correction/error

                    

AArrgghhh! I made a BIG mistake

In my last post I wrote that ida nadi (female energy flow) was like consciousness, and that pingala nadi (male energy flow) is like matter.

No! N0! NO!

spiritual energy flows: consciousness

It's the other way around: pingala is more consciousness on the "mental" level, although in one of the big ashrams it is portrayed as vital/physical energy. And yes, it is that too. Because it relates to the sympathetic nervous system, which is itself very physically dynamic. In the brain, pingala is the left side. 

Somehow we have been lead to believe that we need to learn how to mostly use the right side of the brain, for it is said that the left side is logic and the right side is creative. And of course there is great truth in this. On the left side we are able to be sequential in our habits, do maths, and it is said (so far!) also that the left side of the brain moves slower than the right side. And that's fine too.

One of the big secrets about the left side, is that, in the left temporal lobe, the death, or "passing over" experience, is. This was found out by western scientists and no, I don't know how they did it. The interesting thing is that all the experiences of the volunteers were similar: white light, tunnel. Which lead to the hypothesis that perhaps Near Death Experiences were just a brain experience, and what was said about "passing over" was also just this experience.

our brain and mind store data

Our brains and minds are incredible. They record everything big that impacts us, whether it's deep trauma or intense spirituality. So why not have a place in the brain, and in our minds, where this momentous experience is recorded? When I had an NDE a few years ago, it felt like it went on for ages, but I know that it didn't. Which would tie in with the left side moving slower than the right. And the whole experience was very real,  totally familiar.

the right side of the brain

The right side is related to the parasympathetic nervous system, is female, and is a very creative, imaginative side. I said in the last post that it was consciousness. It is part of our consciousness, for here many creative abilities can be expressed, can flow out of our mind and become manifest, or, happen. So it is both energy (manifestation) and consciousness (part of mind).

Another unusual fact is that people who are left handed, have a very strong sense of how their body feels, this is recorded in the right side. It is also said that artists use the right side of their brain more. Which does not make sense to me, for someone who draws with pencil and does an exact replica of something like a bird, or a face, or an object, would not be using their imagination to do this. Drawing a replica reminds me of photographic memory and I am sure that we use the left side of the brain for this (so speaketh myself, who does have a photographic memory). But, I am always open to correction.

the duality of energy and matter

Creativity is like an energy. And yes, it is a mental energy. In a way, it is also like "matter", which is created from energy. Or, matter being manifestation. And here, many of our thoughts manifest, our thoughts being part of us, but also, they are like matter, and are separate from our awareness. 

our Higher Awareness is in it's own place

Our Higher Awareness sits in the region of the pineal gland, on a physical level, so it's neither left nor right, it is it's own area. And also, each side of the brain, is a "doing" side, each in it's own way. When we "come to" ajna chakra, the third eye, pineal gland, when we are the silent witness at this point, each side of the brain it keeps working, of course it does, but we are not governed by logic/left side, nor by the contents of our mind/creativity/right side, for in these moments we are sitting in wisdom and intuition. At this point, pingala and ida nadis are not predominating, either. Sushumna nadi, the channel for our main spiritual energy, which relates to the central nervous system deep within our spinal cord and also our brain, this is dominant.

the chakras reveal themselves in our own consciousness

In this way, also, the chakra activity can have expression, for the chakras reside in sushumna, and in  areas of our consciousness. Our consciousness content is recorded in the brain, but not only in the brain. Consciousness is vast, just as is manifestation. 

The expression of the chakras starts with stimulation in the form of wee pulses, moves into deep throbs, swirling, etc, which all seem physical. And in a way they are. But they are also chakra activity when they are happening at the chakra points. And the secret powers residing within the chakras: they reveal themselves, in turn, and are able to be expressed as being an integral part of the pysche.