After reading this post I wish there was a Nobel available for threads... I wonder if anyone's won the Pulitzer for a post?
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QUOTE(bym @ Oct 19 2007, 04:03 PM)
The solar plexus is the processing center for energy, the other chakras are able to 'pull' energy from the solar plexus. There are many lesser chakras in the human system and they all will draw or exude energy to some degree. There has been many discussions (on this Forum) about the peculiarities of 'missing' chakras in a 'vampire' for instance, to be later discovered that this is/was untrue.
My favorite theory on chakras is that they're a series of energy transformers, stepping down power from one level to another. Seeing as the solar plexus is close to both the respiratory & digestive systems, both sources of physical energy, it's not too much of stretch to think of it as being
the main energy system for the physical body. If the heart chakra were blocked, the solar plexus chakra might switch over to the closest thing to it: someone else's heart chakra, which may explain energy vampirism.
QUOTE(Vagrant Dreamer @ Oct 19 2007, 08:36 PM)
Far be it for me to criticize the ancient illumined who first recorded their observations of the chakras and the energy bodies - but they either didn't write everything down, or it has been paraphrased so many times over the ages that the subtleties and specifics have been misplaced.
Throughout history the different maps of the chakras don't match up, which leads me to think chakras are just a map and not the territory. If our thoughts can form just about anything, why not the chakra system? In
The Holographic Universe, there was an account of a woman in Japan who was able to see her heart chakra, but was confused by what appeared to be an upside-down sailboat in it the middle, she found out later that it was the Sanskrit
Anāhata symbol.