LLEWELLYN ’ S CHAKRA ESSENTIALS SERIES
#1 • Root Chakra
JUNE 2023
#2 • Sacral Chakra
OCTOBER 2023
#3 • Solar Plexus Chakra
JUNE 2024
#4 • Heart Chakra
OCTOBER 2024
#5 • Throat Chakra
JUNE 2025
#6 • Third Eye Chakra
OCTOBER 2025
#7 • Crown Chakra
JUNE 2026
#8 • Out-of-Body Chakras
OCTOBER 2026
Cyndi Dale is an internationally renowned author, speaker, and healer. She has written more than thirty books, including Llewellyn’s Complete Book of Chakras; Energy Healing for Trauma, Stress, and Chronic Illness; Kundalini; and The Complete Book of Chakra Healing. Her yearlong apprenticeship program through her company, Essential Energy, assists individuals in developing their natural intuitive and healing gifts. She also teaches in-depth classes via the Shift Network. Visit her at CyndiDale.com.
CROWN CHAKRA
YOUR SEVENTH ENERGY CENTER SIMPLIFIED + APPLIED
EDITED BY CYNDI D ALE
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List of Practices … xi
Introduction … 1
PART 1 : ESTABLISHING THE FOUNDATION OF YOUR SEVENTH CHAKRA KNOWLEDGE [13]
1: Fundamentals … 17
2: The Physical Side … 41
3: Of the Psyche and the Soul … 59
PART 2 : APPLYING SEVENTH CHAKRA KNOWLEDGE IN REAL LIFE [79]
4: Spirit Allies … 83
Margaret Ann Lembo
5: Yoga Poses … 93
Amanda Huggins
6: Body Wisdom … 101
Lindsay Fauntleroy
7: Self-Healing and Grounding … 113
Amelia Vogler
8: Guided Meditations … 123
Amanda Huggins
9: Vibrational Remedies … 133
Jo-Anne Brown
10: Crystals, Minerals, and Stones … 145
Margaret Ann Lembo
11: Mantra Healing … 155
Blake Tedder
12: Colors and Shapes … 163
Gina Nicole
13: Recipes … 175
Part 1: Anthony J. W. Benson, 175
Part 2: Susan Weis-Bohlen, 185
Conclusion … 193
Sources … 197
PRACTICES
Two Basic Sahasrara Bija Mantras … 26
A Belly Full of Aum, 26
The Visarga Breath, 27
Crown Chakra Soothing of Negative EMF … 51
Shine Up Your Seventh Chakra Archetypes … 67
Empathizing Spiritually … 75
Yoga Poses to Open the Crown Chakra … 96
Lotus Mudra … 103
Becoming a Receptive Channel … 105
Acupressure for Dynamic Energy Portals … 109
Grounding the Earth Body … 114
Grounding Divine Potential Through the Crown’s Frequency Bands … 120
Connecting to Divine Consciousness … 125
Surrender and Self-Inquiry … 128
Experiencing Unity with the Universe … 130
Seventh Chakra Light/Darkness Attunement … 141
Working with Supportive Evolved Spiritual
Beings … 142
Using Your Crown Chakra Stones … 152
Start Simply with the Essence … 158
Deepening the Seed … 160
Harness Energetics Using the Shape of an Owl … 168
Connect to the Cone’s Transformative Power … 169
Violet-White Ascension … 173
Spectrum of Divine Light … 173
INTRODUCTION
Life is a winding journey filled with events that can seem unrelated. If you peer back in your history, however, you’ll appreciate that making a living is the reason you can enjoy a vacation or that accepting the fading of life’s glories births new dreams. From the vantage point of your seventh chakra, the special focus of this book, everything that has occurred—or will occur—forms stepping stones leading toward maturity, brilliance, and enlightenment. Whether or not you’ve read any of the Llewellyn’s Chakra Essentials books that preceded this one, you will now be treated to a destination many ancient cultures consider wondrous. Your seventh chakra is the end point of the lower six chakras, which pass energy upward from the base chakra in the coccyx to the seventh at the top of the head. In and of itself, your seventh chakra is a stand-alone palace of beauty.
This chakra is comparable to a cave filled with brilliant, glittering light. Known as the energy center of a thousand rainbow petals that join to emanate a white glow, it is aptly called the crown chakra. Within this subtle center, 1
as a pilgrim of life’s ups and downs, you are crowned with the ultimate diadem: enlightenment. Every single petal in this chakra signifies a universal truth; because of this, I like to call it the “flowering truth” chakra.
The most traditional name for this blooming paradise is sahasrara. The term means “thousand” in Sanskrit, an ancient and spiritual language. Another honorary connotation of sahasrara is “the void,” which depicts a space that can be perceived through both spiritual and scientific lenses. A void is really a cauldron of condensed light and unlimited possibilities, the gift afforded the crown chakra traveler.
Located at the top of the head and anchored in the pineal gland, which lies deep within the midbrain, this energy center is deemed the seat of higher consciousness. One significant reason is that two independent flows of energy meet and merge within it. In the storyline of Hinduism, one such stream is the Shakti kundalini. As you’ll learn in this book, your kundalini is a divine feminine energy that meanders upward from the lowest of the chakras. Her journey through all six lower chakras assists you in clearing deepseated issues and activating inherent spiritual powers.
The second course of energy that winds into the flowering truth abode is that of Shakti’s male consort, Shiva. He represents the active and masculine principle of spirit. When these lovers meet within us, we experience a full
blossoming of our own divinity, fulfilling part of our human destiny. Awakening to our soul’s nature, however, isn’t the end of the road. We’re now invited to enjoy yet another life stage: living our everyday existence while touching the hem of the heavens.
As a backgrounder, chakras are energy centers. Every chakra governs a unique set of frequencies that manage specific physical, psychological, and spiritual functions. Your seventh chakra regulates the area in the top part of your head, serving higher brain and learning functions.
Through its pineal gland headquarters, it regulates circadian rhythms and modulates many hormones, including those related to sleep, mood, and psychic activity. The psychological functions governed by this center are a product of chemistry but also of spiritual mechanisms that initiate transcendence and bliss.
The frequencies related to your crown chakra are usually perceived as white. Among most cultures, white depicts purity, awareness, and loftiness. Some systems depict the seventh chakra as violet or gold, however, which I’ll explore in chapter 1. No matter your preference—and I’ll be making a case for the lightness of whiteness—these frequencies can transform negative traits and trauma into peace and serenity.
Frequencies can be depicted as sound as well as light, and like all chakras, the flowering truth center is associated
with a particular sound. You’ll learn about the tones linked with this chakra in this book, thus entering another energetic argument: Is there a true sound for this chakra or not? (This is a cliff-hanger that does not really have an answer.)
This book is part of an eight-book series called Llewellyn’s Chakra Essentials. Each of the first seven books, including this one, features one of the seven in-body chakras known throughout the world. Still to come is the eighth book, a rather extraordinary manuscript that will present five out-of-body chakras. More on those in a bit.
The series began with a book about the first chakra. Anchored at the base of the spine and scarlet in coloration, your root chakra runs all things physical, such as your health and basic needs. The next book moved into the abdominal home of the second chakra to enjoy a savory introduction to creativity and emotion.
Upward we traveled into the yellow sunlight of the third chakra. This solar plexus haven of mentality is also charged with helping you organize your life in safe and sane ways. The pilgrimage then visited the fourth chakra, the green, heart-based chakra embracing love and healing.
Next we rose into the fifth, or throat, chakra, revealing it as the means for making strides in communication and expression. Then, right before this book, we shone a light on the sixth chakra. The third eye, as it is famously called, is
the key to intuitive visioning and strategizing, enabling the composition of the best possible future. Now here we are, ushered into the abode of the seventh chakra.
A unique feature of this progressive series is that you can enjoy the books in any sequence. Every chakra operates like its own country, and this series is a passport to visit the chakras in any order you like.
To further set up a knowledge base about your seventh chakra, I will excavate ancient wisdom about your seventh chakra and its relationship with the lower in-body chakras.
As per many Hindu, Tantric, and Buddhist philosophies, every animate being is outfitted with seven in-body chakras anchored in the spine and ascending from the coccyx to the top of the head. However, the seventh chakra wasn’t always considered a shat-chakra, or main chakra. Rather, it was considered an elevated vibrational center that is intimately connected to the lower six chakras. Because of its unique and transcendent attributes, the ancients often located it above the body, although it is now usually perceived as being linked with the top of the head. No matter the original perception of the seventh chakra, all seven units were considered vital and interactive with the central nervous system.
I’ve been fascinated by how many cultures beyond those I’ve listed have believed in vibrational centers that exactly mirror the chakras. Such civilizations include the ancient
Mayan, Aztec, Cherokee, Lakota, Hebrew, Berber, African Kemetic, and many Asian cultures. The structures are described a bit differently by various societies, but they serve the same function. They hold our memories and programs and enhance the stretch into enlightenment, or the ability to live everyday life as the divine beings we really are.
In recent times investigations have underscored the depiction of chakras in energetic terms. Energy is information that vibrates, and everything is made of it. Essentially, there are two types of energy. Less than 1 percent is physical, or measurable—the type we put most of our faith in. More than 99.9999-plus percent of energy is subtle, however, also called spiritual, quantum, and psychic energy (Sundermier 2016). In the end, chakras are subtle energy centers that busily manage all that invisible and inaudible subtle energy. Because subtle energy can transform into physical energy—and vice versa—they are the baseline of our everyday reality as well.
Besides chakras, there are two other types of subtle structures. These will be beneficial to understand because I’ll reference them, and their relationships with the chakras, in this book. I will introduce all three subtle systems by comparing them to the structures composing your physical body.
Three basic constructs create the entirety of your physical body: organs, like your spleen and heart; channels,
including the blood and lymph vessels; and fields, or the oscillating vibrations creating brain and heart waves.
Your subtle body, also called your subtle energetic anatomy, is organized in the same three ways. The primary organs are your chakras; the main channels are your meridians and nadis; and the best-known fields are your auric fields. The latter are produced by the chakras and encircle the body, one layer atop another.
There are two types of channels in your energetic anatomy. Meridians flow through connective tissue to stream subtle energies throughout the body. They are commonly engaged through traditional Chinese medicine and other Eastern healing modalities. The other subtle channel structure consists of nadis. These energetic canals are equivalent to the nerves. Because the major in-body chakras are located within the central nervous system and linked to connective tissue, you can surmise that the nadis, as well as the meridians, exchange energy with the chakras.
The auric fields are also called auric layers. Produced by their individual chakra kin, together the layers form the entire auric field. Each individual field determines which subtle energies can enter or be released based on the programming of its related chakra. Within this book you’ll be educated about your seventh auric layer, the companion to the seventh chakra.
In this book you’ll also learn more about kundalini, a major player in enlightenment processes. It plays a unique role within the crown chakra.
A WORD ABOUT THE OUT-OF-BODY CHAKRAS
It’s time for me to further discuss the five out-of-body chakras. It’s pretty apparent that I work with a twelvechakra system if you add these to the seven in-body chakras.
Most modern systems only feature seven chakras. That this number is taken as fact is a mistaken notion and one that astonishes me. The rationale most experts present is that back in 1919, Sir John Woodroffe authored a book titled The Serpent Power that stipulated seven chakras (Avalon 1950).
The truth is that he posited six chakras in the body; the seventh he considered a unique energy center atop the head. He also stated that even in the ancient world, chakra systems featured anywhere from three to dozens of chakras.
Cross-cultural systems differ in the numbering of their chakra-like templates. A number of foundational Nath and Tantric texts, including those dedicated to hatha yoga and Kashmir Shaivism, describe six-, nine-, and twelve-chakra systems (Anderson 2018).
I offer a twelve-chakra system because I could see twelve chakras and auric fields with my physical and psychic eyes
when I was a child. Later, starting in my twenties, I began learning about subtle body systems from healers, shamans, intuitives, and gurus around the world. To my pleasant surprise, I discovered that many of these healing experts also worked with more than seven chakras.
After my first book was introduced by Llewellyn several decades ago, the twelve-chakra system it featured took off internationally. I hope you’ll join the thousands if not millions of twelve-chakra fans around the world and enjoy the bonus book in this eight-part series.
A TOUR THROUGH THE BOOK
Back to this book, which features two parts.
I am the sole author of part 1, which consists of three chapters that describe the fundamentals of your flowering truth chakra. While these chapters are based in ancient Hindu knowledge, I include modern information when applicable. To enable you to immediately put this data to use, this section is sprinkled with relatable practices.
In the first chapter, you’ll discover the crown chakra’s purpose, location, names, color, and sound. I will also describe the associated elements, breaths, lotus petals, affiliated gods and goddesses, and more.
We get physical in chapter 2. Anchored within its own spinal area, this chakra, like all others, is associated with an
endocrine gland and other bodily areas. You’ll be treated to descriptions of the physical systems and the diseases that can occur when this chakra is not attuned. Then, in chapter 3, we’ll deep-dive into the crown chakra’s psychological and spiritual functions.
You’ve only to flip the pages from part 1 to part 2 to meet an array of new friends. Each is an energetic expert and will explore a particular energetic topic. For instance, you’ll become acquainted with your seventh chakra spiritual allies as well as applicable yoga poses. Before you’re through, you’ll acquire knowledge of seventh chakra guided meditations, vibrational remedies, stones, sounds, shapes, colors, and recipes. Throughout part 2 you’ll be blessed with practices to help you hone your seventh chakra into a true source of truth and goodness.
Now, onward into the garden of your seventh chakra, the blossom of a thousand lotus petals.
PART 1
ESTABLISHING THE FOUNDATION OF YOUR SEVENTH CHAKRA KNOWLEDGE
Imagine the most brilliant light conceivable, with a startling white at its center. Despite the intensity of this light, it is still and serene. Then the quietude stirs, and starlit beams emanate outward. These stellar white arms embrace you.
Remain in this light of profound joy and complete peace for as long as you desire. Once you are filled with this supreme light, you become this light. You transform into absolute purity and grace.
Crowned by the Divine—and your own divinity—you have literally become the flowering truths you have always been: your immortal essence.
The thousand-petaled chakra poses an ultimate paradox. When nestled in this all-encompassing love, we get to experience our own fullness, even as we’re becoming ever more whole. What a beautiful energy center, doubling as proof positive of our true nature and a starting place for new spiritual adventures.
Your seventh chakra oversees your spirit, life purpose, and connection to whatever you call your Higher Power— the Spirit, Universe, Oneness, Presence, God, the Goddess, or simply Love. Within its framework you can enjoy eternity
while also appreciating the day to day. One of the reasons for its grounded nature is that the crown chakra rules several vital bodily functions, tapping into areas like your pineal gland, higher brain, and neurology. Psychologically, its relationship with a variety of hormones determines everything from moods to the ability to sleep. Upon choosing to facilitate the health of this chakra, you are also invited to unleash a tremendously exciting function. Through your flowering truth chakra, you can achieve the most optimum form of consciousness possible.
There are several types of intuitive faculties related to this chakra, which you’ll discover in part 1. That’s because this subtle energy center is the pinnacle of enlightenment. One of the reasons it provides such mystical richness is that it is the cauldron for the completion of kundalini, the rising power of Shakti, or feminine life energy. Once she meets her mate Shiva, the body produces a special nectar. Called amrita, this substance stimulates ripples of change, including the activation of superpowers that are special to you. It also enables the body to continually cleanse and renew itself.
As you explore the basics of sahasrara in part 1, examining ancient and modern reflections about it, its physical
functions, and its psychological mandates, you’ll find yourself reflecting upon the most vital question related to its purview:
Are you willing to become everything you’ve ever been—and more?
That is the query that leads to enlightenment.
