Chakra
Rotation And Layers
All upper chakras...move naturally in clockwise manner. Until reversed
by pure will, pure desire, and devotion, all chakras below the heart
move counterclockwise through the force of gravity. If the
etheric portion...has been purified and is turning clockwise with
the spiraling upward thrust of kundalini, the astral...and the etheric
disc-layer of the chakra come into balance. This results in a healthy
emotional body, accompanied by the desire for purity in all physical
actions. Healing power and graciousness are expressed....This is
done when the ascending kundalini...is lifted to...the heart.
When the kundalini fire is balanced in the mental disc-portion
of the heart chakra, the mind becomes organized and steady....The
astral, etheric, and mental atom-points of the heart chakra open
as the petals of a flower.
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The heart chakra is generally associated with the ability to love
deeply, feel compassion, and have a deep sense of peace and centeredness.
However it is also associated with the survival instinct and the
personal self (see Christopher Hills) and with (Barbara Brennan's
Shoulder-Blades chakra) the assertion of the ego.
The
Shoulder-Blades Chakra
Vajrayana
(Tantric Buddhism)
In Tibetan tantra one starts from the head, which is the "lowest"
level of consciousness (body, waking consciousness, wrathful deities),
and progresses down to the heart, which is the highest level of
consciousness.
As a result of the tumo-heat, the drops melt and enter the central
channel. The red "female" drops in the navel chakra ascends
to the heart chakra, while the white drops in the crown chakra descend
to the same chakra. The bliss of the drops flowing in the central
channel is said to be a hundred times greater than that of orgasm
[p.71]. The drops, moving up or down the central channel, finally
enter the "indestructible drop" in the heart chakra, so
called because it is said to be drop that passes from life-time
to life-time, taking with it the "very subtle mind" and
"very subtle wind" [p.72].
Birth
& Death - link-pins with the 'beyond'
When the glistening life-thread or 'Silver Cord', shaped like twin
entwined figures of '6', connecting the heart region of the Solid
body with the heart region of the non-Solid body is snapped at the
joint, causing the heart to stop, soul's disconnection with 'the
tabernacle of flesh' is complete. The Prana Vayus containing gross
consciousness with subtle Mind-sense and 80 'instinct-patterns'
withdraw into Sushumna - the central nervous system at Guda chakra
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The
Inner Being
All these techniques pertain to the inner dimensions of the nefeshic
faculties. On a more subtle (i.e. ruatic and neshamic) level, the
Inner Mental corresponds to "the opening of the third eye",
and the Inner Emotional to "the opening of the heart chakra".
The
Celestial Body
Unconditional love flows when there is a connection between the
open heart chakra and the open celestial chakra. In this connection,
we combine the love of humanity, our basic human love for our fellow
humans in the flesh, with the spiritual ecstasy found in the spiritual
love that goes beyond the physical reality to all the realms of
existence. Combining these two creates the experience of unconditional
love.
The
Psychic Being
A very important concept in Sri Aurobindo's yoga is the principle
of the being known as the "Psychic Being". This is not
found in any other Indian teaching (where the emphasis is instead
on the realization of the Universal Self or Atman), although it
is referred to sometimes in Western esotericism, especially Theosophy.
The Psychic Being is the individual Divine Soul, the Higher Self
within that grows and develops through successive lifetimes, and
which dwells (symbolically?) in the Heart (or Heart-chakra).
It is also the key to the spiritual transformation.
The
Planes of Existence
Pure Psychic: The universe or Plane below that - the psychic reality,
is, like all the planes or universes, a vast region, with many subdivisions.
Most often it is divided into two. The higher level is one of pure
spiritual emotion or Affectivity, can be called the Angelic universe,
being in part equivalent to the Kabbalistic Yetzirah and Steiner's
Spiritual Heirarchies, and a region of pure Love and Compassion.
It includes the Spiritual and Spiritual-Psychic World; the highest
faculties normally active in a person; the higher unconscious in
part. This is the lowest of the spiritual heaven realms or "pure
universes", and is represented by the Anahata or Heart chakra,
wherein dwells the Higher Self (hence Max Theon identifies this
region with the Soul degree). Imaginal The lower subdivision is
the Imaginal or Astral region, includes various psychic and occult
planes of existence. Many of the higher psychic experiences, revelations,
religious experiences, and so on, come from here. This is a region
of great desires and passions, and a snare for the gullible and
unwary, who mistake the half-luminous denizens of this Plane for
an ascended master or supreme deity. In esoteric Islam this is the
Imaginal Realm, the Barzakh or the Intermediate World, in which
"bodies are spiritualitised and spirits corporalised".
In western esotericism such as Theosophy and Hermeticism, this is
or includes the Astral plane. Theon uses the term Nervo or Nervous
(perhaps equivalent to "etheric" - nadis etc?). The Psychic
and Imaginal also provide the blueprints for the Physical universe.
The
Heliopolis Theology
The Egyptians, like many ancient civilizations, located the mind
in the heart. It was only with Plato that the mind was transferred
to the head. The heart chakra in Tantric thought is considered the
seat of the Jivatman, the divine soul. | 
