Chapter 11 Opening the self to knowledge within

 

I am so grateful to find this session again. After thirty-five years, I’m so much more ready to receive and implement this practice! And so timely! I’ve been working on changing my posture, especially the anterior title of my pelvis, which I wrote about in the last chapter. This practice of clearing the first charka has revealed to me ancestral traumas which I thought I had cleared. But when I focused there, I could feel the block, just as the River described. Over a period of a week, I intentionally cleared that block by repeating to my self “Those traumas from the past are no longer going to live in my body. Those conditions will never return to me again.”

Strangely now when I focus on my root charka, I sense the ancient goddess, Sheela-na-gig. Who is a strange and misunderstood archetype, often thought of as vulgar and pornographic. But in truth, She represents how we give birth to the world through our root chakra, which for women and men is located in the perineum. I have seen Her before in visions, She resonates back to my Irish roots. She is often shown as having no hair, and protruding ribs as if she is either old or starving. And usually with a huge mischievous grin on her face. My interpretation is She represents the universe which is very old and wise. A fascinating archetype, more discussion for another time.

Sheela-na-gig from Corbel Kilpeck church-downloaded from https://lynseyg.com/sheela-na-gig/

 

After reading this session, I suggest you supplement following practice with these ideas to further clear your body from trauma and unintegrated experiences. These blocks in the chakras, and other areas of the body, can be ancestral, from past lives, and from biographical experiences in this lifetime. These are the blocks that frequently become evident during plant medicine sessions.

The River, like many ascended masters, describe time as being, in truth, simultaneous and happening all at once. Therefore, the structure of time/space can be visualized more like the inside of a bowl or the sky above us-rather than a linear line that reaches from past to present and then to future. Looking or experiencing an event is one star in this bowl-like structure, lighting up all the other stars in the sky.

Its obviously very difficult for us embodied humans to image time/space in this way, but even a rough inner conceptualization is helpful. So, all so-called past events or lives, are happening simultaneously NOW. Although this is an esoteric understanding of embodied life, we can take from this idea that by clearing events in our bodies now, we also in some way, resolve traumas from the past. Those people who we were, who are simultaneously us, and who we will be in the future, all benefit from this clearing work. If not the entire Great Net of the universe. Gulp!

For example, the monk I know I was in Medieval times, is aided by my present day understanding of healing. He was primarily a herbalist so when I connect with him, and I often do especially when I’m in my garden, then I also connect with his  extensive knowledge of plants and gardening. Also, his profound love for the plant world is then shared by both of us in a way that seems impossible to many. But connection is always sharing, not just a one way giving and taking. In return, I imagine he wouldn’t have the language to hold these ideas, but he understands intuitively how trauma is held in the body and mind, and through his prayers and rituals, has his own way of clearing the blocks he senses in people. For his times, these understandings are most appropriate, just as my knowledge is appropriate in my time and place.

When I was transcribing this material, I received the message that although when this was channeled in 1989, three to six months were needed to clear chakras, now, because we have raised our vibrations and deepened our understanding of healing, we can clear the chakras in much less time-one to two weeks per charka, or for the Master Class, a month, from new moon to new moon per charka. To anchor this practice with some concrete conceptualizations and rituals, we can set up a shrine for this endeavor, finding a candle and power objects for each chakar as we move from bottom to top. The River suggests an alternative method of moving through the chakras,  which I’ve tried, with success. But I agree with them that simply starting with the root chakra and going upwards is more elegant and accessible.

To start with the root chakra, we can find objects that represent the negative and positive aspects of this chakra. To represent the negative or unintegrated aspects of this nodule of our being we would find images, objects and other things that we associate with the trauma response of threatened survival, fears of death, violence and pain, of annihilation and obliteration. Also, we want to put positive images in our chakra shrine of being fully alive and fearless in our decisions. For example, I like black obsidian to represent the root charka. This represents the dark earth where seeds germinate and slowly grow until they are ready to push up into the sunlight.

To further anchor our attention, find a coloured candle to represent the root chakra which, contrary to the Yogic representation of the chakras, is not red, and should not be red as that is too inflammatory a colour and will lead to upsetting emotional intensities that are not healthy, especially in these times which are steeped in other people’s old fears and threat responses. I prefer earthy colours to represent the root chakra- burnt sienna, soft browns and light oranges. Imagine the colours of a sandstone beach.

Take time to create your chakra shrine and with each chakra, in an intentional way as the River describes, with meditation, journaling and other ways you may have of embodying the clearing. This is an excellent practice for winter and the times around the winter solstice which were traditionally times of deep contemplation and healing.

 

River: Today we would like to go back to All Knowledge is within, but in a different way, by a connection of opening and closing the charkas. Opening to knowledge within is opening the self to who you are, and where you fit in the world. Being open is not easy. It is not merely stating: I will be open. By opening, we mean constant awareness, an awareness of awareness, and of a moment-to-moment continuum. This requires discipline, motivation, and a great deal of inner commitment.

Part of inner commitment is having a structure so one may move from step to step, trusting that there is a process, and trusting that each step leads to a further step.

It is very important to trust, to know that there is a structure. We will suggest then a structure of opening. First, opening to the inner rhythms of strength, energy and body memory. In the body memory are stored some of the false legions of past lifetimes, that are structurally stored within the very cells. Therefore, we seek to release the past life so there is more of a connection to reality in this lifetime. At this moment. It is part of the process to clear out, to remove these memory traces in the very bones and blood of humanity.

Only then can decisions be made and actions acted upon in complete freedom of now. Of course, it goes without saying, that memory of all past life events within this very lifetime are stored in a very deep cellular way within the bones and blood of the human body. So a structure for opening and release of the past is important in this very lifetime.

There are two reasons for this clearing, to release false guides from past lives, and to release memory and emotions stored from this lifetime. We would suggest as a process, to spend at least three to six months of daily short meditation where one sits quietly, and with intent and awareness, focus within the body cavity situated in the belly area. Visualize this focus radiating up and down

The next step is to sense the body as being almost empty a cavity. Sit with as empty in mind as possible, allowing only awareness and watching the thoughts that arise, one by one with attention focused within the body cavity.

Keep your focus there until you become comfortable and feel an easily sunk-into relaxation.

Step 2 will then be ready for focusing. From then on, sit down, with a few minutes focusing with the inner body cavity watching thought until breath is quiet, an allowing the breath to return to the natural state of arising from the lower part of the body. This is not to be forced, however. It is always unwise to force breath to change from a higher elevation to a lower elevation. It is a natural thing for the breath to lower when the body is relaxed and thought is allowed to drift across the surface gently.

You will notice that the breath will switch from high in the chest to low in the belly. This is also an indication that you are ready for the next step.

At this time, at step two, breath which has become lower, will for the first time be asked to come up, into the tightness in the lower throat. It is not so much to control the breath, but to watch the breath go through the nasal passages with the intent of the mind.

Therefore, breath becomes the focus as it passes through, not so much in the nostrils, but on the complete exit of the body. This is a minor fact in a minor stage, but one that should be noted.

At stage two therefore, sitting down quietly, watching the body cavity, watching the breath exit, the further step of stage two is: putting the mind to the bottom chakra at the root and gently, in a visual form with mind opening this chakra. It will take some discipline to actually sense this, but if it is returned to again and again, and within the body cavity itself, a sensing of openness. This sensing of openness will then transform to a sensing pf chakra openness. It is the same feeling, as in the body cavity, but in a very specific area at the base of the tailbone.

This is to be seen in a right to left clockwise opening, for energy moves in this area in a clockwise motion. In other words, it spirals inward through the chakra. It may seem at first to be a forced opening and this is definitely not wrong, because it is not something one has not done before. (In a later transmission, the River noted that left-handed people should visualize their chakras opening in the opposite direction-in an anti-clockwise direction.)

At this point it requires a little fantasy work as one imagines the opening. But quickly it will become evident in body sensing that the fantasy has become truth. This will be evident by tingling, movement, heat, some sensitivity that something is happening. At this stage it is important to fantasize the opening to see it in the mind spontaneously and view it inwardly. Ask yourself, is it locked or not?

If the first image that arose, is of something blocking it – identify it! We will not say what kind of image, it will be completely individual. But each individual has created blocks in all the charkas, some symbolic, some are merely hatches, like hatches on a boat. But in some form or another by the very fact of being alive, there are always blocks in all the charkas to some degree.

For two reasons: survival and they are the memory traces of past lives. We desire at this point to state, do not to clear away the healthy blocks that keep your energy intact for daily life, but remove the energy of past events that have become an unhealthy tiring of blocking the natural energy flow of energy.

The healthy chakra system is in a constant flux of opening and closing, as the individual needs energy. When a healthy system is blocked totally, like the lungs of a cigarette smoker, the opening and closing of the system has lost their elasticity and may remain closed forever. Not only as in retention, but locked solid by accumulated events, emotions, behaviors of past people, thoughts, and deeds.

So, it is well to remember that they are shutters that open and close on their own when the system is healthy. This process is to ensure there is no impediment from memory. That is why it clearing is first-a imaginal event and then a reality event.

Therefore, visualizing the block, whatever form it does take, then with imagination, remove it in whatever manner seems appropriate to the individual. There are many ways: removing it with fingers, removing it with stones, kicks, blowtorches, instruments, removing it, removing it... In some ways which seems in keeping with yourself, gently or harshly, depending on who you are. Remove it!

What you have removed has been a memory, as soon as it has been removed, holding imaginary hands look at it very closely. Watch, where is this memory? It is linked with a specific or accumulated series of events. Be open to what it is, as if watching film or TV, be the objective observer.

Then having seen it, aware, be completely open to what it is to honor it, and with love and compassion, send it back into the All where it belongs. You have now released that chakra at that point to be more natural and healthier.

You have now been working with the root chakra. At this stage you are dealing with very base, fundamental urges of survival. Basic survival, basic life survival. The memory there may be ancient, ancient traces and if more recently, your are more primitive fear places. Fear places of death, of childhood hunger, the birth process itself of entering the world through the mother's womb. It is a place of high very primitive emotions, sexual in nature, and survival in nature. It is with this first chakra that you need to formulate the process and become comfortable with using it, for the same process will be used in all of the other shockers.

For the next or at least three to six months, one chakra should be worked on at a time. Each time, sensing the chakra, opening the chakra, visualizing the block, holding it, dissolving it, releasing it.

Somewhere down the road, in three to six months, there will come a time when instead of visualizing what is there, when you open the chakra, there will be a sense of warm energy, that flows away from the chakra tingling, tickling up the backbone. This will happen before you have sensed the block. This is an indication that the accumulation has thinned and now you are only dealing with day-to-day events. Being a healthy chakra, it will not need dealing with on a day-to-day basis. Periodically perhaps, but not as a disciplined event.

At this time, you will begin repeating, you will notice a repeating of images coming up when you sense the chakra. This is also a good indication that you have finished the clearing and you are just making it up yourself. It is time to go on to the next chakra.

We have gone into detail because this will be the pattern for all the other chakras. They are to be worked on in either of two ways: one after the other from the tailbone up, or tail bone to crown, back to the hara (second chakra) then up to the forehand. We suggested this is also a personal choice, but traditionally the chakras have been opened in a linear way from the root to the crown. It is perhaps a safer method, in that like a tree, the chakra was of old from the bottom to the top, from primitive to the spiritual. Therefore, to approach the spiritual it may be more practical and wiser to go through the individual’s own emotional background and patterns of holding and letting go before working on the spiritual.

However, it does not matter in the end, for each one must be opened if this is the method you want to follow.

Each chakra has, of course, its own lessons and its own areas of memory, these are easily understood. The root is survival memory and energy. The hara, the use of energy. The solar plexus, the consequences of the use of energy, on the environment and the Self. Therefore, the  heart chakra is the first stage of the individual noticing themselves as separate from others in a more global sense, a giving and a dividing line between the very base energy of survival, of doing, producing, and the spiritual aspects of self.

The throat chakra is communication, a giving to others beyond mere sensing of the heart, the feeling of expansiveness of the heart. The throat is the giving of healing. The forehead chakra is the memory of intimacy with the All, the sensitivity of the occult, the psychic ability of union and awareness with other essences and beings. It is a consciousness of all others. It is a consciousness and a conscience. Of course, the crown, is the link with all spiritual beings and the letting go of the individual into a wider more encompassing goal of life in general.

Each chakra will be opened, each chakra will have blocks which are memories and when each chakra has been dealt with, it is time to move on to the next. When all chakras have been cleared and opened, there will be a sense of total freedom within the body., When one looks at guides, an inner voices, the small voice, it is easier to trust that what you are hearing and sensing is the truth, and not a false guide, not an accumulation of habit and memory from one’s past.

Some of the memories within the chakra will be extremely unpleasant, causing a degree of physical discomfort. It is to be expected and not to be a fearful event. This process is not thought of as a meditation, an end in itself, but merely at tool to clear the body of past karma, and in so doing, free the spirit to act. There is work there to be done. We will also suggest that at this point with the chakra cleared, there is perhaps an ability to help others, sometimes without them knowing it, to remain clear in themselves.

At this point visualizing the Other, whoever it is, the Other as teacher, the Other as neutral, the Other as friend, having their own chakras clear and healthy, opening and closing as the body needs energy.

For example, the Other as teacher, the uncomfortable situation for the emotions when you are receiving, very base emotions, from a perceived threat of survival, which is the basis of much aggression. Visualizing that person as clear in their root chakra, open in that area, energy rising up through that area, from deep within the earth, will facilitate that person seeing you clearly not as being the issue at all, but their own inner unresolved conflicts. Is it something to think about. Are there questions?

Julia: No.

River: This process is a process that two people may help each other, for the ability to sense another's memory is equally valid. Sitting opposite from each other, two people may travel this road together, working side by side becoming more attuned and sensitive to each other and adding to their own clearing. Sensing the other’s blocks and watching the movie script that you have in your own mind that you have for them, will allow them another perspective and another way to clear their own memories.

Finally, and fundamentally, chakras open and close, as one moves through life and requiring more of one and less of another and remembering and remaining as much as possible to all events with energy flowing not so much from bottom to top or top to bottom but from inner to outer, through all the chakras, at the same time, as the same energy flow. This is the final goal, but not one that should be started with until there has been a clearing.

It will be noticed that as each chakra has been cleared, sensations will develop in other parts of the body, perhaps a knee will begin to give trouble as a chakra is being cleared. This is an indication that the memory is still there. Going to that area after opening the chakra, a new memory will arise. It has been stored there. It is a part of the memory from sometime in the past. Apply the same process then for any areas that become uncomfortable or painful in any way during this process.

Energy flows from within to without in a final way, but it is also helpful to see energy flowing from bottom to top and down the front through each chakra. There is a regulatory centre, which remains uncluttered from all memory. This is not so much as chakra but is a node of centrality and balance. This is located at the back of the brain, within the cranial structure itself. Not so much in the bone. But deeply embedded within the brain itself. It regulates the energy flow, it can, if it is not damaged by blocked chakras, unites into one whole, balancing physical and spiritual. This too can be an area of focus later when all chakras are open, by intent, then the individual can concentrate on this area and see it open and wide, as a cavity perhaps with nothing in it except itself.

By the very fact of concentration and alertness in this area it stimulates its own ability to function. This is true of all the chakras by the very fact of awareness a not so much Devon tempt, although that is certainly part of it, but awareness itself stimulates the area into a more healthy growth. It is the same of course with all behavior, for watching behavior absolutely changes behavior, especially for the usually for the better period

We think we have covered this well, and it will be easy to put this into a structure as a step-by-step process. We see this almost as manual, step one, do this, step two, do that, not a way that is easy for us to do. But we think it will be easy for you to do. Are there further questions?

Julia: No-thank you.

River: Peace and harmony in all the ways. We greet you.