In the Illustration 1 below:

I have diagramed the seven Chakras as they are supposed to be positioned in the human body. These positions are also relative to each other on a scale from lowest to highest vibration.

Each chakra is associated locationally, with a specific organ in the Human body. In many texts, it was thought for a long time that the chakras were found within the various nerve trunks serving the organs with which they were associated. I don't think this is true, for various reasons, which I will not go into at this time.

To understand this more fully, I have to explain here that there are three units involved in the spiritual anatomy of a human being. The controlling sentient entity is the Soul, which is thought to be a part of or an individualize aspect of the Godhead trying to experience the physical universe. It cannot do so directly because it is in essence anti-matter and therefore would destroy the universe if it touched it directly. To overcome this problem, the Soul operates through a subtle body called the Causal body, which it controls through postulate.... I think, therefore, I am... The Causal body then synthesizes the postulate into a safe signal or series of computations, which it sends to the Astral body. It is this body (the Astral body) that contains the chakras. And, in a highly developed spiritual being, the Soul uses the astral body to operate the physical body from outside stimulating the nervous system. It (the Soul…. when enlightened), in some literature, hovers (occupying the astral body) about two to three feet in back of the head. Being earth bound is the state in which the Soul is merged into the physical body and doesn't realize itself to be not of matter.

Unfortunately, the ordinary human being as we know him today is a victim of the FALL.... i.e.. the Soul has forgotten who he really is and believes the physical universe is real. Thus all three units are merged and occupy the same space at the same time all the time and the Soul in massive ignorance must evolve by re-awakening the various chakras to recognize itself once again.

The Chakras

We return to Greek mythology, Prometheus, one of the Titans and a god of fire. A master craftsman and a supreme trickster, he was sometimes associated with the creation of humans. According to legend, Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to humans. In vengeance, Zeus created Pandora, who married Prometheus's brother and set loose all the evils of the world. Another tale held that Zeus had Prometheus chained to a mountain and sent an eagle to devour his liver, which regenerated every night so that he could suffer the same torment the next day.

Was that FIRE Kundalini? I’m not going to go into a major discussion of Kundalini at this point, but you do need to know it exists. It is (in my personal meditations and experience with Kundalini) a kind of super power pack. It is trapped (according to the literature) inside the Muladhara (Root Chakra). It has two polarities called Ida and Pingala (Ying and Yang) (Positive and Negative) a duality that translates to male and female aspects. It sends these two aspects (in the case of the human being) through the nervous system looking for experience. Thus, it encounters the chakras and from thence the story of man and the universe unfolds experientially for Kundalini.

The Root Chakra (Muladhara) - (Illustration 2)

Is located at the base of the spine and is the nerve center affecting the genitalia. It has four petals and is associated with two pairs of opposite human drives: The Sex drive or a base kind of love (lust) and its opposite hate. The instinct to fight... aggression or flight.... the instinct of fear.

In Illustration 1, you'll see that it is stimulated and its power is most pronounced in the Kali Yuga or Instinctive phase of consciousness. Awakening this chakra is the portal to the human world. Below this chakra is the Lower kingdom and all their attendant chakras which powers the lower kingdom.

I need to digress here for a bit to explain the symbolism of the petals. In Hindu symbolism the Lotus is a common water lily found in India. It grows through swamp mud and muck, which are symbolic of the chaos of the universe, and unfolds into a wondrously beautiful many-petaled flower. The Yogi meditates on this lotus and sees in it the symbol of the chakras and how they unfold into a full wondrous blossom. The petals are used to represent attributes. Therefore, the fewer petals the fewer attributes the less power or significance and by the same token the more petals the more power or significance. In the case, of the chakras, one must think of the petals in terms of vibration. The more petals the more powerful the vibration, with the exception of the Third Eye, which by appearance has only two petals, but don't let this fool you, as you will soon see.

There is one other significance to be drawn from the Lotus symbolism; like all flowers, the lotus blossom begins as a bud. So, too, the chakras are found to be in varying degrees of unfoldment from human to human. For the ideal purposes of this discussion, we are explaining the chakral concepts, as if they were fully developed and not as they would actually be found in the world.

The next four chakras modify the expression of the Root Chakra. The pure expression of Lust would be Nymphotic, in females and Satyric in males. Were the pure expression of lust not modified the Being would be rapacious, lecherous and insatiable sexually. Were the pure expression of Hate not modified, the Being would be cruel, savage, and murderous or, the Flight attribute would manifest in the Being as cowardice.

The only place that I think one can see the operation of this chakra in its purest manifestation is in a maximum security prison filled with incorrigibles. This is best described in the words of an inmate (paraphrased from a recent documentary on life in a maximum security prison):

‘You must be alert to every expression on every other inmates face. You must watch every movement of every other inmate. A frown directed at you must be dealt with with an attack. You must interpret the frown as malevolence and it then becomes just a matter of when the offender will attempt to kill you. Therefore, you must kill him first, if you can………etc, etc, etc."

Chakra. In its ideal state, it takes the Lust force (for example) or impulse and shapes, directs and transmutes it from pure sexual energy into another form. The form of admiration not only of the male/female as object but also relating in ways other than sexual. It deduces some other purpose, some other meaning in objects and tries to relate to them in some logical way. The Industrial revolution was a time in Western history that produced a great admiration for thinking in logical and reasoned fashion. Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous detective Sherlock Holmes was the poster boy for Logic and Reason used in the practical pursuit of crime solving.

The Chakra of the Intellect (Svadishthana Chakra) - (Illustration 3)

is found near the hypogastric plexus. It has six petals with its attendant pairs of opposites. When this chakra becomes activated in varying degrees of development its summation or response to the physical world is through reason, logic and a need to know why. Its motto is...a place for everything and everything in its place.... It has one quirky tendency... just as the Muladhara is primarily concerned with sex from a lusty point of view. The Svadishthana transmutes sexual appetites into gustatorial cravings in its basest dramatization. While, when more refined by higher forces produces fine chefs and induces a fine appreciation of the subtleties of food. In a base expression you might find the Being participating in the sin of Gluttony.

The Reason Chakra questions the Hate force. It arrests cruelty, savagery or murderousness toward an object, momentarily, by asking WHY. Why do I hate this being/thing. This chakra will not allow Hate power to express itself against an object, unless, it can find a logical reason to act. And, then, it will act only with what it deems the appropriate force. This chakra seeks balance.

The limitation of this chakra is that it can only function objectively. It sees everything in its literal sense. It can only add two plus two. It needs hard; demonstrable facts to operate and left to its own devices will pursue them relentlessly. Always trying to corroborate a fact through experiment, until it experiences no DOUBT. One of its attributes is Certainty and its opposite Doubt is another. This chakra is not a creative chakra.

The most contemporary fictional example of this Chakra personified is Mr. Spock of Star Trek fame. The writers on this show really explored this Chakras affects and humanoid expression.

At this point, I want to remind the reader that these chakras do not function independent of one another. They function sympathetically to one another. No change in one is unnoticed by others which have the function of carrying out the change or at least has some part in the expression of the change. Another point, all the chakras are not equally developed in all beings. In the real world, they are developed in very haphazard combinations creating enormous permutations, (possibilities and probabilities) in human actions and reactions; abilities and inabilities and behavior.

The third chakra is a power center. This energy can be directed and express itself in the physical plane through the Root Chakra, or be harnessed by the Reason Chakra and constructively affect the physical plane.

This might be a good place to explain that the seat of consciousness controls the creative expression of the individual in the physical plane. Where is the individual most awake or evolved as a spiritual being? If his full consciousness is seated in the Muladhara, but Ida and Pingala somehow unfolds Svadishthana then let us revisit our maximum security inmate:

Remember what he said ( I reiterate):

‘You must be alert to every expression on every other inmates face. You must watch every movement of every other inmate. A frown directed at you must be dealt with with an attack. You must interpret the frown as malevolence and it then becomes just a matter of when the offender will attempt to kill you. Therefore, you must kill him first, if you can……….etc, etc, etc."

‘Oh,’ he might reason, ‘the frown was only a preoccupation and his eyes were not seeing me but, I was in his line of distraction as he relieved himself of his discomfort. I guess I won’t kill him today. I will watch him though and get more data to decide his malevolence against me.’

By contrast, and this is the point, an inmate whose consciousness is seated in Svadishthana would not have made the computation of frown in my direction equals malevolence in the first place.

The Chakra of the Will (Manipura Chakra) - (Illustration 4)

This chakra is associated with the solar plexus region and has ten petals. It is the seat of the conscious Will to accomplish some goal. It is a POWER center. If awakened haphazardly, it can and will destroy the host. In its basest form it manifests itself as pure stubbornness, willfulness and a need to dominate others. Control freakism might describe a dysfunctional manifestation of this chakra’s attributes. In more refined and tempered dramatizations it is manifested by the ability to press on beyond normal human endurance to achieve great heights of accomplishment.

A powerful example of this was the scene in Lawrence of Arabia, wherein Lawrence refuses to allow one of the men crossing the Devil’s Anvil to die in the Anvil. He goes after him and through shear force of Will brings him out alive. "Nothing is written," he exclaims!

What Lawrence didn’t know is that if one can harness control of Manipura and call in higher chakral centers one can create small miracles. There is no way that Lawrence could have survived with his charge at high noon in the Anvil AND find the lost companion without Divine intervention in at least two ways….firstly… the psychic connection…where was the lost companion? He could have wandered anywhere in his delusional state. Secondly… what protected them from the burning Sun? I suggest an energy field. All this held in place by the Will of Lawrence of Arabia calling in the rays of Anahata and Vishudda.

You may not have noticed that I said that the Svadishthana transmuted the sexual energy that the Muladhara expressed as Lust or rapacious sexual gratification into expression through the creation of sensation through manipulation of foodstuffs to create gustatory delight.

This is not an accident of description. Kundalini is at root a creative energy, sensual, erotic and orgasmic in expression, how it experiences these orgasms is its modus vivendi.

In the contemporary world, the most profound example of pure Will being transmuted into a kind of sensual gratification in the pursuit and the acquisition of power was embodied in the late President Richard Nixon. If you study the biographical material concerning this man, you cannot fail to recognize the signs that power was for him orgasmic and satisfying beyond all other experiences. The pursuit of power was foreplay the accomplishment of it was orgasmic.

Though it is possible, I don’t think Nixon had actual physical ejaculation as part of his sensual experience through the pursuit of power, just as great and competent chefs don’t have sexual ejaculations in connection with their gustatory creations…it’s much more subtle. That is, the orgasm is in the satisfaction…the organ experiencing the orgasm is the instrument of taste…the tongue.

An interesting sidebar to this is that the tongue is very useful in actual sexual gratification. French kissing as part of foreplay; orally bringing a person to ejaculation with tongue to clitoris or tongue to the scrotum in foreplay; the act of oral manipulation of the penis to orgasm. These are all curious plays with the ideas connected with the lower chakras and their sensual expression.

But, I want to call to your attention a profound truism connected with the sensuality of Kundalini (probably the basis for the sexual branch of Hindu/Yogic teaching and practice….Tantra) with reference to the Manipura (Will) Chakra…….and that is S&M. That is…Sadomasochism!

Usually in mainstream life Sadomasochism is considered a perversion, and in its extreme expressions especially when it results in murder IS a perversion! Practiced without restrain or understanding of its deadly potential can lead to a descent into unparalleled barbarism and savagery, as one is driven by a need for more and more brutality to obtain satisfaction or sexual release. But, the foregoing aside, everyday people would be surprise at who practices this form of sexual gratification.

But here is how a study of the chakras predicts this form of expression:

Ida and Pingala, the male and female aspects do a dance of dominance and subservience with each other and when pain is introduced the very act of bringing your Will (activation of Manipura) to conquer the intensity of pain, the extreme can transmute the effort into sexual energy resulting in ejaculation and orgasm.

Let’s revisit Lawrence of Arabia. All the biographical material shows that he was a masochist. He demanded intense beatings by whippings to satisfy his sexual needs. This is a man who lived in Manipura. His indomitable Will drove him to greatness. When awakened Manipura is a terrible master, if you don’t understand its power or that it exists as a state of mind a power center it is the one chakra that can destroy you or bring you to destruction. In the world of everyday men no one will understand what drives you and that drive to satisfy Manipura’s demands can and will bring you into fatal conflict with other men, laws of the land and in extreme cases insanity. Study the life of the Marquis De Sade. You will see he came into conflict with all three. By the way, in case, you don’t know it already. Sadism is derived from the Marquis De Sade’s exploits.

These three chakras are most responsible for the soul's intoxication and absorption in the physical universe. Trapped into the vortex of these three chakra's energy flows the Soul is said to be Earth bound (this being a metaphor for absorption in sexual gratification, material possessions, accomplishment and success).

The next three chakras control the ascendance of a soul into the higher level's of consciousness...the world Shakespeare alluded to when he is quoted in one of his plays as saying... ‘...there are more things in heaven and earth than this world dreams of....’

The Heart Chakra (Anahata) - (Illustration 5)

This chakra is located in the region of the heart and has twelve petals. When fully developed this chakra imparts intuitive knowing about any subject that comes within its purview. It is the seat of the power of great artists. The most important and renowned personification of this chakra was Leonardo Da Vinci. Its power is manifested through feeling, it, acting alone is unable to articulate what it knows, it just knows. If it works in conjunction with the Svadishthana a sound intellectual knowledge is built which does articulate and express itself with demonstrations of the truth of its intuitions. Together, Svadishthana and Anahata create a man of great Wisdom, such as the Biblical Solomon. People, who like architects, are able to create beauty and project it into the physical universe are examples of this powerful blend of the two chakras. While poets, also seated in Anahata, can create wonderful abstract thoughts, unless they are balance with other chakras will be woefully inadequate to the task of coping with the physical world. They usually lack practical ability and the common sense of ordinary people.

An example of a relatively contemporary man, whose biographical material places him "seated" in Anahata, is Ralph Waldo Emerson, an early American man of letters. Emerson a great thinker, philosopher, and religionist knew his limitations as a man of station and status. The following anecdote he tells on himself illustrates his particular humanity and specifically American democratic notion that no matter where we find ourselves by birth or station as human beings we are equals, but for our purposes it is a magnificent illustration of the difference between high intelligence and common sense:

Emerson was having particular difficulty getting a calf to move. He seems to have done every act. He tried pushing it, he tried pulling it, he talked to it, and he pleaded with it. Everything he did just made the calf more stubborn and resistant. Along came a farm girl who asked him what was the matter. He told her he could not get the calf to go with him. She promptly put a finger in the calves mouth and asked where do you want it Mr. Emerson. Whereupon, the calf followed the farm girl quite contentedly.

This chakra is associated with the Carotid Plexus and is usually depicted in the throat area. It has sixteen petals. This is the second power center. A Being functioning out of this chakra is overcome with pure love for all creation. This is a love that surpasses understanding and forgives all transgressions and enfolds all life within itself. It does not discriminate nor differentiate nor categorize nor separates any element of the creations of Him/Her. All is one and the same and deserving of absorption into its loving embrace. It’s not hard to find a physical personification of this chakra…Jesus Christ.

On a more mundane level, we can illustrate pure love with a discussion of a Broadway production in the seventies, called "A Chorus Line", which was done as a tribute to the performers known as "gypsies"; unknown hopefuls enduring constant rejection. Not because of lack of talent, but because of the phenomena of too many talented dancers chasing too few spots. They endure countless excruciating hopeless audition sessions with only the slightest hope, but, one dare not perform less than ones best…one must overcome the knowledge that this is just another waste of time…and the easy out of blaming depression and putting in a lackluster effort just because the odds are so enormous. Only love drives these players.

A production song was appropriately: What I did for love.

Love surpasseth understanding.
Love overcomes all obstacles.
Love washes away suffering
Love gives meaning to life
Love in the end is all there is??

When seen by Beings capable of this skill, they describe it as having only two petals. But, it is vibrating at such a high rate that, all the many hundreds of petals fuse into two large petals on either side of the eye. And it truly is an eye. Below is the illustration 8 of the Third Eye or Egyptian Winged Disc from the book cover. It has the eye flanked by Ida and Pingala about to bring about Self-Realization (someday I will write an essay on this but not today).

Illustration 8

Illustration 7 is the Third Eye as described in the Hindu Scriptures. Anytime you see this kind of symbol in any archeological artifact. You can bet that that civilization may have attained great heights of enlightenment, if they knew about the Third Eye and their unique priesthood was about to access it. Much of this technology was corrupted and other meanings crept into the symbol. The Medical Caduceus is (Illustration 9)

a perfect example of a clear indication that whoever created it knew exactly what they were creating. That is clearly Ida and Pingala enveloping Kundalini (the staff) using the Third Eye to bring about healing. When it was created the true meaning was known. Now, that is all lost, but it still casts a large shadow.

I, recently, had an experience with this revelation. Sick with stomach flu and convulsions of dry heaving for a full day, filling myself with Tylanol, prescription antibiotics and thinking that I was about to die and even ready to give up my body, (the pain was so excruciating and unbearable)… a blue light flashed in my brain at about 9 or 10 o’clock that night in the area of my pineal gland (which is the purported physical organ in which the Third Eye resides) at the same moment I felt all the symptoms release and I became peaceful ready for sleep and awoke the next morning cured of the convulsions. The Flu broke in that moment. The healer who created the Caduseus almost certainly knew and used all the power of Kundalini, Ida and Pingala and the Third Eye in his medical practice. How it all got lost is the mystery.

The Third Eye sees the vision of truth in it purest articulation…as a picture. In Star Trek, Mr. Spock makes lighting fast calculations in his head. One of the aspects of the Third Eye is that here is where the Universe is constantly constructed, infinitesimal instant by infinitesimal instant, by mathematical calculation (using very real and arcane formulas, I don’t think the best and the brightest at MIT could understand). It is really a Causal Plane phenomenon. I won’t go into that now. Orson Welles in his docu-drama on the life of Nostradomus, depicts him looking into a pool of water as I recall it. This was Welles’ version of a Crystal Ball. But, I assure you Nostradomus simply sat in meditation, intensified to contemplation, intensified to superconsciousness and turned inward and entered the Akashic Record Library and scanned the Record for future events…. it is not clear whether he had any interest in the past. But, the Record is a living calculating machine recording real-time from the past and creating the Karmic future. He came back out into the real world and created Quatrains to disguise the events not to protect his life from the Inquisitors (though that could have been part of it) but to protect the future as he saw it. The Akashic Record Library is a mind construct used to objectify the illusion. It probably doesn’t actually exist as a place (though it might). It objectifies to give the Being a holographic comfort zone, i.e. you see what you can justify exists to you as an individual.

I use Nostradomus because, he is the only figure I know of who can illustrate the Third Eye and what one of its functions is…I assure you there are many and sundry other functions of this magnificent Chakral center.

The Crown Chakra (Sahasrara) - (Illustration 11)

The Crown chakra is the thousand petaled chakra the seat of God, the Self, the Eternal Self. It is the third and most powerful power center. When this chakra explodes into fulfillment.... i.e....unfolds as a time-lapse motion picture depicts a rose or lotus plant opening ...this is said to be God experiencing the universe He creates from His first thought. He is at once Nothing and yet the Fullness of Everything. He is indescribable. He is indefinable. At the same time He can be described. At the same time He can be defined. In the awakening of this chakra God the Truth is set free of form yet is all form. The Truth then is seen as having no form. The Self simply Exists. It is the final step the once individualized Soul has to take in the search for His Paradise Lost. He once fell from this lofty pinnacle, but has now found it again. He still has one other thing to do. He must now enter into a union with God by relinquishing his concept of duality. This is no simple task. When his feminine side (Eve, Ida or Ying) embraced mammon (the Apple) his masculine side (Adam, Pingala, Yang) bit into the Apple and experienced duality. His feminine and masculine aspects must now merge into Oneness and forever renounce Mammon. For it is said:

No man can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Mat. 6:24

The most well known and easily accepted Being known to have achieved the state of Total Self-Realization was The Buddha. Though, the biographical literature is not absolutely clear on the matter (this may just be a matter of the chroniclers not understanding how to describe it) I have a hard time believing that Jesus Christ does not belong on the list. In the modern era, a powerful Samadi was clearly achieved by Ramachrisna, see the biographical data. I have it on good authority that Ralph Waldo Emerson achieved Samadi, along with Helen Keller. Frank Lloyd Wright the great 20th Century architect MAY have either accomplished Samadi at some low level or came close…. (he may have had just a bit too much ego to complete the surrender of self) his autobiographical material suggest he opened the Third Eye consciously and understood he had done it.

I must note that their levels of power of the Samadi experience and Buddha seems to be the most powerful Samadi experience known in the physical plane who came back to talk and write about it.

So, in Illustration 1, you can visualize graphically the relationship of the four main ages and the spiritual development of man within these ages. There is one added dynamic, which can be visualized as being horizontal to the above considerations (see figure 4 below). And, that is, the individual's relationship to other people in larger and larger spheres of influence. This whole package ascends and descends in keeping with the laws that govern the cosmological cycles.

As I said in the Yuga essay, the Extraterrestrials are the gateway to the Treta Yuga and Satya Yuga stages of the 24,000-year solar cycle. The vibration rate of these two Yugas is quite high and it is questionable whether man as we know him today (in the density that he is in and operating almost exclusively out of the lower three chakras) could in this form exist in the Treta Yuga and Satya Yuga stage.

Zacharia Sitchin, a noted Hebrew scholar translated thousands of Sumerian documents. In one of those documents Anu, the Supreme Ruler of "those who down from heaven came" or the Anunnaki, visited Earth. He made this cryptic statement:

Did the Annunaki, eventually decide to create hybrids that could eventually play some significant role in the transition from Dwapara Yuga to Treta Yuga (once into Treta Yuga the being is very close to the Satya Yuga vibration rate.... the problem is between the Dwapara Yuga and the Tretya Yuga stages).

What does Steven Spielberg deduced about this plan? In "Taken", a 10-hr Sci-Fi Television extravaganza, Spielberg explores this very concept.

The Armegeddon stories all end with the coming of Christ and the reign of the chosen. There probably will be a major natural disaster which will result in the destruction of man as we know him now in order to usher in the next vibration level, but, how this will all occur will have to wait for a much later volume of my proposed series.

As a side bar, the Russian and Cambodian communist in this century, attempted to annihilate older orders of people in hopes of creating a new man trained from infancy to think in the collective manner. These were dismal and horrific failures as social engineering. I'm not talking about any man made holocaust with any of these aims. I think there will be a natural catastrophe, which will bring about a new order or class of beings who are vibrating at a much higher rate and locked up in the change in the vibratory rates is the trigger for the natural disaster. Remember, when the Age of the Dinosaur came to an end it probably did so with a sudden worldwide stroke and those creatures ceased to exist in their previous form. Many modern researchers today believe birds are the direct descendants of the Dinosaurs.

I wonder what the new man will be like. Interesting question.

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