The Ancient Indian Yoga Vidya System of Wisdom & Knowledge, notes Seven Chakras or Energy Centers –as found in this lovely “Share” …
Many other authors including Alice Bailey also wrote about Seven Chakras or Energy Centers. She also noted 21 lesser Energy Centers & she even identified 49 smaller Energy Centers!
The Svetasvatara Upanishad, Chapter 3 Verse 18, says:
“The inhabitant of The City of Nine Gates …” signifying the Physical Body & Nine of its Chakras or Energy Centers.
In The Upanishads, Part 2: Katha Upanishad: II, 5, it states: “There is A Town with Eleven Gates …”referring at last to Eleven Energy Centers.
In the late 1970’s Amy Wallace & Bill Henkin wrote about 11 Energy Centers & said: “... All Eleven Energy Centers are connected to an “Energy Channel” which runs behind & parallel with the spine …” (- Extracted from The Psychic Healing Book, by Amy Wallace and Bill Henkin, ©1978, Chapter 1, Page 26)
Later in 1999, the Eleven Energy Center System was also noted by Patriacia Rose Upczak in her book, Reiki, A Way of Life.
Our own Beloved Guruji, Maha Atma Choa Kok Sui, combined the Indian Yogic System of Seven Energy Center - together with additional Energy Centers derived from Chinese Traditional Medicine. His viewpoint also promotes the Theory of 11 Major Chakras or Energy Centers -including the Forehead & the Meng Mein.
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The Seven Chakras of Higher Consciousness
Below we present a condensed overview of each of the seven principal chakras, followed by the seven chakras below the muladhara.
2. Svadishthana: Once the ability to remember has been established, the natural consequence is reason, and from reason evolves the intellect. Reason is the manipulation of memorized information. We categorize it, edit it, rearrange it and store the results. People in this six-petaled chakra research, explore and wonder, "Why? Why? Why?" They propose theories and formulate rational explanations. They often form a rigid intellectual mind based upon opinionated knowledge and accumulated memory, reinforced by habit patterns of the instinctive mind. It is in this chakra that the majority of people live, think, worry and travel on the astral plane. We open naturally into this chakra between ages 8 and 14. This center controls the muladhara, as does each progressively higher chakra control those that lie below it.
4. Anahata: Heart Chakra : The center of perception and insight is often referred to as "the lotus of the heart." Its 12 "petals" imply that cognition can be expressed in twelve distinct ways or through as many masks or personae. People abiding here are generally well-balanced, content and self-contained. Even when in day-to-day life they become involved in the seemingly fractured parts, they are able to look through it all and understand. They have a deep understanding of human nature, which brings effortless tolerance and an innate ability to help others, to resolve conflicts and confusions. Between ages 21 and 28, perceptions deepen and understanding matures for those who enter this chakra. Many people regress back into reason and memory. But, if awareness is mature, having incarnated many times, and well-trained all through youth, the soul proceeds smoothly into anahata consciousness.
6. Ajna: Third Eye Chakra : The sixth force center is called ajna. It is the "third eye," the center of divine sight and direct congition. Of its two "petals" or facets, one is the ability to look into the lower worlds or states of mind and the other is the perception of the higher worlds, or spiritual states, of consciousness. It, therefore, is the connecting link, allowing the awakened soul to relate the highest consciousness to the lowest in a unified vision. We open naturally into this chakra between ages 35 and 42.
7. Sahasrara: The seventh center at the top of the head is called the 'Crown Chakra'. According to the ancient mystics, it governs 1,008 aspects or attributes of the soul body. These personae are transparent, a crystal-clear white light, ever present, shining through the circumference of the golden soul body. Here the soul dissolves even blissful visions of light and is immersed in pure space, pure awareness, pure being. Within the sahasrara is the brahmarandhra, or "Door of God," an aperture in the sushumna nadi through which the kundalini exits the body, catapulting the mind beyond and into nirvikalpa samadhi, and the truly pure spirit escapes the body at death. We open naturally into the crown chakra between ages 42 and 49.