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Sahasrara or Crown :=: Center of the top of the head :=: Skin, muscular system, skeletal system, etc :=: Universal being. Spirituality, Oneness, inspiration, universal consciousness, etc.

This energy center is all about getting in touch with your spirit, connecting consciously with your True Self. This is the chakra of transcendence and enlightenment. It is also about finding your Life Purpose, the reason why your spirit came to earth embodied as you (it obviously had a plan and purpose in that choice). It is, at the same time, the point at which your life force streams into your energy system, coming from your spirit.

Our spirits are eternal. Living in the moment of Now puts you in touch with spirit. Now is an eternal moment. Everything in your life happens now. You do things now, you speak now, you think now. You plan for tomorrow now, and when tomorrow gets here, it will get here now. You cannot do anything tomorrow. You have to wait until tomorrow comes to the moment of now, so to speak. Also, yesterday is also gone. Yesterday and tomorrow are not real; they are phantom worlds that exist only in the mind, worlds that are personal only to you, world that you make up.

Albert Einstein once said that no matter how persistent, time is only an illusion. All life happens Now, Here. Now is God's kitchen, where everything is alive and vibrant! When you are preoccupied mentally with thoughts about the past and future, you miss the now, you fall out of touch with spirit and life, and you lose tremendous amounts of power and inspiration.

Spirit is eternal and does not live in the world of time. Time is a mental construct we have created because our minds are always thinking of yesterday and tomorrow in our escape attempts, our defending of worries, our regrets, and so on. Remember, we become what we think about. Spirit can only be accessed Now. For you to do that, you have to quiet the mind. Why? Because the mind that most of us use is the lower mind (ego), and it is totally incapable of thinking in Now. It is always thinking of the next thing or the previous thing, because it is afraid. To connect with your higher mind and its vast capabilities, you must quiet down your mind.

Stop your constant rehashing of memories of the past and worries and plans of the future. 90 per cent of your thoughts are repetitive and need not be so. You can do much better with far less 'thinking' than you do now. Most of your thinking is not thinking at all - it is image-making. Humans are only now learning how to use their minds, and the brain is about 10% in use only. We think we know how to think, but we will soon realize that the thoughts we have are mostly not thoughts at all, but memories that we confuse for thoughts. All of the greatest inventors, philosophers, scientists and artists all had their greatest inspiration when they went into quiet moments and allowed contact with spirit and higher mind. Einstein used to do it, Thomas Edison used to do it, Mozart, Michelangelo, and many more. One way to quiet your mind is through meditation, but you can practice everyday awareness even as you go about your tasks. Simply by deciding to be aware of yourself, your thoughts and the world around you, by deciding to be an observer, you go a long way towards stepping out of the chaos of your mind and becoming a peaceful observer. You finally see that you are not your mind. You are beyond it, and it is your tool and not your master. Then you start experiencing a higher aspect of yourself that was always there but hidden behind the mental noise of past and future.

Mental preoccupation with past and future not only blocks your access to your higher self, it also creates time for you. Yes, time is not a constant. In fact, it is an illusion. Our minds are extremely powerful. We collectively create time, but even individually we personally experience different time from others (which is easily explained by Einstein's Theory of Relativity). The time it takes you to grow and go through life is wholly dependent on your mind, for it is the one creating time. You can literally collapse millions of years worth of growth by simply accessing an instant of your inner self. This is just how powerful our minds are: if every sentient being on this planet simultaneously stopped breathing for just a few seconds, the entire planet would vanish. All of it! We are constantly, rapidly but imperceptibly flashing between the spirit and physical world, and that is how we constantly re-create it as explained fully by quantum physics. This pulse, this breath in and out, is what maintains the Maya, illusion, of form from the reality of spirit. Breath and mind are very much linked, as you can tell by the way your breath rate changes when you are relaxed and when you are stressed. Inspiration and breathing are one and the same.

As this chakra matures, you get closer and closer to your spirit. The closer you get, the more you have to let go of your ego and its fears, for spirit must have a clean vessel free of fears if it were to fully come down and be embodied in it. This is what enlightenment is. It is sometimes called the mystical marriage. It happens when your spirit finally takes full control (when you allow it), after letting go of your ego. Sometimes, when an ego is very entrenched and there are many hidden fears that you are not aware of, you may have to find yourself in a crisis that forces you to see these fears and correct them. Once you are ready, spirit arranges for such an event, but only if it is necessary. Approximately 30-40% of people have to go through these types of crisis, often called dark nights of the soul. For example, let us assume that your self-esteem is highly wrapped around your physical possessions. Spirit cannot inhabit you fully as long as you have such a low sense of personal power and self-esteem, run by ego and its fears. So it first has to put you in a situation where you are forced to fetch back your self-esteem from the material things and find it within yourself. This might involve a financial crisis that lasts until you have tried every option to correct it but failed, and finally realized that there is nothing more your ego can do to get out of that mess. At this point, you look within and see that you are still intact. Then you develop your own inner self-esteem and stop relying on material possessions for your sense of self- esteem. At this point, spirit then returns your material possessions since you now know that you are perfect with or without them. There is nothing wrong with material wealth, but when it forms a 'false god' that you believe defines your existence, then that error in thought must be corrected before your Higher Self can move in permanently.

At its ultimate development, this chakra is the center of a very powerful being. Such an enlightened person is fully present and, literally, spirit on earth. They no longer think of the idea that we are all One, part of the Source of All That Is, as an intellectual statement. They know it with every cell of their being and they are in full harmony with the entire cosmos.