Chakra and Human Behavior

[BlueEarthJacket]

Greetings, All

Many of you have more than likely, in your personal investigations, looked into the issue of the chakra. I was wondering what have you learned from your own direct experiences and how it compares to what one might read from any one of various commentators.

Do you believe that the activation of a chakra can be enough to change a person behavior? Or are chakra simply vital body organs which will not change a person's psychological or physical makeup anymore than a liver or the heart muscle will?

The way the chakra are describing, in addition to the arbitrary methods various commentators describe in order to activate them, it all comes off as a quick and easy life revolutionizing tool. As if a person could simply change their physical and psychological make-up in a few days. Having no personal experience of my own this sounds to me to be an unlikely thing.

So what are these chakra? What does a root chakra, a sacral chakra, a solar plexus, etc. etc. do?

Thank you for your time.

[gdo]

Although some might not quite agree with me, I will state this, if your chakras are not 'activated' you would not be alive.  

With that said, the chakras are the eastern equivilant of the seven metals of alchemy and also the seven creative powers of the elohim represented in the hebrew and christian bible in the story of creation.  They are finer bodies of mankind.   The FULL use or FULL realisation of each of them is not a common occurance.  Each so called chakra has specific functions.  
In some old paintings, Saints or various holy persons are depicted with a halo representing and crown chakra functioning at a level uncommon to most people.

Try 'googling' the term chakra and read up some on the topic.

[BlueEarthJacket]

Although some might not quite agree with me, I will state this, if your chakras are not 'activated' you would not be alive.  

With that said, the chakras are the eastern equivalent of the seven metals of alchemy and also the seven creative powers of the elohim represented in the hebrew and christian bible in the story of creation.  They are finer bodies of mankind.   The FULL use or FULL realization of each of them is not a common occurrence.  Each so called chakra has specific functions.  
In some old paintings, Saints or various holy persons are depicted with a halo representing and crown chakra functioning at a level uncommon to most people.

Try 'googling' the term chakra and read up some on the topic.

Greetings, Gdo.

I have read much on the world wide web. But each commentator has a slightly different version of what each chakra does, where they are located, and even the color of each chakra. For some of these people, my intuition tells me their ideologies are a mere compilation of secondhand information. In either case I cannot hold any form of dialect with these people, and consequently I cannot figure out how they came to believe what they believe. In a forum environment this is a possibility.

I want to know from people who have personal experiences in this field of study what each chakra does.

Thank you for your response.

[gdo]

Then the best way to progress is from your own first hand experience as now you will 'suspect' anyones ideas on the subject.

I can tell you that for me,personally, much of what is available easily on WWW or in  many bookstores is not accurate.  

Much of what is easily available is in fact second or third hand information that was also not only incorrect but could have been subject to the effects of the changes over time and socially accepted standards.  

For one thing the colors of chakras are not colors in the ordinairy sense.  They are the equivilant and harmonic colors of the energies involved, not the colors themselves.    Because we as human entities percieve our selves as individual entities, there will be overlaps between what one person states the attributes of each chakra are as opposed to another individuals direct perception.    In another post in these forums, I mentioned that the chakras are analagous the the 'elohim' of genesis and are in fact the 7 creative angels or 'days of the week.  They are 7 creative aspects of the ONE creator and are only divisible in concept not reality.  

My own experience with 'chakras' does not match up with what I have read in many posts and in many books.   Who is to say which is correct?

I might ask, 'what is your objective'?   What do you really want?  And then , what are you willing to give up to get what you want?  

For many people there is a certain entertainment factor or escape from a current situation that leads some people to dwell on 'new age' or like ideas as a way to temper the drivel and strain of mundane and stressful ordinary life.  That is ok.   All roads lead to Rome, so to speak.  On the other hand some people jump into situations that are no remedy and are even dangerous to them compared to the challenges that they face now.

It might be said that the challenges that some of us face are mundane but they certainly do build character and when we learn to deal with what we have we soon will learn to step up to bigger challenges.

In one of Shakespear plays a character  states' the fault dear Brutus is not in our stars but in ourselves that we are such underlings' .  I think it was Cassius, In Julius Ceasar.   The point being that it is not our 'chakras' that we should be concerned about, but in what we think and do and how we behave and what we do with what we have.  

Once again this is only my opinion and I accept that others will not agree with me.    I might suggest that you  read up some on the 7 metals of alchemy.