It is certainly interesting to learn more about the individual chakras. Michael, do you percieve the chakras as spiritual or emotional centers with those qualities described in the bowditch article? Do you personally feel those qualities in them when you meditate on them? Or do you see them more as body centers, places where the energy “may” take on those qualities? I experience little sensation in the chakra at the base of the spine. The next one up I feel, but if often feels as though there is not a lot of energy pooling there, and that I have to consciously direct my energy to it. I experience most of my sensation in the heart chakra and the solar plexus chakra, followed by the throat. Do you think it is accurate for me to interpret these sensations as a strong connection between myself and the qualities associated with those chakras, and that perhaps I don’t have as strong of a connection with the others? If so, why do you think an unevenly distributed connection between the chakras occurs?
Tantric philosophy seems to say that nothing is inherently ‘bad’. But in working with the chakras, the written materials state that we practice working with them to clear any obstructions to their ease and function. Do you think this is a result of society, then? The whole nature vs. nurture issue?
Long, abstract intellectual post. Not much about my physicality today, I’ve just been wondering about these ideas and wondered if you would provide some illumination.
Thanks!
Zak
Zak Houston 