redgreenvines said:

I find the whole "LORE" of chakras too limiting, while Alex Grey paintings are closer to what arises naturally. I say this after having been immersed - after having studied and practiced Tibetan meditation with a serious dude called Namgyal Rinpoche back in the late 60's.

In my experience, the interpretation of "energy flow blockages" between chakras is not a fair depiction of the problems we have: the chakras are experiential artifacts, not causative forms, so when you feel them in any way, or see them, you are seeing the result of something else - usually from a reflective or absorptive state of mind (like alex grey on drugs or some ancient yogi).

When a chakra is blocked it means that your biologic body holds some tension or illness, and usually that your mind is fighting with some memory that pertains to that part of your body - i.e. a persisting trauma is associated with an area of the body. The mind is blocking on the issue, and the body is what the mind is using to grasp the memory and generate feedback, this is not about wiring or plumbing or some esoteric flowing at all, however when tension prevails, blood circulation will be slowed down and the body will create weakness in the tensed area after a while of this.

The result appears similar to a psychic flow being blocked but it is not a flow of cosmic energies in the body, but a blockage of mental ideation around the chakra, and a resulting body traffic jam like a 6 lane highway under construction with one lane open. Blood flow constriction leads to muscle fatigue + toxin accumulation + lack of oxygen -> this is conceptually about "Prana" aka breath 'energy' - the concepts are related, but simplified for people who are not able to understand the body's biology, and these ideas are also animated because when we think biology, we get too intellectual and it really is very dynamic: breathing, muscle flexing, joints bending and rotating, guts squishing food ,liquids, and shit...

Anectdote:
My grown daughter was seeing a healer 3 years back for some issues and one day she asked me to drop her off at this healer, and I met the woman.
Well my feeling was she was earnest enough and my daughter really gained benefits from her massage.
I did not feel like criticizing the whole chakra stuff, as it seemed to help my daughter see how she was holding pain, and IMO working with symptoms can get you over an impasse while the bigger causes can be dealt with over time, and it can even lead directly to the associative causes of the tension.

Oddly the healer told my daughter afterwards in private that she could see that "your fathers chakras are very opened and well balanced, in fact I have never seen anyone with more balanced chakras!"

Hell! I get sore joints from the weather changing and fret over things same as anyone else. Still I think she was probably a good healer, and I guessed she judged my chakras by how I was standing sitting and moving.

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MarkostheGnostic said:

Your's is a reasonable appraisal of chakras, and I'm happy that your chakras are balanced but I could've told you the same from here and I'm not clairvoyant. But, you remain pre-eminently balanced on a site where we have seen a sad plethora of instability.

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redgreenvines said:

I find the whole "LORE" of chakras too limiting, while Alex Grey paintings are closer to what arises naturally. I say this after having been immersed - after having studied and practiced Tibetan meditation with a serious dude called Namgyal Rinpoche back in the late 60's.

In my experience, the interpretation of "energy flow blockages" between chakras is not a fair depiction of the problems we have: the chakras are experiential artifacts, not causative forms, so when you feel them in any way, or see them, you are seeing the result of something else - usually from a reflective or absorptive state of mind (like alex grey on drugs or some ancient yogi).

When a chakra is blocked it means that your biologic body holds some tension or illness, and usually that your mind is fighting with some memory that pertains to that part of your body - i.e. a persisting trauma is associated with an area of the body. The mind is blocking on the issue, and the body is what the mind is using to grasp the memory and generate feedback, this is not about wiring or plumbing or some esoteric flowing at all, however when tension prevails, blood circulation will be slowed down and the body will create weakness in the tensed area after a while of this.

The result appears similar to a psychic flow being blocked but it is not a flow of cosmic energies in the body, but a blockage of mental ideation around the chakra, and a resulting body traffic jam like a 6 lane highway under construction with one lane open. Blood flow constriction leads to muscle fatigue + toxin accumulation + lack of oxygen -> this is conceptually about "Prana" aka breath 'energy' - the concepts are related, but simplified for people who are not able to understand the body's biology, and these ideas are also animated because when we think biology, we get too intellectual and it really is very dynamic: breathing, muscle flexing, joints bending and rotating, guts squishing food ,liquids, and shit...

Anectdote:
My grown daughter was seeing a healer 3 years back for some issues and one day she asked me to drop her off at this healer, and I met the woman.
Well my feeling was she was earnest enough and my daughter really gained benefits from her massage.
I did not feel like criticizing the whole chakra stuff, as it seemed to help my daughter see how she was holding pain, and IMO working with symptoms can get you over an impasse while the bigger causes can be dealt with over time, and it can even lead directly to the associative causes of the tension.

Oddly the healer told my daughter afterwards in private that she could see that "your fathers chakras are very opened and well balanced, in fact I have never seen anyone with more balanced chakras!"

Hell! I get sore joints from the weather changing and fret over things same as anyone else. Still I think she was probably a good healer, and I guessed she judged my chakras by how I was standing sitting and moving.

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Killer post.

Grapefruit said:

I felt all of my chakras open up and burn out after a profoundly damaging psychic event. It felt to me as physical as breaking your own arm would although I have no way to prove anything. My speculation is that they provide a kind of connection between the physical world of spirit and the body, and that the brain mostly provides a form of mediation there. I think it is a more minor organ than most people think or science realises.

I have also felt the psychic chakras in the subtle energy body and various impressions from them, since that burn out. Which felt exclusively mental, I did not have the physical feelings of pain and overload in the centres at that time nor did the emotions related to them feel composed of a "living spirit" in the same way. I suppose I would think of these as brain related forms of chakras.

Just my own experience take or leave it, I'm sure there's plenty of woo woo around the subject of chakras.

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