Susan Shumsky: Color Your Chakras
Victor Fuhrman: And I remember you teaching about listening to the still, soft voice within. Share a little bit about that, please.
Susan Shumsky: Divine Revelation is about listening to that inner voice, the voice of divine guidance, it is your intuition. How to develop that ability to receive that message intuitively through clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience and how to receive answers to pertinent questions in your life that you want to ask of Spirit, with a capital “S” and be guided by Spirit in your everyday life.
Victor Fuhrman: I remember your teaching of the difference between listening to that inner guidance and the difference in the voices. The voice that shouts that may be fear based that tells you what to do is really the voice of ego. And not the true voice, but that that still, soft voice, the voice of loving compassion, the voice the resonates, is the voice that you listen to.
Susan Shumsky: Exactly. Do You know, is it your ego? Is it the true divine voice? Is it an astral entity? Is it wishful thinking? Who or what is giving you the message? So, it’s important to discern and distinguish. I teach it one of my very recent books called Awaken Your Divine Intuition. I teach it quite thoroughly in that book and also in my very first book, called Divine Revelation.
Victor Fuhrman: Let’s start talking about your brand new book. It’s called Color Your Chakras: An Interactive Way to Understand the Energy Centers of the Body. What is an aura?
Susan Shumsky: Let’s start with Prana because the aura is made of Prana. So, Prana is a Sanskrit word, and it means life force energy. It is what it is keeping you alive. In the ancient scriptures of India, it is said that, when Prana is in the body, that is what is defined as life, and, when Prana leaves the body, which is what it defined as death. So, as long as Prana is flowing through your subtle body, you are alive. Prana is in the air. It’s in food. It’s in water. It’s in the sunshine. It’s in thought.
Pranic energy flows through specific conduits of energy in your subtle body. In India, they call those Nadi, and in China, they call them Meridian. So, the Prana is flowing through these conduits of energy. It’s in a subtler dimension; it’s in your subtle body. But, your subtle body is what it was keeping your gross physical body alive, and that’s difficult for physicians to understand that because they only see what they can dissect. Those conduits of subtle energy are when many of those conduits come together in a plexus of energy; that is called chakra.
Chakra is a Sanskrit word that means wheel. The wheel has a hub, a place where all those Nadis are coming together in a plexus, and the spokes are the radiations of energy, radiations of Pranic energy. So, you have seven major chakras in your subtle body, and you have seven other chakras that are minor that are also in your subtle body. So, the aura is made up of these sheaths; in India, they call them Kosha. That’s the Sanskrit word for the sheaths. An aura pervades, permeates, and surrounds your physical body, and it contains all these sheaths that I mentioned.
So, Kundalini is a form of Pranic energy. We know what Prana is. That’s the life force energy. Kundalini energy is a specific kind of life force energy that is involved with spiritual awakening. Kundalini can be awakened by various means, including spiritual practices, breathing exercises that they call Pranayama.
Victor Fuhrman: What is the physical sensation? Is there a physical sensation connected with Kundalini rising?
Susan Shumsky: So, for some people, they do get certain physical sensations, like feeling rushed up the spine or heat. They might feel like their spine is on fire. They might feel ants are crawling up their spine. They might feel all kinds of odd sensations.
So, they end up in the psychiatrist, and the psychiatrist gives them some kind of drugs, and then, they no longer have their experiences.
Victor Fuhrman: Millions of people practice Hatha Yoga around the world. But, what does the word yoga actually mean?
Susan Shumsky: I’m glad you asked that question. The word yoga comes from a root Yuj, Y-U-J, which means to bind or to unite or to yoke. Okay. So, it actually means the same word as religion. Religion actually comes from a root that means to bind, to unite, to yoke. So, yoga is binding. Yoga is uniting the individual’s spirit with universal Spirit. The experience or the state of yoga is a state of experiencing oneness with universal Spirit. So, what you’re doing is you are experiencing a state of bliss, conscious, or Satcitananda, absolute bliss consciousness with the all-ness, the oneness with God.
Victor Fuhrman: The Hindu scriptures tell us there are different ways of achieving this yoga.
Susan Shumsky: There are many ways. For example, they talk about Kama Yoga, which is selfless service.
They talk about Bhakti yoga, which is devotion to God. They talk about Hatha yoga, which is the culture of the physical body through practices such as that Asanas and the Pranayama and the Bandhas and all of that.
There’s Kundalini yoga, which means raising the Kundalini through the spinal canal. There is integral yoga, which integrates many different yoga practices. There’s Raja yoga, which is the use of mantras and transcendental awareness.
And there is mantra yoga, chanting mantras usually. So, there’re many forms of yoga, and all of them have the same goal.
Victor Fuhrman: Most people, when they hear about chakras, are familiar with seven chakras. But, in your book, you have 14 of them. Why 14?
Susan Shumsky: When my publisher asked me to write another book, that book is called The Power of Chakras. I immediately went back to the ancient scriptures of India, the Vedic, and the Tantric scriptures, to find the information about that subject.
When I found, in the ancient scriptures, as they describe in great detail, 14 chakras, seven major chakras that people mostly know about. But, also there are these other seven. One is called Hrit chakra, which is right below the heart, and the rest of them are in your head or above your head.
Victor Fuhrman: Let’s talk about the one that’s below the heart chakra.
Susan Shumsky: Hrit chakra is the center of devotion. That’s where the deity resides. That is actually where you have the wish fulfilling tree. You have the deity that is established there. So, in your heart, you are feeling this devotion towards a deity, and that is the purpose of the Hrit chakra.
Victor Fuhrman: And what about the chakras that are above the crown?
Susan Shumsky: Okay. So, there’s only one chakra that’s above the crown. But, there are several chakras in your head.
One is the Manas chakra, which is where your mental body resides. That is near your Ajna chakra. It’s near your third eye chakra. Your third eye is in your pineal gland area, and your Manas chakra is very close to that. And then, into the Indu chakra, which is the intellect ego chakra. That is rather close too. It’s in the third ventricle. Then you have the Nirvana chakra, which is right at the top of your skull, inside your skull, but at the top of your skull. And then, you have the Guru chakra, which is right above your head, but below your crown chakra. And then, above crown chakra is what we call the Bindu point.
Victor Fuhrman: What’s the lost chakra?
Susan Shumsky: There’s another chakra which is in the uvula. The uvula is on the back of your throat. It’s that little thing that dangles down there in the back of your throat. So, the, what we call the Talu chakra is situated there. And the Talu chakra is related to the nectar of immortality, which is produced in the pineal gland and which trickles down into the area of the uvula.
Victor Fuhrman: We talk about the pineal gland as the third eye, and we know that, when we’re born, that is a very active organ. Is it not?
Susan Shumsky: Yes. And in children, the pineal gland is very pristine and clear and pure. And then, as people age, it becomes more calcified due to various toxins and poisons that people take, particular fluoridated water, in our country. However, the good news is that your third eye is not really in your physical body. It’s in your subtle body. So, you can develop your third eye even with a pineal gland that’s less than pristine. Victor Fuhrman: What are the benefits of using the new book that you have, Color Your Chakras. What are the benefits of coloring?
