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The anchor symbolizes strength and stability. The infinity symbol, well, like the
name suggests it means whatever you are getting that tattoo for, it will hold an
eternal value to you. Mine says I will have infinite strength. Many people pick an
anchor tattoo design to remind themselves that no matter how stormy and rough
things get out there and how much the factors around you try to uproot you, you
need to hold on and keep doing what you are supposed to. Some anchor tattoos are
dedicated to the dear ones who played this role in your life i.e. provided you the
strength and wherewithal to hold on no matter what comes your way by being there
through it all. The infinity symbol is a never ending loop. So it means forever or
always or limitless, never ending possibilities. It is one of the most positive tattoos
there is.
The polarities of energy for the chakra energy dentersFigure eights of the back and
front of the chakras
We will describe the principles portrayed in these images and offer some sample
meditations using the Figure Eight flow of energy.
The glyph or visual symbol for this dynamic balance, often called the infinity sign,
is the Figure Eight. It represents the dynamic and continuous rhythm and flow
between polar principles, or opposites. This natural swing from one pole to the other
is the rhythm of the Figure Eight flowing back and forth ceaselessly, hence also
called the infinity loop. If you move your hand in a figure eight motion in front of
you, you will feel the swing and momentum that is created by this shape. Contrast it
with moving your hand in a circle in front of you and feel the difference in energy
and momentum.
Balance is something that many spiritual systems talk about. The Figure Eight also
helps us understand what balance really means in an energetic context. A spiritual
seeker must find balance on the path. Many, in fact, seek a spiritual path like
meditation and the like in order to find balance in otherwise imbalanced lives. But
what does balance mean? It is often thought of as a static thing, like putting equal
amounts of qualities on the pans of a scale until they come to stillness. Or, some
systems see balance as being in the middle, the still point itself, where the aspirant
is neither one nor the other, detached from both extremes.
But from an energetic perspective, there is nothing that is not in motion, dynamic.
Without the dynamic magnetism of polarities, energies things run down. So balance
is not a static state but a dynamic between energetically polar qualities.
Now we have enough context to present our first map which overviews how we at
Pathways For Healing understand:
The qualities of energy and balance needed to foster and stabilize our spiritual
development.
The polar qualities that allow us to open the chakras, i.e. to bring our
consciousness into alignment with those qualities of energy and realms of
experience.
Lets just get on to the big picture, that of the polarities of the seven chakras within
the Inner Temple. It's truly beautiful. So much form, flow, color. We are drawn to it
as if it is something we know, or something we wish to bring some order to our
being.
What we see here is each chakra, its polar magnetic qualities, and our name for the
quality engendered by a dynamic balance of both polarities. Behind it all lies the
Grand Eight that runs between the Crown chakra and the 1st chakra, centered by
the Heart, which represents the connection of matter and spirit and the flow
between them. Kabbalists would call this the Involutional and Evolutional pathways,
from Spirit to the material existence, and from the most material to the most
spiritual direction of evolution of the soul.
We will briefly explore the polarities and balance of each chakra in the Temple, and
there will be sample-guided meditations at the end of the description.
The first chakra is the basis of physical life, and the fundamental energy of the
physical body and the physical realm. The red frequency has warmth, hence
associated with fire, and a substantial or dense nature. Our vital physical being is
generated from the dynamic of the poles of Vibrancy: the deep and hidden Inward
Vibrancy in every molecule and cell, and the Outward Vibrancy that expresses itself
in Natures outpouring. A reflection of this is the hidden, vibrant potential in the
seed of the acorn and the activated outward vibrancy seen in its sprouting into the
oak tree. This quality of inner, hidden potential for vibrancy and growth is inherent
in all living things and is a quality of 1st chakra energy in of itself. We tend to see
only the activated vibrancy as energy, yet that is just the expressed pole, the
positive magnetic polarity of this inherent potential, as the inward or potential
vibrancy is the negative magnetic pole. The particular balance and dynamic of
these poles gives each of us our particular nature of Vitality, the balance of dynamic
flow between these poles, within our first chakra dimension of consciousness, and
our physical being.
The second chakra is considered the seat and frequency of emotional consciousness
and is likened to the water element. Emotions flow like water, may come in a rush
and then they are gone. Water has two polarities: one as a moving water called
Fluidity, and the other when it is collected, still and pooled which we call Stability.
Without any stabilizing quality emotional energies are rampant and random.
Without any fluidity the emotional waters would become stagnant and muddy. The
balance achieved by the polar dynamic flow is called Centeredness, and includes
the capacity flow with emotions so they can be cleared and cleaned, and contain
and stabilize them so they do not displace or control our consciousness.
The third chakra is considered the seat of Mental consciousness, and yellow the
color or frequency of that realm The third chakra, like the digestive organs within
its physical location, is the great reducer, breaking experience down into its
constituents and recombining them in different ways. It is the nature of the Mental
to process data (experience). It cannot create data (experience), although when we
are purely in the Mental realm we believe we are generating new and fresh data,
when we are really just creatively combining what we have already experienced.
The Mental likes to think that anything it can think must be so: that ideas are true
because one can think them. It does not like to think of itself as limited, especially
that there is a Higher and more encompassing reality that it truly cannot conceive
of.
The polarities of the Mental are Openness to Possibility on the one hand, and
Definitiveness on the other. We cannot afford to say No to possibility or it will
impoverish our thinking. Our mental capacities will have nothing new to process and
will only spin in what we already know or repeat what has already been decided.
Without Definitiveness, on the other hand, we circle in endless possibilities
formulating nothing. If everything is possible, then nothing can be ruled out and no
useful order can be found. Ideas are spun but nothing is gained.
Clarity comes from the continuing cycles of coming to definitive knowing, then
opening to new possibility and building upon what one learned by addition and
increased complexity. We are never Clear, but rather have periods of Clarity
uncertainty opening definition Clarity and so on.
But Inclusiveness alone leaves out something important that is also the Hearts
capacity: although in one sense all things are one, it is also true that each thing has
its own unique nature. Oneness is not sameness. A faculty of the Heart chakra is
Discernment, the capacity to know the essential unique nature of things, things as
they are, not as we wish them to be. This is not to be confused with the 3rd chakra
definitiveness. If we have not Discernment our heart is imbalanced. A rattlesnake is,
like us, one of the Creators creations, and worthy of life and love, but it is also a
rattlesnake! Its nature is to bite when threatened. We include it and love it, but we
must also discern its nature, perhaps to love it from a distance! To do otherwise is to
violate the fundamental Cosmic Law: Dont be stupid!
As we enter into the spiritual realms of consciousness it becomes more and more
difficult, if not impossible, to capture their qualities in words. Edward Cassirer, a
linguistic philosopher, said that mystical language can only be a sign post that
points towards an inexpressible experience, it cannot represent it in the normal
sense of language which has reference points in the commonly shared objective
world. With that in mind, we will attempt to point to the polarities of the fifth and
sixth chakras.
The fifth chakra is the seat of the Etheric realm of consciousness, said to be the
perfect energetic pattern for all those realms below it. In a way, it is the realm that
Plato spoke of when he referred to the Perfect Forms that all material things express
in their own imperfect way. The polarities of this realm are called Perfect Form and
Perfect Matrix. Perfect Form may be understood as the pattern, as a reflection of the
Divine, that give shape or organization to all things. This includes ideas, sense of
rightness and truth, as well as the form and functioning of the physical world.
Perfect Matrix can be likened to the Yin stuffness or dark matter of creation. The
Mother Milk which nourishes (builds substance) the manifestation of form.
Alchemists referred to this as the Quintessence: Literally the fifth essence. These
two poles are inextricable, for without Form, Matrix is shapeless, and without Matrix,
Form is empty and without substance. Through the fifth chakra we may be able to
sense the Etheric and the discrepancy between it and what is manifest (between
Higher Truth and what is actual). Thus the centered position in this dynamic balance
is referred to as Truth.
If the fifth chakra was difficult to render in words, even more is the sixth chakra! The
pineal and pituitary, both organs intimately associated with this chakra, need both
light and dark to function. Otherwise there is no cycling, no rhythm in the body.
Many mystical orders have dark-practices, where the student meditated in
completely dark caves or temples for many days, until their inner eye opened and
the luminosity hidden within the dark and the radiance of consciousness itself was
revealed. It is said of the Void, in many Buddhist traditions, that it is emptiness but
luminous in some indefinably mysterious way. All things also have an intrinsic
Radiance, a bright glowing forth of the Creative energies shining. These poles of
Luminous Dark and Radiant Light create together the dynamic balance of Insight.
Sunday, February 5, 2012
- Bhagavad Gita
The cross has four points, and the number four represents matter.
vertical line) united with matter (the horizontal line). Hence, the
As a Symbol of Hope:
We raise our Anchor and venture forth into a new era of our life.
We feel eager and alive and we are laden with Hope, excitement,
follow the course we have plotted out and carry out the plans
and ideas.
where our new life, and new Adventure, awaits us. The Time of
from which it will not move until the Time once again arrives for it
a certain spot from which it will not move. It stabilizes itself from
the waves, tides, currents and various other movements which the
Nearly every one of us has had at least one moment in our life
we may not have been able to put our certainty into Words.
within and amidst all of the chaotic emotions which are tossing
ourselves adrift and at the mercy of the tides and currents which
toss us to and fro and we say to ourselves "let's try this" or "let's
try that", unsure of what will work and what will not work;
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