It is barely two weeks since my query about the need for work on helping to build a broader awareness of our energy body anatomy when along comes this notion out on the interwebs that muddies the waters on understanding how our energy works. This level of distortion and misinformation needs to be carefully pointed out and understood for what it is. The idea that is being floated is that you can remove your chakras.
Right. Think on that one for a bit.
While I can catch why the people who are putting this forward are doing it, they are misunderstanding or mis-perceiving what is actually going on. It is interesting to see how we can turn a phenomenon on its head just a tiny bit and wind up with rather significant distortions.
But before I dig into what is happening, let me first explain that removing a chakra is nearly exactly the same thing as trying to remove a current in water, or taking the cycling or vibration away from any form of energy. Right. A current can be moved so that it is amazingly calm so that there is little turbulence within it. However, there still remains a vibration there. it becomes finer and finer, but all energy is movement. So far, this has never been seen in any way to NOT be true when it comes to energy, ANY energy.
You see, all energy exists in frequency, all of it from subatomic particles, atoms, compounds, light, microwaves, and thought energy. We are ourselves channels for a life force energy called Qi, Chi, Prana, etc., Our own thoughts and feelings serve to attenuate this energy from its universal field form, and will broaden, limit, or allow for it depending on the mind and heart of the person channeling that energy (which is everything and everyone who is alive on the planet).
We are in some aspects here to realize who and what we are. Part of this is understanding what being a conduit for this energy is about. Opening up to this flow of energy that is prana and that is awakening brings awareness to who we are as multidimensional beings, as higher selves. The “work” of Awakening is in how well we allow this force to do the work for us, to inhabit us clearly and cleanly without distortive elements in the mix. The effort is in realizing who we are, and this “who” happens to so often result in a being that is not in conflict with anything, but sees things as they are. It turns out that this is often what takes place with yogis, yoginis, priests, priestesses, monks, shaman, etc. The Lakota say “Make me a hollow bone” when seeking to be the best healer that they can be. There is this journey that takes place with most people once they find this awakening and what it does….which quickly, sometimes slowly, clearing you out of the dross that has been carried over from the past. This is the work of Ho’oponopo, which means “setting it right” which is what we consider to be closer to our state of origin, the primal state, the authentic self or being.
The idea that we remove anything except blockages is denying the energetic reality of our souls being in flesh.
So the idea here that is circulating around lately is that a chakra can be removed. In the sites that are talking about this as a real thing, they are mistaking the removal of blocked energy as the removal of the chakra. Blocked energy in awareness is what serves to attenuate energy so that it becomes turbulent. This is what most people feel in the beginning of awakening as the intense energetic effects of kundalini. It is more correct that this turbulence or intensity is the direct result of having dirt accumulated along the interior of a pipe or garden hose such that it causes a “drag” on the energy and makes everything much more noticeable in awareness. But turbulence is not peace. It helps, then, to know a little energy101.
A chakra is a vortex of energy that is created as a result of an accumulating flow of many lines of force that run through the body as both an electrical and pranic charge (electric the body produces, prana is created as a subtle finer form of energy that the body also uses as well as consciousness). These channels are called meridians in the Chinese system and nadi in the Hindu. Most people are used to thinking we have seven chakras. We in fact have many more than just the seven. We know about the main seven larger ones because these are the most obvious to feel. These run up along the central trunk of the body, But chakras are merely interaction points within the energy body and these points can accumulate suppressed emotional material. Thus we have the concept of “chakra clearing.” But a chakra itself is without real substance. It is formed as a result of the flow of energy in the field. While the meridians or nadi show very real structure, this is energetic.
When I awakened I was shown a whole series of things that I had not realized before awakening. Most of them I have found have been confirmed on various information sites such as Wikipedia, the Veda’s and Upanishads. The flow of energy I was shown by the intelligence that is this energy is that the chakras are themselves what happens between the two currents that run up the Ida and Pengala channels, what are called the male and female currents. As the energy runs up along the spine the energy changes pitch or vibration. As this pitch changes, there is a feedback that happens between the negative and positive poles on each side of the spine. The chakras will become more active when there are varying flows of energy from one side to the other. This can create the vortex effect. The chakra will “turn” or there will be more “movement” as a result of a more even flow between the two sides of the Ida and Pengala nadi. When this takes place you can feel something that is translated into a sense of movement. Your whole body can wind up feeling like it is moving, and just the centers called chakra will feel like they are moving. But this effect is the result of the energy rushing up and down and radiating outward. When you allow your energy to flow naturally, you will also often feel a movement of the chakras. But the chakra is the result of many lines of force coming into a center. You can hold it back or let it flow. This can cause the chakra to be still or to move. The chakra itself is like a whirling vortex. It is less anatomy as it is EFFECT. See?
The more these lines of force accumulate or gather, the stronger the force is felt in terms of flow. It is also why when we describe the chakras, we describe the seven major ones along the core or trunk of our bodies. We simply can feel these the easiest of the many others that we have. Imagine how it must be inside the vascular system when one vein connects to another vein. Don’t you think there is some change in the flow as one smaller vein joins into a larger vein? And what about how major veins connecting into the aorta that runs up the center of the body? There would exist a large flow of blood and this would naturally feel differently than a small vein in, say, the arm. In a WAY it is similar with the nadi system of etheric channels that criss-cross the body like a vast nervous system.
These channels are polarized to handle the negative and positive aspects of the energy field in our bodies and as a result we see that there are negative and positively charged channels in the energy body. These are called Yin and Yang in the Chinese system and are called Ida and Pengala in the Indian. Along the trunk of the body the two channels sit alongside the central channel where the physical spinal column is located as well as the Shushumna nadi or channel. The Shushumna nadi is associated with our most transcendent energy and leads to expanded or accelerated states of consciousness.
You can see how many of these vertical lines there are in the Chinese meridian diagram below. While the Chinese system does not identify the chakras, they do a good job of identifying the main channels that move through the arms and trunk of the human body. The Hindu system has the nadis. I am including first a map of the nadi and meridians to show how similar they are. They are both based on careful observation over many years. There are more breakthroughs that will be coming along in the years to come, some are already here with us and are awaiting being reported about. But for now, the old stuff:
Nadi chart. Source: http://www.yinyoga.com/ys1_3.1.2_nadis.php
The seven chakras lie along a main line of force in the trunk of the body, and form a field of both electrical flow and an electrical field. In my work with the awakening process, I have found that I have an expanded awareness of how energy works in the body. None of what I have seen or observed has suggested anything about chakras being removable. But what it has done is it has shown me that prana follows or is folded into the electricity that the body creates. The chakras are a direct result of our being connected to the universal energy flow. It is at once a subtle energy as well as an energy that our bodies appear to need like water or air in order to properly function. In awakening it is known just what a stimulating effect this can have on the body such as the endocrine system. Since 2006-7 when I had the first stirrings of awakening, I have never gotten sick (beyond sinus infections….I seem to be physically predisposed to them in spring and fall). I work with students who get the flu and mono and all manner of problems, but I have yet to come down with a bad cold or influenza.
The Electrical Aspect
It is helpful to understand how energy arises in the body and where it all starts.
Electrical current is created at the cellular level, and happens as a result of an alternating inspiring and expiring within the cells themselves of both potassium and sodium, along with the intake of calcium. When sodium is taken in while potassium is expired from the cell, a small electrical potential is created. This electricity is used by the body to send signals from the body to the brain. (Go HERE to read up on the story of how electricity is created–fascinating stuff!) It is a vast electrical system that allows for a broad range of feedbacks in the form of information to go from cells, to organs, and on to the brain.
Along with this electrical energy is a higher vibrational energy that also sends information that we call prana. What prana is is hard to say since it has never been charted, filmed, or viewed by western science. We do know what prana does by way of feeling and observing it, though (which is the same thing) Psychics and sensitives, though, have been able to feel and see it in the form of the human aura.
The human aura reveals all aspects of the self as a series of interwoven “templates” or bodies of energy, one nested into the other, that reveal information about the emotional, mental, spiritual, energetic, and physical aspects of our beings. All of it can be seen or “read” in the aura. There are many ways to detect this energy, through “seeing” and through feeling. While we do not have much information through western science about prana, we do have a lot from the Chinese and Indian cultures. It turns out that this energy can be seen or detected internally through the sensory abilities of the energetic body. Sometimes this is glimpsed through the third eye, but it can also be observed or sensed through any number of internal non-physical senses. These are all described as being the “psychic” senses because they do not come in through the physical senses themselves. These are the senses that you have as a being that is a soul having a physical experience, and so these senses are as native to you as your physical ones, but learning how to tune into them is often considered a “revolutionary” activity here on our world. But you have them and about 6.5 billion others do to, even though they are not using them.
Particles, Waves, Fields, and Flows
Energy fields and electrical energy flows are two sides of the same coin, but they have different properties. A line of energy that flows from one end of the body to another as in the case of electrical signals send information linearly. These flows of energy can be seen as carrying particles called electrons which are either negatively or positively charged and is the “substance” for the physical body to send signals from one place to another fast. A field, though, is able to send a flow of energy through all space and all time because it has no mass, is not particle-based and thus has no mass. If you are up on your Einstein, you will know that mass is what keeps you stuck here in this one dimension or space (and physical matter certainly has mass). A particle is very useful for very physical things while a field is something that may well impact the etheric body and the soul and super-consciousness, giving it properties that allow us to go beyond the here and now, literally, in thought and awareness. Sound wild? Well it is, and it is part of what makes knowing your expanded self so amazing (because you are utilizing this aspect of your being in an more aware manner!)
BUT. A field and a flow are not separate. You do NOT get a particle when a wave is present any more than you get a wave when a particle is present. You get BOTH. The particle/wave duality is itself two sides of the same coin. One does not produce the other. They both co-exist. They are co-dependent, you might say.
Both particle and field, though, are just as important as carriers of information in the body and in consciousness, though. In fact, the brain shows a mirror resemblance to these two “sides of the coin” in our bodies with a left brain that is linear while the right brain is non-linear. It also turns out that the left side of the body is known to cohere to the yin or feminine receptive “cool” energy that flows through what the Hindu system describe as the “Ida” etheric (nonphysical prana energy) channel, moving up the main trunk of the body and then does a flip at the corpus callosum and goes into the right brain where the structure of the right brain corresponds with the feminine force we call “kundalini shakti.” It is something that I have observed that corresponds with the awakening of the right brain into a fuller way alongside the awakening of the cosmic energy we call kundalini. The truth, though, is that both this “new” energy is just the addition of an opposite energy that has been suppressed in most every person on the planet (which then makes kundalini a “rare” event!).
To understand this character of both the energy and the brain, I suggest that you watch Jill Bolte Taylor’s TED Talk (it opens in a separate window–I also put the link at the end, too, in case you want to keep ploughing through this) where she observed first-hand what happens when the left brain is shut down as a result of a stroke. Her experience? The marvelous bliss of enlightenment. For a few hours she was able as a brain scientist, to observe the right brain only. The experience was enough to move her to tears simply recounting the experience. The awakening of kundalini is the awakening of awareness. That is all. When we allow this awareness to open up in us, our greater potential is realized.
The other side of the body (right) has the yang energy, which is described as hot and more linear in its nature. It is also described as being like the masculine. This energy flows up the trunk of the body in what is called the Pengali naddi, which is a nonphysical channel through which this force flows. These are forces that all go well beyond any human nature and into forces in nature and that pervade the universe.
What I have described to you is what the Chinese have charted as the “meridians” and what the Indians have described as naddi. Now here is the clincher that brings all of this into a unity: as all of these lines of force flow into a main channel, the two polarities of the energy are expressed as a vortex in the field. The “structure” of the chakra is itself a fux field that moves up and down the center of the trunk of the body (most noticeably there) as two polarized energies running alongside each other. If it makes it easier to understand, this arrangement is the same as all flux field or energy fields. The sun has these, the earth has them, and all electrical fields have them along with living things as well. These fields create a shape that is like an ovoid sheath that follows the shape of the body as the flow of energy runs through it. In the core where the spinal column also is physically located lies the center or “eye” of this flux field of electrical and pranic energy. This creates a kind of donut shape or what is being called a “torus.” A torus is an expression of what energy does, which is to have both positive and negative poles in its structure. As this field moves, it creates the vortex effect that we know as a chakra.
This is the basis for the chakra system. In order to be alive, to be sentient, in order to be focused in a body, you must have a chakra.
But what these people are putting forward is a misperception of what the chakras do. The misperception is taking place when a block is removed from the field of a person, which results in a smoothing out of the flow of the energy along the two Ida and Pengala lines in the pranic body system, which results in a smoother flow of energy in consciousness. This is a natural result of removing blocks, which consist entirely of stored or repressed memory as emotions not fully felt that get lodged in the energy body (in the chakras also). These are along locations that correspond with the frequency of both the chakra center in general and with the type of stored emotion (this is why certain chakras will be associated with certain personality or emotional traits—its all frequencies of energy!). As stored material is removed, these “discs” or”wheels” of energy are found to “calm” down. And they do as a result of all of this blocked material being released.
What happens is that the chakras move more smoothly, and are not as turbulent for the simple fact that the blocked material is no longer creating this turbulence. But the idea that you can remove a chakra is strong enough a belief in a person that they can surrogate this idea or confuse this idea of letting go or release as having their chakras removed. In fact, as you remove enough material, the inner world of your energy changes and a new world opens up. This, though, is just the beginning. A chakra is not being removed in this “operation” but a release of the material that is stored, which results in a calmer state of being. Always, as this material is released, it results in a calmer and calmer energetic state. You can have very strong energy in such a state, but it is like a wind that blows through a house when all the windows are open instead of a house with windows partly open. In one case the wind blows without any resistance while in the latter case, there is a lot of resistance and turbulence created. Same energy, different results. Our purpose here is to learn how to manage this energy in a meaningful and more peaceful way.
Alongside this is the strange notion that the chakras were created by entities in order to gain control over our energy bodies by way of karmic contracts. As if forces larger than us are controlling us, and they are not all benign.
What is accurate is that we are all sovereign beings who are having to face up to the sheer mass of error and hurt that lies within us as a field of accumulated blocks. These blocks, which make our energy less than smooth and peaceful, is what also attracts entities. I can tell you from first-hand experience of removing etheric entities from others and myself that the issue with ANY entity is the direct result of a fault that is first in us that we have yet to clear up that is attracting the entity in the first place, rather than the result of beings somehow implanting us with something. First rule in all energy medicine is nothing comes into us that we have not first admitted. Most often this “allowing” comes in the form of the choices we have made in the past. We want to think we did not “decide” to allow a being to hitch a ride, but when it comes to energy, the language is different. You attract not based on your conscious permissions but by the part of you that is subsumed in your subconscious where many blocks lay beyond your conscious awareness. This does not mean that you did not give permission. You give permission based on HOW you are. The entities that hitch their rides on us do not understand “permission.” They only know the fundamental law of energy, which is that like attracts like. Understand this, and you will begin to understand how this all has happened to everyone on the planet.
When we fall away from our divine nature, forgetting what we are, we naturally create negative karma through our actions. But how we feel is how our energy field flows. How it flows is how it also attracts. So think about what the “flow” of anger is like, or fear, or jealousy. All of these emotions, positive and negative, all attract based on their vibration, on their underlying character. You can change the vibration by clearing up what the problem was in the first place within you, and it is always something that has not been fully felt. It is some hurt you felt from the past that serves to create these blocks and also opens you up to entities. Go that?
Its simple, really, but it is also a lot of “work” to simply find your own inner grace and allow the error of your past to simply fall away. This “work” can take most people years to do. There is a lot there for us to undo, and its something that takes place over multiples of five years on average….so that in the first five years of awakening a general amount of blocked energy is cleared for most people, with a steady refining taking place into more and more subtle fields of awareness, of consciousness. This is more a steady spiraling of progress that has no end. But by removing the stored material, you will also remove the places that are unhealed in you that create open areas in your energy field for outsiders to latch on. And to be clear; these beings as they are experienced directly here on our plane are themselves not highly intelligent beings. They are themselves like energy fragments that have a form of intelligence and are attracted to certain frequencies of human energy since these energies are most familiar to them. When you remove the energy that attracts them, you will feel them also fall away and not return, and if they do try to return, they wont be able to access you as they have in the past. It is as though a wound has closed in your energy field that these entities have drawn from. In truth, it is merely a frequency of energy that you are creating with the prana that you have in your body. It is like taking vibrational energy and turning it into something….and in this case, it just so happens that the things you are creating is delightful to lower vibrational entities. When you clean up your act, issues with these beings falls away.
The issue of entities is important because just as you have a higher self, so too do these beings. When we can heal ourselves with awareness of what it is we are doing and what is happening to us, we can also give these beings a little boost, a kind of final send off that if done properly, can at the very least open the door to that entity to evolve in an entirely new way once they are free from us as hosts. Imagine how huge this could be for us here on earth and for people who are aware of these types of entities. Instead of this being a big huge drag, we could be making HUGE change on an evolutionary scale by facing up to what we each have done in ourselves to open us to these entities, and then to aid these lower forms so that their higher forms also evolve. This is in truth the great discovery that awaits those who dive into this kind of work. It can all be an adversary, or it can all be an ally. Every single being I have encountered has appeared to me being more mono-dimensional than us as humans. I have removed these beings both from myself and from someone I was connected to at one stage of my development. I have also seen individuals who have held onto their entities because they believed that they were a kind of protector or ally. The truth though is that none of us need protection. When we correct ourselves, when we clear ourselves, energetically, the protection that is our own pure vibration naturally emerges as the “white light” that is experienced during awakening.
If entities trouble you, look first at yourself for where the chink in your armor lies. This is where these come from, and if we want to clear up their influence, each of use need to begin the work of clearing our own fields of the stored material that makes it hard for us to know our true selves.
Chakras are the RESULT of energy flow through the body and are something that cannot be removed. They form an integral structure of your energy field as a physical and nonphysical being here on earth. Each chakra will express some aspect of your person-hood and soulfulness. Like your ego, they are not something to be plucked out and gotten rid of as some have believed. As Taishen Deshimuru, a Zen master, once observed, it is the ego of the ordinary self that is the eye that observes the cosmic mind (which is cosmic ego!). What you DO remove is the backlog of stored material, and this leads to a calming of the energy so it flows smoothly, almost imperceptibly. But ridding yourself of chakras? Its like trying to rid yourself of ego. For as much as everyone tries to do it and talks about it, there is no one who has ever achieved it. And that, dear reader, is worth a good giggle at the very least.
I hope that this helps clear up or clarify a few things about the role that energy plays in our bodies. The chakras can become MUCH smoother when we clear them, and this is really very positive work to do….but it does not mean that the chakra is removed, no. Just use observation. Also the role that the entities that are mentioned are merely the result of what our past choices have been to be anything less than our divine potential; our highest. So keep striving, bright lights! Keep on your shine and let it flow and runneth over. As you remove the strands of shadow in your field of awareness, so too will the influences such as beings that are attracted to the less than perfect parts in you. In time, it will all resolve back to its root, back to its origin. The origin? Its a kind of Garden Of Eden where we are no longer separate, but together as a species doing what is in the highest for all. That is a tall order, but this is taking place person by person. Right now!
Waking The Infinite 