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The Cayce readings and other sources would associate the four lower chakras—root, navel, solar plexus, and heart—with the Living Being (Nefesh). These chakras are also associated with the four children of Horus in Egyptian mysticism, as well as the four beasts in Ezekiel, in Daniel, and in Revelation. (Much more on these will be covered in chapter 13.) The three higher chakras—throat, third eye, and crown—would be associated with the Soul Mind (Ruach) and the Soul Being (Neshamah). See illustrations 27 and 28.

In Cayce’s teachings the throat chakra is associated with the will and is thus the first step to reconnecting with heavenly awareness and oneness with God. As one subdues his or her personal will and seeks God’s will, one turns from this outer, lower reality to the inner, higher ones. The crown and third eye are luminaries of higher consciousness and renew energy in the body. This energy flows from heavenly realms through the crown (the soft spot in the head of our body as infants). When flowing, it opens the closed third eye, the mind’s eye. This is also the region of the large frontal lobe of our brain, which so distinguishes us from animals. This area contains most of the dopamine-sensitive neurons associated with reward, attention, long-term memory, planning, and drive. In the frontal lobe resides the ability to conceive of future consequences resulting from current actions, to choose between good and bad actions, to recognize the best choice from among several options, to override and suppress unacceptable social responses, and discern similarities and differences between things or events.

Cayce recommended meditation for improving one’s bodily condition and raising one’s level of consciousness. He spoke of drawing up the energy and consciousness from the lower chakras to the higher ones. In his meditative method, the energy and consciousness rise up from the base of the spine to the base of the brain; then to the center of the brain, where the crown chakra awakens (the soft spot); and then flows over to the great frontal lobe, where the hypothalamus and pituitary glands (the master glands of the body) are located. Interestingly, Cayce associated the seven chakras with the body’s seven endocrine glands, which secrete their hormones directly into the blood system. The root chakra corresponds with the gonads (testes in males, and ovaries in females), the navel with the Leydig cells, the solar plexus with the adrenal glands and pancreas, the heart with the thymus, the throat with the thyroid, the crown with the pineal, and the third eye with the pituitary gland.