Extropianism

[Eric the Green]

(06-17-2021, 02:38 PM)Captain Genet Wrote: http://www.skepdic.com/chakras.html

"Some have tried to connect the chakras with physical organs such as the pineal gland and the thymus." So rather than waste time with pre-scientific descriptions of the human body, I'll just go straight to an anatomy text book. Anyway, I don't see connection between human anatomy and Scheler's value hierarchy.

The connection to chakras was obvious from the given titles. Given the similarity, that's a clue that what Scheler tapped into was in fact the chakras.

The human body is also spiritual; complete understanding of reality requires both objective and subjective observation. The subjective is based on what you actually experience and feel. You observe your consciousness. Both subjective and objective are verifiable, although in different ways. Objective modern western science is important, but can never be the only knowledge. To think so is the modernist view, or positivism. But the more up to date view is the new age view, or at least post-modern. The up-to-date view also includes eastern knowledge. You are cut off from the currents of thought and knowledge of our time if you only accept modernist views. Recognize that there are others, even if you don't buy them.

The glands are not really "organs", but the endocrine system. There are even more important physical correlates to the chakras called nerve ganglia. The solar plexus and the heart area are the most well-known. The chakras are what we directly feel. If you focus on or touch these areas of your body, you can feel the chakras and their traits and powers. Of course, psychics or therapists also contact them to understand a client's aura and which chakras (and thus which of our functions, abilities and needs) are blocked and which are healthy and active.

After all these years since the Awakening, I think there's no excuse to ignore its lessons and re-discoveries. And for many millennials it goes against the grain of what you have been exposed to in our ignorant, backward, reactive culture. A healthy society keeps some of its lessons from the recent past. We don't. Myself, I absorbed the modernist view in childhood, but saw past it in 1966-67 and beyond because the Awakening opened me directly and all by myself, with the help of the social turning's mood going on. IOW there was "something in the air." Those of us who experienced the Awakening discovered that modern society is bankrupt. Alternatives are needed in our culture. But, some alternatives of today are off the deep end, rationally. We have to get the right perspective and balance to move forward.



chakras as I described them years ago:

7 (crown of the head): bliss, enlightenment, connection to God and cosmos, spirit, thought and understanding, pituitary gland*
6 (third eye): vision, intuition, insight, psychic awareness, imagination, light, left/right brain, pineal gland*
5 (throat): expression, communication, hearing, sound, speech, interpretation, hands, adaptation, purification, thyroid gland
4 (heart): love, compassion, relationship, balance and harmony, inner guidance, authentic self, thymus gland
3 (solar plexus/navel): will, power, energy, digestion, center of gravity, self-esteem, action, muscles, legs, adrenal glands
2 (lower stomach): sexual/sensual energy, female sexuality, joy and pleasure, connecting to others, desire, subconscious mind, ovaries, prostate gland
1 (base of spine): survival, grounding, finances, roots of life, feet, "seat of pants" basic instincts, instilled beliefs, excretory system, male sexuality, testicles

https://philosopherswheel.com/toccata.ht...theToccata