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This site spends little to no time on Enlightenment. There's spells for this, and summonings for that. However, there's little to no information on how to better yourself outside of learning a practice of magic. The most important thing in your life is the self. That being said, magic is a way to better your life for yourself. This, however, is only half the battle. The Occult Arts should also be used to improve you!
The Chakras are essentially Ethereal organs of your subtle body. Many sites are out there which teach you how to open these organs, and balance them for better functioning. The list of life improvements is vast, and well worth the investment. The other attraction used is the promise of being able to develop further magical abilities. While this is all true, it ignores perhaps one of their most important aspects or abilities. Each of the Chakras are a center of your being which, upon meditating on, offers you more information about YOU! When understood and awakened both mental and spiritual evolution becomes possible. The magical ability and health increases are the side effect; not the main attraction!
When meditating on Chakras individually, one should not only focus on how they feel when they open. One should also focus on what their function is; what areas of your body, emotions, mind and spirit are each one connected to. I'll attempt to divide my understandings their connections into the above mentioned categories. You must realize that despite which ones I choose to use as examples for said categories in no way limits the different areas to the used Chakras. ALL Chakras have influence in ALL categories without exception.
Chakras
Chakras are centers of energy in your subtle body. They govern certain aspects of your being. They allow for physical, emotional, mental and spiritual growth. To open them is to become more in tune with yourself. They allow for you to develop your magical abilities better, and to apply them to your life in healthy ways. They help us understand Karma.
Karma
Karma is action and reaction. It is ultimately the understanding of Connection. All things are Connected, and Karma explains how this connection leads to interaction.
Maya
Maya is illusion. The illusion of separation, for instance.
Enlightenment
Enlightenment is the journey of discovering and understanding all that is. To know how and why things work the way they do. Most importantly, to understand how you yourself work, exist and interact with your environment. As within, so without also shows us that if we understand ourselves, we can begin to see the patterns that keep the gears within ourselves turning in all other areas of nature. We can see this, as well as our personal place within the Macro of the Cosmos. Enlightenment is the journey to understanding Nature.
To understand Nature is to understand Everything!
Physical Body
The Chakras show themselves by manifesting in the physical bodies as major nerve clusters. How sensitive are your temples? The Temples each house a secondary Chakra. How about your sexual organs? Again, Chakras are connected there as well. By meditating on the Chakras, as they're activated, you'll be able to feel the energy of each Chakra most in the areas of the body they govern as well as its main center of opening. The 2nd Chakra, for instance, should promote a charge in one's genitals. The 5th Chakra, the throat and tongue. The 6th, your eyes.
How does this play into Enlightenment? It will begin to show you how the Spiritual is connected to and guides the Physical. Of course, there are several filters, or 'gears' such as the Mind and Emotions, to go through first. You'll begin to understand how you work mechanically at this level.
To understand the Body is to understand how you take action!
Emotions
Each Chakra is connected to and governs an Emotion. Have you experienced how different emotions can seem to be 'felt' in certain areas in your body? Is pride not felt in your gut? Does sadness not seem to swell the throat? Though the brain has no nerves that allow for sensory perception, do new insights not seem to change something in the center of your head? Many sources label the 2nd Chakra as the seat of all emotion while ignoring the fact that each Chakra is tied to an emotion. The 2nd Chakra is mainly about Desire. Desire is connected to all other emotions, thus causing the 2nd Chakra to be labeled as the seat of all emotions. However, the other emotions are more connected to the other Chakras.
As an example, I will explain Fear. Fear is perhaps the most primal of emotions. Fear promotes Survival, so it must be the most basic and primal of your emotions. When something threatens your life, fear is the emotional recognition of said thing as well as the motivation to either escape it or eliminate it from your presence. Fear is connected to your 1st Chakra; your Root Chakra. The Chakra that grounds you to Earth as well as your most basic needs of survival. Emotions are a reaction to our environment and our desire to interact with or change it. They explain why we do the things we do. They explain the direction our Will wishes to take.
To understand Emotions is to understand what drives your actions!
Mind
I think therefore I am. The only way one can be assured that they exist is their ability to know that they think. This is the key to self awareness. The Chakras can begin to reveal the reasons behind the ways we think. They can explain why we get into certain mind states and why different personalities are possible. These different mind states and personalities then influence our emotions which then guide our physical actions (see how the gears are connected?).
Most people go straight to the 6th Chakra to explain thought, but I'll go back to the 1st to further make the point that all Chakras affect all areas of your being. What would you think about most if you were still in the wilderness? Would is not be exactly how you were going to live another day? Would you not think of new ways to hunt? Would you not think of new ways to defend yourself against dangerous threats? Moving up to the 2nd, do you not think about how to fulfill your lusts and achieve your desires? Moving up further to the 3rd, do you not consider how to act based on where your confidence in your abilities lie? Then you can visit the 6th, and understand that you wish to learn new information and apply it.
To understand the Mind is to understand your current state!
Spiritual
Finally we come to how these energy centers come into the Spiritual. The main things to understand is how everything is connected. To move beyond understanding the Micro of yourself, and to begin to understand the Macro of yourself. To realize that all you experience is a part of you, and how you're a part of it. To see a star is to have a star in your mind. To be in your mind is to be a part of you. The star is thus a part of you; the separation a projection of Maya. It's also about what you are and what you're not. I have more to say about this area, but I will not discuss it openly.
How do Chakras lead to this understanding? Look how they interact with each other! See that with 3rd Chakra governing confidence influences the mind to believe your way is the right way, and see how it influences the 5th Chakra that governs sadness and communication. See how it prompts you to communicate to others in an attempts to manipulate them to be as you are. See how the sadness of being ignored drives you to create an argument for yourself. Begin to connects the dots!
To understand the Spiritual is to understand Karma!
Final Note
When you begin to understand all of this and how this is all connected, you may begin your path to discovering anything in nature that you wish to discover. Following the connections leads to all that is, for all is connected. Creation, Destruction, and what keeps existence Balanced.
To understand Karma is to understand Nature!
The Chakras are essentially Ethereal organs of your subtle body. Many sites are out there which teach you how to open these organs, and balance them for better functioning. The list of life improvements is vast, and well worth the investment. The other attraction used is the promise of being able to develop further magical abilities. While this is all true, it ignores perhaps one of their most important aspects or abilities. Each of the Chakras are a center of your being which, upon meditating on, offers you more information about YOU! When understood and awakened both mental and spiritual evolution becomes possible. The magical ability and health increases are the side effect; not the main attraction!
When meditating on Chakras individually, one should not only focus on how they feel when they open. One should also focus on what their function is; what areas of your body, emotions, mind and spirit are each one connected to. I'll attempt to divide my understandings their connections into the above mentioned categories. You must realize that despite which ones I choose to use as examples for said categories in no way limits the different areas to the used Chakras. ALL Chakras have influence in ALL categories without exception.
Chakras
Chakras are centers of energy in your subtle body. They govern certain aspects of your being. They allow for physical, emotional, mental and spiritual growth. To open them is to become more in tune with yourself. They allow for you to develop your magical abilities better, and to apply them to your life in healthy ways. They help us understand Karma.
Karma
Karma is action and reaction. It is ultimately the understanding of Connection. All things are Connected, and Karma explains how this connection leads to interaction.
Maya
Maya is illusion. The illusion of separation, for instance.
Enlightenment
Enlightenment is the journey of discovering and understanding all that is. To know how and why things work the way they do. Most importantly, to understand how you yourself work, exist and interact with your environment. As within, so without also shows us that if we understand ourselves, we can begin to see the patterns that keep the gears within ourselves turning in all other areas of nature. We can see this, as well as our personal place within the Macro of the Cosmos. Enlightenment is the journey to understanding Nature.
To understand Nature is to understand Everything!
Physical Body
The Chakras show themselves by manifesting in the physical bodies as major nerve clusters. How sensitive are your temples? The Temples each house a secondary Chakra. How about your sexual organs? Again, Chakras are connected there as well. By meditating on the Chakras, as they're activated, you'll be able to feel the energy of each Chakra most in the areas of the body they govern as well as its main center of opening. The 2nd Chakra, for instance, should promote a charge in one's genitals. The 5th Chakra, the throat and tongue. The 6th, your eyes.
How does this play into Enlightenment? It will begin to show you how the Spiritual is connected to and guides the Physical. Of course, there are several filters, or 'gears' such as the Mind and Emotions, to go through first. You'll begin to understand how you work mechanically at this level.
To understand the Body is to understand how you take action!
Emotions
Each Chakra is connected to and governs an Emotion. Have you experienced how different emotions can seem to be 'felt' in certain areas in your body? Is pride not felt in your gut? Does sadness not seem to swell the throat? Though the brain has no nerves that allow for sensory perception, do new insights not seem to change something in the center of your head? Many sources label the 2nd Chakra as the seat of all emotion while ignoring the fact that each Chakra is tied to an emotion. The 2nd Chakra is mainly about Desire. Desire is connected to all other emotions, thus causing the 2nd Chakra to be labeled as the seat of all emotions. However, the other emotions are more connected to the other Chakras.
As an example, I will explain Fear. Fear is perhaps the most primal of emotions. Fear promotes Survival, so it must be the most basic and primal of your emotions. When something threatens your life, fear is the emotional recognition of said thing as well as the motivation to either escape it or eliminate it from your presence. Fear is connected to your 1st Chakra; your Root Chakra. The Chakra that grounds you to Earth as well as your most basic needs of survival. Emotions are a reaction to our environment and our desire to interact with or change it. They explain why we do the things we do. They explain the direction our Will wishes to take.
To understand Emotions is to understand what drives your actions!
Mind
I think therefore I am. The only way one can be assured that they exist is their ability to know that they think. This is the key to self awareness. The Chakras can begin to reveal the reasons behind the ways we think. They can explain why we get into certain mind states and why different personalities are possible. These different mind states and personalities then influence our emotions which then guide our physical actions (see how the gears are connected?).
Most people go straight to the 6th Chakra to explain thought, but I'll go back to the 1st to further make the point that all Chakras affect all areas of your being. What would you think about most if you were still in the wilderness? Would is not be exactly how you were going to live another day? Would you not think of new ways to hunt? Would you not think of new ways to defend yourself against dangerous threats? Moving up to the 2nd, do you not think about how to fulfill your lusts and achieve your desires? Moving up further to the 3rd, do you not consider how to act based on where your confidence in your abilities lie? Then you can visit the 6th, and understand that you wish to learn new information and apply it.
To understand the Mind is to understand your current state!
Spiritual
Finally we come to how these energy centers come into the Spiritual. The main things to understand is how everything is connected. To move beyond understanding the Micro of yourself, and to begin to understand the Macro of yourself. To realize that all you experience is a part of you, and how you're a part of it. To see a star is to have a star in your mind. To be in your mind is to be a part of you. The star is thus a part of you; the separation a projection of Maya. It's also about what you are and what you're not. I have more to say about this area, but I will not discuss it openly.
How do Chakras lead to this understanding? Look how they interact with each other! See that with 3rd Chakra governing confidence influences the mind to believe your way is the right way, and see how it influences the 5th Chakra that governs sadness and communication. See how it prompts you to communicate to others in an attempts to manipulate them to be as you are. See how the sadness of being ignored drives you to create an argument for yourself. Begin to connects the dots!
To understand the Spiritual is to understand Karma!
Final Note
When you begin to understand all of this and how this is all connected, you may begin your path to discovering anything in nature that you wish to discover. Following the connections leads to all that is, for all is connected. Creation, Destruction, and what keeps existence Balanced.
To understand Karma is to understand Nature!