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THE HOLOGRAPHIC RAINBOW, Part 2 … The Second Chakra Vortex — First Stage of Individuation

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This is the second in a series of blogs taking a detailed look at the seven chakra energy vortexes, which are the conduits of subtle frequencies throughout our body’s energy field.

The second chakra vortex, known as Svadhisthana in the East, begins the process of first movement, first separation — pulling away from one’s tribe (one’s culture) and its conditioning.  Dictionary.com defines individuation as:  the determination or contraction of a general nature to an individual  mode of existence; development of the individual from the general.1  And, in a larger context that includes the metaphysical, here is another definition:  achievement of self-actualization through a process of integrating the conscious and the unconscious.2  This more closely follows Carl Jung’s philosophy and is often used by Master Charles Cannon in his writings and presentations when describing the human process of evolution.

This first movement, or “motion”, brings a beginning of identity with emotions, stirred up in the process of separation. Polarity shows up as we begin to see ourselves as separate and different from others. Emotional identity is developed and has polarity swings between over-active and under-active in learning balance.

According to Anodea Judith (author of several books on the chakras), an under-active second chakra tends to attract: rigidity in your body, beliefs or behavior; emotional numbness or insensitivity; fear of change; lack of desire, passion or excitement; avoidance of pleasure, fear of sexuality; poor social skills; excessive boundaries; boredom.  An over-active second chakra tends to create: sexual addictions; obsessive attachments; addiction to stimulation; excessive mood swings; excessively sensitive; poor boundaries, invasion of others; emotional dependency; instability.

In the process of beginning to see who we are, we have to learn to accept and love ourselves unconditionally … and this is often only learned when we interact with others and observe their reflection back to us. This is why “others” are often called “mirrors”. Since an eye cannot see itself, often it’s the reflections that teach us the truth of what is rather than the biased beliefs of our minds.  This is especially true in this sacral chakra energy which is heavily focused around our journey with others, sexuality and reproduction — providing an avenue of growth, a valuable gift for which we can be grateful. .

Also, according to Anodea Judith, “The basic right to the second chakra is the ‘right to feel … When the right to feel is compromised, it creates the demon of the second chakra, which is guilt.”3   Guilt causes suppression which is the antithesis of the evolutionary process of opening to greater and greater realities.

Thus, relationship is the journey of CHOICES … love vs. fear, awareness vs. ignorance. Again, there is no right or wrong, only our evolution engineering its own course to teach us whatever we have chosen to learn in this lifetime. Self-acceptance is key here, as an external expression of the sense of oneness of all and everything.  With self-acceptance comes self-forgiveness which opens the door to forgiving and unconditionally loving others. Relationships of all types take focus and effort, requiring wakefulness to maintain harmony. When conflicts arise, wakefulness is required even more, sometimes leveling out at “an agreement to disagree” in a space created by harmony.

We honor love itself by seeing the oneness of ourselves and all others at the deeper, spiritual level.4

Carla Rueckert, Living the Law of One 101

 

Again, it is important to keep a constant focus on keeping the energy flowing through our meridians. This can be more easily remembered when that intent is attached to the intent to watch our breath—moment-to-moment— in the awareness of our oneness with all that we observe.

The Synchronicity Socratic Process of Inquiry has been created by Master Charles Cannon as a method for recognizing and disempowering the illusory “stories” in our lives. As he often says, “events happen and then there are the stories we tell about those events.” This explains how our stories – whether they are accurate recollections of something that happened in fact or not – are turned into illusions by our minds. The resulting reality is not real; it is virtual. Using the Socratic Process to dismantle our illusory stories (and the virtual reality they have fabricated) begins to create a truthful reality instead.

To help clear the second, sacral chakra vortex, it is helpful to ask the questions below and then do the Synchronicity Socratic Process on them … revealing their illusory beginnings and habitual maintenance. Once this awareness dawns, we see that we have co-created the movies of our lives, with all their harmony and conflict. This can leave us awestruck in the presence of one source consciousness. At that point, all that’s left is to ask: “What remains in the stillness of a mind?”

SECOND-CHAKRA Questions:

 What is your primary belief about your social life and why it is the way it is?

What is your primary belief about your sex life and why it is the way it is?

What is your primary belief about your creative expression and its acceptance in your world?

What is your primary belief about your ability to set boundaries and not take on other people’s inner conflicts?

What is your primary belief about your ability to be open and honest without fear of reprisal?

What is your primary belief about changes in your world and your ability to embrace them?

What is your primary belief about your life being passionate or boring and why it is that way?

What is your primary belief about your needs and desires for a romantic relationship compared to what is actually happening?

What is your primary belief about your emotions being independent or dependent upon another?

What is your primary belief about where you may be stuck in your emotions?

What is your primary belief about whether you have sufficient pleasure in your life?

What is your primary belief about any shame, guilt or anger toward the past?

 

REFERENCES:

  1. Dictionary.com, http://www.dictionary.com/browse/individuation?s=ts
  2. Journal Psyche, http://journalpsyche.org/jung-and-his-individuation-process/
  3. Chakra Balancing, Workbook, Anodea Judith (Sounds True, 2003) p. 25-26
  4. 4. Living the Law of One 101: The Choice, Carla Rueckart (L/L Research, 2013) (Kindle Location 2471).

 

THE HOLOGRAPHIC RAINBOW … Clearing Chakra Energy Vortexes through the Synchronicity Socratic Process

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This is the first in a series of blogs taking a detailed look at the seven chakra energy vortexes, the conduits of subtle frequencies throughout our body’s energy field.

As you may recall from previous posts, all manifestation is borne from the one source consciousness. The one energy densifies to create the virtual-reality movies of our lives, with one intention — to know itself more fully.  As a spark of that consciousness, we as individuals also want to know ourselves more fully and that’s why we incarnated into this form, here and now. We have densified into this game of polar opposites which provides CHOICE to us in every moment — the choice of love vs. fear, density vs. subtlety, expansion vs. contraction, awareness vs. ignorance. There is no right or wrong, and our evolution engineers its own course despite our best efforts to control it. “Trust and watch” is an excellent focus to use as often as possible, reminding us to be present to the magnificence of the game in which we are co-creators.

It is important to keep a constant focus on keeping the energy flowing through our meridians. This can be more easily remembered when that intent is attached to the intent to watch our breath—moment-to-moment— in the awareness of our oneness with all that we observe.  The resulting detachment releases fears based in survival and allows more peace and bliss into our lives.

The Synchronicity Socratic Process of Inquiry has been created by Master Charles Cannon as a method for recognizing and disempowering the illusory “stories” in our lives. As he often says, “events happen and then there are the stories we tell about those events.” This explains how our stories – whether they are accurate recollections of something that happened in fact or not – are turned into illusions by our minds. The resulting reality is not real; it is virtual. Using the Socratic Process to dismantle our illusory stories (and the virtual reality they have fabricated) begins to create a truthful reality instead.

VORTEX NUMBER ONE: the Root Chakra

The first vibrational chakra vortex is the first recipient of all stimuli into the body, for action/ reaction, fight/ flight. Known in the East as the Muladhara, this base vortex of red energy is commonly associated with survival and instincts (including sexual procreation for species survival). Another type of association is with the less-obvious but ever-present chemical elements, earth/air/wind/fire/ether, and the four directions. Increasing our awareness of these associations grounds us with planetary energies and decreases our fears borne of separation.

A rapid way that all of us can deepen the respect we have for ourselves as human beings of the tribe of humans on planet Earth is to allow ourselves to feel this energetic connection between our human bodies and the body of the Earth itself. Picture in your mind the energy flowing up from the Earth, up the feet and legs and through the red-ray center, on its way upwards though the energy body.  When we habitually “earth” our energy bodies with this visualization, we will increase our sense of wellness and “belonging.”

Carla Rueckart, “Living the Law of One 101: The Choice” 1

 

According to Anodea Judith, author of several books on the chakras, an under-active first chakra tends to attract:  Major illness or injury, Disconnection from the body, Fretful state (anxious, can’t settle down), Poor focus/ poor discipline, Financial problems, Poor boundaries, Chronic disorganization. An over-active first chakra tends to create:  Hoarding, Overeating, Greed, Fear of change, Addiction to security, and Rigid boundaries.2

Some of the fearful reactions and beliefs we have developed result in these undesirable behaviors. To clear the root chakra vortex, it is helpful to ask the questions below and then do the Socratic Process on them … revealing their illusory beginnings and habitual maintenance. Once this awareness dawns, we see that we have co-created the movies of our lives, with all their harmony and conflict. This can leave us awestruck in the presence of one source consciousness. At that point, all that’s left is to ask: “What remains in the stillness of a mind?”

 

 

What is your primary belief about why your childhood wasn’t happier?

What is your primary belief about how your parents could have raised you better?

What is your primary belief about your relationship to your siblings?

What is your primary belief about making a living: an opportunity to express yourself or a drudgery that is challenging?

What is your primary belief about whether you can earn a living sufficient for your needs and desires?

What is your primary belief about your community: do you participate comfortably or feel out of place (even withdrawn with little contact?)

What is your primary belief about how you take care (or don’t take care) of your physical body?

What is your primary belief about any compulsive or obsessive habits you can’t seem to change and would like to?

What is your primary belief about how your habits (eating, drinking, shopping, surfing the web) reflect who you truly are?

What is your primary belief about the times you are resistant to (or suffocated by) the structures of your life?

What is your primary belief about whether you are “grounded” in your body … as part of the earth you walk on?

What is your primary belief about whether your environment supports who you truly are?

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The NEXT BLOG will continue the series with the second chakra delineation.

 

 REFERENCES:

  1. Law of One 101: The Choice, Carla Rueckart
  2. Chakra Balancing Workbook, Anodea Judith

 

 

 

Actors reading script

The Holographic Play of Consciousness in the Individual – Part Two, The Script

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“All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players.”

William Shakespeare (As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII)

 

Our previous blog delineated the actor and the stage in the individual human journey, a microcosmic version of the macrocosmic Holographic Play of Consciousness in the Universal. This posting introduces the third and final component, THE SCRIPT, where opportunities abound for transformation … particularly when complemented by daily practice with High-Tech Meditation® soundtracks.

The foundational premise for this series is that the universe is a hologram and the objective world doesn’t really exist but is rather a vast ocean of waves and frequencies. Individually, our brains interpret and convert that “holographic blur” into images, beliefs and stories in a mirroring effect, designed to create some sense of a continuum and keep us feeling safe and “sane.”

Since the hologram is based on beliefs, then, to change our reality, we have to change our beliefs.

 

BELIEFS AND STORIES

Beliefs are the basis of stories. They belong to the objective, negative polarity of manifestation (i.e., phenomenal, as opposed to the positive noumenal).

Stories are an attempt to define the indefinable, to give meaning to that which is meaningless, to give us some sense of control over our large, intimidating world. We live through our beliefs and stories based on the desire to feel autonomous and powerful — in order to survive and have our needs met. Yet, we secretly know we are actually more at the effect of life than the cause and are constantly working to reverse that. However, it’s the acceptance of life as it is that brings happiness, and the evolutionary journey reveals that to us … sooner or later.

Human beings are Information Processing Units, using archetypal DNA, enculturation and choices in the Hero’s Journey through the inter-connected data-stream of the torus energy field surrounding our bodies. Once we establish a belief, we create a magnetic attraction to its opposite — creating a journey of duality and conflicts until it is balanced. Once the belief is released, the residual frequencies dissipate over time and increasing awareness results in a more truthful (and blissful) life.

Where to start in clearing our stories? We began discussing this in a previous blog on “The Play of Consciousness in the Universal” 2

Our beliefs are carried through the geometric form known as the “torus”, a polarized, dynamic matrix of flowing energy and information. It downloads and REFLECTS our beliefs about illusory dualities to us for our observation and evolution.

 

 HOW WE CREATE BELIEFS

In earlier blogs, we delineated the creation of beliefs and stories in detail. It would be helpful here to review the main bullet points from Thomas Asacker’s book3, as quoted in our “Perception and Reality” blog4,

“… that’s how our brains evolved – by seeking patterns and making meaning, everywhere and all the time.”

  • “Our perception becomes our reality, and a belief is born.”
  • “… perception draws upon context, memories and desires to simulate a cohesive whole.”
  • “… your mind simply wants to understand and make predictions. So it will invent dots until it envisions a coherent picture.”
  • “Everything is inherently without meaning. Except for the meaning we create.”

So why do we hold onto some perceptions and beliefs, yet dismiss others? Asacker further writes that:

  • “There are times when we hold tight to our memories and beliefs, even in the face of disconfirming evidence … when they have been infused with emotion and personal relevance.”
  • “The job of the conscious mind is to automatically produce a story to make sense out of our perceptions and reflections.”

Thought process in the brain

  • “Imagined experiences are processed as real ones – the very same neurons are being connected and activated.”
  • “Our brains have evolved to work that way, to transform reality by making up cause and effect stories.”
  • “Stories are powerful. Because we all become the stories we tell ourselves.”

At Synchronicity, we use The Socratic Process to bring up beliefs and stories that reflect non-acceptance and thus unhappiness. Discovery, acceptance and release of these stories is a powerful transformational process and brings wholeness and fulfillment.

 

HOW TO BEGIN?  Where everything begins … with Light…  

Light is everywhere in our world. We need it to see:

it carries information from the world to our eyes and brains.5 

Light refracted through a prism creates the rainbow colors of visible light, each with its own frequency, from dense (red) to subtle (purple variants).

IN THE SAME WAY, in the human body, light is refracted and appears in its layers of frequencies according to density, as shown below.

Subtle

Dense

To ensure complete incoming and outgoing information, we have a matrix of two subtle, parallel-energy lines in the area of the spine, each side running in an opposite direction from the other, ensuring incoming and outgoing information at every chakra vortex. This delineation appears in ancient wisdom traditions such as Kundalini in the Vedic/ Tantric tradition. (The central shushumna and alternating sides Ida and Pingala are sometimes, as a whole, compared to the twists and turns of DNA strands).

ONE METHOD of clearing beliefs and stories is through looking at our beliefs stored in each of the frequencies in the 7 energy vortexes. We begin at the base with the densest beliefs and work upward toward ever-more subtle frequencies and beliefs and experiences. The heart vortex is key, as it is the gateway to the subtler, higher frequency vortices.

NOW THAT WE’VE SET THE STAGE (pun intended), we will begin in succeeding blogs to delineate the 7 vortexes, one by one, revealing the traps and escape keys for evolutionary momentum and bliss.

 

REFERENCES

1)    https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/you-it-act-ii-scene-vii-all-worlds-stage

2)  Previous blog including The Play of Consciousness in the Universal, https://circleofone.one/reflections-holographic-mirrors-of-the-soul/

3) Thomas Asacker’s “The Business of Belief: How the World’s Best Marketers, Designers, Salespeople, Coaches, Fundraisers, Educators, Entrepreneurs and Other Leaders Get Us to Believe”.

4) Previous blog, Perception and Reality (https://synchronicity.org/blog/item/perception-and-reality).

5) Light explained, https://www.learner.org/teacherslab/science/light/

 

 

 

The Holographic Play of Consciousness In the Individual – Part 1

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“Transformation in the individual

is simultaneous in the universal.”

Master Charles Cannon

 

Part One: The Actor and The Stage

The individual and the universal … the microcosm and the macrocosm … are mirrored reflections of large-scale and small-scale realities, enabling a play of consciousness for the fun of it. The Play of Consciousness is the eternal play of pretense of the One blissful energy that we all are.

In this play, we take on beliefs and then “act out” that energy according to their resonance with our history. As we release our beliefs, we experience more and more freedom and bliss, which are the nature of true reality wherein we have awakened. So we are inspired to keep blissfully playing, since the primary intention in consciousness is to become more aware of itself as all and everything.

THE ACTOR

As detailed in a previous blog,1 the Actor in the play is represented by Archetypes and their Shadows. These archetypal patterns in the collective of humanity play out in our individual daily lives, having evolved in ways that are now fairly predictable.

ARCHETYPES AND SHADOWS

An archetype, in Jungian psychology, is a collectively-inherited pattern of thought, images, etc., that is universally present in individual psyches. Here we use these 12 general patterns as the role of the actor in our holographic play of consciousness. Jung also defined the negative polarity of these roles as “shadows” … “part of self, but that part which we deny and project onto others” – in other words, our flaws and misbeliefs about ourselves, slowing our evolution toward more blissful states of being.

 

The evolutionary process is that of individuation by “making the unconscious conscious.” The best way to journey the SHADOW is to look at the positive, opposite polarity and incorporate that energy for balance. In this list, the Shadows (and its symbols) are given for contemplation, balancing and integration. If you know astrology, you will see similarities.

DUALITY REPRESENTED:  Self and Other:  THE INITIATOR (starter, assertive) … THE PEACEMAKER (diplomatic, polite)

DUALITY REPRESENTED:  Form and Trans-formation:  THE MAINTAINER (practical, reliable) … THE TRANSFORMIST (mysterious, intense)

DUALITY REPRESENTED:  Lower Mind and Higher Mind:  THE COMMUNICATOR (spontaneous, knowledgeable) … THE PHILOSOPHER (optimistic; idealistic)

DUALITY REPRESENTED:  Private life and Public Life:  THE CAREGIVER (nurturing, sensitive) … THE AUTHORITY (responsible, disciplined)

DUALITY REPRESENTED:  Personal and Impersonal:  THE CHARISMATIC (dramatic, noble) … THE HUMANITARIAN (independent; innovative)

DUALITY REPRESENTED:  Mundane and Spiritual:  THE PERFECTIONIST (detailed, practical) … THE VISIONARY (mystical, intuitive)

 

INTRODUCING THE STAGE …

The terrain of The Stage is defined by “The Hero’s Journey”, a version of the “stages” of Joseph Campbell’s “monomyth”, the common story underlying the one human life we all share. Based on archetypes in the collective unconscious, it is a map showing the progression of journeying an issue (or an entire life-cycle). For some, it is the path to wisdom or journey toward “enlightenment”.

It is so standard a process of the human journey that most movies are based on it, and the biggest blockbuster films often demonstrate it impeccably. Here is a diagram below from Wikipedia2. The steps dovetail nicely into Master Charles Cannon’s 5-fold process (Peak, Evolution, Insight, Clearing Process, Integration), along with the demonstration of the value of the Mentor.

FIVE-FOLD PROCESS enfolding The Hero’s Journey

Peak:  the hero’s ordinary world, the mundane daily life of polarized duality with conflict and suffering. Happiness is fleeting and the question keeps creeping in, “isn’t there something MORE to life?”

Evolution:  the call to adventure brings glimpses of a more-satisfying reality but it is at first declined with fear of losing the known. However, the disillusionment with the material world continues and inner conflicts occur again and again. The “comfort zone” is increasingly threatened until the hero is propelled into accepting the call.

Insight: it is here where he meets the mentor and receives guidance which inspires him and brings tools for conquest. And, since the demons to conquer are his own inner stories, only he can make the commitment and cross the threshold.

Clearing Process:  as the hero begins the journey of challenges and temptations, allies and enemies appear to help him approach them and “act out” in the play. They are reflections of parts of the hero that been drawn as self-referential mirrors that reveal his/her illusory, debilitating stories. Ordeals escalate to a final battle, which is a climax in the process that  Master Charles Cannon calls “the sledgehammer effect” (continually hitting ourselves over the head until we see what we’re really doing and stop it). With the story given up, a death experience happens (releasing the known) and stillness and peace descend in a rebirth of some sort.

“With renunciation comes peace.”
Master Charles Cannon

Integration: the ordeal is over and reward comes with an expanded awareness of truthful reality (peace has balanced the noise of the conflict and dilated the space between them for clearer observation of the truth). Gratitude and appreciation for life blossom into a new way of living that compels the hero to return to his roots and share his balancing, sometimes enlightening, experience. He re-appears in the old, familiar environment with a sense of resurrection. He’s not the same, he has found “the elixir”, the “holy grail”, the truth of life, and it’s time to live it in a new, extraordinary way.

“The extraordinary is the ordinary … for those who are awake.”
 Master Charles Cannon

His new wakefulness reveals more and more opportunities for confronting old beliefs with renunciation and silence, bringing an ever-increasing  integrative wholeness, fulfillment and bliss.

For more detail listing the 12 stages, see an earlier blog, “The Hero’s Journey and Modern Spirituality” 3 on the Synchronicity website or as it appeared in an online journal, “Conscious Life Journal” (see links below).

 

THIS CONCLUDES this blog, bringing together previous blogs on The Actor and The Stage and now we’ve “set the stage” (pun intended) for the third and final component of the play — THE SCRIPT. The next blog will begin to delineate the creation of our stories, how they play out in our lives, and the ways to balance them and release the conflicts they create.

 

REFERENCES

1) See the previous blog at https://circleofone.one/reflections-on-your-holiday-mirrors-how-to-stay-in-the-heart-for-a-truthful-and-blissful-holiday-season/

2) From Wkipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey

3) See the previous blog on The Hero’s Journey, https://synchronicity.org/blog/item/the-hero-s-journey-and-modern-spirituality AND  https://myconsciouslifejournal.com/articles/heros-journey-modern-spirituality/.