09-27-2011, 01:40 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-27-2011, 01:53 PM by JustLikeYou.)
Sure. The information that I see in the cards is not as precise as Ra's descriptions of balancing the energy centers, but it's nevertheless there.
For the sake of simplicity, I'm just going to talk about the STO perspective.
In Archetypes 3 and 4, the unconscious mind is revealed to the conscious mind, offering an opportunity to accept and love the unconscious mind. Here we can find information about the first three energy centers. Because all things can be found within the mind, it is evident that imbalances in the red ray center, for example, will show themselves to you in two ways: over-concern for your survival simultaneous with disregard for your survival. Consider a person who is always afraid of being attacked. This person will have locks all over his house, demonstrating over-concern for survival. Yet, this person is also likely to have a hair-trigger in response to threats, demonstrating a disregard for survival. When this person is capable of seeing the presence of both of these within himself, and accept and love these things, the red ray will be come more balanced. Such is the case for all chakras red through yellow.
Everything changes with green ray, though (as we know). Here, the balance happens differently: you must commit yourself either to unconditional love or to unconditional control. While the Choice which begins the act of balancing happens in the 22nd Archetype, the elaboration of this choice reveals itself to me in Archetypes 9, 10 and 11. The real test of love is your experiences in the real world, not what you find in meditation. If you find that you acted unwisely and that your actions came from an imbalance within yourself, this imbalance will fling itself back at you on the wheel as catalyst. In order to process this catalyst, you must approach that which you no longer want in your experience (the angry lion) with the water vessel balanced upon your head. This is the light touch, the gentle handling of your experience within which lies great power. This act of processing can reflect upon all of the energy centers as a means of balancing them, but it is most prominent in the green and blue rays. If you consistently act out of love, the world will respond with love. However, if you give a measure of love which is not balanced with wisdom, love which is more than was necessary to be helpful, you attract vultures. Love without wisdom can be seen as the act of holding the water upright upon your head. This water holds the unmanifest desires that you so wish to see occur in the world, but you must move slowly so you do not spill the water. Recall in Archetype 14 that the water must be poured from the silver vessel into the gold vessel without spillage. This Archetype shows how the spilling happens: you are overzealous or overcautious. Learn to channel your divine self with comfort, honesty, love and wisdom and you will be able to walk right up to the lion and gently close its mouth.
The indigo ray is, to me, the domain of the spirit. The balancing of this ray can be seen in Archetypes 17 and 18. When you find yourself faced with a catastrophe which releases all the emotions and attachments you had locked up inside (as your pour out all the water), you have the opportunity to see either hope or fear in the situation. To choose fear is to deny your divinity, to believe that you are not worthy to walk in the light. To choose love and hope is to release the light within in confidence of your divine worthiness as you navigate even the darkest situations with the optimism of a Christ, a Krishna, a Buddha. Do this consistently and the way will open for you to experience Archetype 20: the transformation of the world around you into a sacred space. This card shows me the opening of the crown chakra, the sacramental nature of all experience.
While I may have perhaps described these correlations as cut and dry, I should emphasize that I see aspects of each of the different chakras in each of the different Archetypes. It is worth mentioning that I have divided the domain of the Archetypes into three different body-groups. The Mind Cycle is the domain of the Green Ray and Blue Ray bodies; the Body Cycle is the domain of the Red Ray, Orange Ray, and Yellow Ray bodies; the Spirit Cycle is the domain of the Indigo and Violet Ray bodies. Each body has within itself all seven chakras, so each has information about balancing any given chakra. However, some chakras are more prominent than others in the experiences relating to any given Cycle.
Just saw your first question, βαθμιαίος. I think that Ra was being careful with Don's words because Don was imagining that the Archetypes themselves are generated in the experience. Statements such as "the Transformation produces the Great Way" do not appreciate that the Transformation and the Great Way are both part of the Archetypical Mind and therefore are not produced. Your experience of Transformation can lead to an experience of the Great Way, but that does not involve the Archetypes as things in their own right. Rather, it involves your perception of them.
Conversely, my descriptions of the classifications within Archetypical Mind are designed to appreciate this distinction. So when I say that the Matrix, Potentiator, Catalyst and Experience are the mechanism by which the Significator first separates itself from itself and then comes to know itself, I do not mean that these kinds of experience in my life literally are the Archetypes or that any kind of experience affects those archetypes. Rather, what I am trying to say is that these are the relationships the Archetypes have to each other and attention to my own experience has reinforced these notions. What I think Ra wanted to emphasize is that the Archetypes do not arise out of your experience; rather, your experience arises out of the Archetypes. As always, the principle As Above, So Below is at work, so it is relevant to examine your experience as it personifies and portrays to you the Archetypes in their operations; yet, it is critical to remember that your incarnational experience is the Below and Archetypical Mind is the Above.
For the sake of simplicity, I'm just going to talk about the STO perspective.
In Archetypes 3 and 4, the unconscious mind is revealed to the conscious mind, offering an opportunity to accept and love the unconscious mind. Here we can find information about the first three energy centers. Because all things can be found within the mind, it is evident that imbalances in the red ray center, for example, will show themselves to you in two ways: over-concern for your survival simultaneous with disregard for your survival. Consider a person who is always afraid of being attacked. This person will have locks all over his house, demonstrating over-concern for survival. Yet, this person is also likely to have a hair-trigger in response to threats, demonstrating a disregard for survival. When this person is capable of seeing the presence of both of these within himself, and accept and love these things, the red ray will be come more balanced. Such is the case for all chakras red through yellow.
Everything changes with green ray, though (as we know). Here, the balance happens differently: you must commit yourself either to unconditional love or to unconditional control. While the Choice which begins the act of balancing happens in the 22nd Archetype, the elaboration of this choice reveals itself to me in Archetypes 9, 10 and 11. The real test of love is your experiences in the real world, not what you find in meditation. If you find that you acted unwisely and that your actions came from an imbalance within yourself, this imbalance will fling itself back at you on the wheel as catalyst. In order to process this catalyst, you must approach that which you no longer want in your experience (the angry lion) with the water vessel balanced upon your head. This is the light touch, the gentle handling of your experience within which lies great power. This act of processing can reflect upon all of the energy centers as a means of balancing them, but it is most prominent in the green and blue rays. If you consistently act out of love, the world will respond with love. However, if you give a measure of love which is not balanced with wisdom, love which is more than was necessary to be helpful, you attract vultures. Love without wisdom can be seen as the act of holding the water upright upon your head. This water holds the unmanifest desires that you so wish to see occur in the world, but you must move slowly so you do not spill the water. Recall in Archetype 14 that the water must be poured from the silver vessel into the gold vessel without spillage. This Archetype shows how the spilling happens: you are overzealous or overcautious. Learn to channel your divine self with comfort, honesty, love and wisdom and you will be able to walk right up to the lion and gently close its mouth.
The indigo ray is, to me, the domain of the spirit. The balancing of this ray can be seen in Archetypes 17 and 18. When you find yourself faced with a catastrophe which releases all the emotions and attachments you had locked up inside (as your pour out all the water), you have the opportunity to see either hope or fear in the situation. To choose fear is to deny your divinity, to believe that you are not worthy to walk in the light. To choose love and hope is to release the light within in confidence of your divine worthiness as you navigate even the darkest situations with the optimism of a Christ, a Krishna, a Buddha. Do this consistently and the way will open for you to experience Archetype 20: the transformation of the world around you into a sacred space. This card shows me the opening of the crown chakra, the sacramental nature of all experience.
While I may have perhaps described these correlations as cut and dry, I should emphasize that I see aspects of each of the different chakras in each of the different Archetypes. It is worth mentioning that I have divided the domain of the Archetypes into three different body-groups. The Mind Cycle is the domain of the Green Ray and Blue Ray bodies; the Body Cycle is the domain of the Red Ray, Orange Ray, and Yellow Ray bodies; the Spirit Cycle is the domain of the Indigo and Violet Ray bodies. Each body has within itself all seven chakras, so each has information about balancing any given chakra. However, some chakras are more prominent than others in the experiences relating to any given Cycle.
Just saw your first question, βαθμιαίος. I think that Ra was being careful with Don's words because Don was imagining that the Archetypes themselves are generated in the experience. Statements such as "the Transformation produces the Great Way" do not appreciate that the Transformation and the Great Way are both part of the Archetypical Mind and therefore are not produced. Your experience of Transformation can lead to an experience of the Great Way, but that does not involve the Archetypes as things in their own right. Rather, it involves your perception of them.
Conversely, my descriptions of the classifications within Archetypical Mind are designed to appreciate this distinction. So when I say that the Matrix, Potentiator, Catalyst and Experience are the mechanism by which the Significator first separates itself from itself and then comes to know itself, I do not mean that these kinds of experience in my life literally are the Archetypes or that any kind of experience affects those archetypes. Rather, what I am trying to say is that these are the relationships the Archetypes have to each other and attention to my own experience has reinforced these notions. What I think Ra wanted to emphasize is that the Archetypes do not arise out of your experience; rather, your experience arises out of the Archetypes. As always, the principle As Above, So Below is at work, so it is relevant to examine your experience as it personifies and portrays to you the Archetypes in their operations; yet, it is critical to remember that your incarnational experience is the Below and Archetypical Mind is the Above.
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