Rabbit Hole : Part 11a1 The Revealing of your inner WORLD

Sahasrara: The Crown Chakra

Sahasrara is generally considered to be the chakra of pure consciousness. Its role may be envisioned somewhat similarly to that of the pituitary gland, which secretes emanuel hormones to communicate to the rest of the endocrine system and also connects to the central nervous system via the hypothalamus. The thalamus is thought to have a key role in the physical basis of consciousness. Symbolized by a lotus with one thousand petals, it is located at the crown of the head. Sahasrara is represented by the colour violet and it involves such issues as inner wisdom and the death of the body. Sahasrara's inner aspect deals with the release of karma, physical action with meditation, mental action with universal consciousness and unity, and emotional action with "beingness".[31]

Chakra (derived from the Sanskrit cakraṃ चक्रं ([ˈtʃəkrə̃]), pronounced [ˈtʃəkrə] in Hindi; Pali: ॰हक्क chakka, Chinese: 轮, Tibetan: འཁོར་ལོ་; khorlo) is a Sanskrit word that translates as "wheel" or "turning".^[1]

WHEEL?? YOU MEAN THIS WHEEL FOUND IN MANY MANY DIFFERENT PHILOSOPHIES??

The Dharmacakra (Sanskrit: धर्मचक्) or Dhammacakka (Pāli), Tibetan chos kyi 'khor lo (འཀོར་ལོ།), Chinese fălún 法輪, "Wheel of Dharma" or "Wheel of Law" is a symbol that has represented dharma, the Buddha's teaching of the path to enlightenment, since the early period of Indian Buddhism.^[1]

It is also sometimes translated as wheel of doctrine or wheel of law. A similar symbol is also in use in Jainism. It is one of the Ashtamangala Symbols

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharmachakra

In Buddhism—according to the Pali Canon, Vinayapitaka, Khandhaka, Mahavagga, Dhammacakkappavattanasutta—number of spokes of the Dharmacakra represent various meanings:

• 8 spokes representing the Noble Eightfold Path (Ariya magga).


• 12 spokes representing the Twelve Laws of Dependent Origination (Paticcasamuppāda).


• 24 spokes representing the Twelve Laws of Dependent Origination and the Twelve Laws of Dependent Termination (Paticcasamuppāda).


• 31 spokes representing 31 realms of existence (11 realms of desire, 16 realms of form and 4 realms of formlessness).

In Buddhism, Parts of the Dharmacakra also representing:

• Its overall shape is that of a circle (cakra), representing the perfection of the dharma teaching


• The hub stands for discipline, which is the essential core of meditation practice


• The rim, which holds the spokes, refers to mindfulness or samādhi which holds everything together

The corresponding mudrā, or symbolic hand gesture, is known as the Dharmacakra Mudrā.

The Dharmacakra is one of the eight auspicious symbols of Tibetan Buddhism.

The dharma wheel can refer to the dissemination of the dharma teaching from country to country. In this sense the dharma wheel began rolling in India, carried on to Central Asia, and then arrived in South East Asia and East Asia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_auspicious_symbols

Ashtamangala are a sacred suite of Eight Auspicious Signs endemic to a number of Dharmic Traditions such as Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, and Sikhism. The symbols or 'symbolic attributes' (Tibetan: ཕྱག་མཚན; Wylie: phyag mtshan) are yidam and teaching tools. Not only do these attributes, these energetic signatures, point to qualities of enlightened mindstream, but they are the investiture that ornaments these enlightened 'qualities' (Sanskrit: guna; Tibetan: ཡོན་ཏན; Wylie: yon tan). Many cultural enumerations and variations of the Ashtamangala are extant.

Groupings of eight auspicious symbols were originally used in India at ceremonies such as an investiture or coronation of a king. An early grouping of symbols included: throne, swastika, handprint, hooked knot,
vase of jewels, water libation flask, pair of fishes, lidded bowl. In

Buddhism, these eight symbols of good fortune represent the offerings

made by the gods to Shakyamuni Buddha immediately after he gained

enlightenment.^[1]

Wheel

Wheel of Law

The Wheel of Law (Sanskrit: Dharmacakra; Tibetan: ཁོར་ལོ; Wylie: khor lo), sometimes representing Sakyamuni Buddha and the Dharma teaching; also representing the mandala and chakra. This symbol is commonly used by Tibetan Buddhists where it sometimes also includes an inner wheel of the Gankyil (Tibetan), but in Nepal the Wheel of Law is not used by Nepalese Buddhists in the eight auspicious symbols. Instead of the Dharma wheel, a Fly Whisk may be used as one of the ashtamangala symbolizing Tantric manifestations and is made of a yak's tail attached to a silver staff and used during ritual recitation and fanning the deities in an auspicious religious ceremony (puja);

another guise of the Dharmacakra which unites the functionality of the

yak's tail with the doctrinal aspect of the "Wheel of Law" is the Mani wheel. The Sudarshana Chakra is a Hindu wheel-symbol.

CHAKRAS???

Chakras are ultimately as real or unreal as the nerve plexuses
and endocrine glands to which they correspond, but, in ultimate
truth, anything with a form, whether perceptible to the human
eye or the third eye, is but symbolic of a function of spirit,
or definitionless awareness.

WHOAAAAAAAAA..

THE EGYPTIAN ANKH ///// CHAKRAS?????????

Kirlian photography first gained publicity in the 60s, when a
group of Russian scientists discovered that, just as with a
psychic perceiving auras, anomalies in the photographs were
predictive of physical conditions which had not yet manifested
in the body. The development of Kirlian photography is discussed
on this page on the website of Rubellus Petrinus:

WHAT DOES ALL THIS MEAN??? YOU ASK/// WE AS HUMANS ARE VERY POWERFUL ENERGY FORCE.

THAT IS NOT FULLY UNDERSTOOD YET.

I AM ON A ROLL LOOK AT THIS..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_Mundi

The axis mundi (also cosmic axis, world axis, world pillar, columna cerului, center of the world) is a ubiquitous symbol that crosses human cultures. The image expresses
a point of connection between sky and earth where the four compass

directions meet.

At this point travel and correspondence is made
between higher and lower realms.^[1]

Communication from lower realms may ascend to higher ones and blessings

from higher realms may descend to lower ones and be disseminated to all.^[2] The spot functions as the omphalos (navel), the world's point of beginning.^[3][4]

Shamanic function

A common shamanic concept, and a universally told story, is that of the healer traversing the axis mundi to bring back knowledge from the other world. It may be
seen in the stories from Odin and the World Ash Tree to the Garden of Eden and Jacob's Ladder to Jack and the Beanstalk and Rapunzel. It is the essence of the journey described in The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri.

The epic poem relates its hero's descent and ascent through a series of spiral structures that take him from through the core of the earth,

from the depths of Hell to celestial Paradise. It is also a central

tenet in the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex.^[21]

Anyone or anything suspended on the axis between heaven and earth becomes a repository of potential knowledge. A special status accrues to the thing suspended: a serpent, a victim of crucifixion or hanging, a rod, a fruit, mistletoe.

Derivations of this idea find form in the Rod of Asclepius, an emblem of the medical profession, and in the caduceus, an emblem of correspondence and commercial professions. The staff in these emblems represents the axis mundi while the serpents act as guardians of, or guides to, knowledge.^[22]

Places

Because the axis mundi is an idea that unites a number of concrete images, no contradiction exists in regarding multiple spots as "the center of the world." The symbol can operate in a number of locales at

once.^[6] The ancient Greeks regarded several sites as places of earth's omphalos (navel) stone, notably the oracle at Delphi, while still maintaining a belief in a cosmic world tree and in Mount Olympus as the abode of the gods. Judaism has the Temple Mount and Mount Sinai, Christianity has the Mount of Olives and Calvary, Islam has Mecca, said to be the place on earth that was created first, and the Temple Mount (Dome of the Rock). In addition to Kun-Lun the ancient Chinese recognized four mountains as pillars of the world.^[11]

Sacred places constitute world centers (omphalos) with the altar or place of prayer as the axis. Altars, incense sticks, candles and torches form the axis by sending a column of smoke, and prayer, toward

heaven. The architecture of sacred places often reflects this role.

"Every temple or palace--and by extension, every sacred city or royal

residence--is a Sacred Mountain, thus becoming a Centre.

"^[12] The stupa of Hinduism, and later Buddhism, reflects Mount Meru.Cathedrals are laid out in the form of a cross, with the vertical bar representing the union of earth and heaven as the horizontal bars represent union of people to one another, with the

altar at the intersection. Pagoda structures in Asian temples take the form of a stairway linking earth and heaven. A steeple in a church or a minaret in a mosque also serve as connections of earth and heaven.

Structures such as the maypole, derived from the Saxons' Irminsul, and the totem pole among indigenous peoples of the Americas also represent world axes. The calumet, or sacred pipe, represents a column of smoke (the soul) rising form a world center.^[13] A mandala creates a world center within the boundaries of its two-dimensional space analogous to that created in three-dimensional space by a shrine.^[14]

This image exemplifies the blend of art and science during the Renaissance and provides the perfect example of Leonardo's keen interest in proportion. In addition, this picture represents a cornerstone of Leonardo's attempts to relate man to nature. Encyclopaedia Britannica online states, "Leonardo envisaged the great picture chart of the human body he had produced through his anatomical drawings and Vitruvian Man as a cosmografia del minor mondo (cosmography of the microcosm). He believed the workings of the human body to be an analogy for the workings of the universe."

According to Leonardo's preview in the accompanying text, written in mirror writing, it was made as a study of the proportions of the (male) human body as described in Vitruvius:

palmus autem habet quattuor digitos"

• a palm is the width of four fingers


• a foot is the width of four palms (i.e., 12 inches)


• a cubit is the width of six palms


• a pace is four cubits


• a man's height is four cubits (and thus 24 palms)


• "erit eaque mensura ad manas pansas,"


• the length of a man's outspread arms (arm span) is equal to his height


• the distance from the hairline to the bottom of the chin is one-tenth of a man's height


• the distance from the top of the head to the bottom of the chin is one-eighth of a man's height


• the distance from the bottom of the neck to the hairline is one-sixth of a man's height


• the maximum width of the shoulders is a quarter of a man's height


• the distance from the middle of the chest to the top of the head is a quarter of a man's height


• the distance from the elbow to the tip of the hand is a quarter of a man's height


• the distance from the elbow to the armpit is one-eighth of a man's height


• the length of the hand is one-tenth of a man's height


• the distance from the bottom of the chin to the nose is one-third of the length of the head


• the distance from the hairline to the eyebrows is one-third of the length of the face


• the length of the ear is one-third of the length of the face


• the length of a man's foot is one-sixth of his height

Leonardo is clearly illustrating Vitruvius' De architectura 3.1.2-3 which reads:

SNAKE WORSHIPERS??? NO PARIETAL EYE GOD WORSHIPING ESOTERIC KNOWLEDGE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parietal_eye

A parietal eye, also known as a parietal organ or third-eye, is a part of the epithalamus present in some animal species. The eye may be photoreceptive and is usually associated with the pineal gland, regulating circadian rhythmicity and hormone production for thermoregulation.^[1]

The parietal eye (very small grey oval between the regular eyes) of a juvenile bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana)

Adult carolina anole (Anolis carolinensis) clearly showing the parietal eye (small grey/clear oval) at the top of its head.

Among fish, lampreys retain two functional "third" eyes, one developed from the parietal gland, and the other from the pineal gland. These are located one behind the other in the centre of the upper surface of the braincase. Because lampreys are amongst the most primitive of all living vertebrates, it is possible that this was the original condition among vertebrates, and may have allowed bottom-dwelling species to sense threats from above.^[6]

Continued Part 11a2