Minimal Balance

[Plenum]

On the level of awareness and skill, how can you sense when you're in the ballpark or just wandering around the nearby streets? What are the indicators that you're actually doing the work and not just fooling yourself or merely talking about it? When are you doing the deeper work and when are doing the preliminary work?

so I mean, how fantastical is this system? well, through application and experimentation on myself, I have found that it has produced excellent results.

Hey there, plenum.

I'd be interested in hearing more about the results and how they were attained.

now to address your query of beingness/doingness, the energy centers, being exteriorisations of mind (or the physically manifested motions of intelligent energy) are subject to belief patterns/understandings. This is the primary way in which they become clear/blocked - through well placed understandings/belief patterns. The beingness/doingness that you refer to I would understand as an expression or activity of the chakra; and like you say, it is secondary and follows from the state of clarity or blockage of that energy centre.

Bringing this back to your original concern, that is, balancing the chakras so that one can begin doing the deeper work, how does your system relate to the deeper self? How does one use it to become more "consciously crystallized?"

Hi peregrine.

thanks again for your thoughtful questions, and the opportunity to express myself in a deep way.

I think the thrust of your queries, if I am reading it correctly, speak to asking about how we can gauge if we are making sincere progress; and progress that is aimed towards our deepest, most sincere wishes for this incarnation.

such a query would evoke different responses in a group of people, as we all have our individual plan.

speaking for myself, I can only say that an increasing level of peace of mind over the last say 15 years is the best benchmark for long term progress. Of course, there have been upswings and downswings over that period (some wild fluctuations indeed!), but overall, there has been a greater level of consciously realized understandings over that period.

now of course, there were vast spans of time over that 15 years where I was seeking, although not necessarily in the directed, controlled fashion that I am today. For most of those years, I had no sense of the energy centres, and actually actively shied away from energy work; my focus was on the mind and trying to understand its operations and mechanisms (with me as the prime test rat).

through various explorations of psychology, astrology, some channelings (before I ran into the gold mine of Ra that is), and just a broad general education, I came to appreciate the vast stretches of human consciousness and experience; the range and spectrum of experience that is.

this in itself was not energy work or chakra work; but as Ra relates to us in this short passage:

"Each experience will be sequentially understood by the growing and seeking mind/body/spirit complex in terms of survival, then in terms of personal identity, then in terms of social relations, then in terms of universal love, then in terms of how the experience may beget free communication, then in terms of how the experience may be linked to universal energies, and finally in terms of the sacramental nature of each experience."

it is through the use and appreciation and understanding of experience by which the energies in the so called energy centres become regulated, and after a period of concentrated effort, crystallized and brought under conscious control.

Look at the case of Albert Schweitzer; arch lover of the music of Bach, humanitarian, and an all round good guy. He was a Wanderer, and from what I know of his life, he was not tremendously affected by metaphysical studies, but rather pursued what was right and deepest in his heart, and in the end, led a life of great service across many fronts. His energy centres (without him likely being aware of his energetic state) is astonishingly, almost admiringly described in this following passage:

"The one known as Albert, who went into a strange and, to it, a barbaric society in order that it might heal. This entity was able to mobilize great amounts of energy and what you call money. This entity spent much green-ray energy both as a healer and as a lover of your instrument known as the organ. This entity’s yellow ray was bright and crystallized by the efforts needed to procure the funds to promulgate its efforts. However, the green and blue rays were of a toweringly brilliant nature as well."

so one can most definitely become clear and crystallized without conscious knowledge and sensation of the chakra system. For the bulk of humanity, let us say over 90%, these aspects of the subtle body do not even enter remotely into conscious awareness.

you can also see in the above description of Schweitzer that his life was full of activity and interaction; and it was through this means that the energy centres were exercised, freed, and liberated. So in his case at least,I am sure he was a thoughtful, philosophical individual, but it was through a busy interacting life that he was able to serve, and bring service into being on a concrete level. (real world activity).

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to speak to myself, I have a more contemplative, monkish nature; and although I do not shy aware from interaction, I find that there are only a few with whom I can communicate on the deepest level; one in which I can express the depth of my understandings and experience. So for me, interactions can be amusing, loving, enjoyable, funny, rich, delightful, and most appreciative on both sides, and yet the opportunities for a soulful expression of self in the most complete way are rare experiences. There has to be a confluence of individuals and timing for this to take place.

but back to progress and the chakras, and why I took an interest in them this past year.

as I've said (and in previous posts, perhaps before your time here on the forums), my primary drive has always been to understand the mind; as I believe this is fundamental plane of change. One of the reasons why the Ra Material hooked me so deeply when it did (over 7 years ago now) was Ra's description of the archetypal mind as mapped on the tarot (major arcana) which was a revelation and a trigger for me to truly start exploring the unconscious (before that, I had been working almost entirely with the conscious mind; its expressed manifested forms).

This exploration of the unconscious via the tarot lasted many many years, and has been one of the highlight periods of my life. If I ever did a 'best moments in the life of plenum' type video montage, my experiences and explorations of the archetypes would feature as one of the top five influential bodies of work on my development. They are an astonishing contribution indeed.

anyway, this journey lasted many years (21 cards burnt deep into the conscious mind), but at an early point in 2013 I felt that I had mapped out a fairly good deal of the unconscious, and it was time to move on.

the energy bodies called to me. And the energy centres in particular.

I found that various hints in Ra, and also a few earlier private conversations with individuals led me to exploring the 7x7 chakra system; or as outlined above, dividing each energy centre into 7 sublevels, and working more focussed in that way.

the understandings of the mind could be mapped directly into these 49 domains; and as xise has also described, the feedback of changing a belief pattern (or experimenting with a thought structure in a deliberate way) can yield sensory feedback, or at the very least, increased or decreased tension in consciousness. One can then start experimenting in a systematic fashion with these 49 sublevels.

over the last 6 months, I seem to have been to crystallize these understandings as a connection between the mind and the body (via the energy centres). It is a very concrete and explicit structure, and one that I believe is suitably structured to balance my own particular viewpoint (that viewpoint being a legacy of biases from previous existences, and formative influences in this lifetime). So while I believe that this structure of 49 understandings is operational in all beings, the exact form that it takes, and the balanced understandings for any particular individual will vary over time depending on experience, emphasis, level of holisticness, and so on.

of course, these understandings would exist in mind (consciousness) regardless of any mapping onto the physical energy centres. But given my own systematic nature, and being so drawn to the 3x7 archetypal structure as outlined by Ra, it was easy for me to progress into a 7x7 mapping of the energy centres.

the benefits?

well, I have not been energy sensitive for the majority of this life (one could call me an energy dullard if you wanted to lol), but through this system of mine I have a mental way of interacting with energy now. It has helped me tremendously in one of my core tasks in coming to this planet - that is, to do healing work on the earth grids. I was already engaging in this activity for years prior, via concentrated meditations, but working with energy and crystals more directly has been a tremendous boon in this activity.

peace of mind and regularization of consciousness is also vastly improved; although there are always the judders and stutters when one is confronted with a new learning experience. But mapping out the lower three chakras has been very helpful in identifying rigid dysfunctional belief patterns that I have held for much of my life. Many of these have been addressed, understood, and cleared; although the work is ever ongoing.

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in short, to address the thrust of your query, I believe that when one is doing what one intended to do when one came here, then fulfillment ensues. This is a fulfillment that can't really be faked or self-lied to; it is an ease with life and existence, when one is on the path that one has intended. That is not to say it is not bumpy and rough as times, but much like the Ra channeling group that convened to do their life work, any inconveniences of the life work are none compared to the joy of sharing and fulfillment.

what was Ra trying to hint at here in this passage?

"Ra: I am Ra. Consider, if you will, the path your life-experience complex has taken. Consider the coincidences and odd circumstances by which one thing flowed to the next. Consider this well.

Each entity will receive the opportunity that each needs."

if we avail ourself of the proferred opportunities, as they present themselves moment upon infinitesimal moment, we can align ourselves with the deepest seeking, and find what we need.

so for me, the notions of minimal balance, the fullness and completeness of the plenum, a systematic study of consciousness and creation, these are the things which fulfill me the most.

and the change in lived experience (ie peace of mind) is the greatest fruit of this directed seeking. At least, for myself, that is gold beyond treasure, a kingdom that is not of this world.