When I was searching for a Sunday peace meditation, I found just the perfect one. Of course. It is based on the personal chakra system. This got me to thinking about chakras. You know how it is. One thing leads to another. A lot of information is readily available about the seven personal chakras. Lana, The Vegan Mystic, in her recent post about chakra balancing. It’s an excellent article full of practical suggestions and ideas.
You may not be aware that chakras affect our wellbeing on many different levels. They connect to organs in our physical body. If chakras are out of balance, it creates dis-ease. And eventually may lead to more serious health conditions. Below is a summary table from Carolyn Myss’ book Anatomy of the Spirit –
Chakra |
Organs |
Mental, emotional issues |
Physical dysfunctions |
Base |
Physical body support, base of spine, legs, bones, feet, rectum, immune system | Physical family & group safety & security, Ability to provide for life’s necessities,
Ability to stand up for self, Feeling at home, Social & familial law & order |
Chronic lower back pain, Sciatica, Varicose veins
Rectal tumours/cancer, Depression Immune-related disorders |
Sacral |
Sexual organs, large intestine, lower vertebrae, pelvis, appendix, bladder, hip area | Blame & guilt, Money & sex, Power & control, Creativity, Ethics & honour in relationships | Chronic lower back pain, Sciatica, Ob/gynae problems, Pelvic/low back pain, Sexual potency, Urinary problems |
Solar plexus |
Abdomen, stomach, upper intestines, liver, gall bladder, kidney, pancreas, adrenal glands, spleen, middle spine | Trust, Fear & intimidation, Self-esteem, self-confidence & self-respect, Care to oneself & others, Responsibility for making decisions, Sensitivity to criticism, Personal honour | Arthritis, Gastric or duodenal ulcers, Colon/intestinal problems, Pancreatitis/diabetes, Indigestion, chronic or acute, Anorexia or bulimia, Liver dysfunction, Hepatitis, Adrenal dysfunction |
Heart |
Heart & circulatory system, lungs, shoulders & arms, ribs/breasts, diaphragm, thymus gland | Love & hatred, Resentment & bitterness, Grief & anger, Self-centredness, Loneliness & commitment, Forgiveness & compassion, Hope & trust | Congestive heart failure, Heart attack, Mitral valve prolapse, Cardiomegaly, Asthma/allergy, Lung cancer, Bronchial pneumonia, Upper back, shoulder, Breast cancer |
Throat |
Throat, thyroid, trachea, neck vertebrae, mouth, teeth & gums, Oesophagus, Parathyroid, Hypothalamus | Choice & strength of will, personal expression, following one’s dream, using personal power to create, addiction, judgement & criticism, faith & knowledge, capacity to make decisions | Raspy throat, Chronic sore throat, Mouth ulcers, Gum difficulties, Temperomandibular joint problems, Scoliosis, Laryngitis, Swollen glands, Thyroid problems |
Third eye |
Brain, nervous system, eyes, ears, nose, pineal gland, pituitary gland | Self-evaluation, truth, intellectual abilities, feelings of adequacy, openness to the ideas of others, ability to learn from experience. Emotional intelligence | Brain tumour/haemorrhage/stroke, Neurological disturbances, Blindness/deafness, Full spinal difficulties, Learning disabilities, Seizures |
Crown |
Muscular system, skeletal system, skin | Ability to trust life, values, ethics & courage, humanitarianism, selflessness, ability to see the larger pattern, faith and aspiration, spirituality & devotion | Energetic disorders, Mystical depression, Chronic exhaustion that is not linked to a physical disorder, Extreme sensitivities to light, sound and other environmental factors |
Reference: “Anatomy of the Spirit” by Carolyn Myss, Bantam Books, 1997 |
However, today I want to address the chakras from a very different perspective. Over the years I have done a lot of research into them. I came across so much interesting information in lots of different places, from lots of different people. I have found the information from people such as Carolyn Myss, Edgcar Cayce, Gregg Braden and Jonathan Goldman particularly enlightening and interesting.
This next table is summarised from the work of the reknowned medical intuitive Carolyn Myss. She did some very interesting comparative research into how the differing belief systems across cultures in actual fact have more similarities than differences.
“The truths contained in the scriptural teachings of the different religious traditions are meant to unite us, not separate us. Literal interpretation creates separation, whereas symbolic interpretations – seeing that all of them address the identical design of our spiritual natures – brings us together. As we shift our attention away from the external world and into the internal one, we learn symbolic sight. Within, we are all the same, and the spiritual challenges we face are mere physical props. The more we seek what is the same in all of us, the more our symbolic sight gains authority to direct us.
Merging Hindu, Buddhist, Christian and Jewish spiritual traditions into one system with common sacred truths constitutes a powerful system of guidance that can enhance our minds and bodies and show us how to manage our spirits within the world.” The Anatomy of Spirit page 90-91
Chakra |
Energy content |
Spiritual Life Lesson |
Kundalini System |
Christian Sacraments |
Kabbalah |
7 Sacred Truths |
Base |
Tribal | Related to the material world | Muladhara
‘root’ support’ |
Baptism | Shekhinah
Mystical community of humanity |
All is one |
Sacral |
Partnership | Related to sexuality, work, physical desire | Svadisthana
‘her special abode’ |
Communion | Yesod
Procreative force of God |
Honour one another |
Solar plexus |
Personal power | Related to ego, personality, self-esteem | Manupira
‘City of the shining jewel’ |
Confirmation | Nezah
Hod Majesty & endurance of God |
Honour oneself
(above 3 external power) |
Heart |
Emotional power | Related to love, forgiveness, compassion | Anahata
‘not struck’ – the pure sound of creation |
Marriage | Tif’eret
Compassion, harmony, beauty |
Love is Divine Power |
Throat |
Will power | Related to will, self-expression | Vishuddha
‘purified’ |
Confession | Gevurah
Hesed Power of judgement; Love & mercy of God |
Surrender personal will to Divine Will |
Third eye |
Mind | Related to mind, intuition, insight, wisdom | Ajna
‘command’ or ‘the qualified absolute’ |
Ordination | Bihnah
Hokhmah Divine Mother, understanding & intelligence of God; wisdom, point between Divine mind & human thought |
Seek only the truth |
Crown |
Spirit | Related to spirituality | Sahasrara
‘thousand petaled’ or ‘the unqualified absolute’
|
Extreme unction | Keter
Divine that flows to physical manifestation |
Live in the Present Moment
(above 4 are Internal Power) |
Reference: “Anatomy of the Spirit” by Carolyn Myss, Bantam Books 1997 |
Edgcar Cayce, the famous “sleeping prophet,” the “father of holistic medicine,” and the most documented psychic of the 20th century was born on a farm in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, in 1877, and his psychic abilities began to appear as early as his childhood.”
Cayce’s work on chakras is probably not as well known as some of his other work. All of it has been meticulously documented by his secretary who recorded it whilst he was in a trance. What I found interesting about it is that he extended the concept of personal chakras way beyond the personal chakras to include musical notes, planets, elements, beasts, and even the Book of Revelations from the Bible. According to Cayce it was not about the Apocalypse at all.
He posited that it was in fact an advanced and esoteric framework or template for spiritual growth and development. Make of that what you will. However, what his work does do is reflect the notion of connectedness. You see each chakra system energetically connects to the others, including those ‘out there’ in the Cosmos. In other words – the Divine Matrix that connects us all to each other.
Much has been written about this network of energetic connection in the last few years. Gregg Braden, an ex NASA scientist, wrote a whole book about it. Jonathan Goldman, a musical energy healer, collaborated with Braden to put out a CD based on the sounds of the God Code.
‘Giving the same consideration to both the ancient and modern ways of describing life, the scientific values (atomic mass) representing the four elements of DNA – hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen and carbon – may be matched to their precise counterparts in the Hebrew alphabet … In doing so, the first layer of the message within our cells becomes a brief sequence of the Hebrew letters YHVG, and translates in English to the words: “God/Eternal Within the Body”….
Through this simple act of uniting modern science and ancient wisdom, we see that the chemical codes of life – the strands of elements that form our DNA – are literally made from different combinations of words that include the ancient name of God. ‘ This, Braden has called the God Code – the name of God encoded into our DNA.
The table below is a summary of the information relayed by Cayce –
CHAKRA TABLE (Edgar Cayce) : The Temple of the Body – A Spiritual Attunement Device
7 Chakra |
7 Glands |
7 Plexuses |
Colour |
♪ Note |
7 Planets |
7 Influences |
Element |
Beast |
7 Churches |
Root |
Ovaries/Testes | Pelvic (L4) | Red | Do | Saturn | Flesh and bodily needs | Earth | Calf | Ephesus
“daily bread’ White Horse – to conquer Patience Left first love |
Lower abdomen(Sacral) |
Cells of Leydig | Pelvic (L4) | Orange | Re | Neptune | Mysticism and Guidance | Water | Like a man | Smyrna
‘not into temptation’ Black horse – to weigh in the balance Suffering Insincerity |
Navel(Solar Plexus) |
Adrenals | Solar (T9) | Yellow | Mi | Mars | Madness and Forgiveness | Fire | Lion | Pergamos
“our debts’ Red Horse – to war Faithful Stumbling block |
Heart |
Thymus | Cardiac (T4) | Green | Fa | Venus | Love and Righteousness | Air | Eagle | Thyatira
‘from evil’ Pale Horse – to kill Charity Fornication |
Throat |
Thyroid | Cervical (C3) | Blue | So | Uranus | Will and Psychic ability | Sardis
Will Souls Slain Not Defiled Imperfect |
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Third
eye |
Pineal | Brain | Indigo | La | Mercury | Mind and Knowing | Philadelphia
‘name’ Earthquake Open door No faults – remembers everything |
As humanity and individuals continue to evolve and grow other higher chakras have come into being.
© Raili Tanska
I’ve decided that Sundays are a good day to post peace meditations. With this in mind I invite you to share this time with me. Today’s meditation is from Theresa Joseph’s website. I think it is particularly beautiful and hope you do too. To get there click on the link I have embedded into her introduction –
“In the early 1980’s practitioners trained in the art of meditation were placed at various trouble spots throughout the Middle East. With clockwork-like precision, each time the practitioners began their meditation which focused on the feeling of peace, crimes against humanity dropped, emergency room visits declined and traffic accidents went down. Statistics reversed each time the meditations ended. This happened with such regularity that those conducting the experiments were able to calculate the minimum number of people meditating on peace, needed to effect a change in a community, or the world. The number is surprisingly small: the square root of 1% of any population.
With this in mind I have created the Meditation for World Peace. This guided meditation allows those who have never practiced meditation, and those who are experts, to partake in this movement to promote world peace by embodying and simultaneously sending out the vibration of peace and love….“
I know about a lot of things but I have never heard of this before. Thanks for sharing this great information…………….WOW!
You’re most welcome 🙂
OML, Raili! When you get started researching, you’re a machine! Very awesome post!
Thanks Calen 🙂 A lot of it I did quite some years ago – just pulled it together for this post. I guess the researcher in me dates back to uni days when 5,000 word assignments were the norm and had to be backed up with tons of evidence 🙂
Geez… Maybe I should have you do my research for Glencara’s Bane since that’s where I screwed up to begin with!
Was that the serialised quest journey you were writing? Are you going to take it up again? I could possibly help if you are stuck 🙂
Yeah, that was it. Been talking to Plato about it this afternoon cause I want to do the Camp NaNoWriMo in April and I’d like to be able to finish it up. I’ll give ya a holler if I need to. Thanks so much for the offer!
🙂
If the trained practitioners of meditation could go to Chicago and do the same thing as they did in the middle east and the crime rate, murders and everything else drops. Then I’ll be a big believer in that power……
Thank you for the mention 🙋
My pleasure 🙂
wow! so much good info!–I follow Myss and Cayce too. Thak you-this post requires more than one visit for me!=so much to learn-thank you!
Aren’t they just the most interesting ! I always think of Myss’ work as ‘meaty’ as she delves so deep and it challenges values, beliefs, pushes you to look at life and everything in new and often more profound ways. And Cayce – well, what an amazing man he was!
Thus is wonderful!
Thank you – glad it hit the spot 🙂
I love this post on so many levels! I learned more about chakras but what spoke to me is the idea of combining the best of the big religions – this is precisely what I aim to do with the whole idea of being spiritually independent (plus adding in Eastern philosophy and religion as well as native american ideologies). Wonderful tables you created, too.
Thank you for reading and your kind comments. Wish you every blessing on your journey.
This is very interesting!! I will have to do some reading up on this.
Great !
Wonderful post Raili. Thank you😵
My pleasure 🙂
Really? OMG. this had me pondering.
so deep of an information
You are blessed for sharing with us.
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I am delighted to be able to do that 🙂
Great article!
Thanks !