Jude Currivan - The 8th Chakra. What It Is and How It Can Transform Your Life

Jude Currivan, 2006

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The Native American spiritual traditions recognize that
we are all related people, animals, trees and all the
realms of the living Earth and the wider Cosmos.
The 8th Chakra is dedicated with the unconditional love
of the universal heart to all our relations.

My darling mother used to say with a smile that Id speak with anyone.

Since the age of four Ive spoken with and, more importantly, learned from not only the people Ive loved, laughed, cried and argued with, but also animals, nature spirits, Devas, Angels, ghosts, Ascended Masters, ancient gods and cosmic guides.

I honour them all as fellow travellers and I love and thank them for whatever reason and in whatever way we have journeyed together, whether for a moment, a season or an eternity.

In writing The 8th Chakra my love and gratitude are given especially to the following beings:

Michelle Pilley of Hay House, whose wisdom, encouragement and trust are a priceless gift to me.

My editor, Lizzie Hutchins, whose extraordinary insight and expertise brought the book to life.

My dear friend Jeannie Kar, a true soular hero.

My beloved husband Tony, for whose ever-present love and support my words can never be enough.

And my mentor and guide Thoth, who has been with me from the beginning of everything.

As I begin to write, today is 23rd December. On this winter solstice dawn, the Sun has once more commenced its yearly spiral from darkness to light. Since ancient times, this day has traditionally welcomed the birth of the archetypal solar hero, who has been known by many names and whose outer quest and inner journey to wholeness have been depicted in many mythic sagas and myriad spiritual teachings.

The solar hero was never meant to be worshipped; rather, he was meant to be emulated. For each and every one of us has this divine potential within us. Yet for 2000 years, the voice of the greatest of solar heroes has gone unheeded. Jesus said, in John 14:12, As I do these things, so shall ye do them, and greater.

We are the ones he spoke of. But over the last two millennia, first institutionalized religion sought to convince us of our unworthiness and then science sought to persuade us that only the material world was real.

However, a new vision of the Cosmos is now emerging, one which is reconciling science and spiritual wisdom in a more profound and personally empowering way than ever before. It is offering us not only answers to the questions of how the Cosmos is as it is, but also the chance to understand why it is as it is.

This new awareness has radical implications for each and every one of us. For it reveals a wholly interconnected, conscious and holographic universe, a Cosmos where consciousness is primary and where we are therefore both creation and co-creator.

Our highest purpose in being here at this momentous time is to remember this, and in doing so to re-member who we really are. We are now able to access newly available cosmic energies that transcend our personal sense of self. They liberate our perception, enabling us to heal and release old patterns and limitations. And, as we free ourselves, we are empowered to fully embody the higher purpose of our soul and to consciously co-create the emergence of a new cosmic age an age in which we all have the potential to real-ize that we are solar or soular heroes.

The earliest spiritual traditions perceived ego consciousness as mediated through seven energetic vortices that they called chakras. In recent years, this ancient wisdom has become much more widely known and accepted.

Collectively, however, we know at a deep level that our personal energy field of seven chakras is incomplete. This can be shown by the cosmic resonance embodied in the 13 notes of the complete chromatic musical scale and the eight notes of its diatonic sub-scale. Singing the first seven notes of the diatonic scale doh, ray, me, fa, soh, la, te leaves us feeling that something is missing.

And so it is. It is the eighth note that completes the octave and the 8th chakra that completes the octave of our personality-based consciousness. The 8th chakra is also the energetic portal to our higher awareness, guidance and soul-level purpose.

The 8th chakra is the first transpersonal chakra of our unity awareness. Unity awareness is consciousness of the greater whole of which we are all part and which we are now able to embody in human form. Accessing such expanded awareness enables us to transcend the limitations of our human perception and re-member that we are not alone but ultimately are all-one. We are thus empowered to real-ize the holographic nature of the Cosmos, the One expressed through the almost infinite diversity of the many.

For millennia we have experienced the polarities of light and shadow in all their rich expression. Now is the time for us to take conscious responsibility for our destiny and embody the transpersonal awareness that offers us a way home to the unity that lies beyond all polarities. This is the destination of the soular hero.

This book shares how to access these transpersonal energies to empower greater perception and undertake heart-centred healing at a soul level. It shows how we can experience all that we really are through our minds, emotions and bodies and how we can re-establish profound relationships with ourselves, our human family, Gaia (the living Earth), and the wider Cosmos.

Every one of us walks a unique path to an ultimate destination shared by us all. The 8th Chakra is a way-shower for the soular hero in all of us, enabling each of us to choose our own way forward.

Every journey begins with a first step, which we often only perceive in hindsight. The first step of my own journey to the 8th chakra started, as it did for us all, aeons ago. But I first became aware of the path when, literally out of the blue, I received a psychic message in early May 1998. Whilst I have received such higher guidance since early childhood, this message was particularly clear. It opened up a path that became the most challenging I have ever walked, for it asked me to re-member who I