The Secondary Major Chakras

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The Secondary Chakras

illustration from Barbara Brennan,Hands of Light, Bantam Books 1987, p.44

The secondary chakras are the chakras described by Theosophy, the New Age movement, Christopher

Hills, Barbara Brennan, and many others. Unlike the archetypal Primary chakras they have a specificform (usually described as vortexes of energy), colour and a specific precise location in the auric bodies(although these qualities will vary according to the individual). These chakras are etheric and pertain tothe subtle physical being, which includes not only the ordinary everyday consciousness but even psychic,occult and many transpersonal and mystic states.

List of Secondary Chakras (front and rear) and psycho-auric zone each pertains to.

psycho-auric zone

rear chakras(governor channel)

ascending

front chakras(descending channel)

Imagination Crown

Intuition Back of Head

upper forehead

Indu /forhead

Manas /forehead

Brow


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Intuition? Mouth of God Talu/Lalana

Intuitive Feeling

Back of Neck Throat

Base of NeckBase of Throat

Thymic

Feeling Shoulder Blades Heart

Intellectual? Diaphragmatic Solar Plexus

Intellectual Door of Life Navel /Sea of Ch'i

Social SacralPubic

SensationCoccygeal

Perineum

The Secondary chakras (front and rear) according to Barbara Brennan and Mantak Chia


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The chakras located at the front (feeling) and rear (will) of the

body, as described by Barbara Brennan, . The psychological

characteristics of each chakra are emphasised, but there is no

conception of a circulation of energy. The idea of an energy

axis down the midline of the body, rather than along the spine,

is not found in other books and may be a result of artistic

(mis)interpretation.diagram from Hands of Light, Bantam New Age books, 1988,

p.46.

The microcosmic orbit showing the yin (descending, in black

and yang (ascending, flame) points which can be equated wi

the Secondary chakras. This is a dynamic conception

involving the circulation of Ch'i energy. However there is li

emphasis on the psychological aspects of these centers.diagram from Mantak and Maneewan ChiaAwaken Healing Li

of the Tao (Healing Tao Books, 1993), p.170.

The secondary chakras can be awakened into a rhythmic microcosmic orbit through meditation anddisciplined practice (this is the initial stage of TaoistNei Tan or Internal Alchemy). This microcosmicorbit - called the Circulation of the Light - is actually (I believe) the equivalent of the macrocosmic cycle

of evolutionary metamorphosis, as described in theosophical and anthroposphical teachings (Rounds, RootRaces, etc).

In occult, spiritual, and New Age literature the secondary chakras are almost always confused with thePrimary Major Chakras. This confusion is due to the imperfect state ofesoteric knowledge at the moment(equivalent to science in the 16th or 17th century). In fact the two types of chakra are quite distinct andeasily distinguished. The following table gives some contrasts:


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Primary Chakra Secondary Chakra

Inner Being (Archetypal) Outer Being (Etheric)

No spatial location exceptby analogy

Spatial location along front and rear midline of body

Vertical (rising)

orientationCyclic (rise along back, descend along front)

Stylised (Tantric)iconography - lotusflowers

Clairvoyantly described as vortexes

correspond to mantricletters, planes ofconsciousness, deities etc

correspond to subtle body / aura (Barbara Brennan) andpsychological types (Christopher Hills)

non-rainbow colours(colours usually red,white, blue, smoke etc)

usually rainbow colours(although this modified in higher bodies)

Heart Chakra locus ofSoul/Higher Self(Jivatma)

Heart Chakra can channel love butnot the locus of soul

Kundalini located in thelowest chakra(Muladhara)

No Kundalini (although Kundalini-like energy, if poorly activated, may flowthrough, reading to possible psychosis and other dangers - c.f. Gopi Krishna's

writings on the dangers of Kundalini)

Chakra inactive untilawakened through yoga

Chakras active during everyday life, may be open,

blocked, or closed

Chakras never at front ofbody - energy neverdescends

Chakras sometimes represented e.g. Theosophy, at front of body, sometimes

energy descends down front, in some New Age visualisations you are told to raise

the energy along the front of the body!!!

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