Spleen Center /Third bandwidth

Spleen centre / Third bandwidth

This center is not one of the seven major centers, but very important nevertheless. It is closely connected to the physical spleen and located to the left of the navel on the side in the etheric body. The etheric spleen center is not controlled by the etheric spinal columns as are the other major centers. It is a six petal double center, one superimposed on the other, making it a twelve petal lotus. It is a massive energy structure, more powerful than some of the major centers.  It is in this center that the receptive life of matter and the living energy of the etheric body come together, connecting the physical plane with the inner living bodies of a human being through the medium of the etheric body. 

In the physical body we have the fires of our lower nature centralised at the base of the spine. This central point of heat radiates in all directions, using the spinal column as its main artery yet having a special association with the spleen. 

The etheric body, an exact replica of the physical body is our vehicle of prana. It stores up the rays of the sun and transmits them, via the spleen to all parts of the physical body. 

The physical spleen is essentially a blood cleanser and is intimately involved in the production of macrophages for immune response (working with the thymus gland). It removes old blood cells from the blood stream and breaks them down. It also stores blood in its spongy tissue. The Chinese see the spleen as the primary link whereby food is transformed into prana or chi and blood. It is considered as a primary organ of digestion, which conforms more to the esoteric view of the spleen as the organ of vitality. It is also said to rule transformation and transportation. It is also referred to as the foundation of postnatal existence and refers to the fact that while the foetus is developing, it is the mother's spleen which supplies vitality to the developing foetus. 

The spleen governs the blood and keeps it flowing in its proper paths. If the spleen is not functioning in harmony all types of blood disorders develop. The spleen also rules muscles, flesh and lower limbs. It governs blood flow to these and therefore their vitality. 

There is a triangle in the upper part of the etheric body especially absorbing the pranic emanations from the Sun. It is formed by 1) a point between the shoulderblades 2) a point above the diaphragm and 3) the spleen. With this triangle in good functioning there will be improved physical vitality, health and adaptability. Out of these three points it is the spleen that assimilates the inflow. The vital essence of the Sun is passed into the etheric spleen, and is there subjected to a process of intensification or devitalisation, according to the condition, health of that organ. If the person is healthy the emanation received will be augmented by his own individual vibration before it is passed on into the physical spleen and from there to our blood stream.

It is the center most involved when there is too much or too little energy, when the person feels depleted or highly strung. The spleen also assimilates planetary prana or chi, the spleen governs the working of the body, the amount of life-force available in the body. This centre is connected to many electrical circuits within the body.

Esoterically the spleen is directly connected with the infusion of soul energy as it is part of the bridge connecting personality consciousness with the soul, bridging prana and life-force with soul’s energy and your spark of divinity. It is also connected to the pituitary gland in the head, which in turn has an influence on the opening of the third eye. 


The role of the spleen as a bridge is often forgotten. It connects both with the base of the spine as well as with the top of the head being an important link between the Divine Mother and the Divine Father. In the soul lotus the energy stream from the spleen eventually, after many incarnations and much work & purification, enters the central jewel of the lotus being part of the process of connecting matter and spirit - collapsing them into one expansive radiant illumination. The spleen is one of the intermediaries, together with the heart center between the lower and the higher centers.

Our current, especially western busy life-style may cause inability to tap enough into pranic currents of the Sun and we get cut off from this life-saving supply with our centers shrinking and becoming congested. The constant exposure to electromagnetic smog from our mobile phones, I-pads, I-phones, computers etc. may also cause disturbances in the etheric body's capacity to channel the needed planetary and solar pranic energies. Over-eating, over-drinking and tiredness from overwork injure the spleen.

Emotionally a healthy spleen gives appreciation and humour, zest of living when the spleen is energised. When the spleen is weak people may want to escape and have a harder time facing up to responsibility, there may be denial, avoidance and self protection. If we carry a mask, it is heavy for the spleen, as we are not able to show our true emotions.

To keep the spleen center healthy we need to absorb pranic energy through the Sun, get a lot of fresh air from forests or coastlines, eat a healthy balanced diet, have aspiration which inspires the emotional body and keep mentally alert and vibrant. When the spleen is depleted we experience devitalisation, a feeling of congestion, depression, physical heaviness, sluggishness, inertia, fuzzy thoughts and tiredness with sleeplessness. Naturally, doing our inner work, shining our light into the darker spaces within, bringing our soul essence down into matter are all essential for the good health of the etheric spleen and consequently the physical spleen.

As we manage to resolve some of our karma by bringing our beautiful soul fully into our lower bandwidths, i.e. heal the dissonant frequencies and vibrations held by the soul and stored within the causal body, the spleen automatically expands and makes more energy available. One must fully incarnate, be fully conscious on all levels wherein bodies have been formed and occupied. If a person seeks to leave the physical consciousness either through day dreaming, disassociation or going numb because of unresolved trauma, sleep or death, the spleen is most definitely affected and plays a role in the process. Vitality and activity is lessened if the Higher Self/Soul is not present in the body. Therefore, if we wish to be vital, feel truly alive, if we seek good humour and high spirits, lets attend to fully incarnating our higher selves, soul-infusion, and open our spleens to the boundless energy and life which is there for us. In a shaman words: in the process of healing, we set free the discordant energies bound in our life-times of stories, in our wounds and transform these energies into power and compassion within us, thus reclaiming our own soul.

In my own journey of soul-infusion paying attention to the etheric spleen, the spleen meridian and subsequently the spleen itself has been and continues to be apparent and very important. As mentioned before the etheric spleen is a double center, one superimposed on the other, each with 6 petals and is in its totality comprising a huge center with 12 petals. In a vision I once had, I saw how the lower 6 petals are connected to the Earthly side of our nature and the 6 higher ones to our Divine nature, and how these upper petals only open fully as some of the healing of the lower bandwidths have been somewhat resolved. I do my own meditation and healing work, using Esoteric Healing on myself as well as collaborate with a talented vibrational healer Kate; and nine times out of ten the centers of the spleen are receiving some attention. Incarnating fully and embodying my soul essence here in the sphere of life on Earth has been quite a challenge; it is like putting a vast genie back into a slightly too small a bottle. With each 'success' the energetic bottle or Holy Grail for the genie to flow into and express itself has expanded.   

To support the souls journey of infusion we have to be properly grounded. Everyone working with any kind of spiritual healing has heard this millions of times, the chalice has to be able to carry the fire of spirit to ground and embody the energies in matter. This groundedness expands with each step on the way, as we incarnate more fully into the wholeness of who you are. As consciousness equals energy our capacity to ground is relative to our capacity to embody our divinity in all of our centers and our aura. 

Many people understand this grounding principle in a narrowish manner, thinking that it is to do purely with our physicality, our connection with outer nature. It is naturally that, but much more. To the extent you still carry imbalances in your first, second and third center, in your lower bandwidths your energy cannot ground itself fully on Earth. See further my blog posts about the base, sacral, solar plexus and heart centers. Everything is interconnected. 

"All disease is an inhibition of soul life" / Esoteric Healing / Alice a Bailey

Sources: Alan Hopkins / Esoteric Healing 
               Alice A. Bailey / Treatise of Cosmic Fire
               Malvin N. Artley Jr. / Bodies of Fire 



Inspired by my own journey, study in esoteric philosophy, the ancient wisdom tradition, especially esoteric soul based healing and notes from a workshop with Jeddah Mali.

Heart Center / Heart Chakra / Fourth Bandwidth

Heart center

As humanity is still very much polarized in the emotional body, these writings about the energy centers reflect mainly the challenge of overcoming emotional imbalances.

The twelve petal heart center located near the heart between the 4^th and 5^th thoracic vertebrae, just below and in-between the etheric shoulder blades, affects the function of our thymus, immune system, heart, blood circulation, lungs, lymphatic system and breasts. It also affects the spleen together with the solar plexus. The center is divided into lower heart and higher heart – lower connecting with self awareness and higher with added group awareness. It connects us with the feeling consciousness of the soul and in the later stages of the heart opening anchors the energy of pure spirit. It transmits energy from the love petals of the soul. Love is a coherent force that makes all things whole, for where there is love no harm can come. 

Solar plexus has to do with personal desires and wants, whereas lower heart with personal love and higher heart with impersonal, broadly inclusive group love. This is where we bridge between the purely personal to the beginnings of soul influenced impersonal and seek connection and right relationship to the different spheres of life in a new more inclusive way. The heart center opens us to the awareness of love and group needs, and these can initially seem to be in conflict with the self oriented outlook that the solar plexus energizes.

As the heart opens the sense of who you are becomes bigger. As consciousness is a widening of light and expansion the open heart recognizes the “I am part of everything” and starts to feel the influence of existence itself. This brings for the first time a sense of going beyond your notion of pure physicality, emotionalism and mentality – you are something more. “I am not my body, not my emotions, nor my thoughts – I am an eternal soul and spirit having a human experience”. The perspective changes and expands remarkably and a whole new vast vista opens up.

The heart weaves and begins the integration and the healing process. We may ask ourselves “what would I be without my drama and my story, what would I be without all the “stuff” I have suppressed” and we start to develop a much more integrated view of ourselves. As we connect with something greater we experience a lot of release and relief, elevation, lightness and freedom and we become genuinely curious about life, truth, existence and God – a longing awakens to know who we really are and where we came from and why are we here. We are tapping into a source that is much more, is mysterious to our ordinary day-to-day consciousness and elevated.

We start to take others into consideration and develop kindness, compassion and care. Our understanding of life’s many relationships deepens and we enter the bridge between the purely human personality based expression meeting the part of us which is informed by our soul and our inclusive divine spirit.

Our beliefs reflect belonging and we get glimpses of understanding that our experience is our own responsibility – some of which chocks us, some of which we may delight in. Yet, life does become more trustworthy again and there is a strong longing for connection. We seek our own healing and this lower heart opening is a great sphere of self-development, inner growth and improvement. We may seek therapy, counselling, healing and spiritual groups to find like-minded people.  

The validation comes from how we experience our inner space. In the previous stages this did not yet enter, we were still in the outer world of matter, now we are curious of the inner world of feeling, sensations and soul, deeper causes inside. We look for ease, flow, rightness, softening of struggle and pain. We want an authenticity we haven’t sought before and we want to know ourselves on a deeper level.

Stress can unbalance the heart center, causing blood pressure imbalances and insomnia. Also greed and over concern or protection of one’s so-called “rights” can bring this center into an unhealthy state.

Ego identity is still present as the lower heart opens but it is behaving itself and seeking identification with a new sphere of meaningfulness, people and connections. We find current day spiritual materialism here, the jargon and the spiritual platitudes, all part of the group of people seeking a new sphere of belonging. The New Age market place, fairs of glitter, bumper stickers and paraphernalia of angels, crystals and incenses etc. You have to at least do yoga, although with mostly body preoccupation, to feel part of this new sphere of exploration your heart has invited you towards and you may seek a new way of feeling special, a trap of the ego, to feel the belonging you seek. Later your yoga practice may indeed become a real portal to the inner self-inquiry and deeper alchemy.

This is a huge bandwidth and encompasses all forms of spiritual seekers, some of which, if they stay in this sphere alone can develop real smugness, yet another trap on the way. As the soul influences already a bit, the heart would not open otherwise, we look towards going within to meet our needs. We are kinder towards ourselves and others, more accepting, humorous and philosophical. We are choosing and being more pro-active about what we want and how we engage with life.

The journey into the depths of our hearts is long and there is often a lot of healing needing to take place, of self-acceptance, potential overwhelm of emotions, looking at our defenses and melting and transmuting energies further. If we get past the lower heart to integrating the upper heart, deeper genuine work starts and humbleness enters, we remember and get glimpses of what the soul already knows and we enter a genuine spiritual inquiry, find our path and our calling, eventually reaching the point of no return. The heart starts to fully function after, what in the esoteric philosophy is called the second initiation or the baptism, where one ceases to think solely as an individual and in addition becomes attuned to group consciousness. By the time we have fully embraced this bandwidth, all upper centers would have opened to a greater degree in unison with the heart center and we enter into a life of service and dedication – a fairly high state of consciousness. The brow center and the heart become fully alive and the brow centers gland the pituitary body enters into activity. The long healing journey, which may take life-times, takes us through our childhood wounding to ancestral patterns and past life energies seeking healing and redemption, all depending on our souls purpose and stage of evolution.

When the deeper spiritual inquiry starts we would have embarked on a real conscious soul search, building through meditation practice our connection with the downward gazing soul. We seek the stillness; observe our witnessing awareness and engage in self inquiry. As the heart starts to open it awakens the soul and she starts to pay attention to what her reflection, the personality is doing. A process of infusion, invocation, evocation and integration brings us to greater soul infusion, magnetism, health and wholeness. We open ourselves to the unknown and surrender. Dedicated and disciplined spiritual practice and meditation enters and we do them regularly, daily.

The heart is a real choice point. Our relating to the world changes to that of compassion, respect for diversity and a willingness to be part of the solution rather than the problem and we desperately try and find how we can contribute. Yet we also realize that we are not yet a fully embodied divinity walking our solution, emanating divine Love continuously. Actually we become acutely aware of what still needs correcting, integrating and healing. Love, awe, reverence to all life, wonder enters and a willingness to do our inner work consistently. In esoteric philosophy it is said that aspirants do what they want, but disciples do what is needed, they are at this stage locked by the soul, the inner spheres of their aura and their etheric body, connections to greater streams of life, follow instructions and guidance.

Conceptually we may get glimpses of the oneness and the wholeness, have some experiential peak experiences, yet they are fleeting and we find ourselves still in separation. We know, but cannot yet embody nor take full ownership of the expanded, all-encompassing Be-ness or Absolute Truth. Knowing and living it are two different matters. Knowing God conceptually and living God are still miles apart. Yet at the top of this bandwidth, the wide open heart fully connected and the soul infused into our whole being the experiences of truth realized can come. At this point there is “no my soul or thy soul – only one soul of humanity”. A soul field currently in huge distress, yet for the individual reaching this stage it somehow bothers less. You may still engage in the suffering of humanity, it may even hurt more especially if you are a kinaesthetic sensitive, feeling the pain of the world, but you also understand that every individual soul is exactly where it needs to be in its own evolutionary journey. You realize that every soul is you, as you are them. You become a contributing emanation into the collective field and counterbalance some of that suffering.

A lot of courage is needed to reach truth realized, as the subtler shadow imprints in our soul field seek our awareness. We are both remembering and forgetting; when triggers come our way we may still fall back on our separation. The finer the energy we magnetize and attract, the more subtle the traps.

As our aspiration is to firmly connect with our soul, it may come as a surprise to many spiritual seekers that we have to work through every single resonance from the lower bandwidths to reach our ultimate goal. And as the actual remembering of our soul field doesn't start until the heart has readily opened, we find ourselves re-entering, re-capitulating some of the lower bandwidths to integrate the hurts, wounding and fear still lingering there.

We stand between worlds, often spacious, open, vulnerable and inquisitive. We recognize our egos, lower self story and see both our humanness and our divinity.

The challenge here becomes the legacy of old patterns of our many life times, how to grow beyond the initial realization and integrate more and more of who we truly are. There is always risk of ego claiming new ground, of getting too pleased with ourselves and our attainment. The shift between the lower heart to the upper heart is really asking for demonstration, spirit is requiring proof, embodiment and being real. We cannot take our baggage with us to heaven, nor bring an uplifting contribution by directing the beautiful vibration of heaven fully down to Earth unless we do the multi-generational, multi life-time work that’s needed at this stage.

Our responsibility now is to stay with and persevere with our meditation practice, be authentically present to what is real and arising in the moment and have the courage to go even deeper. We are sometimes left to our own devices, in the later stages of the journey, without a mentor, guide or guru in order to embody the demonstration needed. You are asked to use your heart to deal with everything you brought with you as your soul incarnated and your ultimate authority is your own soul and the divine God spark within you. Time and space are relative processes, all is present in the now. You work with both personal and Universal collective patterns.

Very slowly the triggers and tests diminish as you start to work more with existence rather than against it. Before the upper heart opening we use existence against ourselves in order to find our way through life experience, through the neither this nor that, we eventually find our path. Life becomes simpler and more joyous.

The burning ground,
To reach this stage we would have consciously and earnestly been surrendering and inviting our soul, the Divine Angel, to infuse us for a long time. Behind the slow opening we sense life, energy, spiritual embodiment and the fact of the soul, eternity living through us. Between lies what in esoteric philosophy is called the burning ground which has to be crossed. This represents all the karmic energies the soul has stored in its field since numerous lifetimes, since the divine spark set forth from Oneness. The question facing us now is whether our will and our surrender is strong enough to submit to the fires of the final purification. This is already a very high stage of development, the personality has become a useful instrument which the soul and spirit can use and it is a highly trained agent for service. It has, however, its points of weakness which are liable to present points of crisis and has likewise its points of strength, on the whole a dependable vessel or grail. The big question facing us here is whether we have the courage to cross this final burning ground to allow spirit full reign of our personality, allowing the divine total control. We have to bring the two aspects of our nature fully together, marry the divine feminine and the divine masculine in our hearts in full consciousness with clear intention. It is at this midway point of the heart where the great submission of the lower to the higher takes place. It is an "invocative decision" of the personality which, in time, produces and "evocative response" from the soul. This all takes place in the field of consciousness, the lesser light moves towards the greater light of your own being - a true light in its own right and the personality is absorbed into the greater light of the soul. The personality becomes lost in sight in the radiant aura of the Angel. 

The journey of expansion brings more and more light of presence, awareness, expansion and harmony into the mix and reverberates throughout your field into the collective field of humanity. Your soul would have brought its contribution to the whole and accomplished its task incarnating fully into all corners of your Universe. The body of the soul, the causal body dissolved there is only pure spirit flowing through the personality. It is Existence itself experiencing itself through your specific, unique expression and fully embodied here on Earth. This is the eye of the needle which asks a lot of faith and courage to step through into Oneness.

“An awake heart is like the sky that pours light” - Hafiz

It is all an inside job!

Inspired by my own journey, study in esoteric philosophy, the ancient wisdom tradition, especially esoteric soul based healing and notes from a recent workshop with Jeddah Mali.

Solar Plexus Center / Solar Plexus Chakra / Third Bandwidth

Solar Plexus

As humanity is still very much polarized in the emotional body, these writings about the energy centers reflect mainly the challenge of overcoming emotional imbalances.

The third bandwidth finds its expression through the solar plexus. It has its entrance point at the 12^th thoracic and the 1^st lumbar vertebrae and is related to your pancreas, stomach, digestive- and elimination systems, intestines, liver and gallbladder as well as the spleen. If we have not been able to harmonize our imbalances of fear and/or relational issues in the two bandwidths below this one, they spill over to the solar plexus which governs our overall emotional state of health. Here we make all issues very personal and we know the “crunch” of the solar plexus when we feel angry or upset.  This center connects us strongly to our emotional body and to the unconscious and is the primary center for moving energies upwards. The solar plexus can be over-active by emotional over-reactions and/or blocked in those who are fearful of their own or other people’s emotions. Most astral lower, often glamorized psychic phenomenon is connected to this center. In the esoteric philosophy it is often called the “furnace” of emotions. We find moodiness, worry, tension, agitated excitement, stress, temper, irritation, selfishness and obsession here. All of these can be said to be psychological cleavages, both deep-seated and superficial.

Even though this center is still highly emotional in its nature we have moved from an unstructured bandwidth to a more structured, mental one and this center quickly responds and reacts with thought. Through it we try and create order and structure and initial release from any emotional upset. When we are in this center we believe our thoughts and emotions, many live on and for their emotions. A thought comes in, for instance “I am angry or jealous” it initially provides a relief of naming the emotion we are dealing with. We try to think our way out of any uncomfortable emotion or conundrum of thoughts. Initially this gives us relief, yet potentially only pushes the real issue into the unconscious. We rationalize, intellectualize and project our discomfort outside of ourselves, anything which helps us avoid actually feeling what we are feeling.  In our mind, the reason we have discomfort is usually someone else’s fault, a specific person, a boss, a company, a society, a system, life itself – our reasons are endless. In our effort to control our emotional body we resort to inhibition, suppression, resulting in the solar plexus becoming a “great reservoir of retained energy”. The solar plexus can be very over-whelming. What is required, and comes with the opening of the heart center, is the transmutation of the emotions we have stored in the solar plexus into aspiration, altruism, compassion and love. The heart center reveals the solar plexus and with enough of the heart open a person seldom gets too embroiled in other people’s affairs.

Thought pollution is our single greatest threat emanating from imbalanced solar plexus’, but also from the two lower bandwidths. The world is a mere reflection of our individual and collective mind. The pollution that is choking our very life force arises from within us. Yet, we have created this system and we can undo it if we do our inner work to catch our own portion of the pollution and are able to nullify its effect on the collective field. The external reality we live in is merely a reflection of our individual and collective mind-set. What you will need to ask yourself is what kind of light are you spreading, what is your inner climate and how does it need to change. Where is your consciousness focused and how are you mirroring and receiving someone else’s light and/or distortions, the question must be what kind of energy are you disseminating? It takes some vigilance, as you are both the light and the mirror. Any negative thoughts you send out, will eventually return – in this respect we could say that climate change is an inner process.

Unfortunately our current one-sided reliance on mainstream science and academia belong here, they have become our new church if followed blindly and dogmatically. We think rational thinking is the pinnacle of our being and we are for instance not allowed, in most places, to bring our emotions into the workplace. Because this is a structured bandwidth, it gives us initially safety, and we try to resolve and control our more unstructured, often chaotic emotional expressions by pushing them under the radar of the socially acceptable norm of behavior. We put the lid on! This is a massive cul-de-sac. If we distance ourselves from our emotions we easily become arrogant thinking we are better, cooler, more sophisticated, more intelligent therefore better than our fellow human beings. We make a lot of comparison in this bandwidth to boost our self-esteem and our sense of self-worth. If we distance ourselves too much we get totally cut off from our emotions and create a very sterile and numb environment. The mind is a very beautiful tool, but it needs to be used wisely and not alone rule the show. Life can become very dry.

The issue here is superiority vs. inferiority. The body is seen as a machine, a power house of fitness and vitality. The emotions are either suppressed or controlled with all possible mind-games and means or alternatively dumped on others when we lose our control. We fear our own rage and anger, we fear our own weakness and vulnerability and we grow impatient and frustrated when confronted with these emotional states from the lower bandwidths, whether they surprise us in our own being, puffing up from below our self-created armor and lid or come toward us from other people. We just want everyone to behave!

This is where we maintain a fixed image and idea about our ego identity. It is something we defend if needed with passion. We have opinions, show ambition, we compete, judge, criticize and blame.  We can feel extremely self-righteous and actually what we are trying to do is to look better than others. There is intellectual rigidity here and a sense of superiority as others threaten our ego identity or challenge our beliefs. We seek mental validation and want other people to agree with us. We always know best and have answers to everything. It can become a very closed and arrogant circuit if we aren't willing and able to let go.

This bandwidth is the basis of all competition and striving for material success on the expense of others. The thinking is: “you can’t succeed without someone else loosing”. The American dream: "life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement" has turned sour if we, as so many do, only seek self-gratification and forget about other people and other life-forms.

We find validation from our attainment, status and recognition. All “isms” – apart from optimism, are here. We feel relieved when we acquire, control, harness money and possessions, power, influence and dominion. This bandwidth is very good with and works with words as it is the sphere of our lower mental capacity.   

This is also where we want to conform, not rock the boat – nobody wants a troublemaker. Yet we want to stand up as an individual and validate our individuality, yet we suffer if and when we compare with others endlessly and they may be more successful than we are. Alternatively the spiritual seeker turns this into “I am more spiritual than you are, my teacher/teaching/lineage is better than yours...etc.” The holier than thou people are found here. Because this is the “one-man-ship” bandwidth with everyone for him- or herself mentality we exploit, try to be special and have a desire to get ahead of the game.

We find the whole business, corporate, political and financial sectors mostly in this bandwidth. The missing piece is consciousness itself as it is not recognized nor factored into these spheres. The result of which we now see in the terrible exploitation of natural resources, in the environmental degradation, in the distinction of species and life on Earth, in the financial crisis’s and shortsightedness of corporate gain as well as in the endless increased of governmental bureaucracy. We are not in right relationship with life and we need our hearts to open to see this.

We are reluctant to forego ego as it is a threat to individual supremacy. People with power like their power, often over others and over existence itself. There is a huge delusion and a misunderstanding about the true source of power, i.e. spiritual power. The current awakening and grass roots movement under way, opening the collective human heart and searching for right relationship is a huge threat to the established order, operating primarily in this bandwidth, and therefore we see many fascist and controlling methods striking back at the revolutionary energy sweeping the planet at this time.

In this bandwidth we are conscious of self-image, our identity, ego, reason and perceptions of others. We may have a nagging fear of exposure, constriction, numbness, rigidity, smugness and we may feel indignant and keep secrets. It creates a lot of stress in our body system, not to be allowed or not to allow ourselves authenticity. We do not show our weaknesses but hide behind masks. The roles we take upon ourselves to play in this bandwidth are a cause of a lot of illness and disease (not at ease) in our being. The stress in our corporate and governmental institutional cultures is huge! Sometimes we take ourselves to exhaustion, burn-out and break down, we give up and the mind becomes quiet as we recognize that we cannot continue anymore. We do not see and we forget our own light and beauty, we cannot see the fullness of our being nor the light and beauty in others.

For a person studying the inner mysteries of life, this center represents a special challenge to overcome. When the solar plexus is highly developed and when it already connects slightly with the lower heart (self-awareness) and touches occasionally its corresponding higher buddic level, or touches the solar plexus' higher counter-part the atmic, abstract mind level, there is a risk of another illusion of exclusiveness and feeling special, of thinking one knows more about the hidden mysteries of life than the average person - and one usually does, but that is not the point. This is a plague that especially finds its home in esoteric groups and any hidden body of teachings found in all religious traditions. During the two thousand years of the era of Pisces patriarchal and male dominated hierarchical structures have seeped in everywhere and have loved this mental dominance and power over attitude, thus such manifestations are found in most religious institutions both in the East and the West and the energies of past karmic debts are still with us. Thankfully this is breaking down with the increasing influx of the energies of Aquarius which are much more inclusive and group oriented in their nature. Finding the balance point of inner masculine and feminine energies is the key and correcting force which eventually will bring the "cosmic dewdrop" into right balance between his/her humanity and divinity. But there is much work to do in this area as the sacred feminine has been suppressed and relegated into the shadow for such a long time. If this kind of superiority complex is still active and there is no willingness to embrace the heart; inviting its surrender, humility, equality and vulnerability or if there is no courage or awareness to enter the lower bandwidths to do the necessary healing of the shadow of the age of Pisces, we will not see, or it will take much longer to bring about, a more heart centered approach to goodwill, an orientation towards right relationship of humanity as one unified collective and a healthy custodianship towards Mother Earth. Remember the solar plexus is still a "one-man-ship" center of separation.

The panacea and elixir to get past this bandwidth is to open our hearts, yet people are initially afraid of this as it will take us back to an unstructured bandwidth again and we may momentarily lose control.  Consciousness starts to wake up in the solar plexus bandwidth but initially it is focusing just on self and identity however superb the intellect.

The challenge as we approach the heart center is to allow humility, equality, to relax our rigidity and control a bit and admit that we cannot do it all alone. In the corporate arena we may admit that we aren't superman or superwoman after all. We allow others equal space. When this bandwidth has run its course it cannot maintain itself but starts to melt the structures, roles and prisons. It eventually leaves us disconnected and we know something essential is missing and we open ourselves to gentleness and vulnerability, loosening and softening the structures we have created. Consideration of others enters and we learn to use our power and knowledge in a more responsible manner. The practice becomes surrender and letting go and in the letting go something greater enters.

Spiritual practice may enter and it helps us to soften. As we melt our own self-created prison, we soon learn that we cannot skip stages and find ourselves re-entering our lower bandwidths to heal fear and doubt. We practice embracing ourselves as we are, thus the heart slowly develops more courage and starts to open, trust in life’s magical unfolding can re-enter. We cannot take our fear and doubt into our bliss. 

Inspired by my own journey, study in esoteric philosophy, the ancient wisdom tradition, especially esoteric soul based healing and notes from a recent workshop with Jeddah Mali.

Sacral Center / Second bandwidth

Sacral Center / Second Bandwidth

As humanity is still very much polarized in the emotional body, these writings about the energy centers reflect mainly the challenge of overcoming emotional imbalances.

The second bandwidth at the sacral center is an six petal lotus and has to do with the dynamics of attraction and repulsion, what, how and who we attract and attach ourselves to. It’s located at the base of the lumbar spine, above the sacrum and is related to our ovaries or testes, our reproductive system and the hormones testosterone, estrogen and progesterone, lower back area, hips, legs, knees and feet (together with the base). This center governs all the fluids of the body, including blood, lymph, semen, mucus and urine (relates to the kidneys as well).

The sacral is the center of birth, on all levels and from many angles. It has a strong influence over rebirth, new birth, new beginnings, the first initiation and death, the birth into a new dimension and so on. The sacral energy is mainly to do with self-perpetuation, a powerful attractive or magnetic quality sending out energy towards the opposite sex. It has a particular relation to the vital etheric body and gives a person vitality and attractiveness.

Here we have our family connections, inheritances, ancestors, bonds, loves and hates, resentments and all familial difficulties. This center governs personal education and family responsibilities and later on the spiritual path a greater sense of impersonality leading to the sense of group life.

This bandwidth is affected by our sense of self-esteem, our acceptance of self-responsibility, our attitudes towards sex and sexuality, all our relationships especially to our parents, siblings, partners and our own children. It is here that we find, in earlier stages of our development, our grounding and our connection to the Earth most strongly. It is a center we eventually must learn to master and through our life we learn a lot about ourselves, our power and creative force through this center. By facing our shadow issues and avoiding suppressing them we clear this center and bring it into balance and into connection with its higher aspects of creativity which align this center strongly with our throat center. The sacral center holds our deep-seated desires. As children this center lives through us as a great focusing on me, me, me, later to become about the two and three, our relationship to the other and the relationship to the we; the group and humanity as a whole, eventually resulting in a rounded more realistic relationship to ourselves.

This is an unstructured center and in our often oscillating emotional life we find our underlying anxiety if we haven’t worked out our fears in the base center. We find doubt, insecurity, neediness and a seeking for approval, a deep longing for belonging or a feeling of separation. We dance with our relational dramas, our highs and lows, likes and dislikes, affections we have gained and/or lost, feelings of being owned by something/someone and our battle for freedom. All polarities play out in this center. Here lies a good deal of humanity’s collective karma seated in the astral, emotional plane of the planet (sometimes called the great illusion). Our emotions and/or thoughts do not all necessarily belong to us, they can also be collective patterns we tap into, patterns everyone creates and in this center the question is between needs and wants verses choice. Needs and wants relate to the sacral center and conscious choice more to the heart center. Discernment about what is my energy and mine to work out and what is somebody else’s comes through the structured center next up, the solar plexus.

We look for reliance, for others to be the source of our happiness or our unhappiness. When this center is unhealthy we easily give away too much of our power. The core motivation in this center is nourishment, fulfillment and satisfaction and we look for validation through our sense of security and any temporary satisfaction. If we cannot fulfill our desires we seek relief from consumption, food, sex, alcohol, drugs and all kinds of addictions. We are always on the lookout for what we can get, from others, from society, from life – there isn't really yet a motivation to give and we relate to ourselves from a place of lack and unworthiness, maybe even loathing, a very painful place to be. Our reference point is sought in our relationship to others with whom we compare endlessly.

Our relating to the world is very complex if this center is still imbalanced, a lot of drama and often a very selfish expression of life. As we are trying to fulfill our own needs, they are seen and felt much greater than those of giving to others, so “me first” is still at the forefront of this energy.

We may sense that comfort, love and goodness exists but we do not feel worthy of it. It eludes us and we become even more needy and frustrated as we seek for the answer to our frustration outside of ourselves. We may feel that we have no choice as we don’t know yet that choice is there (heart) and feel helpless and influenced by others. Dependency develops and we live in dissatisfaction.

The challenge in this center is sufficiency, when is enough? What am I feeding, which need; which insecurities and which desire. What is my truer motivation? How much do I need before I feel loved?  We are all yearning to be loved, seen and met but easily in this center (if it is not brought into balance) we are convinced that there is something wrong with us. With the healing, with the light and the expansion comes an understanding that “you are not that” – you are greater than your lack or your sense of separation and you take responsibility to be self-sufficient, you take responsibility to be your own source of nourishment, you are willing to step out of the story you have created and develop some detachment to it. You start to witness your own self-created drama. This brings some rationality into the mix which is part of the next bandwidth, the solar plexus. In this second center we are in an unstructured bandwidth and to resolve our issues we need to bring in some structure and some thought (lower mind). Every single experience in this often painful second center development is an expression of your capacity to show truth, to be truth. The pain you are experiencing is really trying to say “I am not this!” – I am much bigger than the pain I am experiencing. Be true to yourself and act in harmlessness is the healthy call of this center.

The practice here involves impartial observation of the sensations and emotions, bringing in your witnessing consciousness which has no judgement, it only sees. Don’t get me wrong – being present to your own drama is the hardest thing. To stay still, notice the discomfort – it really takes a spiritual warrior to do this. Stay with sensation; don’t go too quickly into fixing mode. This is where we heal the feeling by feeling it, going through it, sitting in the fire and bringing the light of our consciousness into the mix. It does not matter if the discomfort comes from current life experiences or manifests as an energy surfacing from a past life, the process is the same.

Trust your sixth sense, your intuition as it is lending its property to your five senses of sight, hearing, smell, touch and taste. Your intuition is a higher expression of these five basic senses. Your energy field is always absolutely the latest version of who you are and whatever is in the present moment is there for a reason. In my own experience past life dross often makes itself aware through bad taste or smell, or some unexplained pain– the wisdom of your energy field is unprecedented, unique to you and divine. As existence wants to know itself through you, consciousness is your tool, shine the light into the darkness. If it is happening, if it is arising, it belongs to you!

The more esoteric nature of this center has an important foundation. It involves separatism, the separation of the sexes (the sacral center was the dominant center in old Lemuria, eighteen million years ago). All separation, division, polarity and opposition is said to have underlying sacral influences. The lack of confidence found in so many people who are not able to express themselves as who they truly are is due to this centers lack of creative harmony with the throat center.

The whole of humanity is battling with this highly emotional bandwidth. It is the cause of so much of our pain, our wars, inhumanities and inequalities. As we are caught up currently in the ascension of our whole solar system into a new sphere of energies, this is facilitating the healing humanity so desperately needs in order to find a balance with all our relationships, not just those within ourselves and our families, other human beings, groups we belong to but also our relationships to all the Kingdoms of Nature, mineral, vegetable, animal, human, angelic and divine. 

What every spiritual warrior can do is to bring the light of your awareness very consciously into this bandwidth, work through your own wounding, ancestral patterns and imbalances in this center and send out a balanced, light filled and transparent harmonious energy into the field. As we reach the tipping point with more and more people doing the work needed, we understand that we each are a cell in the body of this planet and that we belong to the one humanity swimming in one field of collective consciousness. With our assistance and participation this collective consciousness will change and heal. This is part of your inner work and your soul’s job-description.

With the current accelerated awareness of global crisis both environment, social, economical and spiritual the work of clearing our energy fields, bringing more light into the darkness, is of prime importance, for it is not until we have been able to start to open the petals of our heart center that the interdependence and inter-connectedness of all life dawns on us. Humanity needs this awareness so desperately at this time. And the heart center, which stays shielded and protected, does not really dare to open before we have worked through some of our wounding and karma in these lower bandwidths. So take up the challenge and be among those who tip the scales as we travel through these times of transformation.

Inspired by my own journey, study in esoteric philosophy, the ancient wisdom tradition, especially esoteric soul based healing and notes from a recent workshop with Jeddah Mali.

Base Center / Base Chakra / First Bandwidth

Base Center / Base Chakra / First Bandwidth

As humanity is still very much polarized in the emotional body, these writings about the energy centers reflect mainly the challenge of overcoming emotional imbalances.

This lowest bandwidth of frequency in our inter-penetrating energy body is where we get in touch with our survival instincts, our deep unconscious fears and suppressed anger. It is the deepest seat of karma built into the three bodies – physical, emotional and mental. We cannot fully enter the spiritual realms without facing our fears. It is where we feel most alone and scared, sometimes the feeling of total separation capturing and consuming us. The energy is often heavy and restricted.

The base center, located at the coccyx of the spine, about two to six inches outside of the dense physical body in the etheric spine. It governs our adrenals, kidney, urethra, spine and bones as well as all elimination. Spinal problems, so common, tend to have a base center involvement as this center governs the whole skeletal system – our scaffolding. It is our “will to be” center, our grounding and our feeling of safety in the world. The adrenals govern our fight or flight reaction and the kidneys store our fear. The elemental being of the physical body, the essential material nature of the dense body is in the base center. Together with the sacral center it also influences our legs, knees and feet. It is a four petal lotus, a powerful symbol linked to the Mother of the World, the Earth, the Cross, the Square and the human kingdom of nature.

This center comes into its true functioning only when two major fusions have taken place. These are the fusion of the three bodies, physical - emotional - mental into one coordinated and integrated personality and when the soul and the body are at-one.

The constellation Libra governs the scales, i.e. the adrenals and kidneys. In ancient Egyptian mythology the scales of the potential initiate were measured by placing a feather on one of the scales, if the scales held their balance the initiate could pass, with no heaviness to bring the scales down it was a sign that fear had been conquered and divine love ruled. 

Challenging emotions that accompany this center are fear, anxiety, panic, rage, anger, frustration, hopelessness, grief, depression and shame, fear of annihilation, hate and aggression. Our experience is that of struggle, isolation, life is limiting us and is somehow thwarted and impotent. When we are overcome by such emotions, when they arise in our life our first instinct may be to attack or avoid, resist, suppress them or numb ourselves. This however doesn't help us in the longer run; it only postpones the inevitable task of going through them and dissolving them later with the light and awareness of our soul. We all need to be real, if they arise, they are ours, blaming others or circumstances isn't going to help us. If there wasn't a corresponding energy somewhere in your own field (in your Universe), they would not arise – it’s that simple.

Our self-talk, thoughts and beliefs may say something like: “life is hard and then we die”; “I must fight or I will lose”; “my needs must be met”; “I can’t rest - I’m all alone”; “This can’t be true, not this panic again.” If we get out of this rut of thinking we maybe initially strive to fix our sense of lack or flaws and to fill the feeling of emptiness by recognizing our unfulfilled desires. We tend to look outside of ourselves and our disappointments continue if we haven’t resolved the core issues of this center. When the energy flow is not getting through this center, it demonstrates as inertia, spinelessness, no will to think or do, lack of ambition or motivation and laziness. An unbalanced flow of energy can result in inability to change, insecurity or in a driving ambition without thought of others, aggression and manipulative activities. Existence cannot but bring the experience again to us, until we have fully resolved it. A well balanced base center brings clarity of purpose and direction.

We seek validation from others by looking for signs of strength, absence of lack or weaknesses. We have difficulties trusting, we are guarded and suspicious as the unknown is unpredictable and can at any time throw us into a tail-spin. In the language of energy these heavy emotions are all frequencies and at the time they hit us we need our higher frequencies to lovingly stay with them. Recognition of fear in our lives must be lived through so that our consciousness can expand. Whatever you focus on will appear in your reality, but you don’t need go looking for trouble, just be with what arises. Train your consciousness to be in the rawness and discomfort and stand in your Divine Truth, your Higher Self is enormous and always there to guide and help you. By all means call in the Angels, your inner allies and higher beings to help when you are dealing with these frequencies, there is always help available on the inner side of life. If you feel contraction, breathe deeply and expand your heart to embrace them, bring your soul to heal and dissolve them forever.

Existence never casts us out, we do this to ourselves. It is our perception of separation which manifests as pain and the effort to avoid this pain only result in more disappointment. The only way through is to stay present with it. The present moment is always in the NOW, is your presence, your awareness which can bring relief and healing. Don’t try to explain it, just be with it. Often it is precisely our inner story line that prevents awareness and soul light from bringing the healing we so desperately need. It is an emptying of your being to allow spirit through. This is where a regular meditation practice makes such a huge difference, learning how to still the mind and calm your emotions to just be with whatever arises!

We have all heard that we are the micro of the macro – as above so below - and part of the collective consciousness of humanity, therefore we are all contributing and if we are able to meet our fear we would have truly contributed in a positive way. By bringing the light of consciousness, by being present with your lowest bandwidth in the base center and the discomfort you may find there does not only help you, it helps all of us. The light doesn't just stay with you; it reverberates through your field and brings light and relief to the collective field found in this bandwidth.

Out of our two most known and revered Avatars in our current time and age, Jesus Christ and the Buddha, both had their battles with these energies in the lower bandwidths. Energies accumulated in the soul field since numerous life-times. We are told that the Christ met his temptations in the desert and Buddha fought the Mara’s (negative forces) of his inner life under the Bodhi Tree. We all create our own heaven and hell through the un-redeemed energy streams in our subtle inner bodies. That is why it has been said that the Christ had to go to hell (i.e. the lowest bandwidth of his Universe) before his final resurrection. The stories we read in the sacred texts of the world are but analogies and metaphors for the spiritual journey we all will eventually take. From another perspective the soul has to descend, incarnate to the core of the Earth/ our Mother to uplift life and in that journey, through that descent into darkness life is uplifted and matter is spiritualized. That is the holographic nature of our subtle bodies; you cannot go up without going down. This is part of every soul’s job-description. You are the cup and the Holy Grail.

The planet Pluto governs the base center and in this time of transition between the ages Pluto is transiting Capricorn, still going on until the year 2025, so some 10 more years to go at the writing of this. Capricorn represents the Mountain of Initiation and therefore potentially the highest frequency and Pluto the lowest bandwidth. The tension between the highest and the lowers is greatest in this combination and we see a lot of the hidden suffering of humanity rise up from below the surface to be seen – and only that which is seen, acknowledged and brought to consciousness can be healed.

Inspired by my own journey, study in esoteric philosophy, the ancient wisdom tradition, especially esoteric soul based healing and notes from a recent workshop with Jeddah Mali.