Originally posted by
Seikou-Kishi
Your thoughts are very intune with my experiences, Eelco. If we think of the human as a state, the chakras are somewhat like governmental departments. The analogy is crude and fraught with difficulty, but it is serviceable with a degree of accomodation. While governmental departments/ministries are autonomous, they are bound to work together by "collective ministerial responsibility", but also by practical considerations: the Home Office might want to increase police numbers, but unless the Treasury provides for its funding, it won't happen.
This parallels the way the chakras apportion aspects of human nature amongst themselves and yet functioning depends as much upon their interaction (i.e., the chakras considered as a whole) as it does upon their particular function (i.e., the chakras as discrete units).
In my "occult"/ritual group, we divide various "forces" (as a macrocosmic view) or "personal aspects" (as a microcosmic view) while affirming that, to use the cliché, these are just facets of one diamond. And while we view these things separately from the whole, we don't view this separation as essential or ontological but as organisational or conceptual. This is "mapped" to show the interaction of these forces or aspects. The classical occult representation of this is the Tree of Life, with its various spheres. Ours is like the tree of life but created of our own devising. I think there is great insight to be found in thinking of the chakras in this light — as a sort flow chart for mapping energies and also as the "occult filing cabinet".
We can use our knowledge of these things in various ways. If our heart chakras represent the meeting of higher forces with lower forces, like the tree with its roots in the earth and its crown in heaven, it is a great mechanism for manifesting supernal forces in the world: for bringing pure, spiritual love into this dense plane. When around children, I activate my heart chakra and bring energy up from my root and down from my crown to meet in the heart. The crown brings in the heightened spiritual connection that opens up a pathway to spiritual love, while the dense and sturdy energy of the root acts as a "fixative" to meld with the crown's energy. When they meet, there is a profusion and the field expands and I extend it to encompass them. It soothes agitated or distressed children and they can feel that love because my field entrains theirs and helps their systems connect to those feelings and bring them down.
Something similar happens when I use that energy to heal, but rather than have it swell as a field from my heart, I have the energies meet, mingle in my heart chakra and then form a cross as the energy pours out through my arms and out of my hands which direct this energy to bathe the one who asks for it. It is a transformative energy that comes from the heart. It has the power to project the image of health over the body (physical, emotional, etc.) and that body, if it accepts that energy, changes to conform with that picture of health in a holographic manner.
Years ago, my girlfriend, boyfriend and I sat together in a triangle so that our knees touched (i.e., close together). We activated our root chakras and directed their energy to swell until the energy encompassed all three of us and our fields overlapped, then directed beams or bolts of root-chakra energy to connect with the root chakras of each other. As we did, we tapped into and became aware of each other's sensations and feelings. It was a very confirming experiencing as from that moment on, we each felt unshakeably secure with each other, absolutely convinced of each other's loyalty and support.
We progressed through each chakra in turn. I am sure this forum is mature enough to speak of adult things without childish squeamishness, but I shall nonetheless be cursory. We found as a consequence of performing this merging with our sacral chakras that we all spontaneously and repeatedly/continually orgasmed. Moreover, they were more powerful and vigorous than any occassioned by sexual intercourse. Further still, we felt not only our own but each other's.
Unperturbed (or distracted) by this, we continued on. The sacral chakra also tuned us in to very deep-seated emotions but of a very unconscious sort. Anyway, when we got to the heart, we felt our own love for each other, but also how we were loved by them, too, it was a very strange experience. I cold feel my love for them and how they loved me, but I could also feel that they felt the same, and I felt how this made them feel... This is a very clumsy way of describing something so... Kaleidoscopic. It was fantastic.
If describing the sensation of "mind-melding" our heart chakras like that is difficult, describing the effect of merging our higher chakras is impossible. It is trite and grossly inadequate to say it, but we felt like one soul knowing, loving, witnessing and being itself in every angle. Our conscious direction of this experiment dissolved as our higher faculties took over. It would not be correct, then, to see we "decided" to finish, since our conscious minds like our physical bodies were completely forgotten.
There was a kind of hangover when we returned to the physical world. Being in our physical bodies felt hilarious. Deliciously absurd. When we looked at each other, we could see each other, but also ourselves from each other's eyes.
Originally, there was only my girlfriend and me. My girlfriend said she knew that our boyfriend-to-be was in love with me and long story short at her insistence we came together. It's not really relevant how we came to be a trio except to say that because he joined what was already an established relationship, and despte the fact that he joined us at our girlfriend's request, he always felt subconsciously as though it had been my desire and she had simply tolerated it, thus (he felt that) she didn't love him for him but rather she loved him for me. During this experience, all such doubts were washed away. We felt our love and how we were loved, but we also felt the love in every direction. For example, I felt how I loved them and they me, but also how he loved her and she him, even how we loved our collectivity (that we were more than a conjunction of three relationships; more than the sum of our parts).
We achieved all this together and found a closeness unparalleled in earthly existence. The thing about being an occultist is it doesn't matter what the chakras are. The occult (when it works well) is pragmatic, not dogmatic. Why do we use a wand in ritual? Is there any power in the wand? No, it is a tool which represents a certain faculty; we can do without the wand and often ought to just to remind us of that fact. I think of the chakras in the same way: I don't care if they have objective reality (if such reality is possible) and neither do I care for the nature of that reality, they are conceptual tools that have worked for me and the concept is valid insofar as it is useful in the pursuit of spiritual truth.
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