Earthly existence is symbolized as the goddess Prakriti, who has three aspects, or gunas, which are: sattva, rajasa, and tamasa, and they interact to form our physical reality. We are supposed to keep the proper balance between these in our own lives. If we move away from identification with the divine, we start to see nature, Prakriti, as separate, as we contract into the ego.
We need to remember instead that all substances are consciousness incarnate, though living matter is distinguished from inorganic because the living can create asymmetrical molecules that all spin in the same direction, polarizing energy. Our bodies are part of nature, and we can do Tantric exercises to keep them in balance, and to feel our connection with all life. We are also told through the ancient books, the Tantras, to eat a proper diet to balance. People are divided up into different personality types according to which guna predominates in them, and they are prescribed exercises to help adjust their tendencies. So, not everyone is supposed to do all the exercises. Gurus can determine which ones their students need easily.
Sometimes the gurus will give the Shaktipat, which comes from the Sanskrit words “Shakti,” which means energy, and is the name of a goddess, and “pata,” which means transmitting, lighting the person up like a lamp. It is primarily concerned with raising the Kundalini. It is magnetizes of Shakti and Shiva, the two poles, into proper union, and Tantra is the science of making all the bodies, physical, and subtle, prepared for that union. Aligning all the chakras, or vortices along the body, is core.
Many people over the course of decades chose me as their guru, and I would look long distance or close up at their energy pathways, their auras, behaviors, past lives, readiness to activate the Kundalini, and send Shaktipat. They would feel intense energy and transformation, physical effects would occur, and they would tell me about what they experienced without being prompted, as often, I hadn’t even told them I was going to do it, and they might be across the country at the time of the event. I gathered hundreds of testimonials.
When the flow of the Kundalini type of conductive energy up the sushumna from the tailbone to the medulla oblongata, it changes the cerebral spinal fluid and its electrical charge, making it more strong and vibrant, alive and resonating with the joy of the universe. The whole body is transformed. The energy can go up to the crown chakra, which opens up like a lotus above the head. It can then go into higher chakras above the body. Here, I’ll talk about the main ones in the body, though there are others, such as at the center of the palms, knees, etc.
The First Chakra
The first chakra, muladhara, is related to the adrenals/kidneys, spine, elimination. It relates to survival, money, shelter, base sexuality, release, the relationship to earth, ability to own our animals nature. In men, it is found inside the perineum, and in women, at the base of the uterus. When people are focused at the base chakra primarily, they may go in the direction of jealousy, guilt, anger, lust. Their aura color tends to be reddish. Some people do well with having as their main chakra, as they are the ones people turn to to help with very physical, pragmatic tasks, to do brute force jobs. They’d make good security guards. The Kundalini is based there, curled 3 and a half times, and it stays in that condition for nearly all people, even if they do the exercises. But sometimes, it raises, and moves up through the higher chakras. Toning the sounds La and Om help vibrate this chakra.
The Second Chakra
The second, swadhisthana, in the lower belly, is closely allied with the root chakra, as relates to the sexual system, as well as socializing, pleasure. ChantingVa vibrates this chakra. It’s emotional, watery subconscious. The exercises raise the sexual energy from there to the heart, and onto the crown. People who haven’t raised the energy may not be able to imagine what it’s like to truly love a partner in a spiritual, expansive way, approaches sex as emotional and physical, but miss the potential to use it as a shining tool of enlightenment.
The Third Chakra
The third, manipura, located at the solar plexus, is tied to the pancreas and stomach, liver and gall bladder, intestines, and the entire sympathetic nervous system, which is about accomplishing things in the world of maya, dominating, linear thinking, adrenalin pumping, and strenuous activity. Ra is fittingly the sound for that chakra. Some people have underdeveloped chakras that make them easily put upon, and they are vulnerable, can even have their energy easily vampirized, and they can have stomach aches, IBS, and shy nervousness.
The Forth Chakra
The forth, anahata, at the heart, is related also to thymus, as well as the entire circulatory system. As you may know, intuitively if nothing else, it is the means of expression of love, beyond just sexual attraction, which is expressed more from the lower first two chakras, and when someone wants to make a move, using the personal power of the third chakra.
When someone is acting from the forth, he may instead sublimate attraction to someone he’s attracted to if, say, she is married, or wouldn’t be served by being in a relationship with him. He may help her instead, give her respectful space, be her friend. But if she is the one for him, he can begin to merge with her, especially if he knows Tantric exercises of sending energy from one chakra to the next, breathing back and forth between them. This can be done from a distance, and is delicious when done with chests touching. When the chakra is open, people often take an interest in their community and the community of plants, trees, air and water molecules that live with them. Ya is a mantra associated with it.
The Fifth Chakra
The fifth, at the neck, the visudda, relates to the thyroid, parathyroids, and lungs. Ahm is the sound to help express—as expression is what this chakra is about, particularly through the voice, but also through writing, body language, creativity, communication. I train people in doing spontaneous sound as well, because that’s what this chakra really wants. To express itself, not just mantras it’s told to make. Singing is an excellent way to develop it, and doing so in public can help avoid shyness. When couples are having trouble communicating, working with the throat chakra can help. Even sending messages from one chakra to the other’s silently, with openness to receive subconsciously, can help understand the other’s viewpoint and release trapped emotion when they feel they aren’t being heard. Children who aren’t heard by their parents tend to have closed chakras that need a lot of mantric work as well as spontaneous sound, to relieve.
The Sixth Chakra
The sixth, anja, at the third eye, at the forehead, relates to the pituitary predominantly and influences the, eyes, ears, the mid to low brain. It is the core of visions, telepathy, lucidity. A lot of yogis focus constantly on this chakra only, though I can’t say I recommend it. Putting foreheads together is another good way to express concepts and ideas to each other. Sending and receiving through that route with accuracy may require some practice. Breathing in and out of it is a good practice, and can also be used for Tantric magic to activate the image you float in front of your eyes. It’s the first chakra to systematically awaken, so when you wake the other chakras, you can “see” what’s going on. Staring at a candle flame can exercise it for strength of focus. Some Tantric exercises are complex and rigorous, with the candle staring as one element.
The Seventh Chakra
The seventh, at the crown of the head is the sahasrara, speaks to the pineal gland, and is beyond definition by linear language, and must be experienced, as Cosmic Consciousness. Reading about spirituality, living a spiritual life—nothing comes close to the effects of actually doing the exercises and activating the chakras, especially the crown. Living from the crown is glorious, the world pulsating audibly, visually, palpably. Everything glows, and you feel huge, endless, truly alive, though knowing death has little meaning.
The chakras need to be in harmony with each other, as well as the levels of the aura acting in unison. Even if each individual part of the system is function alright, it is still dissonant if it is out of balance with itself, or the universal flow. If you look at the drawings of the nadis, the astral currents of energy which move inside and outside the body, and review the exercises which move energy along the correct electromagnetic currents of the body, as well as the mantras, or sounds, and the yantras, geometric designs, you can easily see that Tantra is greatly about establishing the proper magnetic flow within the body, attuned to the flow of all around us, in healthy, balanced, and complete ways.
Doing so allows us to be tuned into the innate intelligence of the earth, and when we breathe and tone and circulate energies together with a partner of the opposite polarity, (homosexuality is no problem with Tantra, though I write these articles as if readers were hetero simply for simplicity’s sake) we amplify this magnetism. Everything has its own vibrational signature, and resonance happens when they coincide. When two systems on the same frequency, such as two Tantrikas toning the same mantra, and in Cosmic Conscioussness, are joined together in phase, such as by a sexual ritual, their minimum and maximum values are simultaneous and they are in unison.
The waveforms that result from the union of frequencies exceed what either person could produce alone. This allows the most energy exchange between them. When Tantrikas are tuned into their center in which they are lucid characters in the dream of the divine, their center is the center of all things, and they are tuned into each other as Shakti, and Shiva, the ultimate forces of the world, and are the world itself. If they are going by the guidelines of Tantra Yoga which keeps them healthy on all levels, they are tuned into the world, in its blueprint state.
Tantra says that all is one varying vibration, just as scientists have told us that there is a continuum of waves which begin on one end beyond radio waves and become smaller until you have the very short cosmic rays. Dr. H. Thominson found that rays extend in all directions around magnetic bodies, such as these bodies we live in. These produce nodal points and can be measured over a great distance, looking like the nadis, energy pathways, in the Tantric diagrams. The diagrams show the nadis, little lines that look something like meridians, extending outside of the body.
According to Radiational Physics, everything is an antenna resonating with nature, each antenna having specific pattern of nodal points which allow that resonance to occur among different octaves, frequency realms. Resonance transforms energy from the outer levels of the aura of all things through the nodal points, into the lower levels, and into physicality.
As we do the exercises, we aid the process of stepping down energy into our bodies, helping it be harmonious and using the body as a tool for resonating with truth, and love.
