Energies

The chakras work with the energy that is the raw material for emotional states… Prana is the energy connected with breathing and hence with vitality… Kundalini is the main energy that fuels the chakra system. It is connected with sexual energy, but it is sexual energy only when operating in the lower chakras. In the heart chakra it is experienced as love; in the head chakras it is experienced as light. Shakti is the same energy but in a different form, that of power. It is experienced as having more of an electrical quality than kundalini. (Essence, pg 39)

Energies of the Chakras

The energies of the chakras are the basic raw energies of emotional states. When a chakra is active or “open,” we directly experience the basic subtle energies that go into the makeup of the various emotions, instead of the emotions themselves. That is why we experience emotional freedom when the heart opens: the energy frees us, for the moment, from the conflicting emotions that usually fill our hearts. The basic energy of the heart chakra is experienced as love, joy and bliss. (Essence, pg 28)

Essence and energy

Essence is something fundamentally different, more substantial and deeper than energy, whether it is electromagnetic, chemical, chi, prana, kundalini, shakti, libido, orgone or whatever. However all these energies must be experienced and freed for a person to move into the realm of being, our essential and true nature. (Essence, pg 39)