Chakras

The Circle and the Line

One of the best ways to understand chakras is through the relationship of the two fundamental geometric shapes, a circle and a straight line.  Chakras are circles aligned along the vertical axis. We’re going to look at this relationship in a couple of ways which are intrinsically linked, simple geometry and intelligence.  That dynamic manifests as the Beauty and Wisdom of Nature.

When using a compass, we start with a point in the middle of the circle. The line starts off as that point or dot.  The dot can stretch from the center to the edge creating a line. Or it can move vertically upward establishing a sphere and by going beyond the edge create a spiral. These spirals emanate from a vertical axis that runs just in front of our spine. They can appear as padmas, flowers or as vortex. These are the basic structures of chakras.

The skeletal structure or scaffolding of our chakras starts with quasi-material known as ether. Ether is self-luminous, intelligent and sentient. It is the bridge between pure consciousness and matter itself. Without ether, matter could not organize itself on any level from molecular to galactic. All life-forms started out as ether: crystals, plants, insects animals, and humans. All are based on sacred geometry that starts with the circle and the line.

The circle has always been the ancient basis for architectural design.seven  It is from the circle that we see the creation of what is known as sacred geometry. The best example is a beautiful pattern of interlaced circles commonly referred to as the flower of life. This design is the basis of ancient architecture from Egypt to China and over centuries  European churches and cathedrals.

 

The entire universe is contained within our chakra system: the outer and the inner and the mirco and the macro reflect and support each other. To understand this in depth, I can offer you the reader my perspective that is grown over the course of five decades that I divide into three sets:   7 body, 7 transcendent and 5 super cosmic chakras. They are thus 19 plus that we can access. I say 19 plus because there are more than seven chakras in the body.

One very important fact has to do with the way we perceive reality and brain function. As I present my ideas you the reader are using both hemispheres of your brain. But mostly we are using our left hemisphere.. We know that the left cerebral cortex analyzes things and perceives them logically as if on a straight line going from one point to the next. And this is how we think about the future but in an abstract way.

The left cortex is a driving force as to how we set goals and achieve them. This is also the side of the brain that is developed through literacy. The influence of reading itself, looking at little dots along a horizontal line, a line that is not smooth and continuous, made up of broken dashes that appear as letters and words is a major influence in how we perceive the world. We project this linear concept as a horizontal time line on to reality.

Unfortunately this creates a sense of disconnection from life. It is this level of abstraction and disconnection that dominates “modern life”.  We are familiar with that nagging logical part of us that challenges the vital experience of the circle which is interrelated wholeness.

The obvious conclusion is that in order to engage with our chakra system we need to fully enter the circle. I offer this experience through feeling and sound and by using special hand mudras and chakra drawings.  Ironically the message is to stop reading and start meditating.  But not quite yet!

 

three sets of chakras

the body chakras

Your major chakras work as a system. Everyone has stronger and weaker chakras. We can work with them individually it is best to work with the system as a whole network. As mentioned chakras run along the vertical axis. This is the first polarity to strengthen.  Start by opening your root and crown chakras. They create the flow of energy through the central channel. This feeds and balances the other five.  Scan your chakras to see which one or which ones are deficient, because chakras influence each other. To understand more please go to my latest Podcast Series.

the Transcendent chakras

The transcendental chakras are set of seven  centers above the body.  These are the chakras of your Higher Self.  Imagine a holographic version of you standing on your head with another set of chakras not affected by daily life. They have unusual properties and expand one by one to the outer edge of our universe and then beyond.

Each of these chakras is paired with one of more body chakras and can expand and re-energize them. It is through these chakras that we experience ourselves as more than this  present incarnation and can begin to experience both the past and future simultaneously.

the Supra-Cosmic chakras

I see these chakras in two ways. First  we cannot really identify with them as they are the expressions of the Non-Self.  Second, I see this as the basis of everything, the raw material of both consciousness and matter.

The infinite point

The unlimited creative potential with many names:  Source or God or Creation. It is like an intensely brilliant fixed star just that arms reach above you and at the same time in the very center of our universe.

The window of Allness

The Window of Allness lives at the very outer edge of our universe. It is a circular window made of two transcendental chakras. The 14th expands outwardly beyond our universe into parallel time lines and other universes.   The 13th is on the inside of the circle radiating inwardly manifesting as “mind over matter”, instant healing, teleportation, and trans-dimensional shifts.

The Infinite Point is suspended in very center of the Window of Allness. The ultimate dot and circle!

The inner chamber of the heart chakra

As mentioned there are more than seven body chakras.  One is  the Hridya chakra, a Golden Temple.  This is the residence of  Divine Consciousness found in the center of the chest a bit below and just behind the Anahata Heart chakra.  Like gold itself, it is “undefileable” and thus a refuge.

Chakras differ from culture to culture

The term chakra, wheel,  comes from India.   Their yogic system recognizes seven major chakras and five minor ones. All of them look like flowers that face forwards.  They contain geometric shapes, Sanskrit, and images of deities.  Tibetan Tantric Buddhism utilizes five or six flowering chakras pointing up or down along a central channel.    Qi Gong in Chinese Taoism acknowledges three dan tien. These appear as energy filled spheres that are vertically aligned: two inside the body and one in the head.

All these systems are valid as is mine.