Meditation 1 (Descartes)
The Root Chakra is the foundation…
Meditation 1 (Descartes)
The Root Chakra is the foundation of the physical structure of the body. The word Muladhara is composed of two Sanskrit words: “mula” meaning “root” and “adhara” which means “base” or “support”.
The Muladhara Chakra is based on the earth element and radiates the color red. Balancing it creates a solid foundation for opening all the other six chakras, promoting stability, confidence, energy, and strength. It means “being in here” and grounding.
- Location: Base of the spine, between the perineum and the lower spine.
- Element: Earth.
- Color: Red.
- Associations: Security, grounding, stability, survival, basic needs, and physical well-being.
- Balancing Practices: Grounding exercises (walking barefoot), yoga poses (like Malasana and Mountain pose), meditation, and working with crystals like hematite.
- Imbalance Symptoms: Feeling insecure, anxious, stressed, or disconnected from the physical world. Physical symptoms can include issues in the intestines or lower body.
- Sanskrit Name: Muladhara.
Descartes sat on meditation for six days Like the Genesis of god being created the universe in six days.
In meditation, six means wisdom (third eye).
Descartes improves his deep thoughts on the meditation 1 with respect to the percieved things.
In “I Ching” -24- means the person who travels or spins with other people, returns back to himself/herself alone. It means returning alone. At this point of view, we can consider “LACAN” of “existence of being at inner self” and “existence of being outer self”.
-Meditation 1 (What can be called into doubt) –
Descartes doubts that the “things percieved as it seems to our senses” at the first case. He mentions about the far objects which seem very small from the perspective to our senses (seeing). In this case, we clutch the distance from the far object. Therefore duality of the sensations, mind and the body can be discussed with respect to the proper situations. When we are near to the object, we see the actual size and the shape and the colour. At this moment, he argues that the things percieved may not be as it seems. He descreetly negotiates the percieved thing except from the mad people. It is to say that being grounded is necessary to understand proper conditions. Even though the metapyhsics is the root of tree of philosophy which shall remind the tree of life. Therefore, it can be said that the past lives is related with the root chakra as well.
Descartes argues that he percieves that he is in his body (the body belongs to him) and sitting near by the fire inside his winter cloths.
He assumes that
1- He is awake and sitting there (materialistic sensations and percieve)
2- He is sleeping at somewhere else but he senses that he is awake and sitting there. (materialistic sensations and percieve) It is to say that he is dreaming at that moment that he is sitting there but he does not know whether he is sleeping.
3- He is sleeping at somewhere else meanwhile sitting there and he senses that he is in a dream but he is sitting there.
At this point, it was argued that in some cases we can notify that we are in a dream or notify that we are awake as well as not notifying that we are in a dream or being awake. Therefore, he argues what if his life is a series of dreams percieved by his mind.
I would like to indicate that I have some lucid dreams that i know that im inside a dream and lead it.
I have also some daydreams meaning that while being awake seeing the night`s dreams in the daylight. When I do awake from the dream even while awake (materialist way) then i notify that the day i spent was mixed of dream and the materialistic world. Therefore, Descartes argues that there may be some times that we may not recognize that we are in a dream. If it is possible to remember all the dream than it is awoved to differantiate the dream and the reality. Thus, our whole life can not be series of dreams but our some days can be series of dreams.
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On the other hand, we can be dreaming while dreaming (while sleeping on the bed) At that point, even while sleeping and not being mentally and pyhsically awake, we can realize that we are dreaming inside the dream. The nested dream is not only the point of view of sleeping on the bed but also the issue of real life.
If one is inside a dream during the day (daydream) and also dreaming inside dream and seeing it inside the daydream, it would be hard to be awake from all the conditions. Thus, it can be said that being awake mentally and pyhsically is bit related from being awake from the dreams.
I would like to consider another point of view of what if my day is a dream of any other person? At this point, Descart is a little bit right on his skeptism.
Also, there is a quote “We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep” is from Shakespeare’s play, The Tempest. It is spoken by the character Prospero in Act IV, Scene 1. The quote reflects on the transient and illusory nature of life, suggesting that our existence, like dreams, is insubstantial and ultimately ends in death.
Descartes quote –> “I will assume that a deceptive demon, as powerful as it is deceitful, is using all its power to deceive me.
I will assume that the sky, the air, the earth, colors, shapes, sounds, and all external things are merely… illusions.”
Root Chakra is about being grounded and safe… The life itself is an illusion and the root chakra activates the illumination.
LAM is a way to go upwards to AUM which contains the dream state as well as the certain truth.
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The Nyx is the goddess of Night who created sleep, dreams , hypnosis and so on.
He is the mother of Morpheus who is the god of dreams.
If I were being a goddess and creating the dreams (giving birth to the Morpheus) then I would let the human beings to open a portal infront of them while they are mentally and pyhsically awake, and I would let them to create their own dream (third eye – astral visions) and get into it by supersituation (teletransportation). Thus, human beings would have been decharged and would return back when they would like to continue to the life they prefer without a need of sleeping on the bed.
Therefore, dream inside a dream would be super joyfull as if the people would lead their own lives with respect to the their own willings. Opening a portal, entering it then there again opening another portal to somewhere else. (I would like to discuss relativity of Einstein with respect to that in another post and imaginative places would have been appear as real (illusion) as real. Therefore, we have to ask what is real? If we can enter an imaginative astral and create lets say tropical place in north pole, then would it be possible with respect to the science? At least mythology believes in that of Hyperborea. (At this point of view, scientific facts like the sunlight angles and the geographical weathers does not allow a tropical place in north pole)
What if
In meditation, both the hindus and buddists are intended to open their third eye and mind flower and be there while sitting at the meditation. (padmasana)
In this case, I would like to ask Descartes whether fully awake and enlightened yogi/yogini would dream at the astral?
When a highly advanced yogi / yogini is capable of entering with own body into the visions like a portal, then the actual meditation phases shall be considered.
Assume that, the sequence of the life is not linear but you create it at the phase of illusions or dream state of life.
I would go somewhere else via the meditation and would wake out there for a while and would return back to the base universe. At this point, deciding on the base universe is skeptical.
