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Energy and vibration
Chakra
The chakras are the wheels of living energy strung along the central axis of the subtle body, the gateways through which life force gathers, transforms, and radiates. The yogic and tantric traditions mapped them with great care, from the root at the base to the crown above, each a centre of consciousness with its own quality, colour, and lesson. Through these wheels the vital current rises and descends; where they spin clear and open, energy moves freely and the whole being thrives, and where they close or stagnate, life dims and distorts at that level.
Carried by 45 teachers · across 8 traditions · 14 quotes
To work with the chakras is to tend the inner architecture through which spirit meets flesh. The seeker learns to charge and balance the centres through breath, sound, attention, and meditation, and to awaken the great latent power that sleeps coiled at the base, that it may ascend through each wheel toward the light at the summit. This ascent is among the most sacred maps the traditions offer, a ladder of energy that is also a ladder of awakening.
In their words
When we think we send out vibrations of a fine ethereal substance, which are as real as the vibrations manifesting light, heat, electricity, magnetism.William Walker Atkinson
In many other directions we are entirely shut in, but clairvoyance or astral sight opens for us one or two additional windows, and so enlarges our prospect.C.W. Leadbeater
Yoga is the stilling of the fluctuations of the mind.Patanjali