Questions and Meditations

15 The Force of the Way

This acceleration in terms of our situation as a species, this intensifying of contraries, this increasing contamination, this devastating tide of humanity’s numbers and of the consequences of its blindness seem, since the second world war, drag us all and the entire creation towards an inexorable disintegration. For those who have for so long advocated the release from illusion and the circle of births, this state of affairs would only confirm the vanity of our belief in this material reality. Simultaneously with the bringing down and trampling of all taboos as of all moral and ethical railings, the East and the West met and seeded one another, for better or for worse. Techniques of awakening and self-finding cultivated through millennia of research by India – at least those among them which could impress and nourish the western psyche – have been in the span of a few decades integrated in everyone’s thoughts. Even if still few are those who have concretely experienced the awakening and rising of the snake of Kundalini from its coiled poise at the basis of the spine up through every center till it pierces the lid atop the head to emerge in the spiritual perception – few are they indeed because, without a guide, this process can prove dangerous -, the very sense of this possibility is now largely shared, although it remains limited for the majority to an attraction for the extraordinary, the paranormal and the spectacular. However, this double subtle circulation of energy corresponding to the nerve centers and strategic glands of our human organisms is bound and presides to the formation of the individual physical, vital and mental ego, that is to say, to the present stage of our evolution. Thus the chakras, centers of energy located in the subtle body, have become common parlance throughout the world. *

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