San Francisco – Chakras

Saint Francis of Assisi was a medieval saint who had an extraordinary impact on animals and people. Reading the testimonies of those around him, there is no doubt that he was an evolved and spiritually developed soul. His inner life was so intense that phenomena spontaneously happened around him. He was always portrayed with a nimbus or halo around his head. Obviously his chakras (like those of most saints) worked wonderfully. We can learn a lot from the attitude of the saints regarding spiritual development. Perhaps some of them went a bit further in denying the body, but theirs was a Piscean approach to spirituality. The principles they lived by, however, are relevant and crucial to our spiritual development today.

These days our approach to spirituality is getting a bit forced and mechanical, in my opinion. Books and speakers teach aspirants to open and balance the chakras. We are told to visualize a specific color in a certain chakra, so that it manifests itself in the best way. Using the will in this way to force development is not the path to long-term development. Everyone seems to want to know how to open the chakras. How to balance their lives and develop. But can you really imagine Saint Francis sitting down and sending specific colors to his chakras with a view to developing spiritually? I do not believe it.

He was too busy praying, praising God, serving the poor, to worry about such things. Paradoxically, although he did not consciously go out to develop his chakras, the result of his lifelong love for God and God’s creation was to develop his chakras. The chakras are developed mainly through the exercise of virtues. Virtue is a very unappealing word these days. However, if we are to develop our aura and chakras, the virtues must play a role.

You can use the will to visualize and imagine colors in the chakras, but UNLESS you consolidate this with a change in lifestyle, there will be no real spiritual development. Birds, fish, rabbits, all responded to the energy of San Francisco. It is common for yogis in Tibet and India to have a hypnotic and calming effect on wild animals. Animals perceive the pure chakras and energy of the saints and often behave like domesticated animals around them.

Saint Francis is well known for taming a ferocious wolf that terrorized the inhabitants of Gubbio, a city in Italy. The wolf had already attacked people and many were afraid to go out at night. San Francisco decided it would help. Approached the wolf, who immediately began to behave like a cute puppy, St. Francis asked the wolf to stop terrorizing people and promised that the people of Gubbio would give him food every day. The wolf totally transformed its behavior and became a pet for the inhabitants. He never attacked a single person again. When he finally died, many years later, the people of Gubbio were really sad. It had become one of his beloved pets.

One sure way to open and balance the chakras is to fall in love with all of God’s creation and with God like Saint Francis did. This fervent love that she experienced opened all her chakras. He had courage, warmth, a sense of self, intuition, and wisdom. It is love for all sentient beings and for Deity that opens the way to true spiritual transformation.