Center Column alignment.

A quick note: Being dyslexic, and my own editor, on a notepad with auto-incorrect, can both cause interesting problems, and I may not catch them all. I appreciate your patience with my struggles.

I suppose I should write this down in case I don't return. This is the culmination of several years of study. Along the way several people have been very kind, if sometimes not the exact help I needed to get here. Likely I usually asked the wrong question. Out of the usual respect for the privacy of esoteric people I will not name them.

One lady is noteworthy though. She offered me a course she would usually have charged a lot of money for, free. While I learned a lot that has been useful, and she laid a lot of groundwork, her material did not make it into the method. She taught me a lot about getting into the alpha state,  and had a most interesting process for using labyrinths to cleanse, clear, and open chakras. This is particularly noteworthy because it would work for some people, just did not for me. I had larger problems to solve. My method is far from the only way, just the way that works ( I hope ) for me. I am doing this because it could happen they find my body and I am gone.

This is about opening all the chakras from the earth star, up the center column, to the soul star. If I see the way, I will leave without looking back. Each chakra requires to be open and clear, and aligned properly to the center column. I have found that the Vedic method of chanting 108 repetitions of each mantra is required to properly resonate each chakra and connect to the center column. This may not be exactly required for everybody, but it is necessary to have the chakras aligned and connected to the center column to work.

I notice that the earth star is not mentioned in the places I found it before, so I will discuss it. The earth star is a chakra outside the body that connects our energy to the earth. This sounds simple, but many people are damaged here. This causes clearing and grounding to be quite difficult. This is not directly connected to the center column, but likely will prevent this particular energy flow unless it is working right. There are non-deity mantram for most of the chakras, but this one I could not find any other way. The mantra: Om Shri Gaia Ma, Purnatva Gaia Ma, repeated 108 times daily will cleanse and open this for this purpose. My Hindu friends would shudder at the thought, but it is not necessary to get the words perfectly. It shows respect to the Deities involved to try to speak it right, but they hear from the heart, so exact pronunciation is more a matter of respect than being heard. It is entirely important to stay focused on energizing the chakra while doing the mantra. When it is right, it feels like something under you is tickling your underside. You really don't know it is completely right until you feel the energy flowing into and out of the next chakra.

This makes 9 chakras I will discuss. You may be familiar with 7 chakras. You may have heard of the 8th chakra, or soul star. I wasted a lot of time messing with sites promising to align chakras and prepare the soul star, only to get to key places and want an assinine amount of money to finish. Have better sense than to pay very much  for anything esoteric. The only person I have seen myself that wanted that much money that was for real was the woman I mentioned earlier. I have found numerous fakes. In this work, it is fair for the person teaching to expect to be compensated for their time, but online, most of them are in it for the money,  and rarely have the skills they profess.

This is expressive of my attitude in dealing with people online. I have not yet charged for anything other than readings. I refuse to do spells for anyone. I have been known to teach people how to get what they want for themselves, but not do it for them. I have had some that are unwilling to put the time and focus to get their result call me fake for refusing to do it for them. Their loss.

I hear lots of opinions on how this 'must' be done. I have worked with this several ways, and like pretty much everything else in esoteric work, it seems mostly to be about focus and intention. It is important to understand that ultimately, Deity is within us. This does not mean we have any 'right' to demand our way, nor to bend the universe necessarily to our will. I have done workings a lot of ways, bit I have found everything that is not for the greater good to be difficult. This requires purity of spirit most people seem incapable of.

Root chakra: This chakra is located right in your sex. It has three resonances, one forward, one rear, and one straight down. It is the straight down part that connects to earth energy. For me, the Deity connected way works best. This is not necessarily for everyone. Also, being male, my lowest chakras were done through Gods. To do this working I suggest trying different methods and seeing what works best. The neutral, or not necessarily deistic (don't get me started) mantra is: Om Lam Par Tatvaay Vam Sham Sham Om Phat. I have used a simple form of this, but I find that it is more about taking the time to properly resonate the chakra. You know the joke: Meditate one hour a day, and for those that don't have time, two hours. The Deity related mantra I used: Om Gam Ganapatayay Namaha. This gives respect to Lord Ganesha, who has been very kind to me, and worked nicely to resonate this chakra for me. The feminine mantra is: Om Saravanabhavaya Namah. Not being a woman, I can't vouch for this, but Shasti is one of several Vedic Goddesses related to childbirth and seemed most appropriate in the studies I did. It is likely appropriate to open a female chakra differently from a male chakra. Again, what works best is most right. It took about a week to open the Earth star and get consistent energy flow. It took a couple of days to open the root right, but several days to get the energy to flow right. Once open, push energy first down into the Earth star, then let it reflect back up, first into the chakra, then try to feel it run up your back. That column runs roughly along the spine, and can feel more like a pencil or string, or more like a large tube. You may feel it tickling your forehead or the top of your head, or may only feel it a little way up your back. Step by step feeling the Earth star tickling your lower energies, and the root tickling your center column are the first steps.

Sacral chakra: This chakra is located between the root, and the belly button. For a man, it roughly coincides with the prostate, and a woman, the womb. Again it leads to the obvious thought that they will work differently, but not necessarily so. It is still best to try and see what works. The non Deity mantra: Om Vam Vam Swaadhistthaanam Jaagray Jaagray Vam Vam Om Phat. Again, I used a similar form, but got better results another way. The male Deity I got results with was Lord Vishnu. The mantra I used was: Om Vishnave Namah. The Goddess Laxshmi, Vishnu's consort is an obvious choice. Om Hrim Shrim Lakshmi Bhyo Namaha. When I came to this step, and started flowing the energy, my root chakra became sore because I had not resonated the energy properly to the Earth star. It happens, but it is important to recognize the problem and do the corrective effort. I had resonated two more chakras before I got this right. All I did was to spend extra effort making sure I could feel the energy flowing from the root down, and back up into the chakra and column. Again, it is important to feel the energy flowing all the way down, and back up. Some people get away with resonating Om and feel the energy flowing  all the way down and up, others, like me, have to do 108 repetitions for each chakra every day to build the energy to move on to the next step. I have noticed that I can get interrupted enough to lose continuity, and do just a couple of each mantra to get back where I was.

Third chakra: This is known as the solar plexus chakra. That is the nervous center it is most directly connected to. In daily experience you may notice it varying from just above the belly button and the sternum. As I resonated each higher chakra, I noticed a warm energy where the energies of the chakras connect to the center column. The non Deity mantra: Om Ram Jaagrannay Manipuraay Ram Om Phat. Again, for me simpler sort of worked, but I got better results with the Deitistic mantra. This one was Lord Agni. He has also been nice to me, and it is fit to give respect as He helps me. Om Vaisvanaraya Vidmahe, Laleaya Dhimahi, Tanno Agnih Prachodayat. I did not look for any female aspect for this. I have not mentioned elemental associations up to here. For this working the connection is a bit vague, but if you are going to use this for other things, it could be important. Both the Earth star and root chakras associate with earth. The second chakra to water. This chakra to fire. Agni is the Hindu God of fire. This chakra was particularly obvious about getting warm when it was energized. All of them do more or less, but this one more. By now the meditation can be taking nearly an hour. 108 repetitions of several mantram  can take a while. I have tried shorter methods, but it seems to require more effort to build the energy to make the next step. This chakra particularly started to energize the brow and crown to the point of tickling or itching, and I could feel the energy moving from all the way down up the center column, sometimes to the crown.

Heart chakra: Mine was particularly damaged from having had a continuous string of bad relationships from childhood up. If you can relate to this, it is likely you should spend some extra time working through any issues. This chakra damaged causes "cut in half syndrome" What this means is that it is easy to resonate lower energies, or upper ones, but difficult to get them to work together. This comes from energy not passing through this chakra and causing blockage instead of moving with the power it should have. It can make workings outright impossible for lack of the ability to move energy. The non Deistic form: Om Yam Anaahtam Jaagray Jaagray Sfottay Om Shama. Since this was a problem area for me, I never got anywhere, easy or hard until now. This does not mean everything is fixed, just that there is enough progress to get what I want. I used a particular mantra to Kali. This was chosen because it is particularly purgative. Purging damage and bad energy is important if it is there. The mantra: Om Sri Maha Kalikayi Namaha. It has been three weeks I am working on this. I can feel the energy flow, and it warms when activated, but there is still need for improvement. This points out that sometimes it takes a while, and a lot of chanting to get a result. It also shows it is not necessary to be perfect, and there is such a thing as good enough.

Throat chakra: I started out in particularly good shape with this one. It still took several days to get the resonances right. It was taking about an hour and a half at this point. It is also a little harder to feel the resonance here because the voice resonance can mask the chakra resonance. The non Deity mantra: Om Ham Vishuddh Jaagray Jaagray Tatva Beejay Om Phat. I found the feminine approach best here again. The deistic form: Om Shri Sarasvati-ya Namaha. This went expectedly well except it takes a little more focus to resonate all the way down and back up. At this point it was normal to feel like my brow and crown were on fire most of the time, but curiously I had a day where I could not feel anything above it.

Brow chakra: Things change here. The top two chakras connect more directly, yet still activate separately. I could not find a non deistic mantra for this one. This God is androgenous, having both male and female form. This mantra: Om Ksham Ardhanarishvara Om Phat. It is easier here to lose the connection to the lower chakras, thus that much more important to make sure you are resonated all the way down. Once you have resonated the whole center column, resonating Om should be enough, but it doesn't always work. At this point my whole head felt somewhere between fuzzy and on fire. It took 108 of these every day for a week to get a good solid consistent resonance.

Crown chakra: This chakra resonates straight up. This is the top of the center column. The non deistic mantra: Om Hreem Sahastraaaram Jaagray Jaagray Sfottay Udbheday Ayeim Om Phat. As usual, I prayed, this time to Lord Shiva. Om Namaha Shivaya. As of this writing I am still working on getting both connected resonance and energy from the Earth star up. I have worked this whole time on the soul star. This is noteworthy at this moment because as I work here I can feel the pull of the energy up through this chakra, and can feel the restriction of being incomplete here.

Soul star: If you have gotten this far and don't have a Deity in mind, please stop. I shudder to think of taking this step and not having a clue where you want to go. There are those that wait and watch for us, and some of them are very bad, trust me. I have no clue how you would meet the Christian God from here. For a Vedic God I would recommend Brahma. In other workings, I found it well to meet Lord RA from here. My chosen mantra was: Om RA. I have not fully accessed this energy, but it feels like I have a beach ball sized fire resting on my head, especially if I am doing these last three in the rising sun. I can feel the upward pull on my energy, and that it is yet incomplete. I have said and meant it that if I can leave I will not look back.

I have tried to be thorough. I hope you find enough to be useful. The pull today was strong, but blocked. I will overcome the blockages, and don't actually know what will happen. Blessings