8th Chakra

Earth Body: Dimensional Grounding – Connection to Earth’s physical and ethereal dimensions so its life forms can live balanced in both.

Human Body: Earth Knowledge and Grounding – Grounding with Earth knowledge is the communication with the planet and all of its life forms.

Grounded in earth, sky and water, the Australian Baobab tree can live 2,000 years. It stores and provides water through the dry season. Its leaves, rich with iron, are boiled and eaten like spinach. Its fruit is eaten by birds, mammals and humans. Considered a sacred tree, indigenous Australians carve the dried-outer shell of its fruit with art.

1st Chakra

Earth Body: Survival of Life – Center of survival and physical health, aliveness and adaptability.

Human Body: Survival of Individual – Physical health and healing, knowledge of how to live and survive.     

Bristle Cone Pines exemplify the wisdom of Earth’s Survival Chakra. With life spans approaching 5,000 years, they are among the longest-lived life forms on Earth. They can thrive where few plants can; in shallow, rocky dolomitic soils at high elevation and areas with virtually no rainfall.

2nd Chakra

Earth Body: Renewal and Rebirth – Center for the cycle of life and death, and co-creation in a continuous cycle of giving and receiving.

Human Body: Rebirth, Sensation and Creation – Giving and receiving to co-create and diversify life, jointly with the 4th chakra creates enduring creation.

Baillonella (or moabi) trees live more than 600 years. Rather than grow in groups, they stand individually within lowland rainforest. Its seeds, bark and latex are used for medicinal treatments. Its fruits are eaten fresh or processed into a highly valued oil. The tree is so valuable that, at least for the Bantu people where I was, the family who discovers one obtains the inheritable right use and care for it for generations.

3rd Chakra

Earth Body: Integration and Timing – Integrates etheric and physical dimensions with planetary timing.

Human Body: Integration of Experience – Integrates etheric and physical self, its timing, its dimensions, and feels the impact of, and upon, the outside world.

Ariel view of Mt. Roraima in south-east Venezuela near the border with Brazil, rises above the clouds and the jungle 3,000 feet below.

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This photo shows a whirling cloud over “The Horns” in Torres del Paine National Park, Patagonia.

4th Chakra

Earth Body: Emotion – Emotional center for caring, empathy and processing emotions as a language within all life.

Human Body: Processing emotion – Emotions as the language of the body, responding to each moment.

View at sunrise from the top of Mt. Sinai, Egypt. A view unchanged since the time of Moses and the arrival of the Ten Commandments.

5th Chakra

Earth Body: Hearing and Expressing Sound – Center of constant listening and expressing ethereal and physical sound for communication throughout Earth.   

Human Body: Listening and Communicating – Listening and speaking inside and outside of self, both physical and etheric.

Siberian elms are the only tree that grows in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia. They’re very drought resistant, cold hardy, and able to grow in poor soil. Some leaves moved without wind, and it’s not surprising that Mongolian Buddhists consider these trees sacred.

6th Chakra

Earth Body: Vision, Inside and Out – Inward vision into the planet and outward into the cosmos in all dimensions.

Human Body: Vision, Inside and Out – Inner and outer vision, physical and etheric.   

The eye of the Earth, Lake Baikal is over a mile deep, the deepest lake in the world. It also the oldest, formed from a vast rift valley that appeared about 25 million years ago. It’s clarity is world renowned, transparent up to 130’ in the winter. It holds 20% of the planet’s fresh water. Only the combined volume of all five Great Lakes into one “Great Lake” of North America compares. Its ecosystem is home to more than 1,500 animal species, about 80 percent of which live nowhere else on the planet.

7th Chakra

Earth Body: Ethereal Knowingness – Center of knowledge for ethereal realms within and beyond the Earth.

Human Body: Inner Knowing – Cosmic knowledge, ethereal self, self-honesty and personal identity.  

A mountain pass half a day’s walk north of Dharamshala, India, home of the Dalai Lama and the provincial capital of Tibet in exile.

9th Chakra

Earth Body: Ethereal Essence – The most ethereal aspects of Earth’s consciousness.

Human Body: Ethereal Awareness of Self – Brings a being’s ethereal essence into the body to match Earth’s essence entering through the 8^th needed for conscious co-creation.

Doubtful Sound is a remote fjord in southwestern New Zealand. It receives around 200 inches of rain each year and is only accessible by sea. The mountainous landscape surrounding it is dense rainforest. One of many waterfalls, this one cascades over 2,000 ft (600m) down into the Sound.

Antarctica

Like all lands of Earth, Antarctica began as a part of the whole. Earth’s continents began to take recognizable shape about 200 million years ago (MYA). 100 MYA Antarctica was covered by huge tree-sized ferns and conifer forests. As continental chakras continued to move to their positions, Earth began to move Antarctica – its storehouse of information from all lands – to the south pole. About 40 MYA Antarctica settled into its present position, and by 25 MYA the whole continent was blanketed with ice. Although not a chakra it serves a critical function connecting all continents. Earth moved it to a place as remote and as uninhabitable as possible to best protect it.

Curious but unafraid of us, the Chinstrap penguin colony at the top of Spigot Peak seemed to know that we wouldn’t live through the night in a place where they prospered.