14/01/2024
Our primary energy centers and their relation to the brain.
It’s been a minute since I jotted down anything in my Magickal pocket journal. This one felt important.
So, I devised or discovered a chakras system that differs from the widely accepted Western one. Rather than a rainbow, it goes red-blue-yellow (gold), inspired by the colors used in the art and design of ancient cultures. The root, solar plexus, and throat retain the same colors that they have in the modern system, interestingly.
Initially, when using this, I came to believe that the crown isn’t a “chakra” at all but rather the entry-exit vortex of our personal energetic or electromagnetic bubble. Then, the other day, I got thinking about how the same is probably true of the root. Furthermore, it is revealed in Kabbalah that Kether (crown) and Malkuth (root) are interlinked. One is a continuation or instance of the other. We are a continuous circuit. With that in mind, it makes sense that in my system, both are red. The only red center that could be considered a proper chakra, i.e. energy center, would be the heart. And if you know your chakras, you know that the heart also projects its own energetic field. So that’s perfect!
Yesterday, it occurred to me that there is a direct correlation to our brains. The amygdala, the lizard brain, controls our instinctual responses. Just like the root. The limbic system, our mammal brain, controls emotion. Just like the heart. And the neocortex is the seat of logic and rational thought. It is what sets us apart from animals. It controls consciousness. Just like the crown.
There is a standard meditation practice wherein we begin at the root, pull energy up along the spine (or via each chakra, which accomplishes the same thing) and up through the crown. This is also how raising kundalini works, to an extent.
There are many who see the connection of higher consciousness with the spine and, ultimately, the brain. Activation of higher function.
Perhaps we initialize and activate our minds, section by section - lizard, mammal, human - when we do this.
Like the old hermetic saying says, All Is Mind. 🧠
