(01-28-2012, 06:31 PM)zenmaster Wrote: The higher chakras can be easily activated, but effectively blocked to a large extent without lower balancing work, providing a 'taste' of love or of the 'paranormal'. Lacking an explanation seated in one's mind through experience, the intuition starts creating the most convenient and readily accessible associations (typically, whatever the 'new-age' meme provides) and attachments with these disowned energies - as if they were separate by virtue of being spiritually numinous. This is how it is, and how it must be experienced and expressed when one lacks acceptance.
If the lower (centers) is adequately addressed, the mind is much more adequately prepared for these experiences, which should seem quite natural and obvious - as opposed to being ambiguous, random, and/or a 'sign'. This conscious work can be considered something like 'uniting heaven and earth'. However, there are so few people here that bother to do that work, that we (as a social complex) lack a (experiential) bridge from lower to higher. There should be more individuals who, just by being themselves, may serve as examples of this bridge.
Without the grounding of the lower chakras and use of the throat and 3rd eye chakras, humans appear to be very unstable emotionally to the point of melodramatic, with "emotional" responses not balanced with logic or discernment. Couple with this the evolutionary fact that we are hard-wired to conserve energy, which make us "lazy." From these 2 aspects, arises a situation where humans simply react from their place of belief (such as new age or Christain).
In my opinion, humans need to evolve past our primal hard-wiring: to conserve energy or (die, starve, be unable to run from predator, etc.). By learning to "not react" one overrides the hard-wiring and begins to build a body/mind/spirit based on choice, and not based on simple survival.
The first thing the self can do, is think independently. Question everything.