From: tt@wag.caltech.edu (Toshi Takeuchi)
Newsgroups: soc.religion.eastern
Subject: solar plexus energy movement, opening of the crown (esoteric)
Summary: Relationship between solar plexus and root energy systems.
Keywords: meditation,chakra,Kundalini
Date: 15 Oct 92 07:35:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: ogicse.44222
Distribution: world
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

Hi guys, this post is a little hard to follow if you don't do chakra
meditations.  I'll post an article shortly on emotions and energy
that is easier to understand soon.  This will take into account
many of the responses to my post on sexuality.

I'm sorry for the somewhat depressing post on sexuality, but I was being
as honest as I could be.  In fact, I don't like much of what I said...

Anyhow...

Several weeks ago, Lorenzo posted an article in which he meditates
on the solar plexus chakra, the heart and the brow.

He stated that he did not meditate on the crown chakra because
the arc from the brow to the crown needs to be open in order to
move energy to the crown.

--I have done some meditating and discussion on this subject, and 
  now I'll pass on a little of what I learned.

	In order to understand the opening in the crown, you have
	to get some feeling of how energy moves within an open system.
	
	Let's envision a series of steps that energy moves through
	the body:

	1.  Energy enters the SOLAR PLEXUS.
	2.  Energy moves to the back, behind the stomach.
	3.  Energy moves up the back through the HEART.
	4.  Energy moves up the spine through the BROW.
	5.  Energy moves up the front of the BROW to the CROWN.

	It's simple, 
	             Solar plexus to
	                             Heart to
	                                       Brow

	Thus, you have a meditation of solar plexus, then heart then brow.
	
	(apparently a Tibetan meditation)

Now, in addition to the meditation on the chakras, you can
move energy within the solar plexus system when you feel intensity
in the solar plexus, whether it is nervous energy or emotional
energy.

Simply follow the steps 1-5 above.

--The first step of moving the energy to the back may be very difficult.
  Once you do that, then you can move to step two and push it up to the heart
  and through the heart to the front.

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Now, Lorenzo said that he didn't concentrate upon the crown because
the arc from the brow to the crown has to be open.

This is true within the SOLAR PLEXUS system; however, there are
other major energy pathways in the body!!!

The ROOT chakra is directly related to the crown.

You can push ROOT intensity like anger up the back of the spine, and
it will flow up the back to the crown!!

--Thus, the crown can be open within the ROOT system, but not the 
  SOLAR PLEXUS system.

If you can feel tingling in the crown, then don't think you're
OPEN in the crown.

Sure, you might be open within the root system, but each major vortex (chakra)
has relationship to the crown.

--Here's the kicker as far as that brow arc is concerned!

	The root system pushes the crown open from the back and then
	pushes energy down to the front via that brow arc that
	Lorenzo speaks of.

	The solar plexus system pushes the brow arc open from the
	front and up the arc.

	The solar plexus and the root system join together, and you
	begin to have energy flowing happily within the root and
	solar plexus system.

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Why am I writing all of this stuff?

I'm trying to give those of you who do Kundalini, chakra type meditations
to have an idea of how the energy system works within the body.

Chinese, Tibetan forms of mysticism work mainly with the solar
plexus system, as evidenced by Lorenzo's meditation.

Hindu, Tantric paths emphasize root/crown relationships, i.e. the root
system.

They are however interconnected, as I have described in this post...

Happy meditating!!

Toshi
tt@wag.caltech.edu