Over the many years of teaching my subtle energy practitioners a form of energy medicine that is founded on the chakra system itself, I have been teaching there is a difference between wisdom and realization.
Data can become information. Information can become knowledge. Knowledge can become wisdom through ones learned experiences. But wisdom can only become realization through the inner process of awakening to higher orders of spiritual awareness, not limited to five-sense perception intellect only. The chakras themselves have been called energy vortexes, setters of energy and so forth, but it would be more accurate to call them centers of consciousness that are conduits between the three dimensions of the individuation of the whole human being. Those are the physical body, the astral body, and the causal body. These three are what the Vedas describe as the three yoga bodies.
In my research and observations, the chakras have a rather donut -ike shape called a torus. And the center of that torus is the union of the physical and non-physical. It has been called zero point, the God spot, at most especially the place where everything and nothing exists in the same moment.
Again, in my observations and research of over 30 years the chakras are dormant in most people, which is not good or bad. And, the chakras are neither closed nor blocked. Chakras can be awakened through 1’s meditations, spiritual practices, and through some rigor that safely stimulates the chakras to awaken to higher orders of awareness.
Through practice, as the chakras are stimulated this awareness that is then cultivated moves a person’s learned experience of wisdom to states of inner realization. Most importantly that the individual begins to see things more as they are than as they appear to be.
This is why awareness is not imagination or conceptual thinking based on one’s wisdom only. The really good news is that chakras are always on 24/7 and that higher orders of awareness are always available. That is where one of my favorite quotes from Paramahansa Yogananda came from: “One cannot be any closer to God than you already are, but you can reveal that closeness!”
In higher levels of awareness should be cultivated over time perhaps not all at once. Think of it more as a process than an event similar to going to the gym and slowly but surely building muscles where you are not only stronger but you have more muscle tone. That means that my own practitioners in their training for instance, will learn from me for three years to become energy medicine practitioners in Integrative Chakra Therapy®.
Overtime the influence of the awakening chakras is like the gathering light of dawn and illuminates the physical body, the way the mind thinks, the emotions, and the spiritual nature of the whole human being. You are very much changed from the inside out as the chakras continue to awaken.
Again, this is different than wisdom. Spiritual realization is the pervasive restructuring of the way 1 merges with higher orders of being, in the same way that as one awakened spiritually these three yoga bodies tend to merge together as one.
That is why it is so important if you seek your own spiritual awakening do so in a safe manner, in a similar way that you would if you were going to the gym to workout, you wouldn’t start out with 500 pounds, you might start out with something that’s appropriate for you and then overtime your muscles will continue to grow and improve in tone. But for every moment during that time that you are assiduously awakening your chakras there is a certain sanctity that arises deep in the heart of one’s self where you feel the sacredness of every moment as whole and complete in itself.
The sacredness of the spiritual path, every moment is holy, made sacred by your spiritual intent.
Blessings,
Dr. Richard Jelusich, Ph.D.
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