12-20-2015, 01:54 PM
anyway, that's getting a bit away from the OP, but thanks for your answers. I do admit, I find the original Ra quote you used in the OP to be utterly fascinating - and it continues to be such, despite seeing it again.
My own view is that the energy centers correspond to bandings of mental activity; starting from red - which has thoughts about the physical, and ascending upwards to violet/crown, which deals with the universal, cosmic, and divine (ie spiritual, which supercedes any individual consciousness).
The archetypes (whether that be major arcana, Tree of Life, or astrology) represent great islands of concepts - which are then connected in some order. This combination of the concepts and their relationships then gives a very strong mapping to major structures that are possible in consciousness (one of the roots of mind). But whereas the energy centres form a linear structure, the archetypes account for a greater level of detail, and so it can't be a straight 1-to-1 mapping.
That said, the energy centres encompass ALL of 3d thought, and so the archetypes are only ever a subset.
My own view is that the energy centers correspond to bandings of mental activity; starting from red - which has thoughts about the physical, and ascending upwards to violet/crown, which deals with the universal, cosmic, and divine (ie spiritual, which supercedes any individual consciousness).
The archetypes (whether that be major arcana, Tree of Life, or astrology) represent great islands of concepts - which are then connected in some order. This combination of the concepts and their relationships then gives a very strong mapping to major structures that are possible in consciousness (one of the roots of mind). But whereas the energy centres form a linear structure, the archetypes account for a greater level of detail, and so it can't be a straight 1-to-1 mapping.
That said, the energy centres encompass ALL of 3d thought, and so the archetypes are only ever a subset.