Charles webster leadbeater chakras
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The Chakras
I'm not sure this is a worthwhile read. The author's own ideas and observations--of chakra colors, functions, and relationships--are interesting at least. He writes with apparent authority, in his 1927 prose. The contradictions to other more recent teachings make me wonder... Perhaps these contradictions are irrelevant in a New-Agey kind of way. I can buy that, I guess, although not without the some expense of my convictions that this spiritual science is definitely valid.
Leadbeater concludes with an extensive discussion of the Hindu knowledge of the chakras, and some about how they are used in meditation, and to awaken kundalini. It's somewhat hard to follow, and it struggles to hold relevance inom think, for the average reader anyway. (The book made me feel very much like the average
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The Chakras
A MONOGRAPH
BY
C. W. Leadbeater
with ten colour illustrations
Anand Gholap Theosophical Institute
2009
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
WHEN a man begins to develop his senses, so that he may see a little more than everybody sees, a new and most fascinating world opens before him, and the chakras are among the first objects in that world to attract his attention. His fellow-men present themselves under a fresh aspect; he perceives much with regard to them which was previously hidden from his eyes, and he is therefore able to understand, to appreciate and (when necessary) to help them much better than he could before. Their thoughts and feelings are expressed clearly before his eyes in colour and form; the stage of their development, the condition of their health become obvious facts instead of mere matters of inference. The brilliant colouring and the rapid and incessant movement of the chakras bring them immediately beneath
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The Chakras - C. W. Leadbeater
Chakra (Sanskrit, "wheel") refers to the ancient Hindu concept of seven vortices of energy located on the spine from the tailbone to the crown of the head. These centers define the physical and spiritual contact points in the human body. In yoga they are bridges to higher consciousness symbolizing the journey from the material world to the divine. Alternative-medicine healers recognize them as a dynamic resource for health.
First published in 1927, this pioneering book by famed clairvoyant C. W. Leadbeater was the first to introduce the chakras to the West. With great clarity, he explains what each chakra means regarding our well-being, insight, and personal power, his color illustrations showing the chakras as they actually appear to those who can see them. Anyone can perceive the chakras, he says. We must merely become sensitive to vibrations finer than those to which we normally respond.
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