Some months ago, the refrain "Year of the Chakra" repeatedly played in my mind until I made it the theme of an ongoing meditation gathering held monthly in my home. I'd run into the concept of the chakras in the Cayce readings and Hindu philosophy, but assumed there was no objective proof of their existence other than being seen by spiritual masters and medical intuitives.

Since I myself can't see chakras, I withheld judgment as to whether they were real or not. Much to my delight, I discovered that these energy centers, or spinning wheels of light, are the golden keys to conscious evolution.

If your goals are health, freedom, creative insight, and/or spiritual growth, you will find here a great deal to ponder.

The Body's Energy System

Our journey began, predictably enough, with the study of three contemporary authorities on the chakras, at least two of whom are seers: Anodea Judith, Barbara Brennan, and Rosalyn Bruyere. We opened up with the Cayce readings on the body's energy system.

The Cayce work essentially says that the chakras are the body's connecting point between the physical and spiritual realms. Located at the juncture of major endocrine glands, nerve ganglia, and spinal curves, these "power points" correlate to frequencies rising from red to violet. The three lower chakras correspond to physical life, and the three upper chakras correlate to the spiritual; in the middle is the heart, which calibrates the upward and downward flows of energy.

Entering meditation in the spirit of love, said Cayce, raises the creative sexual energies in the Leydig cells (second chakra) and carries these energies up through the heart to the pineal gland (seventh chakra) at the crown of the head, and on to the pituitary gland (sixth chakra) between the eyes in the center of the forehead.

While other intuitives trace the flow of energy from the base of the spine to the crown of the head and back down the same pathway, all agree with Cayce that raising the energy of the Creative Forces in meditation lifts the individual into spiritual, or psychic, awareness and greater physical health.

In healthy people, the chakras are open and spin without impedence; their rate of spin, or vibration, is compromised by negative thoughts, beliefs and emotions which lead to ill health, disease, and ultimately death.

The Root Chakra

With these basic concepts in hand, our chakra group began to work with the first chakra, the root, or foundation, of the body's energy system. Located at the base of the spine, the root chakra which governs the entire physical being: health, home, work and relationships.

Once we began to look at the thoughts and behaviors conditioned by our family of origin and other tribes (academic, professional, political and religious), we realized how easily we are influenced and imprinted by the concepts and behaviors of other people. Most of us had been doing inner work for many years, but now we were getting to the energetic basis of our being: the all-important root of the root, upon which everything else rests.

In listening to and being heard by each other, we connected with our own inner wisdom. Over the months, each person began to receive intuitive insights into his/her destructive first-chakra patterns and took steps to resolve them. Some of the healing came through drumming, dancing, earth walks, chanting, and guided meditations drawing on earth and cosmic energies; these primal energies fired up our chakras and powered our auric fields.

We felt tribal and became a tribe, a group of seekers dancing to channel energy into our own bodies and into the Earth. Some began to feel the subtle energy of the root chakra. All of us, feeling more grounded, present, and centered, began to reoccupy our bodies, homes, work and relationships as never before.

In a very real way, we were and still are being made anew.

Releasing the Past

The process of grounding in the body had already begun for me. After a major car crash late last year, I began twice-weekly treatments of Network Care, wherein the chiropractor works with the energy body to realign the spine to more beneficial patterns. I didn't realize the growing strength in my back until after a two-week vacation in Louisiana, where I took great joy in nature and spent most of my time outdoors.

Connecting with nature made me considerably more intuitive. One morning, I awakened from a dream whose contents led me to "unplug" a systemic circuit of tribal criticism dating back to a pivotal event at age 11. Lying in bed, I fell prey to feelings of shame and self-hatred, then opened my heart to my higher self, which revealed greater truths that set me free.

Releasing these energetic blocks instantly opened to wonderful new opportunities in my life and work. Like others in the group, I could feel the life force intensifying in my body.

Kundalini Rising

By no mere concidence I happened to be reading an extraordinary book, The Kundalini Experience by Lee Sannella, M.D., in which this psychiatrist traces 17 case histories of patients undergoing troublesome kundalini symptoms. Sannella presents a plausible theory of what happens when this serpentine spiritual energy coiled in the first chakra travels upward to the crown of the head, where the soul is thought to reside and where enlightenment occurs.

Sannella believes that a 7.5 hertz sine wave aroused in meditation and nature sets up a resonant vibration in the heart cavity, the largest cavity in the body. This vibration resonates into four cavities in the skull, rising to kilohertz frequencies in the brain's sensory-motor cortex, which triggers the movement of higher energies (or perception of movement) from the left big toe to the crown of the head and back down the front of the body.

This is the path reported by most of Sannella's kundalini patients, all of whom were experiencing altered states of awareness and did not understand what was happening to them.

Complete Understanding

Happily I did. One morning, while lying face down on the chiropractor's table, I thought about Sannella's sine wave and suddenly saw the congruencies: how Network's "wave" of energy moves through the spine to clear and free the body of stress so that, as Cayce put it, the "kundaline" force could rise up the Appian Way, or silver cord, and carry the meditator into spiritual awareness.

In the next instant, I saw a correlation between the rising kundalini and what's called the Maharishi Effect. Just as the meditator's 7.5-hertz sine wave rises to kilohertz frequencies and resonates outward into the person's auric field, so do the meditators' auric fields overlap each other and dramatically amplify in strength (see www.permanentpeace.org) to produce the resonant field of the Maharishi Effect, a vibrational force field of peace widely known to reduce violence and crime in surrounding areas by up to 25 percent.

With this realization, my mind and body began to vibrate with excitement. I realized that the upward movement of the high-frequency kundalini energies to the brain's pineal and pituitary glands must be what stimulates the extremely high (150-500 hertz) gamma brainwaves that "light up" and interconnect many frequencies and regions of the brain in a peak state of mental coherence called synchrony. The kundalini, vibrating at gamma frequencies in the brain and crown, must be what trips the release of the brain mechanism responsible for the perception of self as separate from others.

As described in Andrew Newberg's book, Why God Won't Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief, when this sense of separation disappears, the meditator merges into unity with All That Is. We experience complete understanding, bliss and spiritual ectasy, as I was doing just then.

Waves of Bliss

While receiving these insights, waves of bliss began to flow through my body in a direct experience of what I'd just realized. Tears of joy poured from my eyes as I recognized that what I had called "healing experiences" in my past were really kundalini-driven moments of cosmic consciousness.

The real beauty of it all is that anyone can attain these peaks moments of cosmic consciousness.

I have observed it while guiding people into deep-state meditation and watching the real-time activities of their minds on my brainwave biofeedback device. In the patterns on the computer monitor, I see the body-mind's evolutionary journey into the light of spiritual ecstasy: bliss and total unity show up as the circle of the evolved mind pattern (see the Biofeedback Meditation page of www.eaglelife.com). It is amazing and beautiful to watch human consciousness light up and become more than it was before.

Back to Nature

After my kundalini wave on the chiropractor's table, I was free of back and neck pain for the first time in 30-odd years. In just those few minutes of bliss, my awareness shifted to and centered in what I can only call a "higher nervous system." I had often accessed this higher nervous system during meditation, but lost it upon returning to an aroused waking state.

Now I was living in it and did so for a delightful two months, until injury and probably fear undid what most people would call a "healing."

It was that and much more. While disappointed, I knew that if I'd got there once, I could get there again; once we know, we can't not-know. Like Cayce said, it's just a matter of raising our frequencies of vibration into the perfect health and wholeness of the spirit.

These were very big pieces of the puzzle for me, but by no means all of them.

At some point, perhaps inside my azalea bush, perhaps in the steamy green swamps of Louisiana, the fragrant pines of Walden Pond, the dazzling waves of Virginia Beach, or all of them, I reconnected with the earth's powerful healing energies.

My delight in nature has risen again like sap in a tree, and I am a happier and more coherent force for peace in the world.

Chakra Frontiers

The chakra group is still exploring the frontiers of consciousness, most recently with pendulums. I am usually skeptical of the pendulum, since the ego can influence its direction of swing, but in this case no one's ego had a stake.

In checking the strength or weakness of one woman's energy system, we found the direction of spin reversed in her throat and heart chakras. When she linked her awareness with that of a woman in the room engaged in a global healing meditation, the pendulum instantly reversed its swing to the "open" direction and moved in the strongest, widest circles possible. The woman felt her heart open and intuitively connected with her inner voice.

The pendulum also showed a reverse spin in the third eye and crown chakras of a man in the group. During an especially powerful meditation, he saw for the first time a vivid and meaningful vision. We checked his third eye chakra again, and apparently it had opened during the meditation. Now it was spinning in the right direction, and the energy there and at the crown was extremely strong, as is his anticipation of future visions.

A Dream Within a Dream

I'm accustomed to the wisdom of my still, small voice, which is always spot-on, as the British say. This time was no exception: the Year of the Chakra continues to yield rewards beyond my imagining.

When the inner impulse to study the chakras surfaced, I didn't foresee that what I've written here and a great deal more on the chakras and consciousness would be the basis of a workbook used in a course that I teach at the A.R.E. (Edgar Cayce) Center of New York. Called The Path of the Master, Part III: Climbing the Mountain of Consciousness, this workbook is the final installment in a series I've been working on for more than a year.

I hope the present journey will somehow be a milestone for you, too. But of course it's not about just us.

Universal Journeys

Our personal journeys are always microcosms of universal journeys, and so it is as the present work dovetails into a worldwide effort to heal and restore our planet.

On July 17, 2007, at 11:11 a.m. Greenwich Mean Time, people all over the world will sit for one hour in meditation to channel cosmic energies into the Earth. In this moments we will be able to create a stillpoint for the reception of higher energies that will help reverse the disastrous course of our planet, according to beings of light heard by a skeptical non-believer, Shelley Yates, who drowned in a lake for 15 minutes and lived to tell her story.

During Yates' near-death experience, these higher beings promised to tell her how to save the life of her son. After her own miraculous revival, the beings told her to call a group of friends to the hospital to share their memories of joy and lovingly touch her little boy, who had drowned for 30 minutes and, without any discernible life force, was dying and rotting in his bed. In three days, to the astonished disbelief of the doctors, the higher light of love, hope and joy resurrected the child and brought him back completely healed and whole.

Yates tells her story on video in eight 10-minute segments. Every minute is powerful and persuasive.See it at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqUAluDvuU4&mode=related&search=

Whether you believe her or not, what matters is our simultaneous participation in this 7/17/07 world meditation (see www.firethegrid.org for your local time).

In the Field

Spending just one hour on 7/17/07 as a collective body of energy focused on the power of spirit over matter will amplify positive vibrations across the Earth and open the way for higher, coherent energies to descend and help heal our planet.

How can we do less, especially when the driving force of this meditation is our personal memories of joy and blissful feelings of peace, which will first and foremost benefit us?

Let us act now- and every day- to heal the earth which so dearly loves and sustains us.

Perhaps you, too, have an inner sense about the importance of this meditation—a kind of kundalini rising to recharge and rebalance the energies of Earth.

If you feel moved to participate in this event, I will meet you in the Field, where, as Rumi says, there is only oneness and bliss. May we meet here again and again.

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