When I was writing my second book, The Golden Sherpa, it became increasingly apparent to me that I had to take the time to truly communicate, in as simple a way as possible, what it felt like to experience energy through your subtle senses. The way most people are first introduced to this concept is through the Eastern concept of chakras. And many people are baffled by what chakras actually are. So I usually explain: these are the vital organs of your energy body, and where your own energy is exchanged with the energy fields throughout the universe.

Charkas have become so integral to my understanding of energy, that when I am experiencing any sort of problem, or working with a client with energy work, I tend to rely on what I am sensing from the chakras first. All disease arises out of imbalances in your energy, and will usually manifest in a chakra center. Your intuition will usually arise in your yellow or third chakra for instance, a strong feeling in your gut. Emotional pain can feel like heartburn in your green or heart chakra. When I am asked to heal energy for clients my first impulse is toward where blockages exist in their seven primary chakras. But today, I started to glimpse into the world of our six cosmic chakras.

The crown chakra is at the top of our head, and is our portal to interact with the divine, the Source, and universal energies. But the next six chakras are above our bodies, and are receivers for celestial energies. What I have learned is that:

The 8th Chakra: Is a sort of satellite or cup that focused celestial energies into our crown chakra.
The 9th Chakra: Is related to energies of the moon.
The 10th Chakra: Is related to energies of our sun.
The 11th Chakra: Is related to energies of our own solar system.
The 12th Chakra: Is related to the energies of the Milky Way galaxy.
The 13th Chakra: Is related to the energies of galaxies beyond our own.

Our root chakra grounds us to Mother Earth, and the other traditional chakras orient us to the complexities of unifying our physical body with our energy body in harmony. But, as I point out throughout my first two books, we live in a porous universe of energy. Communication with other realms, traveling out of body in spirit form, having innate knowledge of complex subject matter, and being offered assistance by other spiritual beings can and does operate through the 8th-13th chakra system.

Throughout my continuing education as a modern mystic and shaman, my guides have taken me to many fantastic places, from being out of body and viewing the Earth to taken far across the galaxy to other worlds. As with preparing for a marathon and starting small before you can tackle the full distance; energetically aligning our seven primary chakras prepares us for much more than we could imagine. We can continue our spiritual journey through the charkas that connect us to the heavens with the cosmic chakras. We don’t have to wait generations to explore the stars, we can do it now through our advanced chakra system.