Science and the Mysteries of TIBET (video)

Dhr. Seven, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; David Wilcock/Edgar Cayce (DivineCosmos.com, WisdomTeachings.com, Gaiam TV.com); Disclosure Truth TV; VAJRAYANA BUDDHISM

Guru Rimpoche Padmasambhava, six fingered mystery figure in Tibetan Buddhism (wiki)

 

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Wisdom Teachings with David Wilcock (#69)
The transfiguration into a rainbow body of light has long been shunted to the realms of mystical experience and Eastern philosophy.

However, there are Western scientific concepts, which we have already learned about in previous episodes, to validate the reality of this ascension [transmogrification] process.

David Wilcock, who formerly existed as Edgar Cayce, begins to weave together the science and philosophy of the rainbow body transformation before presenting physical examples of Padmasambhava’s ascension in this presentation originally webcast July 7, 2014.  

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Beyond Cosmic Consciousness - Part 1 (Season 1, Episode 3) Wilcock explains how to connect with the galactic center in order to boost our psychic abilities, the positive impact of the "meditation effect" upon the world, and how light affects DNA. Discover how we can begin to...

Who is David Wilcock?
(Disclosure Truth TV, June 7, 2014) In "The Hidden Science of Lost Civilizations" David Wilcock exposes some of the greatest scientific secrets of our time -- from DNA transformation to multidimensional time -- to unlock the mysteries humankind have always struggled to answer: Who are we? How did we get here? And where are we going? 

In his book The Synchronicity Key, he goes beyond this new understanding to investigate how our universe works. Using history and astrology, as well as new research into fractals, spiritual geometry, and quantum physics, Wilcock demonstrates that there is a hidden architecture within time which guides individuals and nations through a system of "enlightenment" (which Joseph Campbell called the "Hero's Journey" or Heroine's Journey, as we all go through it).

What is it? Historical events occur in shockingly precise and repeating cycles of time. And once the hidden laws governing our "fate" our destinies, which we influence all along the way, through seemingly random events Jung termed "synchronicities," are identified, we are left with a remarkable blueprint of how to lead our lives in an uncertain world.

Synchronicity is more than a happy accident. It is an effect of the connectivity of the universe. It is proof that everything is a part of a unified, connected whole.

It is an affirmation of life. Wilcock's understanding of the living fabric that binds the universe together is behind his knowledge of synchronicity, the Law of One, and how we are guided by it.

 
Synchronicity is a means to awaken us to our true identity, the thoughts we think, and the actions we take (karma) are being guided by hidden cycles that repeat, as our guide to this new world of knowledge explains.

David Wilcock and Wynn Free co-authored the book The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce? in 2004. He is also the author of the 2011 book The Source Field Investigations, which debuted at No. 18 on the New York Times Best Sellers list on Sept. 11, 2011. His second book, The Synchronicity Key, debuted at No. 8 on the same list on Sept. 4, 2013.

Wilcock has appeared on several radio programs, including semi-regular appearances, and he had a role in the Syfy documentary "2012." He was a proponent of the theory that a large segment of humanity would undergo ascension in the year 2012. He also appeared in several episodes of the History Channel series "Ancient Aliens." Beginning in early 2013, he began hosting a weekly program entitled "Wisdom Teachings with David Wilcock" on Gaiam TV.

DNA: Are Native Americans, Mexicans Asian?

Xochitl, Ashley Wells, Dhr.Seven, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; Scott Neuman (All Things Considered, NPR.org, 5-16-14), "Ancient skeleton in Mexico sheds light on Americas settlement"

In this June 2013 photo provided by National Geographic, diver Susan Bird, working at the bottom of Hoyo Negro, a large dome-shaped underwater cave in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, brushes Naia's skull found at the site (Paul Nicklen/AP).

 

A nearly complete skeleton of a teenage girl (called "Naia") has yielded DNA clues linking her to Native Americans living today. She died 12,000-13,000 years ago in a cave in the Yucatan Peninsula (modern Mexico). 

 

The connection bolsters the prevailing theory that the sole route of human migration into North America took place over a Siberia-Alaska land bridge known as Beringia, starting 15,000-20,000 years ago.

 

NPR Science Correspondent Joe Palca says the skeleton of the girl, who died at age 15 to 16, was discovered in 2007 amid a complex of flooded caverns in Mexico known as Hoyo Negro, or "Black Hole."

 

Meditating Mayan figurine (MT)

Scientific American says, "She lies in a collapsed chamber together with the remains of 26 other large mammals, including a saber-toothed tiger, 600 meters from the nearest sinkhole. Most of the mammals became extinct around 13,000 years ago."

 

"It was impossible to safely recover the body from the cave location, so the research team dove to the cave and made bone measurements [on site]. They placed Naia's skull on a rotating tripod and set a camera on a second tripod next to it. Turning the skull slowly, they snapped pictures every 20 degrees. Later the team used the photographs to reconstruct a three-dimensional image."

 

Aztec Kwan Yin, Queen of Devas (LTG)

James Chatters of Applied Paleoscience in Bothell, Washington, led the study and published the results in the journal Science.

 

Chatters says the skeleton, known as Naia after the water nymphs (naiads) of Greek mythology, doesn't look much like modern Native Americans, who have narrower faces, different teeth, and a different palate.

 

"I could tell from the shape of the palette and some other aspects of the skull that she was similar to some of the other earliest Americans I'd seen," Chatters says. "So many differences that it seemed they must come from somewhere else." But the DNA told a different story. 

Taos Pueblo like Tibet, Southwest USA (NM)

The University of Texas at Austin's Deborah Bolnick, an expert in extracting ancient DNA from fossilized teeth and bones, got a sample of Naia's mitochondrial DNA [slower changing genetic information], which is inherited exclusively from the mother.

 

Bolnick found a lineage known as D-1 that's found in Northeast Asia (including Siberia, which is North Aisa) and also very common in Native Americans.

What that suggests, Bolnick says, is that the girl is indeed descended from the first humans to cross the land bridge and not some later migration from somewhere else.

 

That means the physical differences between the first "Paleoamericans" and Native Americans of today are the result of evolution since the great migration out of Asia.

 

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• Buddhism exists in Mexico today [Not so] surprisingly, one of six Tibet Houses in the world -- Casa Tibet México -- is located in Mexico City. It is used by the Dalai Lama and other Tibetan Vajrayana leaders of Tibetan Buddhism to preserve and share Tibetan culture and spirituality [with Native Americans and modern European-invaded Mexicans]. There is a Thai Theravada Buddhist temple in Tamaulipas, in the Gulf of Mexico, where there are three monks from Thailand who teach the Dharma, as well as one monk from Cambodia (the former Khmer Empire most famous for building Angkor Wat).
• Buddhism in Mongolia (Vajrayana, shamanism)
• VIDEO: "Mysteries of Lost Temples, the City of Angkor and its Temple or Wat (National Geographic) A former naga-worshipping empire, once the greatest in Southeast Asia with a million urban and suburban inhabitants living in and around stone monuments in the jungle united by a sophisticated water distribution system.
• It existed in Mexico long ago: How the Swan Came to the Lake (Rick Fields)
• Ancient Mysteries (Nat Geo): "Lost City of Angkor Wat" - In 1860 Christian missionaries came across Buddhist ruins in the Cambodian jungle -- splendor right out of fairy tales, discovering a lost city twice as large as Manhattan. More

Commentary

Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly

From Asia (China and Afghanistan) to California and Mexico (Int'l History Channel)

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World's most famous Pueblo, Potala, Tibet

As we have noted repeatedly, the Buddhism practiced in Siberia, Russia (as well as Kalmykia, Europe) is Mongolian and Tibetan, with strong native animist and shamanistic influences, deriving from the Buddha's shramana movement in and around India.

 

It traveled up from Central Asia, modern day Afghanistan (part of ancient Gandhara, see the pioneering work of Dr. Ranajit Pal), into ancient Greece and Northern Asia. It is startlingly similar to Native American beliefs and practices, enhanced by visits from Afghan and Chinese Buddhist missionaries to Mexico and California long before the arrival of Columbus, as documented by Edward P. Vining, Hendon M. Harris, and our research on Puebloan Peoples in America. 

 

China's Fusang, our CA, Mexico

The Bering Strait land bridge is not the only route of spiritual ideas, DNA, and Asiatic culture. A great deal of it came directly and intact. 

 

One amazing "coincidence" is the similarity between the megalithic jungle cultures of Buddhist Angkor and other ancient city-states, part of the enormously successful Khmer Empire in modern Cambodia and Thailand, and the megalithic jungle empires of the Maya, Aztecs, Toltecs (see also Toltec Mounds State Archaeological Park), Olmecs, and Incas in Mexico (Mesoamerica) and South America.

Traces of it also existed in the modern "mound building" cultures in the United States, whose enormous size and sophistication (as well as being gigantic as individuals) make them part of "forbidden archaeology" as exposed by Dr. Michael Cremo.

Ancient Mesoamerica (pre-Spanish invasion) included parts of California, the USA, Mexico, Belize, the Mayan Empire, Guatemala (named after Gautama Buddha, according Rick Fields' accounts, Swans)... See detail

Mt. Everest to close for the season (audio)

Seth Auberon, Pat Macpherson, Wisdom Quarterly; T.J. Raphael, The World (pri.org)

Dangerous Mt. Everest (Kristoffer Erickson/news.nationalgeographic.com)

  

Yeti hunters, Everest, 1954 (dailymail.co.uk)

Sherpas -- members of a Himalayan ethnic group renowned for their skill at high-altitude climbing -- are crucial to operations on Mount Everest.

They earn a mere $3,000-5,000 risking their lives helping others scale the mountain during each two-to-three-month climbing season. They do on a regular basis what others pay to accomplish just once in a lifetime, putting their lives at great risk for affluent clients due to poverty they are never able to emerge from.
 

Last Friday, an avalanche roared down a climbing route on Everest, killing 13 Sherpa guides and leaving three others missing. When it occurred the Sherpas, who have centuries of history in Nepal's alpine region, were working at 21,000 feet, fixing ropes and preparing the path ahead of peak mountaineering season.

 

Tibet's Rongbuk Buddhist monastery with Mt. Everest in background (wiki commons)

 

Who climbs Mt. Everest without a Sherpa?

As the Sherpa community mourns the loss of family members and friends, the group is considering an unprecedented move: a strike.

On Sunday, disappointed by the Nepali government’s offer of 40,000 rupees ($408) as compensation for the families of each of the dead, some Sherpas gathered at Everest’s base camp to propose a “work stoppage” that could disrupt or cancel the 334 expeditions planned for the 2014 climbing season.

Ellen Barry, South Asia Bureau Chief for The New York Times, says while Sherpas have lived with these conditions for many years, last week's accident changed things.

"I think just the magnitude of the loss of life from Friday's accident has prompted very unusual decisions," she says. More

Trans-Siberian Art Festival 2014

Amber Larson and Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly; Cami.com

Vajrayana Buddhism and shamanism from Sakha to Magada, Siberia (en.rsport.ru)

From Spain to Japan: A Musical Journey

Ivolginsky Datsan Siberian Buddhist temple (S-D)

In 1893, the first railway bridge was built over the Ob river, and with it Novosibirsk was founded. One hundred and twenty years later, the internationally renowned violinist Vadim Repin is building new musical bridges in his hometown with the founding of a classical music festival. 

Novosibirsk (Новосибирск) is the third most populous city in Russia after Moscow and St. Petersburg and the most populous city in Asian Russia, with a population of 1,523,801 (2013 est.). It is the administrative center of Novosibirsk Oblast as well as of the Siberian Federal District. The city is located in the southwestern part of Siberia on the banks of the Ob river adjacent to the Ob River Valley, near the large Novosibirsk Reservoir formed by the dam of the Novosibirsk Hydro Power Plant and occupies an area of 502.1 square kms (193.9 sq mi). The city is informally known as the "Capital of Siberia."

Svetlana Smolina, Transsiberian Art Fest

In its first year, the Trans-Siberian Art Festival invites music lovers on an imaginary trip from Western Europe to Siberia. From March 31 to April 12, 2014, some of the most important symphonic and chamber music pieces by European composers such Bach, Bartók, Beethoven, Berlioz, Brahms, Chopin, Haydn, Mendelssohn, and Saint-Saёns will be played in juxtaposition with pieces by Mussorgsky, Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, and Yusupov. The festival will be inaugurated in the recently completed Arnold Kats Concert Hall with Lalo's Symphonie Espagnole ("Spanish Symphony") under the musical direction of Kent Nagano. 

Siberia, 17th century (Witsen's Shaman)

This will be the second time ever that the joint performance of "Pas-dedeux for Toes and Fingers" by Vadim Repin and the prima ballerina Svetlana Zakharova will be presented. The Israeli composer Benjamin Yusupov will attend the premiere of his violin concerto "Voices of Violin" by Repin with the Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra under their chief conductor Gintaras Rinkevičius. More

Were Anasazi [Native Americans] Buddhists?

Dhr. Seven (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly; Hendon Harris (chinesediscoveramerica.com)

The most famous building in the entire Tibetan plateau, Potala Pueblo, Lhasa (HCC)

Tibetan store (Aaron Berkovich/flickr)

Were the Anasazi, who are known to many as the Native Americans of the Southwest, Buddhists? 

 

Buddhism began in the sixth century BCE in India [although the Buddha was from neighboring Afghanistan -- the ancient northwestern frontier of Gandhara and to points west -- where the Dharma quickly took hold among his familial clan simultaneous with its spread in Magadha/modern Bihar, India].

It soon spread to ancient Greece and parts of its empire in Central Asia [Bactria, Sogdiana, etc., where Alexander the Great left yet another "Alexandria" in Kandahar, Afghanistan, when it was part of the Hellenic Empire], the geopolitical Middle East, and some believe to Europe (Kalmykia) as far north as Scandinavia and even North America, which was partly ancient Mexico, a spread Rick Fields documented in How the Swans Came to the Lake: A Narrative History of Buddhism in America and Edward P. Vining's Inglorious Columbus, which recounts how a group of Afghan Buddhist monks led by Chinese Buddhist missionary Hwui Shan  "discovered" America and therefore interacted with the Native Americans long before the genocidal, Polish, Jewish Christopher Columbus].

This is where the Native Anasazi (or Ancestral Puebloan people, such as the Hopi, Hisatsinom, and others) come in.

• Did they leave temples and treasures here?

One piece of evidence is the ancient Buddhist proclivity for carving building and shrines into mountains and creating distinctive rock formations. They are now found all over the world and bear a likeness to that favored by Vedic Hinduism/Buddhism. Buddhism ultimately reached China in the first century ACE, after it had made a grand impact on Greece bringing in many Eastern philosophical idea -- the atom (kalapa), democratic voting and rudimentary parliamentary rules of order (Sangha organization according to the Vinaya), and so on.

 

The Anasazi culture mysteriously appeared in North America at an undetermined time and disappeared about 1300 ACE. Where did these incredibly advanced people come from? How and why did they just as mysteriously disappear? We know they were astronomers because we have found some of their observatories. We know they were road builders because we have found their roads. We know they were incredibly proficient at stone carving and masonry because we have found evidence of their work and architectural styles in the Four Corners area of the Southwest.

 

Native American indigenous Apache, remnant Anasazi spirit dancers, 1887 (Native Skeptic)

 
These architectural styles and art carved in stone provide the best evidence that the source of the Anasazi culture with its advanced knowledge and artistry was Vedic Asia.

 

This is a provocative statement likely to offend a few scholars. However, if one takes the time to examine the art and architecture, compare examples from each culture side by side, it will provide clear evidence of their connection.

 

Rock cliffs of the Grand Canyon, Arizona

If one were to start by using the image search terms “Were the Anasazi people Buddhist?” one would find that the architectural styles of the Puebloan people (Anasazi) and Chinese Buddhists are so similar that they show up interchangeably on the image page clearly demonstrating that they used the same techniques for carving out rock caves. (See examples of rock caves carved high on the cliffs of Bandelier National Park, New Mexico. They bear an incredible likeness to Asian Buddhist caves). 

Further search “Architecture-Pueblo complexes and Great Houses” or “Bandelier National Park Rock Cave Images” to see more). Compare these to the Caves of Dunhuang and the Longmen Caves in China or to the recently discovered Shangri-la Buddhist Caves of Nepal all of which are carved high up on rock faces.
 

Luoyang Shaolin Buddhist temple (G-W-H)

For evidence of IDENTICAL construction techniques used in ancient China and in ancient North America “zoom in” on these pictures of the rock-cut caves at Bandelier National Monument, USA and the Caves at Dunhuang, China.  Both locations, separated by the vast Pacific Ocean, show identical horizontal rows of small bored holes cut into the cliff faces perhaps to insert wooden pole frames for shade canopies for each location thousands of miles apart.

 

Tibetan structures are like Puebloan dwellings of the Southwest. This American adobe complex was likely built between 1000-1450 AD near Taos, New Mexico, USA (wiki).

  

Rock-cut remains, Bandelier, NM, USA

Ancient Buddhists seem to have been fascinated by rocks shaped a particular way. Here is a very unusually shaped rock in Thailand and an almost identically shaped rock in the Bisti Badlands, New Mexico. 
 
The Bisti Badlands are an interesting place in the Four Corners region, where the Anasazi people lived. However, the common opinion is that “The Canadian Goose Bisti,” “The Sleeping Lizard Bisti,” “The Flying Turtle Bisti,” and so on are simply random acts of erosion. A more plausible explanation is that these rock formations are ruins of a people exhibiting a Vedic cultural heritage because of at least three different types of rock formations there.

1. Mushroom rocks like the ones found at Mushroom State Park, Kansas are found throughout these 45,000 acres of badlands. “Mushroom Rocks” are the chattra symbols of ancient Buddhism. Chattra is the Sanskrit word for “mushroom,” which is also the word for the Parasol, one of the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism. More

Dalai Lama: "Road to Peace" (screenings)

Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly; KPFK.org, HopeDance.org, RoadtoPeace.com

"Road to Peace"

This intimate documentary candidly reveals the Dalai Lama's nature and wisdom and shows how he inspires millions of people of all nationalities and spiritual paths to live more meaningful lives in harmony with one another and with our nurturing planet.

Saving Tibet by appeasing China and working with the CIA? A rock and hard place (RC)

"Road to Peace" is available to watch here from anywhere or by DVD from Wisdom Books.

• Friday, March 21st, 2014, 7:00-9:30 pm
• Location: Center of the Heart, Goleta
• 487 N. Turnpike Rd., Santa Barbara, CA 93109
• Contact: (805) 762-4848, HopeDance.org

• Friday, March 28th, 2014, 7:00-9:30 pm
• Location: Green Lotus Center, Morro Bay
• 550 Morro Bay Blvd., Morro Bay, CA
• Contact: (805) 762-4848, HopeDance.org

A Brewing Controversy

Dalai Lama, stop lying (dorjeshugden.com)

Will angry Tibetan Buddhist monks, nuns, and laypersons who worship Dorje Shugden be protesting the event? Probably not, but they might in order to bring attention to their plight. Organizers might then quote Tushar Gandhi, "The message of peace and non-violence will be taken into homes hearts and minds" to overcome the "Dalai Lama's WikiLeaks shame."

A Tongva Native American Garden (and Tibet)

Xochitl, Ashley Wells, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; Pitzer Arboretum; Hendon Harris

When the world was a garden: Los Angeles' original inhabitants the Tongva tribe

Pitzer College has a hidden treasure: a Native Tongva Garden (pitzer.edu)

 

Native American Tongva, Chumash, Anasazi (Hopi, Puebloan peoples), and in fact all indigenous people made use of all of the plants at hand.

Berries were abundant, particularly a local favorite [alongside elderberry], the manzanita (Spanish "little apple") a.k.a. madrone. Sobochesh, as it was known to the Tongva, was useful to eat, drink, and use as natural medicine.
 

A lotion made of leaves is an excellent treatment for treating exposure to poison oak, or they can be simmered into a tea to cure diarrhea, urinary infections, and headaches, a poultice for skin sores... The blossoms are also useful.

Arroyo Seco Foundation (facebook), March 22

While berries are wonderful, every plant is useful, from yucca to sagebrush to wild buckwheat to black sage and, of course, sacred white sage... Pitzer College, at the eastern extreme of modern Los Angeles County, at the base of massive Mount Baldy, has prepared a hidden treasury of plant uses and folk cures.

Other Tongva Indians will be on hand along with Wisdom Quarterly this Saturday for the Fourth Annual Hahamongna Walkabout in JPL's front yard in Pasadena.

Native American (Tibetan) Buddhism

Native Wm Leclair with Buddhist brothers (BP)

What is the Buddhist connection? Not only are the similarities between the "Indians" of India, Ladakh, Tibet, and the mountainous parts of Asia -- the Karen, for example, and other tribes in Burma, Thailand, Bhutan, and Nepal -- and the "Indians" of America patently obvious to anyone who looks, there is a historical reason for it.

Gomari, Tibet/China (Rietje)

Hendon Harris (Chinese Discover America) helps us understand, and Rick Fields laid it out in How the Swans Came to the Lake: A Narrative History of Buddhism in [Ancient] America. But as early as 1885, American historian Edward P. Vining knew that a group of Buddhist monks from Afghanistan had come to the New World, that is, long before Columbus, they "discovered" America and brought the Dharma to the Native Americans. See An Inglorious Columbus about the Buddhist discovery of America.

QUESTION

Native dance, Hemis Gompa (Stella Peters)

Harris, responding to Native American Buddhism and Tibet, writes in to ask: In Wisdom Quarterly's opinion is the Native American "Ghost Dance" revival movement, which started in approximately 1880 and ended violently at Wounded Knee in South Dakota in December 1890, directly related or religiously or culturally linked to the Tibetan "Ghost Dance" tradition celebrated to this very day? Please explain the reasons for your opinion.

ANSWER: Hendon, we only know it's possible, and we wouldn't be the first to notice. We will have to consult with our non-resident expert, H.M. Harris, to see if it is probable. (We hope he reads this and sends us the answer soon).

• Native American Walkabout 2014 (March 22)
• Early Chumash and Tongva cultures (PDF)
• Native American Buddhism and Tibet
• The Tibet-Pueblo [American Indian] Connection
• Buddhism among the Pueblo Indians, USA
• Native American Ethnographic Study: Ventura
• A Sneak Peek into Santa Monica's "Tongva Park"
• Pitzer College (Claremont) John R. Rodman Arboretum

Why the forehead chakra? (Buddhist tantra)

Ashley Wells and Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; Wikipedia edit

The crown, brow (agni), and throat chakras, Rajasthan, India, 18th century (wiki)

 

Om or aum (Themeplus/flickr.com)

Chakras (subtle energy centers of the body) play an important role in the main surviving branch of Indian Vajrayana, Tibetan Buddhism.

They play a pivotal role in completion stage practices, where an attempt is made to bring the subtle airs or winds of the body into the central channel, to realize the clear light of bliss and emptiness, and to attain buddhahood (Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Clear Light of Bliss: A Tantric Meditation Manual).
  

The Vajrayana system states that the central channel (avadhūtī) begins at the point of the third eye like the of Lord Shiva, curves up to the crown of the head, and then goes straight down to the lower body. 

There are two side channels, the rasanā and lalanā, which start at their respective nostrils and then travel down to the lower body. The apāna vāyu (down-moving wind, where "wind" means the invisible power to move) governs the lower terminations of the three channels. The lower end of the central channel ends at the rectum. The lower end of the lalanā ends in the urinary tract. The lower end of the rasanā channel emits semen.

Chakra picture produced by AuraStar2000TM bio-energy sensor (William Vroman/wiki)

  

Buddha aum (BrookeMontes/flickr)

The side channels run parallel to the center channel, except at locations such as the navel, heart, throat, and crown (i.e., the chakras) where the two side channels twist around the central channel. At the navel, throat, and crown, there is a twofold knot caused by each side channel twisting once around the central channel. 

At the heart wheel there is a sixfold knot, where each side channel twists around three times. An important part of completion stage practice involves loosening and undoing these knots.

 

Within the chakras exist the "subtle drops." The white drop exists in the crown, the red drop exists in the navel, and at the heart exists the indestructible red and white drop, which leaves the body at the time of death.
 

Sanskrit characters (sriaurobindoashram.com)

In addition, each chakra has a number of "spokes" or "petals," which branch off into thousands of subtle channels running to every part of the body, and each contains a Sanskrit syllable.

By focusing on a specific chakra (while often holding the breath) the subtle winds enter the central channel. The chakra at which they enter is important in order to realize specific practices.

For example, focusing on the subnavel area is important for the practice of tummo, or inner-fire. Meditating on the heart chakra is important for realizing clear light. Meditating on the throat chakra is important for lucid dreaming and the practices of dream yoga. And meditating on the crown chakra is important for consciousness projection, either to another world or into another body.

 

A result of energetic imbalance among the chakras is an almost continuous feeling of dissatisfaction. When the heart chakra is agitated, people lose touch with feelings and sensations, and that breeds the sense of dissatisfaction. It leads to looking outside for fulfillment. When people live in their heads, feelings are secondary. They are interpreters of mental images in a feedback loop to the individual.

Bon protectors of Tibet (viewzone.com)

When awareness is focused on memories of past experiences and mentations, the energy flow to the head chakra increases and the energy flow to the heart chakra lessens. Without nurturing feelings of the heart, a subtle form of anxiety arises which results in the illusory-separate-self reaching out for experience. When the throat chakra settles and energy is distributed evenly between the head and the heart chakras, one is able to truly contact one's senses and touch real feelings (Tarthang Tulku, Tibetan Relaxation: The Illustrated Guide to Kum Nye Massage and Movement - A Yoga from the Tibetan Tradition, pp. 31, 33).

Bön

Chakras, according to the Himalayan pre-Buddhist shamanic Bönpo tradition, influence the quality of experience, because movement of vayu cannot be separated from experience. Each of the six major chakras is linked to experiential qualities of one of the six major realms of existence. More