#Alberto Villoldo丨The nine chakra systems in Inca shamanism
Alberto Villoldo
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THE CHAKRAS
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People are often surprised that chakras exist in Native American traditions. “I think chakras are Indian,” people often say to me. Chakras are part of the anatomy of the luminous energy field. Just because the kidneys were named by Europeans doesn’t mean the kidneys are unique to Europe. Likewise, chakras are not just Hindu.
Every living thing has chakras. Crickets have them, but so do deer, squirrels, and humans. Even trees have chakras. Animal chakras run along the spine, just like humans. On the other hand, a tree’s chakras are mobile because trees have no spine. You can scan the surface of the tree by hand. When you feel the tingling sensation indicating the chakra’s presence, grab it (about the size of a basketball) with both hands. You can connect with the tree energy by gently pushing its chakras into alignment with one of your own.
In parts of South America, the chakras are called ojos de luz, or eyes of light. My Inka mentor called it pukios, or fountains of light. We receive impressions of the world through our chakras, sensing love in our hearts; sex, fear, and danger in our bellies (second chakra); and insight in our ajna chakra (sixth chakra). In unpleasant situations, our second chakra may spasm and we may feel a knot in our stomach. From the unmistakable experience of feeling emotions through the heart center, we come to use the heart to feel love, or heartache to express sadness.
In Eastern traditions, there is an assumption that the chakras are contained within the human body. To a shaman, however, the chakras extend bright threads, or vaskas, that extend beyond the body and connect us to trees, rivers, and forests. These luminous fibers also extend into the places where we are born and live, into our personal histories and destinies. While Hindu tradition describes seven chakras, the shaman I trained with taught me to perceive two others: the eighth chakra, above the luminous body but within the luminous energy field, known as Vira Cocha, or the divine source; and the ninth chakra, outside the body, one with all creation and dwelling in the infinite spiritual world, known as Kausa, the meaning of the invisible creation—infinity. We will explore the chakra system in more detail in Chapter 6.
Chakras are organs of light energy fields. They are rotating disks with wide mouths that rotate a few inches outside the body, through which they absorb the radiant fuel stored in the luminous bodies to nurture our spiritual, emotional and creative energies. The narrow funnel-shaped tip hooks directly into the spine.脉轮将过去创伤和痛苦的信息传递到神经系统，这些信息包含在光能量场中的印记中。脉轮通知我们的神经生理学，影响我们的情绪，影响我们的情绪和身体健康。脉轮也连接到调节所有人类行为的内分泌腺。
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THE LUMINOUS WORLD The luminous world
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According to the HOPI belief of the southwestern Hopi people, “Man is created in the image of the Creator.” Frank Waters in “The Book of Hopi” believes that “the human life body and the life body of the earth are composed in the same way. Each human body has an axis, and the human axis is the spine, which controls the balance of human movement and function. Along this axis there are several vibration centers, which echo the original sound of life in the universe.” Chakras are mentioned by the Hopi, Incas, Mayans, and many other indigenous cultures around the world.
Our most familiar description of chakras comes from yoga. Yoga schools believe that the chakras are the playground of human desires. Each energy center symbolizes the pleasures and pains that keep us bound by karma. For example, the first chakra symbolizes our attachment to the material world, while the second chakra represents pleasure. Yoga is a path of virtue and purity. In yoga, one must overcome the temptations of the senses in order to discover the transcendent. Yoga is a Sanskrit word meaning “yoking” and has the meaning of “bringing separate things together”. Body and soul are reunited, the secular and the sacred become one. In contrast, American shamans live in a world where the Creator and creation are not separated, heaven and earth are not separated, and spirituality and matter interpenetrate each other. Shamans do not believe in a division between the physical and the spiritual, nor between the visible world and the invisible world of energy. There is nothing to transcend and nothing to tie down. He will not separate himself from desire and enlightenment. Some schools of yoga may say that you are not your body, while shamans say that you are your body and much more than that. He knew that the visible world and the invisible world penetrate and enrich each other. The reason we accept the Eastern version of chakras so readily is because it fits the myth of our exile from the Garden of Eden. We have been conditioned to think of ourselves as separate from nature. The soul may be housed in the body, but it is completely detached from the body. Western philosophers call it mind-body separation. (Many schools of Hinduism, including Tantra and Advita, acknowledge the absence of mind-body separation and our inherent connection with nature.)
These two broad theological orientations have coexisted for thousands of years, but not always peacefully. The first view is that matter and spirit are separate. Although spirit may have created matter, it does not dwell in matter. This school of thought developed celestial religions in which there was a male, independent celestial creator (such as Zeus or Yahweh) who was separate from creation. The second orientation holds that all matter is a manifestation of and infused with spirit. This sect promoted the development of Earth Goddess religions - religions in which the Creator of the Earth is female and her presence permeates all creation (such as Hera, Inana or Pachamama). Shamans come from the second school of thought. The most accomplished masters transcend the limitations of their own beliefs and recognize that both orientations are part of a greater whole.
Chakras represent many of the most fundamental qualities of human beings. Rather than suppressing our instinctive desires and passions, shamans hone them into sophisticated instruments. I believe fear is the seed of compassion. Heal fear and compassion will burst forth. The instinctual self must never be the enemy. Anger, greed, and lust are all hidden resources that can be transformed into love, clarity, wisdom, and courage. All things in nature are holy, and each chakra contains the seeds of our awakening and the seeds of who we become.
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Anatomy Chakras
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No matter where they are born, everyone has exactly the same number of bones. Likewise, we all have the same luminous anatomy, including chakras and acupuncture meridians. Chakras are vortex disks of energy. The word chakra means “wheel” in Sanskrit. They rotate three to four inches outside the body and are connected to our spine and central nervous system. Chakras are direct conduits to the human neural network. They rotate clockwise, in the same direction as the spiral arms of the Milky Way. Each chakra has a unique frequency, which we perceive as one of the seven colors of the rainbow. The chakras of a newborn baby show pure colors, from red in the first chakra to purple in the seventh chakra. As we age, the colors in our chakras become duller. Trauma and loss in our lives can leave a toxic residue. Sludge attached to the chakras prevents them from vibrating at a pure frequency, thereby accelerating the aging of the body. When the shaman completes the healing process, her chakras become clear. They will spin freely and vibrate again at their original pure frequency.
Amazonian shamans believe that when you clear all your chakras, you gain a “rainbow body.” Each chakra center vibrates at its natural frequency and you radiate the seven colors of the rainbow. According to legend, when you gain the rainbow body, you can transcend death and enter the spirit world. You can help others heal and die consciously because you already know the way home. Jungle shamans believe that death is a predator that stalks each of us. They say that many diseases are caused by death factors that breed in our bodies. These shamans believe that death (or as I prefer to think of it, “lifelessness”) will take away our lives little by little, until one day we find ourselves too dead to be dead anymore. I have seen this happen to many people and I believe it is very common in America today. When your chakras are clear, you are no longer haunted by death. You were taken by life so you can never be taken by death again. The Inca nation’s flag was the rainbow, which held a very special place in their mythology. To this day, you can still see rainbows fluttering from the rooftops of Cusco.
Yoga practitioners believe there are seven chakras, and Don Antonio told me that we have nine. Seven of them are inside the body and two are outside the body. He called the eighth chakra wiracocha, a word meaning “divine source.” The eighth chakra is located in the luminous energy field. It hovers overhead like a spinning sun. It is our connection to God, the place where God resides within us. The eighth chakra of civilized people (white people and Indians who have adopted Western beliefs) is a dim sun. “It’s because civilized people were driven out of the garden,” one of their witch doctors told me. Strangely enough, the Spanish word Indios means “one with God.” To Indians who have not embraced Western mythology, the eighth chakra shines like a golden disk. We see this chakra like the light surrounding Christ and like the fire that fell upon the apostles at Pentecost when they received the gift of the Holy Spirit. When we die, the eighth chakra expands into a glowing orb and envelops the other seven chakras in a vessel of light. After a period of atonement and purification, the eighth chakra creates another body, as it has done repeatedly in countless lifetimes. It leads us to our biological parents, to our best life (not the easiest life!), and to the experiences we need to grow spiritually. Traumatic memories from our previous lives are transferred to our bodies in the next life in the form of imprints, imprinted in our luminous energy field.
The source of the eighth chakra is the ninth chakra - the Holy Spirit. The ninth chakra lies beyond the luminous energy field, extending throughout the universe. It is the heart of the universe and is one with the Great Spirit. My mentor believes that the eighth chakra is where God resides within us, and the ninth chakra is the part of us that resides within the Creator.
The eighth chakra corresponds to the Christian concept of the soul, which is personal and finite. The ninth chakra corresponds to the Holy Spirit, which is impersonal and infinite. The soul has always been the focus of religious attention, and religion is concerned with the salvation of the soul. Because the soul is personal, it appears to be autonomous. We assume that we are either one with the soul or separate from it. The ninth chakra is one with all creation and is infinite and eternal in contrast to the finite, individual soul. I will call this center the eighth chakra because the word “soul” means so many different connotations to us, from a piece of music to a piece of food to a much debated element of the self. The eighth chakra manifests in the dimension of time. The Egyptians called it Ka. The Ninth Chakra exists in the eternal present, a timeless, history-free point. It is both immanent and transcendent, never dying and never born. The Egyptians called it Khu.
Chakras metabolize life energy from nature. All our energy comes from five sources:
(1) Animals and plants
(2) water
(3) air
(4) sunshine
(5) Biomagnetic energy (called “qi” in the East and causay by the Incas).
These nutrients range from the most physical foods, such as animals and plants, to the most ephemeral forms of pure light and energy. We absorb plant and animal food and water through the digestive tract, oxygen through the lungs, sunlight through the skin, and causay through the chakras. Luminous energy circulates in the chakras just as material energies like water and food circulate in our bodies. When our digestive tract is blocked, we are unable to absorb the nutrients in our food. Likewise, when our chakras are blocked, we are unable to absorb nutrients from food. causay energy stored in a luminous energy field.
Chakras extend luminous threads beyond the body, connecting us to trees, rivers, forests, and other people. Our chakras are bonded to our body for a very short time. At death, they are removed from the physical body and return to the eighth chakra, and our journey continues in the invisible world.
To be continued
joya joya is the founder of Full Moon Phoenix Society, a cosmic nature witch, Kurak Akuyek (fourth-level Paq’o and wisdom keeper), Misha Carrier, and manifestation coach.
She began studying mysticism in 2012 and has taught mysticism for more than six years. Her systems include pendulum healing, Rune / Runes / Lu’en rune mastery, Rider-Waite and Thoth tarot reading, Lenormand tarot reading, Usui / Holy Fire Reiki teaching, angel healing, angel Reiki teaching, crystal healing, crystal Reiki teaching, Akashic healing, Sub maker subconscious audio production, PGM research, and many other Eastern and Western mystical systems.
She has supported 5000+ cases, specializing in money, abundance, relationships, love, and emotional healing themes, using multiple spiritual healing methods to help clients manifest their wishes.
【Tarot】She studied the modern Golden Dawn Kabbalah tarot system (Rider-Waite / Thoth) with teachers including Lon, and studied Rana-system Lenormand with Rana.
【Reiki】She studied with William, founder of Usui / Holy Fire Reiki, and many international Reiki masters. She has learned nearly one hundred niche Reiki systems, including Shamballa Reiki, Angel Reiki, Crystal Reiki, Money Reiki, Abundance Reiki, Tulip Reiki, and more.
【Shamanism】She studied shamanic healing systems with Alberto Villoldo Ph.D. and Andean traditions. In the Inca tradition, joya is Kurak Akuyek (fourth-level Paq’o and wisdom keeper) and Misha Carrier.
【Witchcraft】She studied many Witch / Wicca courses internationally, and ultimately chose to study modern Witchcraft practice with a senior hereditary American witch with more than 30 years of experience, maintaining regular online exchanges.
【Healing】She has studied many Western body-mind-spirit healing systems, including angel, crystal, Akashic, and pendulum systems.
【Art Aesthetics】She studied KDCA essential oil perfumery, KCCA scented candle, and all-round incense-making courses, and became an instructor. "
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