Chakra Gardens Peru Andes Incas etc Pineal eye

AJNA THE THIRD EYE THE PINEAL EYE THIS IS FOR ANOTHER POST AND IS DEPICTED PICTORIALLY BELOW ARTHUR AVALON'S BOOK CALLED SERPENT POWER IS REFERENCED

Note my prior post on Ayahuasca medicine and assoicated topicas for the link to the story of CAROL CUMES These chakras exist in man's etheric double and are wheel like voritces of energy. They permeate from a phyiscal point in the body. They are "rotating vortices of subtle matter" and focal to the transmission and reception of energies. There are 7 major energy centers or wheels of light in the "subtle body". In Hi9nduism and New Age Spirituality,the chakras are believed to interact with the body's ductless endocrine glands and lymphatic system feeding "in" good bioenergies and disposing of unwanted bioenergies. Much of our original information comes from the Upanishads passed orally for over 1000 years and then written down 1200-900 BCE. Note the etymology below. The study of the chakras is central to differing therapies as detailed below. Balancing the energetic meridians is a common element or goal aimed at in these therapies.Note the following subtopics for further study

• esoteric anatomy




• Agamas or tantras (bodies of sceripture)




• Kundalini or "rising upward- Yoga practice




• Emanationist theory -Kundalini energy unleashed at creation -coiled and sleeping at the base of the spine--- Kundalini Yoga arouses it and it rises back up through the increasingly subtle chakras until union with G-d in the Sahasrara chakra They are therefore part of an emanationist theory, like that of the kabbalah in the west, lataif-e-sitta in Sufism or neo-platonism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chakra

Chakra (derived from the Sanskrit cakraṃ चक्रं, Phonetic
pronunciation "chukr", Pali: chakka, Tibetan: khorlo, Malay: cakera) is a Sanskrit word
that translates as wheel or disc.
Chakra is a
concept referring to wheel-like vortices which, according to traditional Indian
medicine, are believed to exist in the surface of the etheric double of man.[1] The
Chakras are said to be "force centers" or whorls of energy permeating,
from a point on the physical body, the layers of the subtle bodies in an
ever-increasing fan-shaped formation (the fans make the shape of a love heart).
Rotating vortices of subtle matter, they are considered the
focal points for the reception and transmission of energies.[2] Seven major
chakras or energy centers (also understood as wheels of light) are generally believed to
exist, located within the subtle body. Practitioners
of Hinduism
and New Age
Spirituality believe the chakras interact with the body's ductless endocrine
glands and lymphatic system by feeding in good bio-energies and disposing of
unwanted bio-energies.[3]
Much of the
original information on Chakras comes from the "Upanishads", which are
difficult to date because they are believed to have been passed down orally for
approximately a thousand years before being written down for the first time
between 1200–900 BCE.

Etymology
Bhattacharyya's review of Tantric history says that the word chakra is used to mean several different things in the Sanskrit sources:[5]
"Circle", used in a variety of senses, symbolizing endless rotation of shakti.
A circle of people. In rituals there are different cakra-sādhanā in which adherents assemble and perform rites. According to the Niruttaratantra, chakras in the sense of assemblies are of 5 types.
The term chakra also is used to denote yantras or mystic diagrams, variously known as trikoṇa-cakra, aṣṭakoṇa-cakra, etc.
Different "nerve plexus within the body".
In Buddhist literature the Sanskrit term cakra (Pali cakka) is used in a different sense of "circle", referring to a Buddhist conception of the 4 circles or states of existence in which gods or men may find themselves.[6]

Models
The study of the Chakras is central to many different therapies and disciplines. Subtle energy is explored through practices such as aromatherapy, mantras, Reiki, hands-on healing, flower essences, radionics, sound therapy, color/light therapy, and crystal/gem therapy, to name a few. Acupuncture, shiatsu, tai chi and chi kung focus on balancing the energetic meridians that are an integral part of the chakra system, according to Vajrayana and Tantric Shakta theories. Several models will be explored in the following sub-headings.

Hindu
In Hinduism, the concept of chakras is part of a complex of ideas related to esoteric anatomy. These ideas occur most often in the class of texts that are called Āgamas or Tantras. This is a large body of scripture, most of which is rejected by orthodox Brahmins.[7]
There are many variations on these concepts in the Sanskrit source texts. In earlier texts there are various systems of chakras and nadis, with varying connections between them. Various traditional sources list 5, 6, 7, or 8 chakras. Over time, one system of 6 or 7 chakras along the body's axis became the dominant model, adopted by most schools of yoga. This particular system may have originated in about the 11th century AD, and rapidly became widely popular.[8] It is in this model where Kundalini is said to "rise" upward, piercing the various centers until reaching the crown of the head, resulting in union with the Divine.

Tantric
The chakras are described in the tantric texts the Sat-Cakra-Nirupana, and the Padaka-Pancaka,[9] in which they are described as emanations of consciousness from Brahman, an energy emanating from the spiritual which gradually turns concrete, creating these distinct levels of chakras, and which eventually finds its rest in the Muladhara chakra. They are therefore part of an emanationist theory, like that of the kabbalah in the west, lataif-e-sitta in Sufism or neo-platonism. The energy that was unleashed in creation, called the Kundalini, lies coiled and sleeping at the base of the spine. It is the purpose of the tantric or kundalini forms of yoga to arouse this energy, and cause it to rise back up through the increasingly subtle chakras, until union with God is achieved in the Sahasrara chakra at the crown of the head.

VAJRAYANA AND TANTRIC BUDDHIST CONCEPTIONS COME IN THE NEXT POST

Carol Cumes Quechua people Willka Tika children's fund,

http://www.chakragardens.com/

http://ayahuascameghan.blogspot.com/2009/01/big-news-from-infinite-light-peru.html

The below was posted by me on the Ayahuasca blog and was really moving me as few as other articles I have read of disinterested love for our fellows on earth.

Carol Cumes the visionary, owner and creator of Willka Tika Garden Guest
House has been living in the sacred valley for over 20 years. she has not only
created a magical retreat center to visit but she has tirelessly worked to
educate and preserve the teachings of the Quechua people, the isolated mountain
people of the Andes thought to be direct descendants of the Inca Empire. You can
read her story in her first book "Journey to Macchu Picchu". She has recently
written a new book called "Chakra Gardens" about the sacred healing gardens on
her property and with the amazing photographs taken by Greg Asbury has created a
truly spectacular work of art.

Carol's work with the Andean children is truly a
godly work of love if ever I heard of one. I am going to get her books mentioned
and visit on the web her magical retreat center. Your post moved me as I have
not been in years. This not an accidental stumbling on your article.

Korczak Haskalah and leaping the fence

Janusz Korczak's grandfather was an exponent of Haskalah and in that way confronted his Jewish identity. He was a dreamer and man of action as was his grandson Henryk. Hirsh cut off his beard and side locks, took off his caftan for a western suit, and Polish became his mother tongue rather than Yiddish. This aping of the west was reflective of the Jewish young to burst the bonds of what they considered the confining ghetto, what the rabbis considered as fences around the Torah a necessity to safeguarding the Torah values they held dear and indispensable for identity. Cnturies of pogroms in the diaspora inbred among the Jews of Eastern Europe a standoffishness to Gentiles and a feeling of comfort among their own. "Don't get mixed with the outside and remain pure" the rabbis warned. Hirsh thought to become western in the Haskalah he could still maintain those Torah values. He leaped the fence got his medical degree married Chana Eiser and became the first doctor in his town of Hrubieszow. He gave his 3 sons and two daughters Christian names as well as Hebrew names.Hirsh remained a Jew however and did not convert and lived among an intransigent population for the most part of his peers who refused modernization and bridges with the west that he tried so hard to build . The Poles retorted with the all too familiar pattern of hard core resistance and suspicion to those Jews who tried to assume modernity in their dress and their imitation of the gentile culture.

Henryk had stumbled upon a problem -the Jewish problem- that confronted all
Polish Jews at some time in their lives. He would learn that his paternal
grandfather, Hirsh Goldszmit, after whom he was named, had spent his life trying
to solve it. Hirsh died at the age of sixty-nine in 1874, just a few years
before his grandson was born, in the provincial town of Hrubieszow, southeast of
Lublin.
Hirsh was a dreamer and a man of action, much as his grandson would
be. In the early nineteenth century he joined the Haskalah, the Jewish
Enlightenment movement that encouraged Jews to become part of the secular world.
The Jews had been welcomed into Poland by the Polish kings in the Middle Ages,
but they had remained isolated in the society. Hirsh and his fellow maskilim
tried to convince them that if they cut off their beards and sidelocks,
exchanged their long caftans for Western suits, and made Polish rather than
Yiddish their primary language, they could still retain their spiritual values.
It was an arduous task Centuries of discrimination in the diaspora had made them
suspicious of Gentiles and comfortable only among themselves. " Build a fence
around the Torah, and don`t get mixed up with anything from the outside " was a
popular saying.
Somehow Hirsh, whose father was a glazier and trader in
rabbit skins, managed to leap over the fence and make his way to medical school.
After receiving his degree, he married Chana Ejser, two years his junior, and
became the first doctor in Hrubieszow's small Jewish hospital. In true Haskalah
spirit, Hirsh gave his three sons and two daughters Christian as well as Hebrew
names, and as a leader in the Jewish community -whose three thousand Jews made
up half the town´s population- he took advantage of any chance to praise ways in
which Poles and Jews worked together. Soliciting funds for his small hospital in
the regional Hebrew newspaper, Hirsh commended the two rabbis who had gone about
like "beggars" collecting donations in spite of advanced age, poor health, and
little means of their own, as well as the Gentile on the charity board who
"spared no effort" in helping them.

But Hirsh´s claim that a secular education would not lead one´s children away from their own faith and into the dreaded jaws of conversion was weakened in 1849 when his eldest son, eighteen-year-old Ludwik, converted. Although conversion was not an uncommon occurrence in that impassioned period of Polish uprisings against the Russians, Hirsh himself remained a Jew, continuing to exhaust himself with projects that would build bridges between his people and the Poles.
It was not only the intransigence ofhis own people that made Hirsh´s task so frustrating, but the fact that a good many Poles did not consider a Jew, no matter how enlightened, a Pole. When Korczak´s father, Jozef, was born in 1844, Hirsh had to go to the Office of Non-Christian Religions with two Jewish witnesses to register him. He took the capmaker and the innkeeper. Four years later, he asked the synagogue caretaker and the ritual slaughterer to testify to the birth of his next boy, Jakub. Rather than converting like their older brother, Jozef and Jakub would carry on their father´s assimilationist mission by dedicating their lives to projects that would lift poor Jews into the mainstream of Polish society.
When he was a small boy, Jozef went to Hebrew school in Hrubieszow, for the maskilim believed in giving their boys a grounding in Torah before their secular schooling. He was attending a Polish gymnasium in Lublin during the failed uprising of 1863, reciting with the rest of his classmates the patriotic poems of Poland´s three great nineteenth-century Romantic poets, Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz Slowacki, and Zygmunt Krasinski-poems he would pass on to his son, along with a yearning for national liberation from the Russians.
Little of Jozef Goldszmit in his healthy, productive years has come down to us except through his own articles and books. We haven´t even a photograph to divulge whether he was responsible for his son´s fair complexion and baldness as well as his patriotic fervor. In the Ghetto Diary Korczak writes: " I should devote a great deal of space to my father. I tried to put into practice the goals he strove for, and which my grandfather pursued with such pain. " But Korczak was never to fill in his complex feelings about this father who, like him, had literary aspirations as a young man.

shamanism spiritual healing

http://shamanic-healing.org/healing.htm

http://shamanic-healing.org/whatissh.htm

We are reverting back to holistic and ancient notions of healing used in the Hellenistic and other indigenous mysteries, truer than the dichotomies modern science would have us indulge in.

Note the wisdom of the Eleusinian mysteries. Dr Hoeller who lectured on the gnostic and Eleusinian mysteries maintained the adepts of these mysteries lost their fear of death but regarded their involvement as highly secretive. In these times much more is revealed. Dream time regression is often used by the indigenous cultures often more so by the Aborigines,so I am informed. Soul intrusion(s) as chronic traditions have been a common plague of many for years and their removal is healing indeed.The rituals used to effect the below referenced states of the soul may be unconsciously or subliminally apprehended but nonetheless real for such apprehending.Holistic shifts in consciousness through exploring the unconscious was done by Freud but not in this manner, but in a pseudo scientific frame of reference. Ibbur or soul attachment may be a multiple function of healing to accomplish a completion of what the soul couldn't accomplish previously? Note the Kabbalistic studies and exercises are similar in their goals . Has this been semantics all the while?

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The Shamanic practitioner uses healing ceremony and
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Divination involves a reading of your
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Designed by Paul M. Sivert, L.C.P.C.
Cross-Cultural Shamanic PractitionerThe intent of this ceremony is to heal soul
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The word shaman comes from the language of a tribe in Siberia, according to Mircea Eliade, a scholar of religion, a shaman is a man or woman who "journeys" in an altered state of consciousness. Thus, shamanism is the application of what the shaman does.
In his book The Spirit of Shamanism, Roger N. Walsh, M.D., PhD. defines Shamanism as follows: "Shamanism can be defined as a family of traditions whose Practitioners focus on voluntarily entering altered states of consciousness in which they experience themselves or their spirit[s], traveling to other realms at will, and interacting with other entities in order to serve their community." There are many important phrases or key terms included in this definition. The first of which is "traditions." Traditions according to the dictionary are beliefs that are handed down [to the next generation] because of their effectiveness. In the shamanic context, these beliefs are being applied to spiritual healing, which may have an impact on the emotional/mental and physical aspects [bodies] of the individual as well. The shamanic traditions are not surprisingly different from culture to culture setting. This leads to the speculation that these traditions have an original source. .

The shamanic journey is the most common practice of the traditions. The journey is usually induced by rhythmic drumming or other percussion sound, a rattle for example. The uses of the shamanic journey are many: such as diagnosing or treating illness, for acquisition of power through the interaction with spirits, i.e., power animals, spiritual teachers and angels. It is vital that the shaman maintain a relationship with their spiritual helpers as to receive instruction and information to help the patient.
The next key word in the definition is "voluntarily." The shaman must have mastered the experience of contacting spiritual entities to receive information that will be helpful to their patient and themselves, whatever the situation may be. A major skill that is acquired in the training process is spirit vision. This skill involves the development of a capability to organize, understand and communicate with the visionary data that one is presented with while in an altered state of consciousness at will.

Some teachers instruct on the ability to be in two worlds simultaneously. The worlds are revealed to the shaman when journeying into the altered state of consciousness. Carlos Castaneda termed these states "nonordinary reality." In his book The Way of the Shaman, Michael Harner writes "...altered state of consciousness and learned perspective that characterize shamanic work... involves not only a 'trance' or a transcendent state of awareness, but a learned awareness of shamanic methods and assumptions while in an altered state." The experience in the shaman's universe is the existence of three worlds: upper, middle and lower, which are joined in relationship by spiritual energy more than by physical properties. Dr. Walsh describes, "...central axis takes three main forms, all of them common to diverse cultures and myths... the first is the common. the 'cosmic mountain' at the center of the earth. The second is the 'world pillar' that many hold up the sky. The third is the highly symbolic 'world tree' symbol of life, fertility and sacred regeneration...." For the shaman, the multilayered worlds traveled through the altered state of consciousness are a direct experience. The last key word pertaining to this definition is "Serve." Connie Newton, my teacher of the Integrated Awareness Technique is constantly reminding us that as healers we must serve. To learn the knowledge is not enough. We must use our healing capabilities for the good of others and ourselves. Shamans are committed to the art of healing to the people of the community. The practice of these healing traditions is often referred to as energy medicine. The goal of energy medicine is to provide a healing to the recipient. The format of a healing is the ceremony where the shaman applies his or her healing protocols which have passed down from the practitioner's teacher, from generation to generation therefore establishing the traditions. The knowledge is ancient but it is always growing or evolving. Thus, the shamans of today practice energy medicine traditions that have evolved in their effectiveness and practicality.
Shamanism is an ongoing expanding body of energy medicine that is rooted in tradition. The shaman applies the energy medicine protocols for the healing of the people he or she serves.