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Truth and the Spiritual Warrior By John Sacelli We raise our foot for the next step, but there is no path in view. When passion enters our life, the energy at the base of the spine heats up. The first heated stage is “red;” thus “sacred” is “sac-rum red.” The Sacred is the Tao, the fusion of the twin snakes of yin and yang, ida and pingala, dark and light into one current which rises up to activate the chakras, or crossing points (areas of life activity). When the fused energy reaches the heart, the nurturing center, we have arrived at the first of the “spiritual” chakras—passion becomes compassion, the realization that others exist in their own right apart from whether or not their existence benefits us. We begin to become directed not alone by survival (1st chakra), sexuality and bonding (2nd) or power (3rd), but love. We expand. The 4th or heart chakra is located in the chest, the broadest area of the body. When the heart chakra first opens, we experience a great spiritual revelation—that all is love. We are love. The universe is love. Love heals all wounds. Love conquers all. All you need is love. But love does not solve all problems. When we look out in the world, illness remains. Poverty remains. Injustice and discord remain. And our temptation is to think that, since we ourselves are experiencing love, it must be someone else’s fault that the world has not immediately become the loving place we are envisioning it to be. As soon as we blame another—the world, our parents, a partner, the administration, “them”—the energy has dropped down from the heart chakra and back into the lower chakras. We no longer are “in love,” but only the memory of it. We must struggle to bring it back up. To open our hearts again and relinquish our judgments. To raise the energy still higher, into the Truth Chakra. We are now “on the cross.” The cross is literally the crossing of the body’s vertical alignment up the spine with the horizontal alignment across the shoulders. Love is not enough to “cross over.” The heart hesitates on the threshold of the warrior. Courage is needed. Courage: “couer” (French for heart) rages. We seek the divine, whatever the cost. The energy narrows again to make it through the neck—the narrows, the Truth. Matthew 7:13-14: Enter ye in by the narrow gate: For narrow is the gate, and straitened the way that leads unto life, and few are they that find it. The fifth chakra is sometimes called the “Truth Center” or “Warrior’s Way.” In Native American terms, we must “walk our talk.” The ideas and ideals of the mind must fit the actions of the body. The mind (mind; obedience) no longer knows the way. From an old Dylan song: Seems like only yesterday I left my mind behind Down in the Gypsy Cafe With a friend of a friend of mine ... We enter the path of the “Spiritual Warrior” because we must walk it without knowing where it leads—we lose our minds, our maps—we raise our foot for the next step, but there is no path in view—only the yearning that Spirit somehow open a path. There is no path to follow; only a path to be made. Possessions are left behind. Friends and allies and lovers are left behind. Grievances and excuses are left behind. Authority, perhaps especially religious authority, is abandoned. Self-identifications, ambitions, security. Nothing fits this narrows but the truth of our yearning. The past is a burden and the future an illusion. Only the passion to serve, to make our own bodies and spirits a passage-way for the greater spirit. That is Truth. We confront choices, a T. And we must be ruth-less with ourselves. Nothing we cling to will fit through. Only Spirit. We are not Spiritual Warriors until we give ourselves away to the Truth. And Truth is the meeting. Meeting of Earth and Sky. Meeting of Man and Woman. Meeting of Races. Meeting of Time and Eternity. We become the cross. We become the crossing. “When you make the two one, and when you make the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the female one and the same—then you will enter the Kingdom.” — Gnostic Gospel of Thomas. The cross is also the crossing into adulthood as a species. As long as the goal is something outside ourselves—anything from Salvation to our bank account to the Withering Away of the State—we are like children who seek parental authority and protection. These last 2,000 years have been our “coming of age,” the “cross” is our first driver’s license on the spiritual interstates that lace our universe. When we have crossed, we are free; but before the crossing, we are terrified (or “terra-fied”—confined to the earthly or material plane). Young souls accept, and need, external authority. “Teenage souls” struggle against authority. Mature souls find authority within. Old souls are the authors who write the stories. For those who seek the protection of external authority, “the snake” is always the enemy. But when the snake, the kundalini, has finally crossed over through the narrows of truth, of living impeccably, then earth and sky unite and we are one with Spirit. “The way in is the way out.” This is the “meaning of the cross.” This is the “truth that will set you free.” John Sacelli has been on a Shaman’s Path since the early 1980s. He works with dreams and soul intention, as well as “star logic” (astrology) in Chicago, and can be reached at 773-761-0252 or salynx@johnsacelli.com, www.johnsacelli.com. John is the author, along with local visionary artist Chris Deschaine, of the AngeLynx Oracle Deck, www.angelynx.com.
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