Light is both a wave and a particle. A seemingly impossible contradiction defines our most fundamental element. Light moves up through the sushumna (our central spinal channel) in a continuous wave, but also as a pulse, lighting up each chakra as it goes. This means the chakras exist both on a spectrum and also as a series of separate points. The “prinicple of complementarity” found in quantum science is echoed in the energetic bodies.
The aim in yoga is to light up the body’s network of nadis, nerve like channels of light. The main networks are sushumna, ida and pingala that flow in and around the spine (see image). The seven main chakras punctuate th sushumna, and are said to exist at the intersections of ida and pingala, two channels that criss cross the energy body (shown in red and white). Some schools of thought believe that ida and pingala cross at the chakras, others believe that they cross inbetween the chakras. In the case of viewing the chakras as delimited points in series, the inbetween area, or the meeting of one chakra with the next provides a point of antimatter, of nothingness, a void, worthy of investigation in its own right. What goes on between the chakras when we look at them as a spectrum? The energy flows from one chakra to the next, colours blend like a rainbow, the meaning of one chakra comes up against the meaning of the next. In the case of viewingthe chakras as points on a spectrum of rainbow light, the inbetween points mark the merging of one chakra into another; there is a bridge of light that enables light to flow freely up and down the sushumna. Instead of working with just the single chakras we can work on two together, creating chakra pairs. This is not a new idea. Clairvoyant Barbara Brennan recommends placing the hands over a chakra, and then with it, its adjacent chakra. This has the effect of increasing flow of energy between the chakras.
When light flows up and down the channels, pure light, bliss is passed through the koshas. Bliss, consciousness, mind, prana and body light up We can only experiment with our own energy bodies to feel how contradictory truth manifests in us.
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