Sub-Dividing the Chakras

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What I was wondering about for some time is what this "chakra system" really is... Carla refers in her books to it as "energy body". So is it a body? Or is it located in the body?

Hi Ankh,

in the bits of Q'uo that I've skimmed, they seem to suggest that the chakra system is located in time/space.

and this next part is my conjecture, but the energy system seems to be the intersection of the mind, body, and spirit components of self ... the mind being the primary driver of evolution and the state of self. ie, the mind is that which thinks and can change; the body being a feedback tool, and the spirit offering the light and the comprehensive framework in which the mind 'exercises' its process.

and so when you get a 'read' on someone's energy or field, it is not exactly the same as reading their mind, but you are reading the output of the mind and current state of consciousness ... the energy field being exquisitely responsive (and indicative and representive) of the state of mind. (ie think happy thoughts, and your field bounces and opens up; dwell on self-criticism and past mistakes, and one becomes closed and less sharing).

of course, that is not a very technical answer to your technical question, but more how I conceive of it working on an everyday level.

it's actually an area I've gotten much more interested in in the last couple of months ... most of my explorations of the deep mind (read: archetypal) seem to be done to my satisfaction at the moment, and I'm concentrating more on expanding those understandings of mind into the energetic space, so chakras are most definitely on my target list!

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also, when talking about the 'body' and the 'body complex', Ra also mentions that the yellow ray 'physical body' we know and love is not the body complex proper ... there is actually a more finely articulated 'body complex' (the true body complex?) behind the yellow ray body (but not referring to the indigo body I don't think). I assume that 'true body complex' is located in time/space (time/space intersecting effortlessly with space/time of course, so the two bodies don't get out of sync), and the chakra system might dwell there.

it is easy to 'conceive' of the body complex that way; it is 'localised' and is a 'thing'. It is harder to think of what the mind complex 'looks like' or how it 'exists'; and the spirit complex is only described as a 'shuttle'.