It might seem bizarre to associate such a lofty concept with a thriller, I agree.
Yet, life has taught me that sometimes learnings can come from seemingly insignificant, cheap, or “low” vibrational events. The soul also learns from those…
The episode I’m talking about dates back to about five years ago.
I’m half-reclining on the sofa, watching the piazza’s execution scene from the film “Profume”, the story of an ante litteram serial killer.
The man condemned to the gallows takes out a piece of cloth soaked in the latest formulation of his fragrance, the quintessence of the purity of young virgin girls, and waves it in the direction of the mob crowded around him. One after the other, the bystanders, after praising him, are enraptured by a collective ecstasy: they fall on their knees, lie down on the ground, intertwine with each other without hesitation or modesty, without distinction of class or social status, from the villager to the bishop, from the executioner to the guard. The eyes release tears of emotion. The faces soften, light up, get excited. Men and women hold each other in hugs, get lost in effusions, strip off their clothes, until they remain completely naked and wrapped around each other inside an impalpable and invisible bubble of love but so powerful as to pierce the screen…
The souls emerge in their candor and lightness, beyond the bodies that contain them.
For the whole duration of the scene, and for the first time in my life since I can remember, I feel a heat in my chest that becomes more and more intense.
I don’t think I’ve ever felt anything like this in the absence of an energy source (natural or human) to emanate it.
I am amazed, and perplexed… how can such an internal “self-combustion” occur?
I sense that something has opened up, and in an irrepressible way.
From the heart that heat gradually spreads to the rest of the body. I also perceive it on the back, as if it passes from side to side.
Excited like the people in the movie, I analyze the inexplicable, anomalous quality of this sensation, which I cannot in any way have procured for myself and which I am unable to control or dose (at least in this first manifestation).
In hindsight I call it an “elevated” physical perception, a pure, expanded and soft one.
What makes it unique and significant is that it is located in that precise point, at heart level.
In the following days, I begin to process the experience and interpret it as a spontaneous activation of the fourth chakra, the energy center located in the chest.
I wonder if it has something to do with an awakening of kundalini energy (that primordial life force which we know is concentrated at the base of the spine and which, with each awakening, travels upwards through the energy centers, the so-called chakras), up to the top of the head, to the “crown”, which presides over communication with our higher conscience), concentrated on the chest.
Is it possible that it was stimulated by that scene of sublime intensity and purity?
Could it have been prompted by a memory, a reminder of that Flow of Love that pervades the higher dimensions, starting from the Astral one?
The hypothesis that we are dealing with the perception of a superior, transcendent and non-immanent form of energy is making its way more and more inside me.
Surely we all come from one Source or, conceivably, multiple Sources.
We fragment, we disperse, we embody, we limit ourselves, but somewhere, within us, there must still remain a trace, an imprint, a spark of that Energy from which we emanate and to which we cyclically reunite. And it may not be just an idea, an intuition, an abstraction: it is possible that under certain conditions it will materialize in a “physical” manifestation through our “physical” body.
Could this be the tangible expression in the third dimension of that Greater Love? Is it accessible to everyone? Can it be actively called?
I sense that in order to do this, a raising of vibration may be necessary, achievable in connection with the Higher Self.
Moved by curiosity, rooted and in contact, a few days later I asked to be able to re-experience this sensation of energetic openness on my own initiative by consciously reactivating the heart chakra.
And it happened again.
Within a very short time I begin to perceive again that sublime sensation of warmth in my chest. The chest “lights up” again and I find myself once again flooded by that wonderful flow that starts from the heart and radiates to the entire periphery. It is difficult to decide at that point to interrupt it, because the desire is to prolong it as long as possible.
I have no more doubts, it’s “Love”…
An energy of Love that already exists within me, that I can release from myself for myself (in communication with my Higher Consciousness and with the Original Source), a nourishment that reaches every cell of mine.
I wonder if I can choose to “donate” it. The moment I think of it, my hands light up. I perceive that if I had another body next to me, through mine and my upper extremities I would be able to transmit that same energetic quality of heat imbued with Love.
Within that almost ecstatic experience, which I consider a gift and a privilege, I ask myself why: why me, why at that moment.
I answer to myself that I have been given the opportunity, in a difficult phase of my life, to benefit from that profound nourishment.
However, I feel that there is more: perhaps I am asked to activate it when I work, in order to be within that quality of lovingness and put it at the service of the people who turn to me whenever I find myself interacting with them.
At that point, I have an epiphany about the meaning of the expressions “give yourself love” and “give love” in embodied experience.
Perhaps it really is impossible to give to oneself and to give to others if we continue to only and ever draw from our limited human reservoir.
We will exhaust ourselves; we will empty ourselves, and invariably we will expect others to receive in order to reintegrate.
Through this very special event, I understand how fundamental it is to fill ourselves with that energy of awakening, healing, light, whether it is Love or kundalini, however we want to call it, which through the heart chakra we can capture from the Original Source to arrive not to ask anything more from our fellow human beings, even those closest to us.
Only in this way will we be able to become truly free, clear and autonomous individuals, systems functioning in a regime of self-sufficiency.
As I explore these possibilities, I realize that I can associate the voluntary and conscious activation of the fourth chakra with the awareness of how “Light and Love” we are. Now this concept resonates differently, it has more depth, it has a concrete representation, it is no longer just an abstraction.
In that mode, I can truly forgive and love myself sincerely and deeply.
And this is how I close the circle, at least in my limited and human vision: I feed on that Love by consciously empowering the fourth chakra to receive light, heat and healing energy. At that point I will find myself really “available” to welcome and accept myself and the other for who we are.
I will reflect towards the other that same quality of Love that I have imbued like the crowd that ecstatically responds to that fragrance and slips into love towards everything and everyone.
A comment, at the end of this report: I would never watch the movie “Perfume” again due to the crudeness of certain scenes and its noir characteristics, but over and over again I have watched the scene in the square… and with each viewing it has not failed to touch me and exalt me.
