The highest energy center in the spine, this chakra is the center of discrimination, intellect, intuition, and high spiritual awareness. Its location is at the base of the skull, at the medulla oblongata, where Paramhansa Yogananda said that cosmic energy flows into the body.
The opposite pole of this chakra is the spiritual eye at the point between the eyebrows. This point is also called the “Christ Center,” or in Sanskrit, the “Kutastha Chaitanya.”
The true appearance of this chakra, as seen in meditation, is a golden ring surrounding a field of blue, with a silvery-white star in the center.
Location: The point between the eyebrows
Beneficial aspect: Divine consciousness
Harmful aspect: Ego, which is “the soul identified with the body”
I awake in Thy Light, I awake in Thy Light, I am joyful, I am free, I awake in Thy Light!
Can you feel the difference between your little, egoic self and your higher, Divine Self? If so, please give an example from your life or from something you’ve observed in the lives of others.
Concentrate at the point between the eyebrows. Visualize there a tunnel of golden light. Mentally enter that tunnel, and feel yourself surrounded by a glorious sense of happiness and freedom. As you move through the tunnel, feel yourself bathed by the light until all worldly thoughts disappear.
After soaring through the tunnel as long as you feel to do so, visualize before you a curtain of deep violet-blue light. Pass through that curtain into another tunnel, one of deep, violet-blue light. Feel the light surrounding you. Slowly, the tunnel walls disappear in blue light. Expand your consciousness into that light—into infinite freedom and bliss. Now there is no tunnel. There is only the all-encompassing blueness and bliss of infinity.
At last, visualize before you a silvery-white, five-pointed star of light. Surrender every thought, every feeling into this star of absolute, ever-existing bliss.