Out of the Blue

[nirgal]

The Anahatha
Heart Chakra, is located at the heart. Its name means unstuck, fresh, clean unhurt.

It is associated, in the body with the heart, hands, arms and thymus gland, with the element air and the colors green, pink, and rose.

Human Challenge and Gift - to open our hearts to the nonjudgmental, detached vibration of universal love.

Soul Desire - to experience unity, devotion, reverence for life, unattached bonding.

Primal Relationship - with higher spiritual power, our own heart and the hearts of others, the pulse that unites us with the universe.

[Moominpappa]

Once went to a talk on the Anahatha Way in the City Assembly Rooms,thinking not only was this something in Indian Philosophy that I wanted to hear about, but they'd also made it into a play on words to entice in the Western audience.

I expected wit but got stony faced seriousness - the relevant Swami and his entourage either didn't get the joke or had got bored with it by the time they'd reached their 40th city in the 10th European country.

Yet another theology\philosophy that tried to persuad me that thinking couldn't be fun, so I lumped it in with religion, (for surely god has a sense of humour - just look around you!), popped them in the other cupboard, (not the one that leads through into Narnia), and just got on with life. Where did I go wrong.

Apologies Nirgal - you lift our gaze up to the stars and I drag us back down into the gutter. As MMM says - I must start taking life more seriously.

[nirgal]

Oh no my friend... I don't take religion, dogma, or teachings as any more than ways to speak about the un speakable..... I'm disillusioned with those that take themselves so seriously that they miss what it is they are saying. They have the words but not the meaning behind them :)
A million signs in a million languages all pointing to the same thing that has no name. Just trying to find universal truths that underlie it all. Some symbols pop up over and over, variations in different cultures and times but recognizable........ the dreamtime images

I like to see the Dalai Lama giggle.....

[crummyrummy]

maybe you should tickle him then.

[nirgal]

Where is that llama anyway, nurse!

[Moominpappa]

And to think for years I thought the Dalai Lama was a Peruvian newspaper.........but I'm sure I've seen him giggle - probably theres a whole yak herd of jokes along the Tibetan lines of.. "as the actress said to the bishop"


And then you could understand why he giggles. If you're an inherent part of a cheap laugh, a simple phrase that can turn almost any sentence into a double entendre, then you'd be thinking about it all the time - as the yurt maiden said to the dalai lama.

[HoneySuckleBlue]

Look what the cat drug in...



It is my belief that the dawning Age of Aquarius heralds a socio-cultural age corresponding to the heart chakra. This era marks the importance of balancing the polarities of human existence within the dominating paradigm of the collective conscious.

But first let us look briefly at the pattern of cultural evolution through the chakras that has occurred thus far:

The period of the Paleolithic cave dwellers relates to the consciousness level of chakra one. Here we were bound without recourse by the cycles of the earth. Tribes roamed across the earth, lived in caves made of earth. We hunted and gathered, taking what the earth freely offered. Worship was of a monotheistic mother goddess, who symbolized the miracle of birth and the fecundity of earth. The beginning of this age is hard to fathom -- perhaps it had no true beginning, but is grounded in the survival instincts of the animal kingdom from which we have all emerged.

The dawn of the age of chakra two, (element water, oriented to sexuality and procreation) coinciding with the astrological age of Cancer (a cardinal water sign) was marked by the agricultural revolution and the beginning of ship building and ...travel by water, circa 10-8,000 BCE. Control of water through irrigation allowed communities to settle in one place rather than nomadically migrate across the land, and this new found freedom created a giant leap in cultural creativity. There were cities with thousands of citizens; great temples were built, with a proliferation of art and ritual, and written language toward the end of this period. Archeaologists believe it to have been a period of relative peace and prosperity. Worship was of a polytheistic variety of nature gods, male and female, oriented toward the agricultural cycles (planting and reaping) and the life/death/rebirth cycle of human lives.

The age of the third chakra (element fire, oriented to power and energy) coincides with the astrological age of Aries (a cardinal fire sign), about 1500 BCE. At this time patriarchal forces controlled culture through warlike aggression and hierarchical domination, and with but few exceptions overthrew the peaceful agrarian communities that preceded them. With fire, we could forge metals, make tools, and make weapons. The male Sky Gods replaced the earth and vegetation deities, with the worship turning toward the sun, the storm (lightning), and war gods. The collective struggle of existence was oriented toward power and technology. Technology freed us up from survival demands one step further, allowing populations to continue to grow, with greater diversification of labor as well as class status. Patterns of domination and persecution created the need for both personal and collective power which played out in individuals, villages, cities, and countries. These patterns have persisted through the present day, with huge nation states, ever increasing technology, and simultaneous increase in "sophisticated" weaponry, such as nuclear warheads.

We have been in the latter parts of the third chakra stage through this century. Issues of power and domination, energy and control are central concerns on our planet. We are technologically advanced, but our technology is also destroying the earth. Energy resources are a premium issue in power dynamics, such as the Persian Gulf War fought essentially over oil reserves. Much is out of balance, with the mind favored over the body, technology favored over ecology, white over black, male over female.

The age of the heart chakra is an age where these archetypal elements come into balance. Here the warring agressive drives begin to wane and peace and ecological balance become the predominant concerns. Balance between the sexes, between races, and within the Self through our conscious and unconscious, active and passive, spiritual and material aspects of our existence, are also elements of the heart chakra's general orientation toward equilibrium. Increased focus on spirituality, with a simultaneous honoring of the body and the earth, is an example of this interpenetrating balance that is emerging today through New Age movements, therapeutic trends in psychology, and popular literature. As the heart chakra corresponds to the element air, so too does the sign of Aquarius, which is also dawning at this time, both in 97 (Jan 23 is the cusp of Aquarius) and as a larger era.


It's long...I just thought it was really interesting

[nirgal]

It's happening, everything is as it should be.

[HoneySuckleBlue]

...and yet I wonder.

[nirgal]

.... and what do you wonder? :)

[HoneySuckleBlue]

...am I at the right place at the right time??

[nirgal]

Me too... but where else can we be? so, I guess the answer is yes. But nothing stands still.

[HoneySuckleBlue]

The US has'nt had a battle on it's own soil in a looong time...just seems like it may be due.

Being so close to D.C. would make us ground zero justa bout...

[nirgal]

Yeah, we are. I'm 6 miles fron CIA headquarters and Dulles, 3m from the spy satelite control place, 21 from the Capital, Then there is weather mountain to the west and all sorts of secret things around....... If it's nuclear I'll be vaporized, but it's been that way since I was born.... It felt like it was happening on sept 11, fighterplanes overhead, reports of planes heading inbound.... the pentagon was hit..... we went west.....
Next time may be worse........ What can we do?

"Wooden ships on the water........"