. Almost a union with God, if you will.

Does our DNA pick up on the quantum field? It does indeed, and our DNA is still entangled with the matter its particles were originally drawn from. So parts of our DNA are in rocks and other structures.

A virus kills their own God by communing with it. Man has killed there own God by trying to commune with it as well. Even Buddhists say, if you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him. It’s a metaphor of course. The Buddha doesn’t represent himself or herself as Buddha. The awakened mind doesn’t see the state of being awakened as special.

So he is a fraud? No. He is genuine. Titles are fraudulent. You meet the Buddha every morning, and you meet them every night as well. The Buddha mind is the first mind.

In twilight state? Yes. Ever notice you don’t objectify anything in your dreams?

Maybe that’s why I like to sleep so much. It is. Though some have an unbalanced relationship to sleep, we identify with everything and everyone while we sleep, and even in the twilight state, we just receive what we receive, experience things as they come. We don’t apply our filters to anything.

What about lucid dreaming? Lucid dreaming is very tricky. Lucid dreaming can turn into the least lucid state possible, because it couples the passions of the waking mind with the perception of the crown center, potentially distorting the most primary mode of awareness we have. There were old traditions though that avoided this. Our ancestors didn’t have the conditioning we call keeping in touch with reality. They didn’t judge things as being real or not real as we do today. They just talked about their experiences and made observations, thus we have all the lore about gods and spirits and the spirit world. They were aware of processes going on behind their senses.

Maybe they viewed reality in a more encompassing state. Yes. We have been trained to make a lot of noise, and to rigidly filter our sensations against an arbitrary and often unhealthy / insane standard.

The crown chakra is the window onto the infinite vista that is the whole universe. There is no division between the physical universe and the spiritual, and our brains are as much shaped and guided by “occult” or unseen forces as they are by what we consider normal experience.

Science writes off many shifts in brain function as being random, accidental, arbitrary malfunctions of an organic machine, but even they say that the brain is not a closed system. For every deviation there is a reason why, and every form of change has a component that registers on our experience that we make of greater or lesser degrees of sense.

Full Immersion Training

We shall now go into what many consider to be a taboo topic. Those who know me well know I always go there.

The teachings of tantra are considered rather radical to many points of view, but they focus on a process that leads ultimately to integration, though perhaps it does work best with the assistance of a guide. In it, they engage in activity and ritual that stimulates the lower chakras. I can describe the actual experience of this process and its progression.

Most are familiar with the ritual sex practices of course. These serve to stimulate the root chakra and at the same time fire up those parts of the mind that are most primal and instinctive. The visceral level of awareness. The visualizations and contemplation that go with their sexual practices are often even rather scary, often including a controlled beating before the sexual ritual itself. They advance beyond this though. They eventually begin to compromise their sense of propriety, eating things that are considered unwholesome in their culture, and being drawn into heated verbal exchanges with their guide. This is to stimulate the sacral chakra, to shift their emotional balance and allow energy to flow unobstructed past that.

So anything to draw intense emotion? Ultimately, yes. It moves on to intense physical challenges after that. Extreme tasks like trips along difficult mountain paths, things of that nature. The Buddhists will be able to attest to the stories of extreme behaviour even among Buddhist teachers.

What does adrenalin have to do with this process to alter the state? Adrenaline makes the entire nervous system more sensitive, and makes regions of the brain, that normally wouldn’t connect, begin to. This is why in extreme deprivation situations, as well as extreme stress and strain, people begin to “hallucinate”. It‘s part of the mechanism.

Sun dance. Yes, or the whirling dervish ceremonies. The methods are many and widely varied, but all aimed ultimately at awakening the crown chakra.

I guess that is why BDSM is so popular. It gets that adrenaline going. In part, though their practices are often rather misguided.

Adrenalin is constantly shifting our states of consciousness? Adrenaline and dopamine. Dopamine is released in the brain during intense stimulation and exertion, and triggers the same region of the brain as cocaine, but doesn’t have the unnatural chemical scarring side effect. In fact, the more frequently one engages in sexual intercourse, the stronger the hormonal reaction to it gets and the more all consuming. In extreme cases, it can even be mildly detrimental, compromising the neuroimmune system.

Could extreme sports do this too? Extreme sports can and do. This is why the Greeks had their taste for it, and why they dedicated their stadiums to the Gods. They believed they came into contact with them there.

What all these serve to do is stimulate the dominance of the theta wave signal. Get you into and keep you in the “unthinking” state for long periods of time. A full immersion training method. The reason you hear that stimulating the serpent force of kundalini is so dangerous, is that it isn’t orderly and is progressive, and uncontrolled can seem to have a degenerative impact on your awareness.

And you can get stuck at points? Lost? Yes, because the signal keeps going no matter how you are interpreting it, so it’s easy to get quite obsessed.

Gopi Krishna wrote about this in “Kundalini: The Evolutionary Energy in ManImage not found“. A yogi who overused kundalini and experienced a type of insanity. He likely had traits quite similar to autism, repetitive behaviours, intolerance for outside inputs, obsessive focus on one object of interest of a narrow set of objects of interest, fetishist behaviour. I’m not saying it literally mirrored it, but perhaps not…

Now the ultimate goal of this process is to train the mind into full integration from the bottom up. Even science now is talking about there being two processes of consciousness going on at the same time. The top down being what we are most familiar with, involving our thinking about ourselves and our experiences and how that shapes our behaviour. But there is also what they call a bottom up process and the content of this awareness often doesn’t agree with the top down thinking. In the bottom up process, you have a combination of sensory conditioning, like pain tolerance say, and the automatic emotional responses that arose from this sensory input or lack there of. The history of getting huggies from our parents gets plugged into the bottom up facet of our mind, as well as the history of being lactose intolerant, or prone to sinus infection, things like that.

So visceral experiences? Yes, but they aren’t confined to what we consider the literal experience. They include our natural and immediate emotional reaction to the experience as well, and this, more than our conscious thinking, shapes our dream imagery.

I think as an artist, my main goal was to always evoke a visceral response. Visceral response is inherently meaningful response, where as intellectual inputs are quite routinely ignored.

The imagination is where the two processes meet, sort of like how the involuntary and voluntary nervous system both link to breathing. The imagination is “hyper-reality”. A multidimensional matrix of experience that can integrate our conscious being entirely if we come to understand if fully, rather than bend it and distort it to the point of our own insanity.

Universe Within

With the activation of the kundalini signal throughout the nervous system, after we work our way through all the contradictions that are embedded in our conscious and sensory minds (The sensory mind being subconscious – You cannot think a sight. You can only think about something you saw), at the point the signal reaches the crown at full strength, we bring the crown chakra on the air like a television station that broadcasts at the broadest band and every hour of the day the clearest truths our imagination can make us aware of.

As you’ve pointed out my friends, there are many ways to reach this state ultimately, each having its own merits and drawbacks. I tend to agree with the system of India in this regard though. What practices best suit your inner nature are the best way for you to reach the ultimate goal, for lack of a better way to say it. Once you reach the ultimate goal on a stable level, that really is just the start, but the states beyond that are beyond the body-mind experience.

Like when you reach black belt, you are now just ready to learn the real stuff. Yes, exactly. Those sages, who chose to remain and interact with the world at large very much, were often reported to be possessed of amazing insights and abilities. These are often called the siddhis or powers / perfections.

But can’t your mind realize things outside of your body? Your mind can realize things outside the body. What is necessary is integration. Realizing the universe within. The inner temple, if you prefer. The more integrated the entire being becomes, the fewer boundaries you perceive in the outer world. Not because you have lost sight of them, you don’t lose any part of your awareness, but they lose context and eventually cease to define your thinking or problem solving.

You use your imagination instead? Yes. Then all energy becomes as the breath. All matter becomes as the senses.

And the world mirrors you? Yes.

The lotus opened. Yes. Leading ultimately to seeing the world in a way defined by this process, and living in ways that facilitate or at least don’t short circuit this process. This is why we don’t see ascended beings popping up all over the planet and correcting our every mistake.

There is a purpose for everything. Yes. The thing that leads to the mistake also leads beyond it.

Is this the same as traveling up the Tree of Light? Yes, it is.

And everything is One thing. Indeed. It is all the logos.

One World, Many Paths. Yes. It is the reason for our group name.

Thank you all. This concludes this series of chakra posts on Spiritual and Psychic Health unless there is a desire to revisit some aspect of it again in the future.

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Travis Saunders

Dragon Intuitive

Table of Contents

- Cover
- License
- Dedication

- Chakras

- Working with Chakras

- Root
- Sacral
- Solar Plexus
- Heart
- Throat
- Third Eye
- Crown