So here's something of my experience of chakras, using the names from the picture on the wikipedia page, which I haven't read. I expect this to be all rather subjective and thin on intellectual substance, since I'm just thinking about what I feel, and only have a few minutes to reflect.
1. Crown: If I think about this one,the feeling in the back of my head and spine sort of lines up and flows up and down. There's also a feeling of levity, as if by willing it I could float, though I am not actually floating. What principles this is related to or what function it has I don't know off hand.
2. 3rd Eye: I feel nothing here, maybe because there are no 'touch' kind of nerves in that area, so I can't feel it like the others. I'll come back to this.
3. Throat: Related to expression or communication. This is an important one for me, maybe a problem for me. If I don't attempt to express my thought, things don't really flow in relation to my intellectual muse, and I don't really feel alive, or connected to my identity. How that is connected to my throat I don't know, but feeling is heightened at that location when I think about this, and my sense of who I am becomes stronger.
4. Heart: I guess everyone feels this one, and what its related to. In a sense its the center of a person, and the most important part of a person.
5. Solar: This one I feel, but I don't know how to describe what it means. For me it has to do with relationships with others, but not expression or communication. Its like a feminine counterpart of the heart, more receptive and closer to nature.
5 1/2. I would have expected there to be another chakra about halfway between the naval and the sex organs, but there isn't one in the picture. This unnamed chakra has to do with desire, somewhat at the level of instinct. If there was any 'opening' of chakras in me, this might have been the first one. So I'm already off the rails in relation to chakras, I have '7' but they're not in the right places.
6. Sacral: This would have to do with physical expression of desire in relation to the earth. All of the other chakras are about that also, in the sense that they're 'physical' or in the body, but this is symbolically the center as far as physical interaction goes. Its as if the whole body is a metaphor for many layers of being or expressing, and a person can get intuitions about different subjects related to identity in part by thinking about corresponding parts of the body.
7. Root: This seems to be like the sacral one, but has more to do with feeling or receptivity and less to do with expression of desire. In that sense its relation to the sacral center is analogous to the relation of the solar center to the heart. I feel the earth pull on me through this center, as if the earth wants stuff to happen. This is very much like how creation pulls on our spirits and makes karma, it is as if I can feel that happening. In that sense its like the opposite end of the crown chakra, which is what connects me to heaven. But we're also connected to both heaven and earth through all of these principles and centers, in somewhat different ways. I think without the root chakra I wouldn't be able to feel any of the others.
One thing I feel about myself, rightly or wrongly, is like an opening between myself and an underworld. Its as if I'm a deep well, and I can feel or express what the spirits in that subterranean world would express. I guess everyone is like this, but that most people wouldn't experience it in quite this way. All of these 'energy centers' are like that, they connect me to nature in various ways, but also to an unseen spiritual world.
So going back to the 'third eye' again, this is different from the rest because there's no feeling there. I think with feeling, but metaphorically that feeling is all connected with other parts of the body, and I don't seem to feel at that level. I can feel the weight of my personality on my face, and in a different way on my chest. But its as if there is no feeling in the principle of thought, even though feeling is the principal way I think.
Maybe what I'm getting at is there's feeling in thought, but there's no sensation in that feeling. Its like its there but there's nothing lighting it up. Everything else is on the outside, or connects me to something else.
OK, if I make associations with this 'third eye' area, fear is something I feel that's connected to that and not to any of the others. Violence is connected to many of the others in different ways, but fear would be at this other level, or the kind of fear I experience anyway. This area would also be connected to my experience of my 'muse', which is like fate or my angel of destiny. I guess to the extent that there's a design or a plan and I'm aware of it, that would be connected most directly to this area. My awareness of evil would be closest to this area. There's a lot that's screwed up about all the other areas, but the rest of it is more like a collection of injuries or an animal condition. Anger for example seems to be more downstream from the evil, not at the root of it.
That was all quite incoherent, but I guess I'll stop there.
Sorry I didn't answer you LighrkVader, I'll get back to you, these other thoughts were already in the queue and I haven't had time to process what you said. This next week is quite busy for me, but I'll get back to it later.
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