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Our Chakras and the Search for Truth 03/10/2023 |
We are exploring truth which manifests itself in so many and multiple ways. Aquinas and the Jewish tradition speak of truth as being found in the heart and not just in the
head. Truth is data and facts but it is also much more. |
I think each of our chakras unveils a different dimension to truth. We find truth in our guts for example (third chakra)—and
we find untruth there too. We sometimes feel “kicked in the gut” when we hear of lies or violence or the suffering of others. There is truth to be learned in love making, our second chakra. And in our first chakra, the truth of connecting
to the earth and to the cosmos itself which is made of vibrating atoms, which | |
is to say music. The truths the night sky tells us about. There is truth to be found in the heart surely. And in and through our throats. Our breath or fifth chakra of the throat takes us into silence which is so essential a way to encounter deep truth—“be still and learn that I am God.” But also the breath that is our
breathing and speaking and speaking out, the prophetic truth and wisdom we share with one another and the world. There is also the truth our minds discover (the sixth chakra)—especially when we marry the intuitive brain and the
rational brain, the wonderful love-making between insight and intellect, how one feeds the other and mutuality becomes a dance of delight and truth. |
| The gifts of creativity come to us and in turn ignite our own further insight and sharing of our truth with one another. So much truth comes by way of music and art, dance and sports, humor and all the other ways we touch one another and are
touched. |
Yes, truth comes in many varieties and through many doors. Our lives are a banquet inviting us to dine and drink truth in celebration with one another. No hunger for
truth, there is much to go around. |
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Queries for Contemplation Does the naming of the 7 chakras and recognizing each as a doorway to truth speak to your experience? Which chakra do you depend on most for truth? Which the least? Is it time to pursue that way more eagerly now? |
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Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh:
Transforming Evil in Soul and Society Visionary theologian and best-selling author Matthew Fox offers a new theology of evil that fundamentally changes the traditional perception of good and evil and points the way to a more
enlightened treatment of ourselves, one another, and all of nature. In comparing the Eastern tradition of the 7 chakras to the Western tradition of the 7 capital sins, Fox allows us to think creatively about our capacity for personal and institutional evil and what we can do about them. “A scholarly masterpiece embodying a better vision and
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