#chakars

It takes little effort to look into most forms of mysticism and find something involving the body and the supernatural forces supposedly within. Energy channels and chakras, planetary correspondences and and vortices, many a form of mysticism treats the body as some supernatural system. Even if it’s not part of a given practice, someone has, is, or will add some spiritual-physical elements by shoehorning it in.

Now as any reader remotely familiar with me knows, as much as I find “blueprints” of such things useful, I’m also cautious about them. It’s too easy to turn a mystical practice into a checkbox of experiences one can merely hallucinate instead of experience. But when it comes to this “psychoanatomy” as I call it, I get the value and appeal even when it’s obvious bullshit.

Our bodies are part of our experience, part of reality, and they should be part of our spiritual practice. I mean you can kind of ignore them, but hunger, horniness, or a stubbed toe are going to bring you back to your body, like it or not.

A moment to look at your body quickly reveals how it reflects - and affects - your mental (dare I say even spiritual?) state. Tensions in your mind manifest in your body, emotional reactions are burned into your physical ones, and sense memories can flood you with recollections. It’s complicated,it’s complex, and not dealing with our bodies in spiritual practice just leaves out part of us.

Someone dealing with any form of psychoanatomy is at least being aware of our bodies and deconstructing and rethinking them. To think of the body as energy flows, or correspondences, or chakras can help see and even “take apart” old habits of thought, tension, and reaction. Sure, some of the techniques we use may be utter bullshit (and there’s plenty on the market) but rethinking your body is valuable.

It’s also something I think a lot of us really need to do. I get why people may buy some hack Quigong book or try to align their energy centers or use emotional support oil, or whatever. In my own meditative work I’ve become painfully aware of my tensions and how my body reflects deeper psychological processes. Sometimes you hurt, or feel uncomfortable, or suddenly have overwhelming musical reactions and you really want to deal with that.

It’s easy to fall into bullshit mysticism over the body. I’m sympathetic.

As spiritual practitioners, mystics, and the like, it’s also a reminder that people may have some real insights from their otherwise ill-informed practices. We shouldn't just be sympathetic, but should help them out with healthier practices of bodily mysticism - or just recommendations for a good therapist. Even the crap may bring insights, and we can make sure those are channeled in a useful way.

Let’s take a look at kundalini, which is essentially an evolutionary/energetic ‘boost’ we can gain with focused, meditative effort. As we’ll learn here, kundalini is referred to as an energetic ‘serpent’ because it’s coiled up in the root chakra, and it can be awakened and used to find a permanently blissful state of consciousness.

With focus and intention, we can actually uncoil it and bring it up through each chakra until it reaches and affects the crown. Those of us who are particularly passionate about meditation can meditate on our kundalini for hours on end, and if we do, we might just manually raise it and feel what full-on enlightenment is like.

There are a lot of benefits to awakening it, and a lot of setbacks if we aren’t prepared for what could result, and one should always be prepared for the unhindered spiritual perception that results from awakened kundalini.

What is Kundalini?

As described by The Mystica:

“Kundalini is a psycho-spiritual energy, the energy of the consciousness, which is thought to reside within the sleeping body, and is aroused either through spiritual discipline or spontaneously to bring new states of consciousness, including mystical illumination. Kundalini is Sanskrit for ‘snake’ or ‘serpent power,’ so-called because it is believed to lie like a serpent in the root chakra at the base of the spine. In Tantra Yoga kundalini is an aspect of Shakti, the divine female energy and consort of Shiva.

“The power of kundalini is said to be enormous. Those having experienced it claim it to be indescribable. The phenomena associated with it varies from bizarre physical sensations and movements, pain, clairaudience, visions, brilliant lights, superlucidity, psychical powers, ecstasy, bliss, and transcendence of self. Kundalini has been described as liquid fire and liquid light.”

Indian Yoga is primarily responsible for our knowledge of kundalini, but people like Carl Jung brought it to our modern society’s attention.

“Indian yoga, with its emphasis on the transmutation of energy to higher consciousness, was the chief contributor to the cultivation of kundalini and the preservation of its knowledge prior to present times. Kundalini was a rarity in the West before the 1970s until more attention became centered upon the consciousness.

“In 1932, for example, psychiatrist Carl G. Jung and others observed that the kundalini experience was seldom seen in the West.”

Undistorted Truth

We have a lot to learn in regards to the development of our spirituality and our perception of the realms that lay beyond the physical, and we’ll have a much better grasp on the innate spiritual nature of our existence when we learn the full and undistorted truth.

We’re coming together and providing this grasp for each other, but humanity as a whole needs to learn the truth before we can all awaken our kundalini and enjoy the enlightenment that results.

Kundalini has been well-known for thousands of years:

“However, an examination of mystical literature and traditions showed that kundalini, called by various names, seems to have been a universal phenomenon in esoteric teachings for perhaps three thousand years…

“Kundalini-type descriptions or experiences are found in esoteric teachings of the Egyptians, Tibetans, Chinese, some Native Americans, … Kundalini has been interpreted from the Bible as ‘the solar principle in man,’ and is referenced in the Koran, the works of Plato and other Greek philosophers, alchemical tracts (the philosopher’s stone), and in Hermetic, Kabbalistic, Rosicrucian, and Masonic writings.”

As we can see, people have known about kundalini for a long time, and many of them strived to preserve the knowledge of it for future generations. It’s great that so many people have worked so hard to preserve the truth about it, and we can carry on their legacy by informing others.

People will obviously have to keep an open mind to believe in this etheric, enlightenment delivering energy, and needless to say, the rest of humanity needs to become aware of spirit and the wonders that exist beyond our conscious perception before any sort of kundalini awakening can take place – especially on a collective level.

The Mystica also describes the process of kundalini awakening:

“Not all kundalini experiences are identical to those classical awakenings experienced in yoga, but may vary in intensity and duration.

“Typically the yogi meditates to arouse the kundalini and then to raise it through his or her body. (It should be remembered though, not all types of yoga are devoted to the arousal of kundalini.) First, the yogi feels the sensation on heat at the base of the spine, which may be intensely hot or pleasantly warm.

“The energy then travels up a psychic pathway parallel to the spinal column. The sushumna is the central axis, crisscrossed in a helix by the ida and pingala. As it rises the kundalini activates the chakras in succession.” 

This would obviously take a lot of time and devotion. This is why I mentioned before that the seekers who are particularly dedicated to meditation can focus their meditative effort on awakening their kundalini, thus paving the way for others to do the same, and I think it’s important that we do.

Something tells me that the more seekers who activate their kundalini now, the easier it’ll be for the rest of humanity when the time comes, and I wonder if any of the momentous energetic events we’ll witness as a part of our ascension will assist us in awakening the kundalini.

Perhaps we have to be the ones to open it instead of waiting for any particular ‘event’, but it’d be interesting if the events we’re waiting to witness did provide some type of awakening or activation within.

We’re then told about some of the initial symptoms of kundalini awakening:

“The body becomes cold and corpse-like as the kundalini leaves the lower portions and begins to rise. The yogi is likely to shudder, tremble, or rock violently, feel extreme heat and cold, hear strange but not unpleasant sounds, and see various kinds of lights including an inner light.

“The length of the kundalini may be fleeting or last several minutes. The objective is to raise the kundalini to the crown chakra, where it unites with the Shiva, or the male polarity, and brings illumination.” 

Raising the kundalini to the crown chakra will provide the enlightenment every seeker strives for, and I’m sure it benefits every chakra it reaches before it hits the crown. The heart chakra is probably opened and expanded further to take in a greater amount logos, for example, and the throat chakra may open up and provide an enhanced ability to express oneself.

Our ability to feel the bliss that comprises the higher realms will grow with each attempt we make to activate our kundalini, and as with anything, practice makes perfect. We can’t do anything significant if we aren’t willing to practice it, and in the end, we’d be very glad we practiced awakening our kundalini.

However, it isn’t all sunshine at first:

“After raising the kundalini to the crown] the yogi then attempts to lower the energy to another chakra, but not below the heart chakra because descent to lower chakras is thought to produce ego inflation, rampant sexual desire, and a host of other ills. By repeatedly raising the kundalini to the crown, the yogi can succeed in having the energy permanently stay there.

“It is said that kundalini opens new pathways in the nervous system; the pain associated with this apparently is due to the nervous system’s inability to immediately [cope] with the energy. Yogis assert that the body must be properly attuned for Kundalini through yoga, and that a premature or explosive awakening can cause insanity or death.”

We’d want to awaken our kundalini very gradually, and we wouldn’t want to experience the ‘explosive awakening’ mentioned here. We don’t want to do anything too rapidly, and our kundalini practice should be as gradual as our ongoing ascension.

Most of us wouldn’t be able to handle being suddenly transported to the fifth dimension, because things would be too different and unfathomable. We’d immediately want to return home to the third, but we might find that the darkness here weighs us down too much for it to be comfortable anymore. Similarly, we don’t want to activate our kundalini too quickly because we might not be ready for the perceptual boost that results. We’ll want to take our activation slowly, but our ascension isn’t about reaching the end anyway – it’s about enjoying the journey.

It’s about enjoying every meditation; every creative work; every attempted kundalini activation. We aren’t necessarily here to complete the goal, even though we eventually will. We’re here to enjoy ourselves and love each other with the understanding that we’re one consciousness, and awakening our kundalini will help us find this understanding in a much more real way.

Our perception of our oneness will sharpen when we’re on a higher vibration, and those of us who hunger for spirit each day would benefit from practicing a kundalini-focused meditation. If we’re as ready to perceive the higher realms as many of us say we are, these meditations will be very enjoyable because we’ll know we’re reaching our sacred destination.

I might do a more detailed report about kundalini another time, but this basic information about it has satisfied my hunger for knowledge, and hopefully, you can all say the same. There’s plenty more to learn about this interesting energetic phenomenon, and you’re encouraged to check out the links in the footnotes for more research.

With the willingness to learn everything we’ve forgotten, we’ll illuminate the big picture and raise our vibration in the process. We’re here to relearn things we once knew before we descended onto earth, and we have plenty of sources to choose from.

Description of the Centers

Lower centres consist of the motor centre (base chakra), lower emotional centre (sexual chakra), and lower intellectual centre (throat chakra). Higher Centers consist of the sexual centre (solar plexus chakra), higher emotional centre (heart chakra), and higher intellectual centre (crown chakra).

The sexual centre is the primary energy port from which other centres derive theirs. By itself, sexual energy is merely a coarse creative energy of which the physical sexual act is just one application. The other centres transduce this energy and create various grades of energy and effects from their utilization. The sexual centre normally gets its energy directly from the Creator, seventh density.

The motor centre has to do with body consciousness and instinctual motions. Sexual energy used by this centre is associated with the physical sexual act, among other things. The motor centre is the seat of the somatic, genetic, or body consciousness.

The lower emotional centre has to do with base emotions; the kind animals are capable of experiencing. This centre is responsible for the animalistic side of humans.

The lower intellectual centre isn’t present in most wild animals, though it is highly developed in most humans and gives them the ability to speak, read, write, and perform abstract reasoning. This centre is the seat of ego and personality, a mechanical product of the environment encoded in the neural structure of the nervous system. It has little consciousness in itself, and is more like a computer or artificial intelligence program.

The higher emotional centre allows souled humans to feel when something is wrong, and gives one the ability to experience empathy, joy, and enthusiasm. It is an uplink with the emotional side of one’s true self, the Higher Self, and the source of one’s gut instinct or intuition.

Lastly, the higher intellectual centre is an uplink with the conscious core of the Higher Self. This centre allows one to know absolute truth, and is a source of higher density information.

While souled humans possess all these centres, organic portals lack the higher intellectual and higher emotional centres. Like all animals, the only higher centre they have is the sexual center, which interfaces with their group soul. It is absolutely important to understand that the lack of the two higher centres accounts for the all the differences between them and souled humans.

As for souled humans, while they possess all six centres, the two higher centres are often dormant or inaccessible. This does not mean the Higher Self is dormant, just that the communication uplink is weak or inoperative. Most souled humans act very similar to organic portals for that reason.

Furthermore, organic portals can emulate the higher centres by stealing such higher energy from souled humans. The distinction between OPs and non-OPs can sometimes be difficult for that reason.

Consciousness manifests only when centres observe each other. Each centre is a mechanical component of our metaphysical body, and endowed with limited consciousness. But when they couple together by observing each other, a consciousness greater than the sum of its parts may manifest. It is known in physics or chaos theory that when the complexity of a system composed of coupled parts goes beyond a certain point, it becomes chaotic. It is through chaos that true consciousness manifests itself in this reality. Anyway, the point here is that since most of us are bound through identification with our ego and body, we neglect to observe the two higher centres and are therefore not manifesting or experiencing higher consciousness in this reality. The key to experiencing higher conscious is being self-aware rather than lost in what we perceive, to remember ourselves at every moment possible.

Our Higher Self exists, but without a connection between our lower centres and higher centres, its efforts to communicate go unheard. Nevertheless, the higher centres still exist for souled beings, albeit passively most often, and provide for inspiration, creativity, and originality. The more developed one’s connection with the higher centres, the more creative, enthusiastic, intuitive, and Gnostic one becomes.

The Function of Centers in OPs

Because OPs have no genuine higher centres, they are incapable of empathy, higher emotions, and higher knowledge. As previously mentioned, animals have only the motor centre, lower emotional, and sexual centre – lacking the intellectual centre. Without the educational and energetic presence of souled humans, OPs would barely be any different.

In their natural state, OPs lack the lower intellectual centre just as most animals do. Only by stealing energy from souled humans can their lower intellectual centre first be formed, and only by being trained via education, media, culture, and environment can this centre be refined. Once endowed with an intellectual centre, they can make up for their lack of higher centres through deft emulation, particularly by stealing and sampling the higher energies of a souled person.

The type of energy stolen depends on method of acquisition. Through physical proximity, an OP can siphon physical energy from the motor centre of a souled person, which manifests as fatigue or exhaustion.

Through intimidation, venting, or seduction, the lower emotional centre is tapped. Via lies or fantasies and the begging of attention, the lower intellectual centre energy of a souled human is drained. Through orgasm of a souled person during sexual intercourse, an OP may take in a large quantity of all one’s energies.

Among other factors, souled humans are easily susceptible if they have a negative soul frequency, were going to die anyway according to life script, or have damaged their soul-body connection through extensive drug use.

All this places stress upon the higher centres, meaning they don’t function as optimally because they are underpowered. This indicates that interaction with an OP will temporarily decrease one’s creativity, individuality, and originality. Since the lower centres are drained, intellectual performance can suffer as well. This mental muddying makes one less able to catch the logical fallacies OPs use in their arguments and allows one’s perceptions to be more easily twisted by them.

The primary energies OPs seek come from the higher emotional centre of souled beings. Sometimes the higher centres are drained indirectly when energy normally reserved for those centres is instead channelled toward the three lower centres to make up for their drained conditions. More directly, many OPs will stage elaborate melodramas and pretend victim status, whining and begging to be pitied in order to steal energy from the higher emotional centre of those who care to listen and make the mistake of empathizing with something that doesn’t have true feelings. With this energy, OPs can emulate the appearance of having a soul.

By: Draco

Alright, so I’m brandy, my birthday is 09-07-1993, I was born and raised in Alaska. During the entire year of 2012, I was homeless in down town Anchorage along with many other young people, and I was chemically dependent on synthetic cannabinoids (potpourri, pep spice, etc.). I had not even the faintest idea of anything related to the concept of ascension or astral projection (I call them concepts because the experience is different with everyone), although, I had gone through what feels like thousands of experiences and experimentations with sleep paralysis since I was 14 out of pure fascination with it. So, somewhere around June or July of 2012, I had an overwhelmingly negative overdose on synthetic cannabinoids, which put me in an extremely terrifying and heavily dissociated trip which ultimately resulted in a massive seizure. I still wonder if I was on the brink of death from that seizure; it certainly felt like a physical brush with death every time I remember being inside the trip. Anyhow, something in my brain was different after that, because after it was finally over, after I was slowly folded back into reality and I regained full awareness, throughout the months after that experience, my entire perspective on life changed. I used synthetic cannabinoids about 6 times after that experience before deciding to quit it entirely, I haven’t used it since I quit. So for a little bit of my background; I was brought up in the Christian religion, and all of my life, I sensed the hate in some of the Christians around me. It made me uncomfortable, but I still always wanted to focus on the love, because to me that’s what Jesus taught and that’s what he was all about. So growing up, my faith in my religion was powerful, and it never wavered throughout the years, because the love rang true to me. Around October of 2012, I watched a documentary on the comedian Bill Hicks, and I was introduced to the band Tool (still my all time favorite band) and after that, something really terrifying was sparked inside my heart and my mind. I started to painfully and relentlessly question my religion, all of my beliefs, and every socially constructed concept there was out there. I was shaking the frame of the house that my consciousness was nestled in. I couldn’t help it, or stop it. I let go of the way that I saw my religion, my god; I was free falling. Then, through all of the black and darkness, came the dreams. They started in around mid November. The first of them were physically painful. I had about three of them the first week, each of them I was almost completely numb and nearly paralyzed. I would strain to move, and strain to yell for help, I strained as hard as I could to do these things and the more I strained, the more my entire body was in a numbing physical pain. It terrified me, I believed that I was sick and that death was moments away in each dream. I would manage to crawl inches or feet before waking up in complete relief that it was in fact just a dream and that I was still alive and healthy. Then came the floating dreams. If I recall correctly, in these dreams, I would die, but instead of ceasing to exist or waking up, I would be shot into space and I would remain floating there, still within my awareness. I had these two types of dreams throughout the second week, back and forth. Then, one night, at the end of November, I fell asleep; but while I was falling asleep, I remained entirely aware of my surroundings, as if falling asleep with my eyes open. I started to dream, and I felt the paralyzing pain inside of my body again, and my initial reaction was fear. I wanted to go and find help, so I shimmied my body slowly to the left, each of my individual muscles being crippled by a crushing force that was working against my efforts to move. I fell out of bed and began an attempt to crawl. I made it about four feet away from my bed after stopping, exhausted from my efforts. I recall nearly crying, thinking why is this happening to me? What do I do? Why can’t I fight it? Then after sobbing over this, I gave into the force. I closed my eyes, let the tension in my body release. As I felt defeated by the force, it was like giving into death itself. However, instead of being crushed by the force after giving into it, to my pleasant surprise, the force was alleviated. My relaxed body drifted up into the air, gravity was gone, and my body relaxed into the form of a fetus. My legs even instinctively twitched on their own, just like a fetus’ legs would. After that dream, the painful dreams ended entirely, and around that same time, I was introduced to the concept of ascension and the power of lucid dreaming and astral projection. I bought books and sifted through website after website, gathering info on astral projection, lucid dreaming and ascension, 50% out of curiosity, and 50% out of doubt that my experiences were true and fear that I was just crazy, not actually changing inside. Anyways, after the painful dreams ended, my dreams evolved into what I believe was astral projection. Throughout 2013, every once in a while (about once a month) I was able to manipulate myself into the lucid state, directly after falling asleep. I would put myself into the deepest relaxation I could, and I would feel myself falling asleep. Then I would stretch myself upward and out of my body, starting at my fingertips. Once I would fully leave my body, I would float around my house, everything in the house would be exactly how it was in the waking state, and I would be in the exact place that I had fallen asleep in. These dreams were super vivid, unlike regular dreams, everything felt genuine and solid, everything looked and sounded crystal clear. Every thought I had was entirely under my control, and I could think clearly and recall any memory I had as if I were actually awake. I’ve done this in 3 different houses (I moved around a lot in 2013). Anyhow I tried my best to manipulate myself as much as I could while floating around in these lucid dreams, I could feel and direct my body to float in any direction I wanted, and I could float through the walls from room to room, but I could never leave any of the outer walls of the house to the outside world. This frustrated me, because any time I wanted to float up (along the cord into outer space) I could never get outside of my ceiling. After months of trying and trying, my entire ability to manipulate myself into the floating state slowly diminished. Towards the middle of summer of 2013, I was reduced to only being able to float around the bottom of the room I was in, feeling like something heavy inside of me was weighing me down. I would bump into my surroundings, not having full control of my own momentum and weight. Then, the last dream happened. It was around July, 2013. I had floated up and out of my body, in a desperate attempt to exercise my projection ability. As soon as I left my body entirely, my entire awareness whited out, and my awareness was stuck inside some strange sort of inexistence. I couldn’t feel any of my body as if it went entirely numb. All I experienced was whiteness. I forced myself awake from it, and after that, I was so afraid and disappointed. I decided to give up on projecting entirely. By that point in my life, I was completely disconnected from the social world. Throughout 2013, I did a ton of research on ascension and the beliefs of the ascended. I favored the teachings of Buddhism, some Christian teachings, and a few scientists and psychologists that I had believed attained a personal level of enlightenment. I had a very personal understanding of everything that I read, and I would take it all to heart and hold onto my own new found beliefs. I placed a ton of judgement on anything superficial, and I looked down upon anything that I had believed come from the defensive human ego. Ego was natural, yes, ego was very difficult to go beyond, yes. But ego was afraid and reluctant to face reality, and I hated it. I didn’t like anyone who was into new age religion because I believed that they were just in it for the hippy crystal aesthetics and to be “ahead of the religious crowd”, all parts of fulfilling the desire of ego. I didn’t believe that people were in it for the deep inner changes in perspective that laid within the fundamental messages. To me, they were selfish for claiming these beliefs as their own without going through the fear and the pain of changing to truly understand these beliefs. I looked down upon anyone who preached new age gospel if I thought they didn’t truly understand it or personally experience it. I joined a school that taught chi gong, and I took the concept of opening chakras very seriously. All of that of course, the validation that my chakras were actually opening, or the validation that I was going through a “kundalini awakening”, whatEVER it was that I thought I was looking for, eluded me. The dreams left, I quit school. By fall of 2013, I went into what I called a “lapsing” state. I was tired of forcing my “awakening”. I became more interested in the social world, I was lonely inside my head all the time, and curious about the solid world and my part in it. All of the things I had shunned for being superficial and mundane, I was now making an effort to take part in. What did I like? What was my favorite movie, my favorite tv show, my favorite book? I had no idea, I was against all of it for so long. I got an iPhone, I started focusing on my clothing choice and my appearance, my makeup. I was opening up to my own personal part in the external world. I made friends, and I listened to their perspectives. A lot of them had some pretty solid beliefs that I could actually agree with, and some of them were fond of new age beliefs. My friends had dreads, and hooped and did poi, all things that I would have ridiculed months back for being superficial and fake. But then I started to understand what it was truly like, actually taking part in your physical existence instead of your internal existence, I figured out what it feels like to flow with your environment, and I appreciated it so much more then I thought I would. I felt like a little child, in a way, compared to my friends who all had opinions and expensive hobbies, because none of my opinions were solid out of the fear that my understanding of things didn’t quite yet encompass the absolute truth, and I had no active hobbies, let alone the fact that I didn’t have the money to take part in a hobby. Now days, I’m choosing to not only grow internally, but also grow within my physical environment, and I’m choosing not ridicule people for being unable to go entirely beyond ego, for using modern technology, for having worldly hobbies and opinions. I’m choosing not to ridicule people for having a desire for money and all the things you can do with it. They are living within their own humanity, it’s natural, it’s what were supposed to do. And to top off this life experience I had gone through, at the very end of 2013, on December 30th to be exact, I had conceived my very first child. I’m about 20 weeks pregnant, and I feel as if the initial dream I had back in November of 2012 where my body took form of a fetus, all ties into my current pregnancy. I’m just beginning my journey. I have an entirely different awareness then I did in the beginning of 2012. Life has so far proven to me to be something very different then what it initially appears to be. So, thank you for letting me share my story, I know it wasn’t all related to strictly astral projection, but I felt like all of the story was needed to explain my astral projection experiences and how going through the fear and the pain of all of it altered my entire life for the better. I’m glad to finally write it down and reflect happily on how far I’ve come. I’ve been depressed over the fact that I haven’t been very successful with school, jobs, saving money, or becoming a proper functional member of society, I’m going to be 21 this September, and I feel like I have nothing to show for it. This period of reflection is reminding me that I’m wrong. Thank you for posting the invitation to share with you my astral projection experiences.