The Seventh Chakra
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CHAPTER 22
Bernie handed Jackie and Zolar drinks, then sat on the sofa beside Jackie.
“It's a quarter till midnight. I feel like it's the witching hour.” Bernie sipped at his martini. He enjoyed the well-stocked bar the suite offered.
“Like waiting for a bomb to go off.” Jackie stirred her vodka and tonic and licked the residue from her finger.
“Do you have to put it quite like that?” Bernie asked.
“Sorry.”
“I'm looking forward to this.” Zolar gulped his Jack Daniels and coke. “I don't think we will experience the pain we felt the first time. Remember, it's the Sexual Chakra which is opening this time. It will probably be quite pleasurable.”
“Am I feeling paranoid, or do you feel like you're on a seesaw? Like you're going up and down. You know, kind of like liquid, like the ebb and tide of the sea.” Jackie paused. “I feel like I'm losing my mind.”
“I feel it too.” Bernie commented. “Like the sweet thrust of good sex―not that all sex isn't good, even bad sex is great.” He laughed.
“You're not taking this very seriously,” Jackie scolded.
“I always take my sex seriously.” Bernie grinned.
“Last night we exploded into the universe. I don't know what you got from it, but I felt like I was God and I exploded.” Zolar tried to bring them back to the situation.
“Yeah, I felt as if I was alone and my body just went to pieces.” Jackie shivered. “I felt like a cannibal eating my own body. I remember when I was a child in elementary school; being Catholic back then, before the church allowed you to eat meat on Friday, I was at lunch. I forgot all about it being Friday and the school cafeteria served ravioli. I was laughing and having a good time when I realized that it was Friday and I had already eaten meat. I felt so sick then, I ran to the bathroom and stuck my finger down my throat trying to make myself throw up. I cried for the rest of the day. I just knew I was going to burn in Hell for my disobedience. When the church changed, I was shocked. But let me say last night was more frightening than anything I ever experienced before.”
“I know what you're saying. I felt as if my gut had been jerked out and I was so ravenously hungry I would do anything to ease the pain. I felt empty and I had to replace it and I didn't care how.” Bernie tried to explain, leaning his head back on the sofa.
“Zolar, would you sit beside me and hold my hand?” Jackie set her drink down and grasped Bernie's hand; he scooted closer to her.
Zolar got up from the arm chair, moved over and sat beside Jackie, trying to soothe her. “It's okay, we're all a little frightened. Remember you're not alone. We are all in this together.” He moved down to the carpet and patted the floor. “Join me let's intone a mantra which will relax us.”
“Are we sure we want this to happen? I don't know, but if it's the Anti-Christ I feel like we should be trying to stop him.” Jackie was hesitant.
“I don't know yet; after last night I have to know more. It's like someone has lifted a veil from my eyes. I'm game.” Bernie said, sliding off the couch and sitting cross-legged. “I can't do any of that yoga stuff, my joints are too stiff.” He glanced up at Jackie and said, “Of course, if you like stiff joints?”
She smacked him and feigned dismay. “With all this going on—you are incorrigible.” But she found herself attracted to him, and yet she also found herself attracted to Zolar. Maybe she was the incorrigible one.
“Okay,” she said as she moved to the floor, “what now?”
“Close your eyes breathe deeply through your nose. Let the air travel up. Imagine the blood cells in your sinuses taking the life giver, oxygen, directly to your brain. Let the air be drawn down to your lungs, feel your lungs drink in the liquid. Relax and breathe out.”
After several minutes of breathing Zolar said, “Now we will intone the mantra which will help open the second center. Repeat after me this sacred mantra, Ah-eeii oo....”
III. THE SECOND CHAKRA
MULADHARA THE SEXUAL CENTER
Procreation is the stimulus of the energy center which is lowest in the body. Yet the fires of regeneration burns hard on the physical plane, beaming upward, vibrating the two centers in the head. The Sexual Center opens at puberty, but is usually lost in the miasma of self-centered desire.
THE DOCTRINE OF THE CHAKRA CENTERS by Tawadin Djwahan