Kalkin Chakra
What do you see when you look at this painting? My goal here was to portray a simplified clairvoyant view of a dirty chakra based on first-hand accounts from years of healing sessions. I use the Sanskrit word “Kalkin” meaning sediment or dirty. Here dirty does not mean wicked or depraved, but only that the quality of energy is vibrationally low and speaking to the stagnation, congestion, and blockages in the chakra. To have a more solid understanding let me take you through the foundational basics of a human’s energetic anatomy.
Firstly, let's discuss chakras or centers of spiritual energy and power. Each human body is comprised of chakras. Chakras are entry points for life energy also known as Prana or Chi to enter the body. This subtle life energy manages and energizes the organs of the body. Since chakras are intrinsically connected to all levels of the body they also share information of a person’s psychological and spiritual conditions and by cleansing and energizing these energy centers you can heal the physical body, aid in the homeostasis of the relative organs, and heal mental and emotional states of a person.
Just as our physical body has vital and minor organs our energy body also has major and minor chakras. There are 11 Major Chakras in the body, some ancient and modern literature discusses a 7 chakra system but based on other esoteric schools of study and the work of Master Choa Kok Sui, founder of Pranic Healing, I recognize an 11 Major Chakra system.
- The Crown is located on top of the head.
- The Forehead is located just above the Ajna.
- The Ajna, known as the Third Eye, is located between the eyebrows.
- The Throat is located at the center of the throat.
- The Heart is located in the center of the chest.
- The Solar Plexus is located below the sternum.
- The Spleen is located at the Spleen.
- The Meng Mein is located at the low back or Lumbar Spine.
- The Navel is located at the Navel.
- The Sex is located at the root of the sexual organs.
- The Basic is located at the base of the spine.
Do understand chakras are not superficial. To reach their root you move from the point of reference to your central axis, the Spiritual Column. Chakras themselves have quadrants and levels to their being.
Aside from these 11 Major Chakras, there are minor centers as well. Some of these are located on your palms, fingertips, feet, shoulders, and between some major centers. There are also energy centers above the head, between the legs, and below the feet. These centers are quite different from the ones on the body. They relate to non-manifested sense organs, spiritual perception, and levels of consciousness, because of this they develop with spiritual maturity and operate differently from the Chakras on the body. One for example is known as the 12th Chakra, also called The Point, Soul Star, or Golden Flame, and exists about 3 inches above the head. This is the area where consciousness can operate non-dimensional functions of superastrality, levels that stand above ordinary mental consciousness and resonating with higher frequencies of consciousness, like those of higher beings.
Amalgamated in the body, chakras also connect to the Aura. There is more than one level to the Aura and each level can share different details of a person's health, emotional, and spiritual attributes. Firstly, surrounding and merging with the physical body we have an energy body this is called the Inner Aura. Emanating from the physical body and through the Inner Aura are rays of light known as Health Rays, this level is known as the Health Aura. Note how many images of iconography show rays of light emanating from the body, these are a depiction of healthy, highly developed Health Rays. Lastly, the Outer Aura, which encompasses both the Inner and Health auras and extends about 1 yard from the physical body on average. In some individuals, this Outer Aura can be smaller but as you evolve spiritually and maintain a high level of energetic hygiene, the size of your chakras, inner aura, health rays, health aura, and outer aura can increase and strengthen.
There is an intimate relationship between the Energy Body and the Physical body so issues in one will manifest in the other. Illnesses and diseases first appear in the Energy Body before they manifest physically and many of the emotional and mental difficulties that subconsciously affect people manifest and gain density, staying logged in our body of energy. With the help of a healer or by adopting an energetic hygiene regimen we can aid our body of energy in finding greater homeostasis. This homeostasis is then expressed through qualitative mental, emotional, and physical health which then provides the foundation for spiritual development.
There are other areas of energetic anatomy to discuss but for the sake of reviewing this image, I will stop here and go further with energetic anatomy in future blogs.
In this painting, I am sharing the image of a lower major chakra with multiple issues that can generally be found in a person’s chakra, especially if they have never sought energetic healing or do not practice energetic hygiene. Before entering a chakra, with love and respect, you pass through the web. This web is responsible for opening and closing the center as it absorbs or expels energy. The web is not depicted as we are already inside the chakra. The column of light down the middle of the chakra is the Spiritual Column, the column of energy that extends through the body infinitely above and below. Notice how it is not a single cord. A kind of movement or vibration is shown depicting the unbalancedness. It is also very thin and seems a bit unsolid in some places. The geometric shape connected to the Spiritual Column is the root of a chakra, with its 4 quadrants the dimensions of which are relative and scalable to our perception. Many times, the space inside an average person’s chakra is small, dark, and filled with all sorts of unhelpful things. These things can be somaticized traumas, negative thoughtforms (negative thoughts with form and density), residual energy from intimacy, and dense or even gross energy from energetically toxic substances, environments, consumptions, and experiences. These can be seen or present themselves in several ways. Often, I find them like heavy boulders, slimy goop, soot clouds, and even tare like octopus’ creatures to name just a few. The texture, quality, colors, and smells of everything inside a chakra give information about what it is and how to clear it. The goal is to create spaciousness in the energy center and fill it with energizing spiritual light.
This is the reality found inside the chakra of most people that have never undergone energetic healing or practices energetic hygiene. This is not meant to shame or make anyone feel bad, this is a reality you should be informed on and have compassion and empathy about. Imagen an engine after years of neglect, corroded with layers of dirt and oil, it might operate ok, but not well. It probably overheats quickly and will inevitably break down. That engine did not get that way because it is inherently bad. On the contrary, it has worked well because it has done what it was intended for but, since it has not been cared for or maintained it lacks effectiveness and efficiency. Your energy body is the same. It gets corroded by negative thoughts, emotional trauma, anger, and toxic pollutants. This corrosion in your body of energy often compels you to act out or react from that lower nature becoming a negative feedback loop. Water seeks its own level and energy seeks its own vibration. So, this density and lower gross energy influence not only your health but your mental and emotional states, and with this sort of weight how could you effectively reach higher states of beings?
The thing is you are not this corrosion. You are not the negative thoughts or traumas but when these things have manifested on your energy body you are more likely to act or live at the level of vibration that you are most filled with and compelled by.
Again, none of this makes anybody inherently bad. It is just a fact of living in a culture that is on many levels toxic. We as humans are permeable and unfortunately for most everyone by the time our consciousness has incarnated enough to become self-aware and articulate, we have already built layers and layers of corrosion from the hurtful actions of others and global toxic enterprises.
I am sharing these things because they are inherently empowering if you do not cling to states of self-victimization. Cover the upset with compassion and know there is a way to address these issues. Perhaps you feel some situations are too far gone to start healing now, or that it is too overwhelming. It is never too late. Just like in the parable of the Prodigal Son the moment you choose better for yourself the all will have been waiting for you and receive you lovingly. There is no love or righteousness in the self-imposed banishment to the mud with the pigs. That’s just fatalistic martyrdom that caresses the pain body and keeps it alive in you. Sure, it might be difficult but that is the journey. Throw away any notion that healing, personal development, or spiritual growth of any kind should be easy or should be fed to you with a silver spoon. It is your willingness and constancy of aim and effort that put you in line to receive. You must show up, again and again. You must get through the trenches. This is not because you are not deserving, it is because you must choose and get yourself through a lot of what has built up inside you.
To grow in spirit is to strive for a healthy life, a healthy body, a healthy heart, higher expressions of kindness, and compassion not because this makes you better in comparison to others but because they provide the foundation for personal development. You must be compassionate with yourself.
For many years of my life and most of my life as a healer, I aimed to deeply heal. Creating actions of love rather than fatalism for some issues was fairly easy, like creating boundaries, being kinder to others, and practicing non-reactiveness. But other issues went on unspoken and actively ignored because it was too upsetting to look at and when I would try to heal it any relapse was so disappointing, I would wonder if my efforts even mattered If I could heal it or if I even wanted to, And part of me didn’t. This feeds into a loop of shame continuing the cycle through constant negative feedback. I am talking about an eating disorder that I developed when I was 15, Anorexia and Bulimia. At its root, this is an illness that stems from an inability to love oneself. Not because I never did, but along the way, I was taught by people and society that I was not only flawed but that parts of me are unlovable. By being gay I was unacceptable, being queer I was uncomfortable to be around, being male I was not hunky or strong enough, being a dancer I was not the best or tallest, being a student I did not fit the mold of contemporary American education, being of Mexican descent I was less of a person made for labor; a parasite on the country…the list goes on. I turned all that inwards and created actions that felt like control, but they were self-imposed hate that matched the judgment I experienced and took on.
Along my journey to learn the skills of providing energetic healing I needed to heal myself. They went hand in hand, I could not help others heal deep wounds if I hand not reach and addressed that depth in myself. I was confronted with this gross thing; all the hate, and self-disgust that lived inside me, that I kept alive. It needed to be confronted. So, I opened up about it to my closest friends and some family members in 2016 when I was 25. I wanted to heal, but the truth is I relapsed over and over. It was a constant effort to shift my mind, to gain agency over my negative thoughts and feelings, to surround myself with better people, to create new healthy habits. The most difficult thing I have ever attempted to do in my life so far was to heal from this issue, declare that I wanted it and continue showing up to do so. To get to where I am today, which is a couple of years of continued victory, I had to want it. I had to dig deep and become honest with myself, and others. I had to separate from it. The negative feelings about myself and my body, my worth and value. To look at the density, the soot, the goop, in areas of my body and heal it. To look face to face with my darkness and feed it, love. To ask for healing. Receiving healing was difficult because it felt the most vulnerable, it is intimate but it also meant I was not doing this alone.
We as Souls in a human body are at some level bound by the density of the world, the bombardment of hurtful actions and negative situations but that is not our prison if we do not wish it. The truth is we allow much of the suffering we experience. Unfortunately wanting things to change doesn’t get the job done. We must go through the process, show up for it, get stronger through every victory, and more cunning after every failure. These difficulties in life are not here to be our punishment for existing. They are our Soul's challenges for growth. We all have things to heal, do not make them your secret prison. There is no honor, no value, no grace, no joy, no ease, no love in the self-imposed banishment to the muddy pigsty.
