Astrology and the Rising of Kundalini: The Transformative Power of Saturn, Chiron, and Uranus by Clow Barbara Hand

Author:Clow, Barbara Hand [Clow, Barbara Hand]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Published: 2013-09-01T16:00:00+00:00

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Uranus and Enlightenment

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The Upper Chakras

WITH THE OPENING of the heart and the upper chakras, we encounter consciousness-raising experiences that are more subtle and are deeply rewarding. However, after four hundred years of a left-brain, analytic mode of consciousness in the West, most people are not accustomed to subtle states of awareness. The upper chakras and the heart have a tremendous impact on ordinary reality, but most discussion of their impact on consciousness in Eastern sources, such as Buddhism, has been from a very spiritual and nonordinary viewpoint. To put it simplistically, Westerners have focused on practicality while inhabitants of the East have pursued spiritual awareness above all else. Therefore, the first approach to the upper chakras needs to be practical for primarily Western readers.

Much of what is known about opening the upper chakras, particularly the third eye and crown, comes from the wisdom of the East; it is very esoteric and may seem bizarre to readers who are unfamiliar with this material. But just as it has been a custom to go to church on Sunday for hundreds of years in many places in the West, opening the upper chakras or access points to subtle awareness has been a regular practice in the East. Meanwhile, even though these experiences—such as psychic communication, ecstatic spiritual visions, and channeling—are actually quite universal, they were almost never spoken about in Western cultures until recently. Often someone who had such experiences was a candidate for pickup by the men in white coats.

It is obvious to me that medieval saints and mystics were experiencing classic kundalini rising when they had visions. But this type of comparison between saintly states of consciousness and kundalini rising by Eastern mystics has been made only recently in theological schools such as Creation Spirituality, as developed by Matthew Fox. From my point of view, the ecstatic religious experiences of Shakers in the nineteenth century or speaking in tongues by Christian charismatics are clearly the same as the classic symptoms of kundalini rising.

There is little information in Eastern literature on the more ordinary aspects of the upper chakras, to be discussed in the following sections, except in Zen sources. From my own experience as well as from my research on the newly sighted planet, Chiron, I’ve realized that even the most esoteric and subtle states of human awareness can be easily comprehended with accessible examples drawn from real experiences. Now it is time to expand the definition of the human, because the planet is becoming global. West is meeting East, and the thousands of years of wisdom about the upper chakras hold incredible keys about subtle consciousness for the West. The pursuit of spirituality just in the monastery is over, and the time has come for us all to exist in states of ecstasy and bliss in ordinary reality.

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