The Seven Chakras: What Are Their Purposes? – Part 6/7

Continued from Part 5

Now, on to chakra #6: the third eye. This is probably the most well-known and talked about chakra, and even though the rest of our chakras deserve just as much attention, I’ll admit it’s very important.

The third eye, as well as the crown chakra (which we’ll learn about) is primarily responsible for our reception of higher insights, and it can be used to perceive the higher realms and communicate with our spiritual guides. I’m sure there are a lot of other things we can use it for, and no matter how we use it, opening and balancing it is definitely recommended.

Eclectic Energies tells us that an open and balanced third eye will increase our intuition.

“The Third Eye chakra is about insight and visualization. When it is open, you have a good intuition. You may tend to fantasize.

“If it is under-active, you’re not very good at thinking for yourself, and you may tend to rely on authorities. You may be rigid in your thinking, relying on beliefs too much. You might even get confused easily.

“If this chakra is over-active, you may live in a world of fantasy too much. In excessive cases halucinations are possible.” (1)

There’s nothing wrong with having our ‘head in the clouds’, but we have to make sure our feet are firmly on the ground as well. We don’t want to feed our third eye too much energy, because we could overload it (and ourselves) as a result. We also don’t want to feed it too little energy, because our intuition, which is otherwise clear and pure, will become muddied.

A growing number of seekers are experiencing an expansion of their intuition, and they’re able to receive much clearer intuitive impressions as a result.

In many cases, this is because their third eye is opened and balanced, and our higher selves and guides wait for us to balance it (and the rest of our chakras) so they can intuitively communicate with us and deliver a wealth of advice and guidance.

Kellie Jo Conn tells us that the third eye is the center for higher intuition and reception of our guides.

“The sixth chakra is referred to as the third eye or brow chakra. It is located above the physical eyes on the center of the forehead. This is the center for psychic ability, higher intuition, the energies of spirit and light. It also assists in the purification of negative tendencies and in the elimination of selfish attitudes.” (2)

A lot of people could use this purification, but we can’t purify a chakra we don’t know about. In fact, if we don’t know about any of our chakras, we can’t do the work that’s required to balance and restore them.

We can only work within the perceptual confines we’ve created for ourselves, but becoming aware of the existence of our chakras is the first step to balancing them out and bringing the proper amount and purity of energy through them.

When it comes to our creativity, the chakras we feed our energy into are very important. Every chakra needs an equal, balanced amount of energy, and everything will become more difficult if we overload even one of them. If we overload the root or sacral chakras, for example, the rest of them won’t have as much or as pure energy to work with.

Not only would we be dealing with one overstimulated chakra – the rest of them would be under-stimulated. It’s an imbalance in every sense of the word, and hopefully, realizing this will help us bring the proper amount of energy through each chakra.

We can use our third eye to communicate with our higher self and guides, Kellie tells us, but we might feel less confident (or too confident) in our abilities if it’s imbalanced.

“Through the power of the sixth chakra, you can receive guidance, channel, and tune into your Higher Self. When this chakra is not balanced you may feel non-assertive, afraid of success, or go the opposite way and be egotistical. Physical symptoms may include headaches, blurred vision, blindness, and eyestrain.” (3)

We’ll know if the third eye’s imbalanced by the physical symptoms we’ll feel, and if we aren’t confident in ourselves or our divinely ordained abilities, we might find that it was because our third eye wasn’t balanced. As with anything, recognizing an imbalance is the first step to healing it, and we can use the third eye for a wealth of purposes once it receives a proper flow of energy.

You’ll notice that this report’s focus has been primarily on the results of balanced and imbalanced chakras, and this is because it’s important to understand that we can very easily overload our chakras or, in the same vein, funnel too little energy through them.

Simply becoming aware of the chakras isn’t quite enough – we have to regulate our energy flow through each of them so our existence can be as clear and pure as possible. Our clarity of mind increases when we balance our chakras and regulate our energy flow, and all it takes is the willingness to learn what we can do to keep them healthy.

Kellie tells us about the mastery that results from a balanced third eye.

“When this chakra is balanced and open you are your own master with no fear of death, are not attached to material things, may experience telepathy, astral travel, and past lives. Sixth chakra body parts include the eyes, face, brain, lymphatic and endocrine system. The main colors are purple and dark blue. The gemstones are Amethyst, Sodalite, and Lapis Lazuli.” (4)

With focus and dedication, we’ll perceive amazing things by letting our energy swim through the third eye in a perfectly coordinated and balanced way, and only when we can do this will we experience the flowing results of a balanced third eye.

We’ll have to be willing to renounce materiality or anything else that keeps us from finding a higher state of consciousness, but after so long of keeping our third eye balanced, our hunger for material things will naturally cease.

This is because we’ll have been introduced to a blissful perception that’s unlike anything our reality offers, and we’ll have long stopped caring about finite, worldly things. We’ll have rooted ourselves in spirit, and our focus will be on the blissful vibration we’ll be able to feel instead of the things that held us back in the past.

Footnotes:

1. Eclectic Energies: “Introduction to the Chakras” –http://www.eclecticenergies.com/chakras/introduction.php
2. Kellie Jo Conn: “The Seven Major Chakras” About.com –http://healing.about.com/od/chakratheseven/a/study7chakras.htm
3. Loc. cit.
4. Loc. cit.

Concluded in Part 7 tomorrow.

The Seven Chakras: What Are Their Purposes? – Part 7/7

The Crown Chakra. Credit: Mindvalley.us

Written by Wes Annac, September 10, 2014 – http://tinyurl.com/keq7bry

Concluded from Part 6

Now, for the seventh and final chakra: the crown chakra. As we’ll learn, this chakra is the center for our highest spiritual perception, and accessing it is key to clearly and purely receiving an intuitive flow. The third eye helps us connect with our higher selves and guides, but this connection couldn’t happen without the crown chakra.

We owe a lot to the crown chakra, which some of us don’t know a whole lot about, and hopefully, the things we’ll learn here will motivate us to give it some attention. I’m sure a lot of you out there already do perceive and work with this chakra, but some seekers haven’t started working with it quite yet.

Eclectic Energies tells us that the crown chakra entails complete physical and spiritual awareness.

“The Crown chakra is about wisdom and being one with the world. When this chakra is open, you are unprejudiced and quite aware of the world and yourself.

“If it is under-active, you’re not very aware of spirituality. You’re probably quite rigid in your thinking.

“If this chakra is over-active, you are probably intellectualizing things too much. You may be addicted to spirituality and are probably ignoring your bodily needs.” (1)

We have to give just as much attention to our physical body as we do our growing spiritual perception, and our focus will be taken far away from physicality if we overload the crown chakra. I’m sure a lot of seekers would see this as a good thing, but we can’t spiritually soar if we don’t pay attention to our physical selves.

Our bodily needs are important, and our spiritual perception will be out of balance if we don’t take care of our bodies and treat them with love and respect. Our bodies require just as much love as our spirits, because they’re comprised of the same spiritual matter that creates our reality and the various higher realities we have yet to perceive.

Mind Body Green tells us about the issues that are associated with the crown, as well as the exercises that help restore it.

“The 7th and highest Chakra, the Crown Chakra, represents our ability to be fully connected spiritually. Here’s what you need to know about opening and healing the Crown Chakra:

“Location of our Crown Chakra: The very top of our head.

“Emotional issues affecting our Crown Chakra: Inner and outer beauty, our connection to spirituality, pure bliss.

“Color: Violet

“Healing Exercises:

“Meditation, Running or cardio” (2)

Exercise is one of the best things we can do to strengthen our reception of the divine flow, which we receive through the crown chakra, and it makes sense that keeping our bodies healthy will help keep this chakra balanced.

Clarity of mind and heart are essential if we want to clearly receive the higher-vibrational energies and impressions we can now receive, and if we’re foggy-headed or unwilling to find the clarity we require, receiving energy from the higher realms will seem practically impossible.

It isn’t impossible, but we have to do the inner and outer work that’s required to find it. Like anything else, clear and focused effort has to be made before we can reap the flowing fruits the crown provides, and I’m sure everyone will find this necessary clarity as all of humanity becomes aware of spirit.

Kellie Jo Conn tells us that the crown chakra is the center for ‘dynamic thought and energy’.

“The seventh chakra is referred to as the crown chakra. It is located just behind the top of the skull. It is the center of spirituality, enlightenment, dynamic thought and energy. It allows for the inward flow of wisdom, and brings the gift of cosmic consciousness.

“This is also the center of connectedness with the Goddess (God), the place where life animates the physical body.” (3)

We can connect with Source via the crown chakra, and we can receive the intuitive flow that the third eye strengthens in a much greater way when this chakra’s open and brimming. This is also the chakra we receive the energies and perceptions that provide enlightenment through, and something tells me we’ll use it to reach the fourth and fifth dimensions.

Even when our physical bodies cease to be relevant, our chakras will follow us into the higher realms. In fact, we might travel through our chakras (our crown chakra specifically) when we ascend. I’m only speculating, of course, and I can’t say for sure exactly how our ascension will take place.

I know it’ll continue to be a gradual process, but as far as directly shifting into the fifth dimension goes, I don’t know if we’ll achieve it with help from our chakras or if our chakras will simply be participants.

The silver cord is connected via the crown chakra, Kellie tells us. We’re also told that an imbalanced crown could result in migraines, depression, and similar symptoms.

“The silver cord that connects the aura bodies extends from the crown. The soul comes into the body through the crown at birth and leaves from the crown at death. When this chakra is unbalanced there may be a constant sense of frustration, no spark of joy, and destructive feelings. Illnesses may include migraine headaches and depression.” (4)

I’m sure we’ve all struggled with these feelings at one time or another, and they can apparently be caused by an imbalanced crown. Frustration and the qualities that feed it will always hold us back, and it can be difficult to move beyond these feelings if our crown is imbalanced and they seem to endlessly fill our perception.

If we call upon our higher selves and guides, however, we can receive the assistance we require with opening and balancing our crown so we can soar into a greater perception on a cloud of joy and willingness.

Our ability to perceive our subconscious reality will be turned up when the crown’s balanced, Kellie tells us.

“Balanced energy in this chakra may include the ability to open up to the Divine and total access to the unconscious and subconscious. The main colors for the crown are white and purple. The gemstones are Clear Quartz Crystal, Oregon Opal, and Amethyst.” (5)

I’d recommend looking up those gemstones if you’re interested in cleansing your crown chakra, because a healthy crown equals a healthy and brimming spiritual perception.

Our ability to feel and radiate the energies being lovingly sent our way from the higher realms will grow with each balancing attempt we make, and before long, we’ll wonder how we weren’t able to feel these energies before.

They’ll flow so strongly that they’ll become an average aspect of our daily existence, and we might wonder how we functioned without them.

For now, we’ll have to work to perceive them as much as we can by balancing our chakras and living in love when we could otherwise live for greed and hatred, and however difficult this might sound, it can actually be very easy.

I didn’t know a whole lot about the chakras when I started this report, and hopefully, it’s helped those of you who also had a lot learn about the restorative effort that’s required to use them. Now that we know a little bit about them, we can work to balance them out instead of letting them go unbalanced because of our unawareness of the consequences.

Ignorance might be bliss, but knowledge is power. Knowing about various spiritual concepts will empower us to act on our knowledge and embrace them, and we can passionately pursue whatever spiritual topic we want to know more about.

In doing so, we’ll be able to use our knowledge to do good – in ourselves and in the world – and the rest of the planet will be glad we used the things we learned progressively. All of humanity will eventually find the light and ascend, and if we put our knowledge to good use now, the collective awakening that’s set to take place will happen even sooner.

Our future’s in our hands, and if all of our chakras are balanced, we’ll be able to embrace this future with open arms and the willingness to do what’s required to build a new world. I’m excited for the day when everyone’s awake and willing to work hard to bring this planet into the light, and in time, all of our chakras will be balanced enough for us to do this.

Footnotes:

1. Eclectic Energies: “Introduction to the Chakras” –http://www.eclecticenergies.com/chakras/introduction.php
2. Mind Body Green: “The Seven Chakras For Beginners” –http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-91/The-7-Chakras-for-Beginners.html
3. Kellie Jo Conn: “The Seven Major Chakras” About.com –http://healing.about.com/od/chakratheseven/a/study7chakras.htm
4. Loc, cit.
5. Loc. cit.

A Basic Look at Kundalini

The kunalini ‘serpent’, along with the seven chakras. Credit: Siddhaashram.net

Written by Wes Annac, The Culture of Awareness, September 17, 2014 – http://tinyurl.com/oc2423b

Here, I’d like to take a look at kundalini, which is essentially an evolutionary/energetic ‘boost’ we can gain with focused, meditative effort. As we’ll learn here, kundalini is referred to as an energetic ‘serpent’ because it’s coiled up in the root chakra, and it can be awakened and used to find a permanently blissful state of consciousness.

With focus and intention, we can actually uncoil it and bring it up through each chakra until it reaches and affects the crown. Those of us who are particularly passionate about meditation can meditate on our kundalini for hours on end, and if we do, we might just manually raise it and feel what full-on enlightenment is like.

There are a lot of benefits to awakening it and a lot of setbacks if we aren’t prepared for what could result, and one should always be prepared for the unhindered spiritual perception that results from awakened kundalini.

Themystica.com tells us that kundalini is a ‘psycho-spiritual’ energy.

“Kundalini is a psycho-spiritual energy, the energy of the consciousness, which is thought to reside within the sleeping body, and is aroused either through spiritual discipline or spontaneously to bring new states of consciousness, including mystical illumination.

“Kundalini is Sanskrit for ‘snake’ or ‘serpent power,’ so-called because it is believed to lie like a serpent in the root chakra at the base of the spine. In Tantra Yoga kundalini is an aspect of Shakti, the divine female energy and consort of Shiva.” (1)

The power of kundalini, we’re told, is huge.

“The power of kundalini is said to be enormous. Those having experienced it claim it to be indescribable. The phenomena associated with it varies from bizarre physical sensations and movements, pain, clairaudience, visions, brilliant lights, superlucidity, psychical powers, ecstasy, bliss, and transcendence of self. Kundalini has been described as liquid fire and liquid light.” (2)

Indian Yoga is primarily responsible for our knowledge of kundalini, but people like Carl Jung brought it to our modern society’s attention.

“Indian yoga, with its emphasis on the transmutation of energy to higher consciousness, was the chief contributor to the cultivation of kundalini and the preservation of its knowledge prior to present times. Kundalini was a rarity in the West before the 1970s until more attention became centered upon the consciousness.

“In 1932, for example, psychiatrist Carl G. Jung and others observed that the kundalini experience was seldom seen in the West.” (3)

I’d imagine people started really becoming aware of kundalini around the 60s and 70s when the consciousness expansion movement was flourishing (it still is in a lot of ways), but people have known about it for centuries.

We have a lot to learn in regards to the development of our spirituality and our perception of the realms that lay beyond the physical, and we’ll have a much better grasp on the innate spiritual nature of our existence when we learn the full and undistorted truth.

We’re coming together and providing this grasp for each other, but humanity as a whole needs to learn the truth before we can all awaken our Kundalini and enjoy the enlightenment that results.

The Mystica confirms that kundalini has been well-known for thousands of years.

“However, an examination of mystical literature and traditions showed that kundalini, called by various names, seems to have been a universal phenomenon in esoteric teachings for perhaps three thousand years.

“Kundalini-type descriptions or experiences are found in esoteric teachings of the Egyptians, Tibetans, Chinese, some Native Americans, … Kundalini has been interpreted from the Bible as ‘the solar principle in man,’ and is referenced in the Koran, the works of Plato and other Greek philosophers, alchemical tracts (thephilosopher’s stone), and in Hermetic, Kabbalistic, Rosicrucian, and Masonic writings.” (4)

As we can see, people have known about kundalini for a long time, and many of them strived to preserve the knowledge of it for future generations. It’s great that so many people have worked so hard to preserve the truth about it, and we can carry on their legacy by informing others.

People will obviously have to keep an open mind to believe in this etheric, enlightenment-delivering energy, and needless to say, the rest of humanity needs to become aware of spirit and the wonders that exist beyond our conscious perception before any sort of kundalini awakening can take place – especially on a collective level.

The Mystica also describes the process of kundalini awakening.

“Not all kundalini experiences are identical to those classical awakenings experienced in yoga, but may vary in intensity and duration.

“Typically the yogi meditates to arouse the kundalini and then to raise it through his or her body. (It should be remembered though, not all types of yoga are devoted to the arousal of kundalini.) First, the yogi feels the sensation on heat at the base of the spine, which may be intensely hot or pleasantly warm.

“The energy then travels up a psychic pathway parallel to the spinal column. Thesushumna is the central axis, crisscrossed in a helix by the ida and pingala. As it rises the kundalini activates the chakras in succession.” (5)

This would obviously take a lot of time and devotion. This is why I mentioned before that the seekers who are particularly dedicated to meditation can focus their meditative effort on awakening their kundalini, thus paving the way for others to do the same, and I think it’s important that we do.

Something tells me that the more seekers who activate their kundalini now, the easier it’ll be for the rest of humanity when the time comes, and I wonder if any of the momentous energetic events we’ll witness as a part of our ascension will assist us in awakening the kundalini.

Perhaps we have to be the ones to open it instead of waiting for any particular ‘event’, but it’d be interesting if the events we’re waiting to witness did provide some type of awakening or activation within.

We’re then told about some of the initial symptoms of kundalini awakening.

“The body becomes cold and corpse-like as the kundalini leaves the lower portions and begins to rise. The yogi is likely to shudder, tremble, or rock violently, feel extreme heat and cold, hear strange but not unpleasant sounds, and see various kinds of lights including an inner light.

“The length of the kundalini may be fleeting or last several minutes. The objective is to raise the kundalini to the crown chakra, where it unites with the Shiva, or the male polarity, and brings illumination.” (6)

Raising the kundalini to the crown chakra will provide the enlightenment every seeker strives for, and I’m sure it benefits every chakra it reaches before it hits the crown. The heart chakra is probably opened and expanded further to take in a greater amount logos, for example, and the throat chakra may open up and provide an enhanced ability to express oneself.

Our ability to feel the bliss that comprises the higher realms will grow with each attempt we make to activate our kundalini, and as with anything, practice makes perfect. We can’t do anything significant if we aren’t willing to practice it, and in the end, we’d be very glad we practiced awakening our kundalini.

As we’re told, however, it isn’t all sunshine at first.

“[After raising the kundalini to the crown] the yogi then attempts to lower the energy to another chakra, but not below the heart chakra because descent to lower chakras is thought to produce ego inflation, rampant sexual desire, and a host of other ills. By repeatedly raising the kundalini to the crown, the yogi can succeed in having the energy permanently stay there.

“It is said that kundalini opens new pathways in the nervous system; the pain associated with this apparently is due to the nervous system’s inability to immediately [cope] with the energy. Yogis assert that the body must be properly attuned for Kundalini through yoga, and that a premature or explosive awakening can cause insanity or death.” (7)

We’d want to awaken our kundalini very gradually, and we wouldn’t want to experience the ‘explosive awakening’ mentioned here. We don’t want to do anything too rapidly, and our kundalini practice should be as gradual as our ongoing ascension.

We wouldn’t be able to handle being suddenly transported to the fifth dimension, because things would be too different and unfathomable. We’d immediately want to return home to the third, but we might find that the darkness here weighs us down too much for it to be comfortable anymore.

Similarly, we don’t want to activate our kundalini too quickly because we might not be ready for the perceptual boost that results. We’ll want to take our activation slowly, but our ascension isn’t about reaching the end anyway – it’s about enjoying the journey.

It’s about enjoying every meditation; every creative work; every attempted kundalini activation.

We aren’t necessarily here to complete the goal, even though we eventually will. We’re here to enjoy ourselves and love each other with the understanding that we’re one consciousness, and awakening our kundalini will help us find this understanding in a much realer way.

Our perception of our oneness will sharpen when we’re on a higher vibration, and those of us who hunger for spirit each day would benefit from practicing a kundalini-focused meditation. If we’re as ready to perceive the higher realms as many of us say we are, these meditations will be very enjoyable because we’ll know we’re reaching our sacred destination.

I might do a more detailed report about kundalini another time, but this basic information about it has satisfied my hunger for knowledge, and hopefully, you can all say the same. There’s plenty more to learn about this interesting energetic phenomenon, and you’re encouraged to follow the link in the footnotes (or do an internet search about this topic) and do more research.

With the willingness to learn everything we’ve forgotten, we’ll illuminate the big picture and raise our vibration in the process. We’re here to relearn things we once knew before we descended onto earth, and we have plenty of sources to choose from.

Footnotes:

1. The Mystica: “Kundalini” at:http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/k/kundalini.html
2. Loc. cit.
3. Loc. cit.
4. Loc. cit.
5. Loc. cit.
6. Loc. cit.
7. Loc. cit.

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The Three Essential Practices For Consciousness Evolution

By Brandon West, Project Global Awakening, April 22, 2014 – http://tinyurl.com/nox8x6t

Consciousness evolution is the process of becoming universal consciousness. And in order to do so, all that we need to do is simply open up a channel within us so that universal consciousness can flow through us uninhibited, because our highest self, the highest level of our consciousness is universal consciousness.

This is the process of consciousness evolution and it is a completely natural process, indeed one that each one of us will go through at one point or another. It is guaranteed.

As you have probably noticed, there is a certain degree of more scientific, intellectually orientated material on this website. But that is only one aspect of this website. Moreover, that is only one aspect of yourself.

Yes, I want to convince you that your body is a projection of consciousness and that you choose your genes, or at least explore together definite evidence for a whole new perspective on reality. But of equal importance to me is to discover and explore how to make use of that truth in our lives for a new experience and awareness of who and what we are, and to actually use that information to heal, change our lives, and actually experience a consciousness evolution.

I recently received a question from one of our fledgling community of evolvers asking about the link between healing and meditation, thoughts and belief and how we can use them to our advantage. This article is an answer to that question.

We have two aspects to our being. We have a radiative aspect which is always changing:our thoughts and emotions; and we have an observing awareness which is collapsing towards singularity where we are one and connected with the rest of the universe, all beings, and where we are united with our source of all-possibility: pure consciousness. Awakening consciously to the former is the path of consciousness evolution.

Our thoughts radiate from the event horizon of our being which is the boundary between thought and silent awareness. Yet there is a lens which determines how the pure energy of consciousness expresses itself through us in our thoughts and emotions which directly manifests in our lives and in our bodies.

That lens is belief.

Imagine belief as a lens much like the negatives on a roll of film which creates an image on a screen when pure light shines through. When you change the negative, when you change the belief, the image on the screen changes. Your body and your life is a three-dimensional hologram defined by your beliefs, and our society is the collective holographic image we have co-created with one another and with the Earth hologram we call nature, within a greater hologram we call our solar system, our galaxy, our universe, and so on to infinity.

And yet the most important thing to remember is not that your belief determines your hologram, but that if your belief system was out of the way altogether then pure consciousness which is energy of the highest vibration – love – would radiate from yours being and express perfection and abundance everywhere in your life. Not if your belief system was changed, but if your belief system was abolished. And that is where thought and meditation comes it.

Thought is a natural part of yourself, so there is no reason for you to feel the need to stop thinking altogether. We just have to learn how to think consciously when we do think. However, it is important to periodically strive for (and eventually achieve) inner silence in order to open ourselves up so that our thoughts, emotions, and actions can channel through us unadulterated from a higher level of consciousness within.

All beings are expressions of the universe, God-in-action, but the reason why we have murderers, rapists, imperfection of any kind, and sleeping people of varying degrees is not because some people are inherently good or bad, compassionate or evil. There is no such thing.

The reason we see negativity is because there is so much distortion in the high-vibration energy from the lens of our beliefs and the chaos created by unconscious thinking. The natural high energy of consciousness ends up being distorted and misdirected by so many different limiting beliefs and negative habits, thoughts, and behaviors that it ends up being expressed in harmful ways. Either harmful in an expressive way towards another human being (or yourself), or it is repressed and internalized and it manifests itself as disease in the body.

Therefore peace in the world and health in the body both stem from inner peace and inner silence: clearing out the clutter within ourselves.

Brandon West is the creator of Project Global Awakening, a website dedicated to the research of a variety of scientific and spiritual disciplines, and applying that knowledge to help you live an inspired life and change the world.

I know in my heart that everyone can change if they want to. It is just a matter of cleaning out the programming.

Three Steps To Consciousness Evolution

These three steps are the most essential steps in order to raise your level of consciousness, cultivate personal mastery, and thus engage in the process of consciousness evolution.

1. Live on the Event Horizon between Thought and Silence.

“Be mindful of your self-talk; it’s a conversation with the universe.”

In order to live consciously and to think consciously, we must live on the border between thought and silence. Only then are we in the best possible position to be truly self-aware and to manifest because this is the only position where we can follow Deepak Chopra’s succinct process of manifestation: “Slip into the gap, have the desire, detach from the outcome, and let the universe take care of the details.”

Only from this place can we manifest, and only from this place can we be truly vigilant over our perceptual state. When we live in this space we can easily see not only the perceptual pattern we are living from, and change it if we desire, but we can also feel clearly how spirit is moving us, and what we are being guided to do by the unified field of pure consciousness.

Silence is the yin aspect of our awareness, and thought is the yang. When we live right on the border, but deeply centered in silence with a greater tendency to submerge ourselves in infinite divine consciousness than to radiate too far and become lost in the world of things, then we will learn how to live with true power and potency because from this perceptual position our thoughts emanate directly from the highest aspect of ourselves without being distorted by our thoughts and beliefs.

Our actions from this place are aligned with our highest potential, our thoughts are pure and our emotions are of a high frequency. When we live in the event horizon between thought and silence, then we flow from our highest self and there is an immediate feedback of creation between the two infinities of the universe.

2. Let go and surrender to the Universe

I wrote an article recently called Let Go and Let God, and I want to be absolutely clear about what I mean by letting go and allowing the universe to take care of the details of our lives. Letting go and surrendering is not laziness and apathy. It is the process of learning how to live from a place more aligned with the highest aspects of ourselves.

Everything we have ever done, and every experience we have had is leading to our consciousness evolution. It has meaning. If we shift our perspective from being a victim of our experiences to being the recipient of a cosmic education and co-creator of our destiny, which ultimately is consciousness evolution, then we can start to tap into who we really are.

Letting go and surrendering is not laziness, and it is not giving up. It is simply centering yourself in the awareness that your dreams and all of your purest desires will unfold naturally as an expression of who you are, if you discipline yourself to get out of your own way. It is a shift to the awareness that you already are complete, and that all you need to do every day is exactly what you are inspired to do, what you’d love to do, and what makes you happy in this moment. That is the difference.

Wayne Dyer explained the shift to letting go and surrendering to the universe best when he said: “Listen to your intuitive inner voice and find what passion stirs your soul. When you do this, you’re also tapping into another face of intention: love. If you’re doing what you love and loving what you do—whatever it is—you make a living at it!”

Letting go and surrendering is a process of getting your ego (what is ego?) out of the way so that your higher consciousness can work through you.

3. Live without desires, but by Divine Inspiration

Instead of living from low-level desires such as earning lots of money, achieving fame, recognition, or even respect, try living more aligned to universal principles (and thus universally aligned desires) by cultivating a deep desire to serve the consciousness evolution of humanity, to live your highest potential, and to create as fearlessly and as ego-lessly as you can. This is what I mean by living by divine inspiration.

When we can live consistently in this fashion, every one of our needs and desires will be taken care automatically.

Living by divine inspiration means to focus all of your energy on your love, and the creative self-expression that is your purpose in life, and to let the universe handle the details. We have been trained to care about the outcome of our efforts through school and society in general. We have been conditioned to seek success. But humans are far too powerful to waste their time with such low level activities.

When we focus all of our energy delving into the depths of ourselves, tapping into the universe through our inner connecting link, and then expressing the truth, love, power, inspiration and creativity that we find, then the universe will take care of the rest. The more we try and force the world to do our bidding, the poorer the results and the more frustrated we become.

If we instead focus all of our energy on living from inspiration and the boundary between thought and silence, and the deeper we submerge ourselves in that silence which is the cosmic ocean of pure energy/information, the brighter and more radiant and powerful we become. When we live from this space we have true power and the universe responds.

The more that we align with our universal source, the more we become our universal source. This is the process of consciousness evolution.

Conclusion

The result of living a life aligned with these three principles and practices is that we enter into a world of magic; a brand new world and perception of reality that we achieve by disconnecting ourselves from the matrix which exists only in our thoughts. The perceptual matrix of our society is at a low level of consciousness, and the only way we can get out of it is by thinking from a brand new place within us and living from a new awareness.

In order to live from a higher level of consciousness we must stop taking orders from lower levels of consciousness, our minds. This is not an event but a process. And while there will most definitely be spontaneous shifts, or quantum moments, know that all your previous actions and work accumulate to make these quantum shifts occur.

The universe is speaking to each one of us individually and is seeking to express itself through each one of us because we are the universe … except we are resisting this aspect of ourselves and pretending to be small, limited, insignificant, and powerless. The universe is consciousness, and we are consciousness thus we must be like what we came from. There is no division. When we can continually center ourselves in silence, and learn to let go and allow ourselves to be guided by that silence, a miraculous shift will occur in our lives…

We will cease to desire from the ego. Recognition will become unimportant. Success will not be the greatest pull on our attention. Instead we will discover a magical connection within us where there is a flow of information, creativity, and knowledge, and by tapping into this flow, we will create and discover beyond our wildest dreams.

Tapping into this flow consciously will release the dam created by our minds so that the universal force, the Tao, or God, can flow through us like a mighty river, and this new energy will be of such a vibration as to radically transform our perception of reality. And we will live “in a great and wonderful world,” where “dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you will discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be,” as the great Sage Patanjali expressed so beautifully.

This is the potential within each one of us. The limitations of any individuals are in direct relationship to the degree to which they live from their mind. For as soon as we discover silence, all barriers disappear, and the universe speaks through each and every one of us equally.

Brandon West is the creator of Project Global Awakening, a website dedicated to the research of a variety of scientific and spiritual disciplines, and applying that knowledge to help you live an inspired life and change the world. This article is offered under Creative Commons license. It’s okay to republish it anywhere as long as attribution bio is included and all links remain intact.

Oversoul Teachings Q&As via Wes Annac: Crown Chakra Expansion – Part 1/2

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Oversoul Teachings Q&As: Crown Chakra Expansion – Part 1/2, Channeled through Wes Annac, October 16, 2014 – http://tinyurl.com/o6epr4m

In this time of heightened consciousness and awareness on the part of the conscious community and, eventually, all of humanity, certain bold phenomena will grace you at times that are related to your ongoing ascension and your receptivity to the higher vibration descending onto your minds and hearts.

If you’re particularly attuned to this phenomena, many of you will begin to notice strange and interesting things in your meditations that are related to your ongoing ascension.

Interesting happenings and circumstances may greet you at times that leave you wondering what exactly you’re experiencing or going through, and we’re here to let you know that it’s all for the greater good.

Even the most bizarre ascension-related experiences you go through are all part of your ongoing ascent into a higher frame of consciousness, and in order to experience something paradigm-shattering, you’ll have to be open to having experiences that are very far outside of your conscious perception.

If you can ready yourselves to experience bold ascension-related phenomena that’ll vastly expand your individual and collective paradigm, you’ll greet the things you witness and experience with a greater degree of ease and readiness than if you enter into them unprepared.

Call on Spirit

Always call on spirit for the assistance you require with navigating your difficult ascension journeys, and know that as long as you call on us for inspiration, insight or energy, we’ll be with you.

We’re here for every receptive godspark who’s ready to enter the next, purer phase of consciousness and see what it has to offer, and we’ll always offer our energy and insight in hopes that it helps you navigate your earthly journeys with the greatest degree of joy and ease possible.

We want you to enjoy yourselves and your existence on the earth, and we want you to know that your enjoyment’s very important to your planetary ascension.

Even though we understand that many of you feel inspired to work as hard as you can to bring yourselves and the planet around you into the light, one of the best ways to raise the collective vibration is to get out and enjoy yourselves when you could otherwise work away.

The work you’re doing is very important and needed, but the time you can spend with your family is also very important and the level of joy you can collectively feel from doing things that are unrelated to your work but still fill you with a sense of love and wholeness is greater than we can express, through this or any other channel.

The best advice we can offer many of you at present is to simply detach.

Allow your ego-driven perception of the reality around you to fade and be replaced with the slow yet steady descent of a pure, loving perception, because this’ll strengthen your ability and willingness to be an infinite conduit of love for those around you to draw off of in every moment.

You have the potential to create a wealth of needed and important changes simply by enjoying yourselves and your lives, and the upliftment you can find in this transformative time will motivate many of you to start offering yourselves to the restoration of consciousness in whatever ways work best for you.

Your ability to find and remain in a lasting, loving space hinges on your willingness to claim the sacred upliftment you now have the opportunity to feel, and your work or anything else you do is never intended to drag on your sense of enjoyment.

Quite the opposite – you’re meant to feel inspired and passionate about every bit of work you do to bring yourselves and your planet the light.

You aren’t meant to slave away at your respective missions in bringing your planet into the light – you’re meant to feel as passionate about this work as possible. Let love (and the willingness to do whatever you feel inspired to do, which comes with it) reenter your hearts when you’re stuck with the draining emotions of the ego.

Let brimming joy replace the dull tiredness and depletion that tend to overtake the minds and hearts of so many of you, and let yourselves see that despite the ego’s attempts to convince you otherwise, you are free.

You’re free and sovereign beings who are meant to use your freedom for positive and progressive purposes, and you can use your inalienable freedom to embrace your developing creativity and help others find an immense sense of joy, positivity and upliftment because of the spiritually inspired things you decide to do.

In doing this, you’ll enable them to begin contributing to your planetary ascension in immense and extraordinary ways, and with this said, we’ll happily answer the question we’ve been given today.

Question: An Addition to the Crown Chakra

“I have had many metaphysical experiences in my life including contact with both galactics and gnomes, orbs and other unidentifiable creatures.

“This is different. The latest one has been that I sense something directly over my head (over my crown chakra I guess). That is hard to describe. I want to say it is a few feet over my head but you know that’s hard to really describe too.

“Also it’s about as big as a candy bar with an opening like an envelope. When I ‘go up’ to it I feel my vibration rise. The strength of the sensation and awareness comes and goes. I’m not sure what it is or why it’s there but I’m comfortable with it. Any ideas about what it may be?”

This question, which we and our scribe anticipated, is the reason we gave the introduction we did for this message, and we’ll repeat that certain bold phenomena will begin to be experienced as you continue to lighten and refine your vibration.

Even though our scribe has understandably chosen to distance himself from explanations and predictions that have to do with your ascension, we’ll affirm the words of various channeled sources of late who’ve told you that you’re in a certain phase of your ascension at present and as your years tick on, the phases will begin to intensify.

The phase you’re currently in is allowing for many of you to begin witnessing things you would’ve never thought or expected – things you may seek advice and guidance about from a channeled source or a seeker who’s started to experience the same things.

You, dear reader, witnessed what we’ll call an addition or expansion to your crown chakra. The energies on earth are intensifying exponentially, and this is resulting in an occasional need for your crown chakra to expand and take in a greater and purer amount of energy than it has so far.

Your crown chakra isn’t the only one in need of certain upgrades at times, and as you continue to greet various energetic and celestial events that’ll turn up the purity and quantity of energy you receive through your sun (and your moon, but that’s another discussion for another time), you’ll find that many of your chakras begin to accommodate certain energetic expansions.

Exactly what you witnessed is difficult to describe with earthly words, but we’ll do our best with the limited expressional arsenal we have at our disposal.

Your crown chakra was in need of an upgrade, and you subconsciously decided you were ready to witness this upgrade as it was being put into effect. If you try hard enough, you may notice that you can experience the rush of energy you first experienced when you perceived this ‘crown chakra expansion’, as we’ll call it.

Especially if you sit down to meditate, you’ll feel this energetic phenomenon at practically any time of day, and this is because you and plenty of others are now expanding and taking in a greater amount of love than you would’ve ever thought or expected.

In fact, even before you experienced this upgrade, you still brought through a wealth of pure energy that you’d be very surprised if you witnessed yourself bringing through from an outside perspective. If you could see just how pure your ability to be a conduit for the light is becoming – and we mean this for our reader and everyone else out there – you’d be very surprised.

You’d see that you truly are lightworkers and energy conduits in the greatest and purest sense, and you might be dazzled at the impressive extent to which you’re able to bring this energy through.

Concluded in Part 2 tomorrow.