Chakras (Part 2), Reincarnation and Robert Louis Stephenson
July 28, 2024
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{Body}
Activating the chakras
Chakras (“wheels” in Sanskrit) are energy centers existing in your spine and brain which enliven your physical and energetic bodies.
Traditionally, there are seven of them. In ascending order, they are muladhara (the coccygeal, at the base of the spine); svadhisthana (the sacral, two inches above muladhara); manipura (the lumbar, opposite the navel); anahata (the dorsal, opposite the heart); vishuddha (the cervical, at the base of the neck); ajna (traditionally located between the eyebrows; in actuality, directly connected by polarity with the medulla); and sahasrara (in the uppermost part of the cerebrum).
When all seven chakras are perfectly “aligned” and “activated,” your breath stops, and a white river of energy emerging from the base of your spine and erupting through the crown of your head. From personal experience, it is a feeling of pure bliss and unadulterated peace. Nothing can quite compare.
{Mind}
Is reincarnation real?
Almost no one disagrees with the fact that life implies death. Naturally, you were born and therefore someday you will die.
Why, then, do we balk at the reverse: that death implies life? Shouldn’t the fact that you die also suggest that you should someday be born? Isn’t the circle of life incomplete without this point?
Baked into our modern culture is a skepticism around humans being more than their bodies. Simply put, this is because we assume that life emerges out of atoms, rather than atoms emerging out of life.
Said differently, it’s assumed that only with enough material complexity (i.e., a functioning brain) does consciousness turn on within the biological vessel.
From these starting points, it’s natural to conclude that when your material body stops functioning — once your cells begin to decompose — so will your consciousness.
I’m inviting you to contemplate the opposite: what if consciousness itself gives birth to material complexity? What if desires are what give rise to your physical body, instead of the other way around? How would that affect your assumptions around whether reincarnation is possible or not?
(By the way, there is now ample research out of the University of Virginia’s “Division of Perceptual Studies” supporting the theory of reincarnation. If you want to see what they have to say, I recommend watching Episode 6 of the Netflix series Life After Death).
{Soul}
Most people’s image of Jesus (mine included) is one of pure perfection — Son of God in human form.
But how did he get that way? Is it simply because God created him like that? Or is it because Jesus was also previously imperfect, but chose to purify himself over numerous lifetimes?
Let’s remember that God, being omnipotent, has the power to place an unlimited number of flawless Beings — an infinite number of Jesus' — onto the planet whenever He/She wishes.
But that story isn’t very inspiring, is it?
🚨“This just in: Creator of the Universe places yet another fully God-realized avatar on Earth to remind humans, once again, how truly flawed and sinful they are!”🚨
Yawn…boring!
This may be blasphemy according to the church, but the story of Jesus is only inspiring when we believe in his full humanity — when we believe that he also f*cked up, had regrets, prayed like crazy, wholly changed his behavior, and was completely forgiven through God's infinite grace.
In short, Jesus (and saints of all religions) earned God consciousness in the same way that you and I can: they gave up short-sighted pleasures, learned to treat others as they wished to be treated, and refused to believe in their own unholiness.
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