I beleive Ayurvedic medicine uses precious stones in their practices. Perhaps I am confused. The stones are associated with organ systems, and organ systems with chakras.

As far as chakramancy, it is a system of esoterics extrapolated from chakra theory as taken over a number of ancient traditions (it's pure fantasy, by the way). It is not manipulation of the chakras, but via the shakras. All is focused through the ninth chakra, with the exception of those few who practice brimstone chakramancy, which uses the eighth chakra as its lens. The eighth chakra is sub-basal but associated with the bile ducts. The ninth chakra is supra-crownal and and related to the parapineal gland, aka the Heaven-eye. Scholars and practicioners hotly debate whether the ninth chakra is of purest white, full-spectrum, or, in the case of a few misled eccentrics, beige.

"Art is the celebration of the ego's destruction."

"Art is the celebration of the ego's destruction."

I used to do a lot of meditation as well. Back in my twenties, I was into some really deep auto-hypnosis. I used it for a lot of years to control my asthma.

But intellect really does get in the way of meditation practice. Meditation got me to a different plane, as it were (this is figurative of course), and I had a series of out-of-body experiences. The first couple times it happened, I got excited about it and dropped out of 'center'; i.e., dropped out of my trance. About a week later I was doing some work with it and it occured to my mind that what I was doing was dangerous: what happens if someone else comes along and inhabits my body? What if I can't find my way back? The shock of those intellectual thoughts ruined me for meditation for a decade.

By the next allergy season, I was back on full-time meds to control my asthma and allergies.

I recently began my own version of Zen practice learned from book-learning, experimentation, and intuition. Into that, I've been incorporating chakra manipulation and regulation to manage my health - mental, emotional, and physical. I'm very, very interested in Ayurveda, but it's hard to find good writing on the subject through all the frufru New Age crap and the sludging 19th century authorities written in colonial English.

My theories of the eighth and ninth chakras are fabrications. However, that is not to say that I believe them to be fiction. Merely speculation based on esoteric and scholarly research. It's a pluralist approach to holism in a way. The eighth chakra is based on the concept of 'willful wrong action', aka EVIL, as a force that has both internal and external influences. The ninth chakra falls somewhere into the Universal Mind intersecting Bhoddisatva as I misunderstood the concept (based on misinformation from a New Age source).

Being who I am . . . finding a master/mentor is not an option. Sometimes a wistful longing, but never an option. My respect for those with the commitment and self-discipline to study under Masters, and moreso for those who have followed the path to that title.

<But intellect really does get in the way of meditation practice. Meditation got me to a different plane, as it were (this is figurative of course), and I had a series of out-of-body experiences. The first couple times it happened, I got excited about it and dropped out of 'center'; i.e., dropped out of my trance. About a week later I was doing some work with it and it occured to my mind that what I was doing was dangerous: what happens if someone else comes along and inhabits my body? What if I can't find my way back? The shock of those intellectual thoughts ruined me for meditation for a decade.>  >>

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-  Often when weird things begin to happen folks get scared away from metaphysics.  It's kind of scary to find out that the known limitations of the world are only in our minds.  But then, physics expands the boundaries of the world every day so it really shouldn't surprise us.  Biblically people can read that Jesus and his disciples healed with a touch, but when they run into a Rei Ki healer they can be totally freaked out.  >>

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<I recently began my own version of Zen practice learned from book-learning, experimentation, and intuition. Into that, I've been incorporating chakra manipulation and regulation to manage my health - mental, emotional, and physical. I'm very, very interested in Ayurveda, but it's hard to find good writing on the subject through all the frufru New Age crap and the sludging 19th century authorities written in colonial English.>  >>

-  Try Deepek Chopora's books.  He's a lace>USlace> surgeon, the son of a Surgeon, but the grandson of an Ayurveddic healer.  He reached a point in surgery when he felt the West relied too much on cutting out the problems rather than dealing with them so he's been trying to integrate Eastern/Western medicine for decades.>>

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<My theories of the eighth and ninth chakras are fabrications. However, that is not to say that I believe them to be fiction. Merely speculation based on esoteric and scholarly research. It's a pluralist approach to holism in a way. The eighth chakra is based on the concept of 'willful wrong action', aka EVIL, as a force that has both internal and external influences. The ninth chakra falls somewhere into the Universal Mind intersecting Bhoddisatva as I misunderstood the concept (based on misinformation from a New Age source).>  >>

-  Nothing wrong with theories.  Science lives on them.  They are only a proposed question until proven.>>

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<Being who I am . . . finding a master/mentor is not an option. Sometimes a wistful longing, but never an option. My respect for those with the commitment and self-discipline to study under Masters, and moreso for those who have followed the path to that title.>  >>

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-  'When the student is ready, the master will appear.'  That doesn't mean you'll find someone to follow around.  Yet the way will be marked by others.   Buy, beg, or borrow a copy of 'Path Notes' if you don't want to flail blindly in the dark for years.  >>

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Good hunting, Rob.  >>

"Art is the celebration of the ego's destruction."

When I do chakra work these are the stones and colors I use:

First Chakra (base or root)...Color: Red / Crystal: Tiger's Eye

Second Chakra (sacral)...Color: Orange / Crystal: Carnelian

Third Chakra (solar plexis)...Color: Yellow / Crystal: Yellow calcite

Fourth Chakra (heart)...Color: Pink / Crystal: Rose quartz

Fifth Chakra (throat)...Color: Blue / Crystal: Sodalite

Sixth Chakra (Third Eye)...Color: Violet / Crystal: Amethyst

Seventh Chakra (crown)...Color: White / Crystal: Clear Quartz

Because I am an Empath the color of my aura tends to be pink, which makes sense because my life is dominated and dedicated to the heart chakra.  When I cast a circle of protection every morning, it is pink.  And pink is also my favorite color (no surprise there! *grin*). 

I am also psychic, so I use my Third Eye almost every day.  No surprise purple is my second favorite color.