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UNDERSTANDING THE CHAKRAS
The Nature of our Multi-Leveled Existence.
In the midst of the great web of energies which make up this universe, each human being is a complex organism capable of interacting, and communicating across the levels of energy in the world. On the grossly physical levels we have the same limitations as all physical objects. We melt and dissipate under too much heat, we break under too much force, and we fall without the support of gravity. But unlike many others things we have the capacity to cross the levels of subtlety in the universe. At levels other than the lower dimensional physical we can still exist, connect, communicate, gather forces, manifest and think.
We are a little chakra, a circle or vortex of energy that cuts across many levels of existence. Unlike the outer explorers of modern science who believe in a single level of existence, the inner explorers find that the universe is in its very Essence, multi-leveled. The gap in our ability to deal with a multi-level universe is like the dilemma many people faced with reconciling the idea that photons can act as a particle or a wave depending on the circumstance and type of observation. We want the security of classifying light in one conceptual box or another. But, in experiment after experiment, it leapt out of the box and beyond any comfortable labeling by our intellectual mind.
It is not wave or particle, it is other or it is or/and/neither/both. Experience on that level of physics pushes us to realms that are fundamentally different from logical physics. Whatever a photon is, it has phases of manifestation that depend on the viewer and circumstance. Its individual nature depends on the state of the entire universe to which it is connected. Its real essence is beyond our senses--but it exists. Our soul or essence has the same relationship to our mind and to our normal experiences.
We can be particulate or wave-like; like a left brain or a right. But in essence we are beyond those classifications and are more than our senses can capture. The vortex of energy that we are has sub-vortices, energy centers that cross through and interconnect the levels of existence. Those centers can be thought of in a very earthy way--like a wheel; or in a watery way--like a whirlpool's spinning vortex; in an airy way--like a whirlwind; or in a etheric way--as filaments of divine energy that orchestrate the instruments of the senses and preserve the gateways to our inner life.
The seeming separation we have from everything outside of us is balance by the intimate unity we share with everything. Both are true and neither alone is complete as a thought. Spiritual practices realize the connectedness and guide us to develop a relationship to all levels of our existence. They tell us not to be lured into a trancelike agreement with a lower dimensional definition of what it is to be a human being. The senses are attractive. The drive to manifest, to reproduce, to feel is universal. It is an irresistible force called maya. It is a veil that hypnotizes and creates illusion.
The opposite flow is transcendence, enlightenment--the kundalini force of awareness. Each of us can act in alignment with the greater field from which we originate and in which we live. We can consciously link to the source field, which some call God or spirit. Or we can draw the veils closed and pretend that we are totally isolated and act only within the gross, lower-dimensional, clear-cut rational and tangible world. |
