Chapter Four
The Red-Ray Energy Center

Light Through You

We lift to you a beacon and that beacon is yourself. We ask you to see yourself for the first time, clearly and lucidly. Light courses through you, not from you. There is no effort to being who you are. There is only the removal of blockage from the passage of light.⁴⁴

The energy body is that living rainbow of energy centers nestled in a row within its pipeline, which runs along our physical bodies from the base of our spines to the top of our heads. Love/light energy flows in infinite supply through this energy pipeline and feeds our energy bodies richly as long as we do not constrict or block the flow of vital energy.

We want to help our energy bodies stay clear. Our energy bodies as a whole will stay most clear when we feel relaxed and unworried concerning the issues in our lives. Even if amazing amounts of catalyst are flying by, we are doing well, energetically speaking, if we can stay fearless, self-confident and trusting in the ultimate goodness of all that is occurring. Choosing this attitude or viewpoint of fearlessness is fundamental to being a Player.

There are sound reasons for choosing this attitude of trust, self-confidence and faith that all is well. We shall explore those reasons in the further books of this series, Living the Law of One – 102: The Outer Work and Living the Law of One – 103: The Inner Work. For now, we need to know only that it is helpful to be relaxed and self-confident so that our energy pipelines will be able to stay open.

Our energy body is not the same thing as our physical body, although the two are connected. For the purpose of getting what information we need as a Player in order to graduate, we are staying focused on how to keep the energy body clear and the love/light energy flowing through the chakras. We will discuss techniques for dealing with the various types of physical and emotional catalyst that engage our chakras in energy expenditures in 102. We will discuss how to work with our faculties of higher consciousness in order to have help dealing with this physical and emotional catalyst in 103. For now, we shall stay focused on the fundamental job: keeping the energy body’s pipeline open and flowing.

The first learning is simply to set a high priority on respect for the needs of our energy bodies, especially the need to keep them clear of blockage and constriction. We do not have to solve all our problems to graduate. We only have to keep our energy bodies unconstricted enough so that we can get the guidance we need in order to make good ethical choices as they come up in our lives.

Naturally we are constantly tempted to tense up about situations or conversations as they occur. But as Players, we are aware that this tension is not a good condition for our energy bodies. We know that the more we can keep our energy bodies open, the more we will have access to consciousness and its help in understanding ourselves.

The more clearly we understand ourselves as purely human personalities, the more accurately we can evaluate incoming situations and make sound choices as to how to respond in a polarized fashion. This understanding does not require us to judge ourselves as an Old Testament judge would, to condemn. Rather, this understanding asks us to love and accept ourselves as we are.

Naturally, we are all interested in becoming better people. We wish to progress and improve. However the process of coming to understand ourselves better requires a continuous clearing of our energy centers to such an extent that light, also called love/light energy, can flow through the first three energy centers and up into the heart chakra.

Therefore accepting ourselves just as we are from moment to moment is the first step towards being able to think like a Player of the Game. To condemn ourselves for self-perceived errors is to contract and constrict our energy bodies. To accept ourselves is to relax our energy bodies so that the light may flow through these first three chakras and into the heart chakra. We can see our errors and determine to correct our choices next time without condemning ourselves for making those errors this time.

Our feelings, just as they are, deserve respect. However, often our first knee-jerk reaction to incoming catalyst is distorted by predisposing experiences. These prior experiences have shaped our habits of response gradually, until we may well forget that these responses are not necessarily our currently preferred responses.

Consequently it is a good idea to review our feelings as they arise. We may find that we wish to change our initial responses from the unaware and unawakened responses of negative emotions to more positive choices which serve our energy bodies better.

A small example of this is the catalyst of the “bad landlord.” I had one, some years ago now, and perhaps many of you have also had a bad landlord at some point. Say we have a landlord from whom we have leased an apartment. We need to deal with this man often and we are reminded, every time we see him, of all the times he has cheated us or failed to make repairs as promised.

We have been outwardly polite to him, perhaps, but we also have been allowing ourselves to be angry at him inwardly and to think mean thoughts about him. It seems harmless to think these thoughts. However our energy body reacts to these thoughts by constricting and reducing the flow of healthy energy through the chakra pipeline.

Perhaps we discuss this with a friend or family member. Then we share our mean thoughts and as we talk our energy body further constricts.

As Players we know that to let our minds dwell on these mean thoughts is to continue to constrict one or more of our energy centers. In this Case of the Bad Landlord it would be two centers, the orange ray of relationships and the yellow ray of legal and contractual relationships.

Knowing this does not automatically cause us to stop the constrictive emotions of anger and revenge. We ourselves are the only agents who can interrupt that process and replace it with a new emotion.

That new habit, in the case of the bad landlord, is simply to remember that the universe is unitive in nature. We are all one. To be angry at our landlord is to be angry at an extended part of ourselves. Therefore, if we wish to work on the issue of the bad landlord, the Confederation suggests that we find that energy within our own natures and work on it internally, within ourselves.

This is perplexing to think about at first. How do we locate the bad landlord within ourselves? We do not cheat people. We do not break our word. We do not knowingly tell a lie. Yet within us, says the Confederation, is the complete assortment of all the attributes, both positive and negative, possible within the human condition. We truly are all one.

We and the bad landlord are one, and what is within him is also within us. We just do not choose in our daily lives to act out that part of our universal nature. Nevertheless it is in there. And the right combination of circumstances might bring it out in us as well. And so we set out to balance and accept this energy within ourselves.

This internalization of spiritual work is a very helpful discipline in keeping the energy pipeline open to the flow of light energy. The mental exercise of working upon the bad landlord in ourselves is a practice in which there is no judgment, for now we are just looking at the energy of cheating and lying; the essence of that. We are blaming no one for it but seeing its essence.

There was a time, somewhere in our past history, when we were at least tempted to cheat or tell a lie. We work to locate that within ourselves and ask for the healing of that distortion. We have now responded to the bad-landlord catalyst in a way which does not constrict our energy bodies or keep us in an emotional uproar.

We shall not change the habit of careless thoughts overnight. However, even the sincere but faulty attempt to recall the unity of us and the landlord, at the soul level, relaxes our energy bodies and lets the light energy come on through our energy pipelines or chakra bodies and up through the heart: our first goal.

We tend to be creatures of habit, and the constrictions and blockages in our energy bodies are likely to be repetitive. Every time we see that bad landlord, for instance, we constrict our energy bodies with our stormy thoughts. These habitual thoughts which tend to block energy can be seen as addictions. We are, for instance, unable to think of that landlord without getting upset. So we have become addicted to being upset and thinking mean thoughts.

Ken Keyes, whose Handbook to Higher Consciousness ⁴⁵ offers good ways to work with our feelings, suggests that our habitual responses tend to escalate from habits and preferences into addictions. The road to ceasing the addictive habits and thoughts is to downgrade our addictions back into preferences. In this case we would be downgrading our addiction to the response of anger and vengeance to the non-addicted response of a preference not to have that landlord. This preference does not create anger or the desire for revenge. It gives us a smile. Our energy pipelines stay open and we move on.

We shall find ourselves reverting back to these addictive behaviors often, even after we have identified them. Habits are not made in a day and are not broken without some perseverance. But all we need to know in order to start playing the Game well in this regard is that we need to address all constrictions in our energy body in order to clear them and restore energy flow through the pipeline.

Speaking in general, we can balance the effect of prior experiences on our judgment by becoming aware of our own process of making choices. We will look at ways to do that with each energy center. As we relax and release contraction around a choice, we free up the flow of energy through the energy center within which we are working. We can use the techniques of reflection, contemplation and the setting of new intentions to balance the energies and to clear those blockages.

We do not have to solve the dilemmas which make our energy bodies contract in order to graduate. We have only to keep the energy body sufficiently open that light energy can flow into the heart chakra and allow it the strength to open and, as Walt Whitman said, “invite our soul.” ⁴⁶

The Red Ray and Sexuality

The amount of sheer energy vibrating betwixt earth and physical vehicle is astounding. Yet it cannot be acknowledged and used nearly so well by one who is working upon upper chakras unless that entity has the patience, the humility and the determination to come into contact with that earth; that soil of self. For the sexual identity is as powerful and as unique a part of the individual spirit or soul as any other incarnationally expressed energy. This is the energy which creates a healthy mind or a healthy body, the energy that gives a primal “yes” to being.

This is, moreover, as are all energies, a sacred energy; and the sexual intercourse is as the Eucharist of red ray, the Holy Communion of the body. This union recapitulates the oneness of earth and sky, the oneness of male and female and the oneness of reaching and waiting.⁴⁷

The rays or energy centers of the energy body are living entities which are constantly shifting in clarity, intensity of color and rate of vibration. In appearance, all of the rays are described as being like flowers, with their petals, or like crystals, with their regular facets. The chakras have some qualities of both of these examples. These rays are equally important, none being “better” than another because it is higher in the energy body. We need them all to be open and flowing.

The red-ray energy center is described by the Ra group as being the foundation ray. It is the first ray of the energy body which receives the incoming light energy from the Earth. The Creator radiates this light energy to the Logos of our Sun, which then radiates the individuated light energy to the Earth, Which then radiates the light energy to us. The energy flow from the Creator, Logos, Sun and Earth enters the energy body at the red ray.

The red-ray energy center is located where the legs join at the base of the spine. This center will not grow more complex, in terms of how it looks and works, than it is today, no matter how spiritually mature we become. Both the first and last chakras—red ray and violet ray—are read-outs. The red ray is a starting read-out of our vital and physical energy levels. The violet ray is the exit read-out of the status of the whole array of our rays, red through violet.

The “inner chakras,” orange through indigo, are far more able to be developed by the seeker as he matures. The inner rays have a lot of room to grow in complexity as well as clarity, color accuracy and intensity. We may add “petals to the flower” as the energy of that ray within us matures and develops along regular patterns of increasing complexity. We may create ever more detailed facets within the crystalline structures of our rays as our energy becomes more skillfully directed by us in our daily play on the Gameboard.

The changes in our energy flow are caused by our reactions to incoming catalyst. Each thought which we entertain potentially can change our energy body’s coloration and its state of openness.

The color of each of our energy centers varies in a couple of different ways. All red-ray energy centers, for instance, are red. However the intensity of that color may vary, as well as its clarity and its closeness to the “true color” which is the exact vibration of the red ray which came with us from the “factory” at birth. These qualities of the colors vary because of the intensity, clarity and accuracy of our thoughts and other energetic expenditures like actions and words.

This true color is also the vibration of the red ray of Planet Earth and its energy. The closer our personal red-ray vibration approaches the red-ray vibration of first density, the more easily we can accept the Creator’s energy as it comes into the energy body at red ray.

It is useful for the Player to cultivate the connection between the human energy body and the planetary energy body as well as the sameness of our “earth” of physicality and the Earth whence we sprang. A rapid way that all of us can deepen the respect we have for ourselves as human beings of the tribe of humans on planet Earth is to allow ourselves to feel this energetic connection between our human bodies and the body of the Earth itself.

Picture in your mind the energy flowing up from the Earth, up the feet and legs and through the red-ray center, on its way upwards through the energy body. Then picture intentionally linking back into Planet Earth by sending an answering, thankful energy back down our legs into the earth, creating energetic roots like a plant’s. When we habitually “earth” our energy bodies with this visualization, we will increase our sense of wellness and “belonging.” We really do belong to Mother Earth. Our bodies are made of Her material and She, as the living entity of Terra, Mother Earth or Gaia, loves us unconditionally as Her children. We can feel Her love and strength as we root down into the earth, linking with the Earth’s red ray by visualization.

The red-ray density is the density of the elements and the “powers,” as the Native Americans call them: the chemical elements and the four magical elements or powers of air, water, fire and earth. These are also associated with the four directions of east, west, north and south.

This earthly, density-wide red-ray connection with the red ray of our individual energy bodies is the source of powerful natural resources for the Player. Our combined physical and energetic bodies are the point of connection for much inner work which we can do by feeling our oneness with the Earth on which we live and asking for Her sacred elements and powers to make us stronger.

The awareness of this connection to the elements and powers also opens the way to magical work we may wish to undertake later in the Game. We shall talk more of this in the third book of this series, 103: The Inner Work. Knowing that we are a part of the great dance of life, we can better enter into it with a sense of creating style and grace in our movements as we dance.

That the red-ray chakra is basically a read-out does not mean that it is easy to keep the red ray open. Indeed, a lot of us get stuck with blockages at red ray, either because of our feelings about sexuality or our feelings about living on planet Earth. Sexuality and survival are the energies which the red-ray center handles. Our most primal instincts reside in this chakra.

We instinctually desire to procreate and preserve our species by red-ray sexual congress.

We instinctually desire to survive.

I chose to discuss sexuality first of these two types of red-ray energy because in lab tests, animals have repeatedly chosen to stimulate themselves sexually or take a substance like cocaine at the expense of eating, and as a result have suffered ill health or died. In a 1990 study of the effects of cocaine, the Canadian author stated,

In one experiment, three monkeys were put in cages where they were allowed to press only one of two levers—one producing an infusion of cocaine, the other producing food pellets—every 15 minutes. During the eight-day experiment, all three monkeys chose cocaine almost exclusively. Even on trials where they did not choose cocaine, the monkeys did not press the food lever. The animals lost weight and displayed strange, stereotyped behaviors. In other experiments, monkeys and rats have self-administered cocaine over periods of several days until they died of convulsions.⁴⁸

In studies where sexual stimulation was offered to lab animals as an option to eating, results were similar, with animals sickening and dying and for the same reason: choosing the addicting substance instead of food. We can become addicted to sex, just as we can become addicted to other powerful substances that change our brain chemistry.

We as Players seek to avoid addictions. We intend to allow our sexual feelings and energies to develop naturally, as they occur, rather than allowing ourselves to become addicted to the expression of this powerful energy. It may seem that the more sexual activity we have, the more open our red ray is, but in many cases this is not so. Sexual addicts, either of pornography or of sexual relations with another, actually create blockage at their red ray because they over-activate it with repetitive and artificially created desires.

This is fairly common in our sexually provocative and explicit media environment. It is easy to move from experiencing our sexuality as a naturally arising desire to being stimulated by the media into an artificially created and insatiable sexual craving for more, more, more.

If our sexual energies are “out” for a while, the Player will let them be “out.” He will allow his desire to flow naturally. At those times, letting red ray remain silent and without sexual expression is the way to keep the energy flowing through red ray. We do not have to act sexually in order to have our red ray be open and happy. We simply need to accept the desires or lack of desires which our red ray offers us with a sense of their rightness. Even complete celibacy is no hindrance to having an open red-ray chakra, if the celibate seeker affirms and is at peace with his or her sexuality

The sexual instinct is bred into the very bones of each of us. When all goes well with us and we come to the moment of sexual orgasm, we hopefully feel the immortal “Yes” of James Joyce’s Molly Bloom, in his novel, Ulysses, sounding through our inner thoughts and emotions. Ra says,

In the green-ray activated being there is the potential for a direct and simple analog of what you may call joy, the spiritual or metaphysical nature which exists in intelligent energy. This is a great aid to comprehension of a truer nature of being-ness.⁴⁹

To the Confederation, the true nature of beingness is always the Creator experiencing Itself. To confirm the sacred worth of sexuality is to open the red-ray chakra and let the energy pour through. We need to affirm our physical sexuality. Readers, tighten your sphincters. Women, we just did a “kegel,” squeezing the walls of our vaginas. Men, you have just squeezed your manhood from the inside. Was that not the beginning of a great feeling, ladies and gentlemen? Isn’t that energy a grand asset to have in this life? Is it not a powerful thing to feel the pleasure of sexual contact?

We need to realize that we are dealing with enormously powerful forces within ourselves as we work with the energy of sexuality. We are profoundly sexual creatures. The sexual drive is basic to our human nature. Whether we are glad of it or not, our sex drive will fill our thoughts and emotions with color and fire again and again throughout our lives.

It is easy and, on one level, correct to call this basic energy “lust.” However when we use this word, lust, we generally intend it judgmentally. And in this discussion of purely red-ray sexuality we specifically do not mean to invoke any judgment. At this basic level we are not looking at the emotional viewpoint behind the feelings of desire. We are simply looking at this energy as it naturally arises. And as it naturally arises, we are told in the Bible, the Creator checked the system out and found that it was good.

Indeed, it is the best kind of good. It is sacred. In a unified creation, all things are sacred. Sexual energy is—in and of itself—sacred. We as humans usually ignore that sacred aspect or at least try to work around it from time to time, but we cannot take its sacredness away. Our bodies are sacred and the sexual energy they carry is sacred.

In a creation made of unconditional love, that sacredness has the nature of love. We, as people carrying that energy in our bodies, have the ability to remember that this energy is sacred and to honor it. The potential of sex to become sacred in our actual experience is activated by remembering and honoring that sacredness in ourselves.

Sex is a source of pleasure and healing naturally built into the way our bodies work and into our earthly experience on the most fundamental of levels. What a generous Creator, to include such a freely available and in-built source of feeling good! Sexual play, with its intimacy and the free exchange of energies, is a gift indeed. The best and most fun things in life on this planet are free, to paraphrase the old song.

At first glance it would seem that these are reasons enough to honor and respect our sexuality. However this is not generally the case. We often feel tense and uncomfortable with our sexuality. And yet, as Q’uo says, our sexuality is the “earth and the soil of self.” It is our roots and our beginning. We were all conceived as a result of the Creator granting life to the seed our fathers sowed within our mothers’ wombs. Our very existence depends upon the natural function of the red-ray center. It is utterly natural.

We need to find a peace with our sexuality. As Players working strictly with the red-ray chakra, our goal in dealing with our sexuality is to release all concern we have about how we look or any other concern that constricts the natural flow of energy through red ray. Instead we need to focus upon enjoying the gift of our sexuality. Staying with the simple, joyful gusto, brio, playfulness and honest enjoyment of our sexuality is our concern as a Player in terms of keeping our red-ray centers open and flowing well.

This is a challenging thing to do, for reasons which will become obvious later, as we discuss the workings of the orange-ray chakra. For now, let us simply say that as Players, we want to come into a really relaxed and affirming peace concerning ourselves as sexual beings. As Players, we want to feel good about our sexuality. Our goal is to keep that precious flow of energy going. When those sexual energies feel threatened, we lose our “Yes.” We can easily react to sexual stimuli by shutting down the flow of vital energy through our energy bodies if we feel badly about being sexual beings. It is a priority not to do that.

The Red Ray andSurvival

When an entity is in possession of mental despair and has not moved from that dynamic into a productive mode of thinking, analyzing, feeling and acting, that despair becomes incorporated within the body complex. Thence comes disease and ultimately death. Therefore, the wages of continued despair are the death of the body.⁵⁰

How do you feel about living life on planet Earth?

When we think of survival instincts, we generally think of the “fight or flight” mechanism built into our adrenaline response. In an emergency situation, when our survival is physically threatened, we have all felt the massive and system-wide reaction where the mouth dries, the stomach settles and we are instantly more alert than we could have imagined in the moment before we experienced the stimulus that caused the emergency response. In the moment of that response, we can fight: we can defend and kill. We can also choose flight and be inspired to run from danger like the wind.

When our adrenaline reaction is only induced by truly life-threatening emergencies, we are normally at rest in terms of our red-ray survival instincts, and our red ray remains open. However, in the increasingly pressurized First World culture of which we are a part, that adrenaline reaction can become chronically half-triggered by stress, so that we are close to the fight-or-flight response on a daily basis. This is exhausting to our energy bodies and tends gradually to constrict the red-ray. It wears down the spirit and induces a chronic, habitual state of mild depression which insidiously robs us of our joy. When we do not wish to be here on earth, we contract around our discontent. That contraction squeezes the energy pipeline at the red-ray level, sometimes to the point of complete blockage.

The French have a phrase which is particularly apt for describing the sheer, exuberant love of life: élan vital or vital energy. When we love and enjoy our lives, our vital energy soars. The love/light of the Creator flows freely through the person who is enjoying his life.

We may not consider living on planet Earth to be a blessing, even if we do not experience the chronic depression spoken of above. In many people’s experiences, events occur which temporarily sour their love of life. We all go through such times of situational depression. The loss of a loved one, a job or a home is an event almost guaranteed to sink our spirits. If we are caught up in negative red-ray emotions like despair, grief and hopelessness, we feel terrible. Little or no energy can move up the energy body to the heart. It is difficult even to remember better times or to look ahead in hope for good times to come. In fact, doing so requires the discipline of a Player.

We have talked about remembering a larger viewpoint, the viewpoint of the Player. The chief feature of despair is its lack of perspective. When we get depressed, our world shrinks down to hold only the feelings of hopelessness and despair which have overtaken us. The Player in this situation consciously chooses to fix his mind upon faith and hope as a discipline. This attitude of faith clears the red-ray energy center. The fight-or-flight mechanism is shut down and the energy again flows freely. As the energy once again flows freely, we become able again to access the energy of the heart and orient ourselves to our guidance. And we find our joy again, using our will to choose faith.

Note that the faith which we choose to have is not faith IN anything. It is a simple faith that all is well and that what is occurring in our lives is helpful, even if it does not seem so at first glance.

The source of a momentary depression can be due to issues coming through any of the three lower chakras. We can be suicidal in a visceral way which has no focus, which is a red-ray feeling of despair. We can feel suicidal because of a relationship or because a legal relationship such as the marriage relationship or a job has been ended. Whatever the ray of origin, this despair registers in the energy body as a red-ray blockage.

The one thing that is central, as regards clearing the red ray of despair, is to realize that these despairing and “somebody shoot me” kinds of emotions and thoughts constrict the energy body at the red-ray level. Certainly they also constrict the energy body higher up, at the second or third ray, also. But the clearing of the blockage needs to begin at the bottom, with red ray.

When we perceive that we are constricting energy at the red-ray level in our energy bodies, then, we need to tackle our basic attitudes first, before going into the whys and wherefores of relationships, marriages and so forth. We need to look at what’s happened to our minds. Our minds have constricted our energy flow by accepting the story of hopelessness and helplessness which our emotions are telling us.

When I am working with my own bouts with despair, I find it helps to pretend that the little soap opera of my life is being filmed. I create a sense of perspective for myself by becoming the director of the film. I ask the camera man to dolly back. I relinquish the need to stay with that close-up shot of myself feeling miserable. I ask for the wider view.

Being the director, I look carefully at my “set.” Looking up from my concerns to see the context of this moment, I become aware of the beauty of the day. I appreciate the charm of small details that add to the scene: the vase full of teasels we put on the altar; the pileated woodpecker rat-a-tatting outside the window; the jolt of full sunshine. I amuse myself with planning how to frame the shot of “me in the present moment.”

If I stay with that wider view, I begin to feel a releasing of the constriction of my energy. Seeing the beauty of the environment warms my saddened heart, I see that although the situation is not what I want it to be, it is also not the whole of my life. I start again to notice the many other things which remain good about my life.

I have broken the spell of the depression.

When we feel miserable, we are in a way enchanted by an evil sorcerer—the sorcerer being ourselves. The central characteristic of despair is that it is a small system, closed, circular and repetitive. Out of all of the thoughts in the world, our feelings of despair, anger and resentment cause us to choose to focus upon this one sorry merry-go-round of thinking which is most guaranteed to go nowhere and help us not at all.

Yet we end up riding the ride as though we were a child at the carnival. Within our own minds there is no external helper or kindly gatekeeper who stops the ride and lets everyone get off the ride. We know how to get on! Something triggers old pain in us, and away we go on the merry-go-round of woe. Until we ourselves become that gatekeeper and help ourselves off the ride, we are stuck in sorrow. And our energy body is constricted and blocked.

We as Players need to task ourselves to look up and away from this circular ride of thought when we become aware of feeling blue. We need to regain the context of our life in general. Only then can we get off the ride.

It seems unlikely to me that life was ever worse or better than it is right now. We cannot excuse the feelings of despair within us because modern times make us “feel like a number” and a cog in some impersonal machine. Certainly our days are full of suggestions that we are not important. But then, at what point in recorded history were we ever important? When did we get our needs met? Would our problems vanish if we lived in simpler times? Not at all.

I do not believe anything is different now, emotionally speaking, than at other points in the time line of history. The outer events which form the story of our lives are really a shifting and evanescent backdrop for the abiding play of our emotions and feelings. When we are well balanced, life feels free and strong and there is a sense of steady progression. When we lose our balance, we are off on the merry-go-round of sadness and suffering.

We create the patterns of our suffering as naturally as our stomachs develop gas when they are digesting beans. In a way, our suffering is emotional dyspepsia. The treatment for gas is bicarbonate of soda, which pops the bubbles of gas and relieves the system. The treatment for emotional suffering is the calling upon a wider point of view, in which the clearer sight of our true situation pops the trouble-bubbles that have clogged our energy body and relieves the constriction of the energy center.

The flat gameboard is full of these circular, repetitive “rides” of thought and feeling which entrain our minds and squeeze all the joy out of our lives. When we find ourselves on such a ride, we need to take the time to look up and realize what’s happened. Then we need to exercise our art as a Player and get off the merry-go-round. That simple decision will open the energy body back up at the red-ray level. And it feels so good to shake off the blues!

This work takes time and courage. Negative emotions like hopelessness, helplessness and despair are hard to experience and harder still to grasp so that we become observers of our mental and emotional states rather than being captured by them.

One technique I have used in working with these kinds of emotion is to ask that feeling to flow through me. If I have tears to cry, I find a private place and let them come. If I have anger or other emotions, I find the total privacy which allows me to have that conversation with myself out loud rather than in my imagination, where it has been cycling all day. As we give our feelings the respect they deserve and as we listen to our own complaints carefully, we can often start fishing ourselves out of the misery of these moods simply because we have at last heard ourselves.

Clearing the energy body is not the Vulcan trick of repressing all emotion and asking instead for logic to reign in one’s mind. Rather it is acknowledging all of what we are feeling and thinking, deliberately experiencing it all thoroughly, and then asking the mind to release the concern we have had about these feelings and thoughts.

Again, it is central to prioritize clearing the energy body of blockage above solving the problems which are seemingly causing the suffering. In our emotional lives, the real sources of our upset tend to be hidden in patterns of sorrow and imbalance existing within us since childhood.

It is no surprise, then, that some tangles in our lives take a long time to unravel, in terms of outer events. We may be working with stubborn tangles in various of our energy centers for years. We cannot comb a tangle out simply by wishing it to be so. However, we can almost instantaneously clear the red-ray center of constriction by invoking faith and a larger point of view and by asking ourselves to become observers of ourselves and then healers and balancers of our constricted energy flow, so that we once again are flowing with good energy.