Wheels of Life: A User's Guide to the Chakra System (Llewellyn's New Age)

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This book dives deep into the chakra system, offering insights that are both accessible and profound. It’s well-organized and makes complex ideas easy to understand. Five stars for depth and clarity—essential reading for anyone interested in energy healing and personal growth!

I cannot Rave enough about this book. This is coming from a person who hasn't actually enjoyed a book since middle school.I seriously have not picked up a book and read it from cover to cover since middle school which was over 13 years ago. I used to be the type of person that would fall asleep reading. Prime example I never made it past the first chapter of the first Harry Potter book even after trying three separate times to read it because I would always fall asleep. This book however has kept my interest the entire time to where any free moment I had and I ended up reading it. The way the author writes and goes about telling me information is amazing. In the last few years I began to become more spiritual and in tune with myself. I wanted to learn more about chakras and their meanings and their purpose.This book was so powerful for me that in points while reading I would actually get very emotional and cry, in a good way. I almost felt like the reader was in my head and I finally had someone who understood. While most of the book I kind of gathered in my own thoughts in recent years it was reassuring and amazing to read it in written words that I felt I never could truly explain. Then there was a few bits of information that I hadn't ever considered or truly thought about and it was eye, and spirit, opening to say the least. If you're considering this book just buy it you will not be disappointed!!

I will recommend to anyone that needs guidance in this confusing world and just feels like something is missing, this big is what your missing! My husband found this and it spoke to his soul, it didn't change him, it completed him and I think it's amazing. He found this by chance while in prison and drinking and addiction threatened our success in a future together and he's been through jail, rehab, AA, religion, drugs, u name it he fought it! He thought he was doomed to a life of misery he created, alot to carry while serving time and missing your daughter's birthday and having to see her grow up in pics... I started to lose hope...until he called me excited about this book he was loaned from another inmate. Jist hearing him describe it got me excited! He had found his light again and this book turned it on for him... he's studied this ever since and has found the peace to let go of his pain and has grown and started to become this amazing loving fun soul I knew was him. I can't tell people enough, this is the beginning-ypur path back to for anyone who needs one, and one that has helped other, like myself, just by healing whats broken so we can live

This is a fairly good book on Chakras. It is certainly well known. I have been studying and working with chakras, trying to get them, since the seventies with Arthur Avalon's "Serpent Power".I can understand why the author might think her idea of a descending current, in addition to an ascending current, is novel at the time she wrote this book. The emphasis on what I read under yogic systems was concerned almost exclusively with raising Kundalini through the chakras in an ascending direction. Yes, there was some vague mumbo-jumbo about reaching and piercing the seventh chakra and some kind of vague, wonderful, iridescent colors shooting out and raining down. But, there was no detail about what was going on in this rain.It reminded me of the strong man carnival attraction. If you remember it, it was the one a guy used to impress his girl friend back in the fifties when I was a kid. You's take a huge mallet and hit a lever at the bottom of a tall pole sending a weight up the pole. If you were strong enough, your weight went up all the way to the top, rang a bell, your girlfriend swooned at your manly manness, and she got a prize. Maybe you got laid. No one paid attention to the weight when it descended. All eyes were on its upward journey and whether it rose high enough to ring the bell.I always wondered about the one way nature of this. I was unclear how it could be self-sustainable. I didn't feel like whacking a spiritual mallet all of my life in order to achieve a permanent state.When I read about the Taoist Chinese view of the cosmic or universe orbit, the microcosmic or small universe, orbit, I understood the rising current up the spine and the descending current down the front of the body (sometimes equated with an energetic path that the alimentary canal follows, an elimination path down and along the front). Here, at least, I saw what could be sustainable as the orbit naturally goes around and around, up and down. Two ways, not just one way.The ascending current is often called an earthly flow from Mother Earth and the descending current a heavenly flow from Father Sky. I experience the earthly, upward flow as golden yellow; it is creative, powerful, and generative. Sexual energy is a notable example of it. I experience the downward flow as violet, higher in wave length, higher frequency, and more refined than raw, as a kind of loving, blessing energy.The level of understanding of chakras in this book seems to me to be a little light and conventional. I do not know if it appears conventional to me now because of works that follow this book; perhaps it was cutting edge at the time.If you are new to chakras and beginning to comprehend them, this is likely to be a good choice for you.If you are further along the path, you can profit from this book by consolidating what you know. For this reader, I would not expect many revelations.On a scale of one to seven, I give it a two. That's mainly because most of us are at a two, or a three. With all of the violence in the world, especially as it saturates our entertainment, I often see us as a group engaged in power plays of one sort or another. All argument and conflict seems to call for violence and death. Sad, really, to still be on this level.Perhaps we will ascend to the next level, the heart level, where we see others as ourselves, rather than the third level, where we seem to be now, where we see others as adversaries. This beats the second level where we see others as ways to gratify us, what we can get from another that we believe we need, or the first where we can see others at odds with our own survival, based on primitive fear.So as to end on a more positive note, these changes are state changes, similar to changes on the quantum level where material bodies act more energetically than physically and are either are in one state or another, or both, without transitioning through intermediate states.For us, all it takes to change state, from one chakra to another, is a shift in our minds. This shift occurs instantly. It does not require time, a long time, or any time. It does not involve the effort of changing external things; it is an internal shift. The exterior remains as it is; what shifts is what we make of the external.To me, rising to the seventh chakra is less than half the story. Now, after raising the Earth to the heavens, we need to bring down the heavens to the Earth. This improves our state so that the next orbit is deeper, and so on. We can go from a one sot peak experience to a sustained and repetitive, permanent state.