7 Chakras

The existence of subtle, spiritual energy was well known to the ancient traditions. For instance, the Chinese built all of their health care around it with acupuncture. Most native traditions focus on the natural energies of the body for various types of healing.

The energies are also used for shamanic journeys and other "acts of power". Common to all of the traditions is the idea that this energy has centers, or points of congregation, at various places on or near the body. The most common term for these energy centers is "chakras".

Chakra is a Sanskrit word which means "vortex of energy". The number of energy centers which are identified as important varies somewhat from tradition to tradition. For instance, Chinese medicine work with hundreds of acupuncture points. Many martial arts traditions only work with one energy center, the hara. Many others speak of five or ten. However, most traditions speak of seven energy centers. These are the primary energies and the laws governing them will be our primary focus here.

The seven chakras are aligned vertically along your back, from the top of your head to just below the bottom of your spine. Each chakra is equivalent to a wave field without particles, pure potential. When open they are like the other side of Black Holes where the energy is streaming out, not in.

The frequency and quality of the energy flowing from each chakra is different. Each chakra is thus considered to have its own type of spiritual energy, its own tuning. The chakras can be initially located and identified as void spaces, pure energy fields. Spiritual energy said to be of immeasurable power, called by the Indians "Prana" and by the Chinese "Chi", can flow through the chakras, but only if they are opened or activated. Technically speaking the chakras are the fields through which the energies flow, not the spiritual energies themselves. They are like doors. Certain tools and techniques unlock them. Other tools and methods, like PrimaSounds, can even rattle them open a crack.

We know from physics that transversal energies, such as electromagnetism, which travel in empty space-the void-behave in many respects like longitudinal vibrations which travel in matter, such as sound. For instance, both energies have distinct frequencies. This similarity explains in part why certain spiritual music is able to activate the Chakras- using a special musical scale which has almost the exact same frequency as the chakras. This makes resonance between the two types of energy possible. The resonance acts to stimulate and open the chakras.

No matter what the method, the process of integration of consciousness necessarily requires the chakras to be opened, balanced and tuned. As the laws of consciousness show, in the ordinary course of human life consciousness is not integrated. It is merely an accompanying factor of the functions and realms, their rationalization. In the ordinary course of human life we experience a series of disconnected consciousness states. We suffer from "Subtle Sybil" effects. We sleep to some degree in consensus trance.

The discontinuity of consciousness also has an energetical aspect. Our problems, our complexes, can be analyzed from an energy perspective. Even our potentials and awakening can be understood in terms of energy. When our consciousness is shattered, discordant, this inevitably has a negative effect on our energies. The frequencies of the different primal energies get pushed out of tune by our conscious states. Our energy tends to either unisonce (sameness), or dissonance, inharmoniousness. This linkage between consciousness and energy is an important, but as of yet little-known law of spiritual energy: the disruption in consciousness creates an equivalent disruption of energies. Without coherence of consciousness the seven energies easily go out of tune.

The four lower chakras tend towards unisonce, with one or two energies dominant. The dominant energy forces the others to be like it, distorting them, de-tuning them. This follows the domination of one or more function over the others. For many people today (particularly readers) the thinking function tends to dominate the others, but it can just as easily be another function dominating. For instance, sensing dominating thinking where the parroting of the thoughts of others passes for thinking; or feeling dominating thinking where your desires and feelings replace any thinking, and all is rationalization of what you want.

According to the indigenous perspective the function which dominates in most western cultures is sensing, the fire element. Thus we are a consumer society which craves constant stimulation and entertainment at the expense of the other elements and their energies. The feeling energy called the water element suffers the most. Our excess fire has burned up our water. We are burned out, with little or no feelings. From the native view our society is an emotional desert. We are out of touch with our deep feelings. We need more water. We need to grieve, to cry and let ourselves go in the deep waters of life.

The upper three energies tend to be dissonant, out of tune with each other, and acting separately. The spirit does not know the body, nor the body the spirit, and neither is really in touch with the soul, the personality, who acts independently of both. The spirit and body have to be brought together and made to work in concert with the soul.

In the process of integration of consciousness the chakras are strengthened and balanced. The energies are harmonized and balanced. The chakras are retuned to their natural, healthy frequencies. Each of the seven chakras then sound their own tone, but in harmony with the others.

The goal is for each energy to sing its own tune, but in harmony with all of the others: Harmonious-Attunement. Each chakra has its own frequency, its own vibratory rate. When it is tuned to this pitch it is at its strongest. It is fully open, healthy and alive. When all of the chakras are so attuned, they are in a natural harmony with each other.

This attunement happens by intentionally putting the different conscious states together in Awareness, the Zero dimension. As Arnold Keyserling observes, the harmonization and tuning of the energies:

" ...can only be effectuated by Man himself, out of free decision, out of will. In order for the layers to become steps, a person must create the continuity intentionally. It does not happen automatically, but requires effort, will and attention. The different traditions have chosen different forms, but in the last analysis they all say the same thing: the seven points of gravity should come into harmony, not unisonce."

This "life tuning" process works with the process of integration of consciousness- individuation. If you simply work on the spiritual energies alone, and do not also work on your consciousness, then your consciousness will disrupt your energies. You will continually "go out of tune" with one of the energies emphasized to the detriment of the others. The imbalance of the consciousness functions or realms will cause an imbalance and mis-tuning of the energies. As one or more of the functions or realms is emphasized, the energies that go with it will also be amplified. The energies will become as imbalanced as the consciousness, no matter how much work you do on the energies alone. Thus it is futile to work on energy alone without also working on consciousness. The contrary is also true. Work on consciousness needs to be buttressed with energy work. Both need to be grounded with Body work.

Inner silence is the key to tuning the energies and integrating the conscious states. It is the sacred dimension or pure Awareness which unifies the otherwise unconnected states of consciousness. It is also the black hole source of the chakras. Thus all progress in spiritual disciplines depends upon reaching and retaining this inner silence.