Gnosis in a Hundred PagesPage 70 of 100 · Part V

Part V · The one who lives in you

The chakras

Along the spine there are seven centers, the chakras. The kept energy wakes them as it rises, and the heart is the door between the lower and the higher.

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Seven centers along the spine, from the base to the crown.

The chakras are centers of energy in the subtler bodies, set along the spine like wheels. The word means wheel. There are seven main ones.

At the base of the spine is the root. Below the navel is the center of the creative energy. At the navel is the solar plexus, the center of feeling. In the middle of the chest is the heart. Then come the throat, the point between the eyebrows, and the crown of the head.

In most people they turn slowly, if at all. The tradition teaches that they wake as the creative fire rises along the spine, one by one, as the heart allows. With them come finer kinds of perception: intuition, true listening, inner sight.

A person sitting upright, with faint warm points of light along the spine.

The heart matters most. It sits between the lower centers and the higher ones, and the books say no higher center truly opens without it.

You have already practiced with the chakras. The five vowels of page 39 each vibrate one of them. The O, for example, vibrates the heart.

Gene’s free course Awakening the Chakras, in My Courses, gives each center its own lesson.

Try this

  1. Sit upright and breathe slowly for a minute.
  2. Breathe in deeply through the nose.
  3. Breathing out, sound a long, low O, and feel it in the middle of your chest.
  4. Repeat it three times. Then sit still and feel the heart for a minute.

Words on this page

Chakra
A center of energy in the subtler bodies; the word means wheel.

In the old words

“the heart chakra is an essential gateway for unlocking both the lower and higher chakras”

How to Awaken the ChakrasGene Hart
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