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Ask most people what a blocked chakra is and you will get an image: a spinning wheel that has jammed, a lotus that refuses to open, a coloured light gone dim. Those pictures come from old and beautiful traditions, and they still do good work. But they leave a modern reader with a nagging question. What is actually happening when energy “gets stuck”? Where does it go? And why does clearing it feel so much like getting your life back?
There is a way of looking at the energy centres that answers those questions with surprising neatness. It treats the chakra system as a circuit, the kind you may have wired up on a bench in a school science class, and borrows the language of electricity and magnetism to describe how spiritual energy moves, stalls and leaks. Teacher Aaron Abke laid out a version of this model in his Spiritual Intelligence series, and it fits closely with the way the Law of One describes the energy body. What follows is our own exploration of it, and of why it might change how you approach your inner work.
Why “Blocked” Is the Wrong Word
Start with a simple premise: energy cannot be blocked. It can only be routed. When we say a chakra is closed, what we really mean is that the energy arriving at it is being spent on something that does not serve us. Nothing is missing. Nothing has stopped. The flow has simply been diverted into fear, defensiveness, cravings or control.
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That reframe matters, because it shifts the problem from scarcity to efficiency. A person who feels drained is rarely short of life force. They are leaking it. And a leak is something you can find and repair.
The Body as a Simple Circuit
Every working circuit has three essential parts. There is a source that supplies energy, a set of conductors that carry it, and a load at the far end that turns it into something useful, like light from a bulb or motion from a motor. As one engineering textbook puts it, the source and the load are the two most fundamental parts of any circuit, and everything in between exists to get power from one to the other.
Map that onto the energy body and the picture becomes clear:
- The source is the Earth itself, a constant supply of life energy rising through the soles of the feet and up the spine.
- The conductors are the lower three centres: the red root, the orange sacral and the yellow solar plexus.
- The load is the upper triad: the green heart, the blue throat and the indigo brow, where raw energy becomes compassion, honest expression and inner knowing.
This is not a modern invention bolted onto old material. In Session 54 of the Ra material, Ra describes energy entering the body through the feet and the base of the spine, with each centre filtering a portion of it on the way up. Whatever is not used or distorted at one level becomes available to the next.
Engineers know what happens when a circuit has no proper load, or when current finds a shortcut back to the source. Without a significant load, a closed circuit becomes a short circuit, and the energy dissipates as heat rather than doing useful work. That is a fair description of how many of us live.
The Lower Triad: Three Filters in Series
Think of the lower centres as filters arranged one after another, each asking a different question of the energy passing through it.
The red ray asks: am I safe? It scans incoming experience for threats and opportunities tied to survival. When basic needs are met and fear is not running the show, it passes clean energy upward.
The orange ray asks: who am I, and how do I feel about the people around me? It processes energy through personal identity, emotion and one-to-one relationships.
The yellow ray asks: where do I stand in the group? It handles willpower, self-worth, social standing and our impact on the wider world.
Here is the key point. None of these questions is unspiritual. Wanting to survive is healthy. Wanting to understand your own desires and feelings is healthy. Wanting to matter, to contribute and to stand on your own two feet is healthy. The lower centres are not the enemy of awakening. In the Law of One, the red ray is called the foundation ray, never to be looked down on as less important, and the red, orange and yellow together form the springboard into the heart.
What turns these drives sour is distortion. A distorted yellow ray does not stop seeking status. It seeks status for control, for advantage over others, for the feeling of being above. The drive is the same. The polarity is different.
Storage and Output: The Magnetic and the Electric
This is where the model gets interesting. It proposes that each energy centre has two aspects that work together, much like the two halves of an electromagnetic field.
The magnetic aspect draws in, holds and stores. It contracts. In this framework it corresponds to the subconscious mind, the vast archive where every belief, unprocessed emotion, old wound and hidden decision about what life means is kept on file.
The electric aspect radiates, expands and gives. It is your live output, the frequency you broadcast in real time through three channels: what you think, what you feel and what you do. These are the things your conscious mind can observe, even when the impulses behind them come from far below the surface.
In physics, the electric and magnetic parts of a light wave are not independent dials. They rise and fall together in a fixed relationship. The model takes that as a spiritual principle: you cannot heavily charge the magnetic side of a centre without also changing what it radiates. A centre crammed with stored pain does not go quiet. It broadcasts.
The early twentieth century philosopher and artist Walter Russell built an entire cosmology around a similar idea, which he called rhythmic balanced interchange: the notion that every pair of opposites in nature is held in balance by continuous giving and receiving between the two. Mainstream science never accepted his physics, but as a spiritual image it is hard to beat.
What a Blockage Actually Is
Put those pieces together and a blocked chakra stops being a mystery. It is a centre carrying too much magnetism of the wrong kind.
Pride, shame, scarcity, addiction and insecurity behave like strong magnets. They pull energy toward themselves and hold on to it. The more negatively charged material a centre stores, the stronger its pull becomes, and the less of the passing current it can hand on to the next centre.
So the upward flow is not interrupted by a wall. It is interrupted by a competing force. The energy is captured, held, and eventually displaced, rather than conducted.
The word that fits here is entropy. In thermodynamics, entropy is closely tied to disorder and to energy that is no longer available to do work. Energy in any system can move coherently and do something useful, or it can scatter into randomness and be lost as waste heat. A distortion, in this model, is simply energy that cannot do work.
Why Distorted Energy Spills Sideways
If a blocked centre is holding so much charge, why does it not just keep accumulating forever?
Because the heart will not take it. The upper centres exist to emit, not to store. They cannot hold distortion, so they close to it. The heart closes to judgement. The throat closes to victimhood. The brow closes to fear. With nowhere to go upward, the excess sprays out the sides of the system.
And that sideways spray is something you will recognise immediately. It shows up as triggers, overreactions, compulsive habits, quirks you cannot explain and the same painful patterns repeating across relationships and jobs. These are not random. They are the visible leakage of a circuit that is short-circuiting before the current can reach the load.
The Ra material notes a striking contrast here. In Session 54, Ra explains that the positive and negative paths use the first three rays in almost opposite ways: the service-to-self path deliberately builds and concentrates lower-centre energy for separation and control, while the service-to-others path transmutes it upward into the heart and beyond. A positively oriented person cannot comfortably hoard that kind of charge. It does not belong in the system, so it leaks.
Clearing Versus Activation
The circuit model draws a sharp, useful line between two kinds of inner work.
Clearing applies to the lower triad. It is the work of releasing what is stored: facing the fear, forgiving the old injury, letting go of the belief that you are not enough. Clearing does not make the upper centres shine. What it does is stop starving them. It restores conduction, so energy can reach the heart, throat and brow at all.
Activation applies to the upper triad, and it works on a different principle entirely. Here the physics offers a lovely clue. A charge sitting still radiates nothing. According to the Larmor formula, electromagnetic radiation comes from charge that is accelerating. Movement, not mere presence, is what makes light.
The spiritual translation is direct. Having energy available in the heart is not the same as having a radiant heart. To activate a centre you have to put a demand on it. You have to use it.
Why Giving Is the Activation
How do you put demand on the heart? You love, forgive, serve and give thanks, deliberately and often.
Gratitude is a good example because it is simple and measurable. Try saying thank you throughout the day for both the wins and the setbacks, then write down a few of them before bed. It sounds almost too easy, yet researchers Robert Emmons and Michael McCullough found that people who regularly listed things they were grateful for showed higher wellbeing than those who recorded hassles or neutral events, with the boost in positive mood being the most reliable result.
This is also why giving and receiving turn out to be one movement on the positive path. When you extend compassion, you are the first to feel it. The current runs through you before it reaches anyone else, just as a conductor must carry a charge before it can pass that charge along. Jesus put the principle plainly: the measure you give will be the measure you get back. What you withhold from others, you quietly withhold from yourself.
You Attract What You Already Hold
One more piece of the model helps untangle a common confusion about manifestation.
Picture your conscious mind as a radio station and your subconscious as an antenna. Experiences, including other people’s moods and outbursts, pass through everyone constantly like radio waves. You do not control which signals are in the air. But you do control which ones your receiver locks onto.
If you carry unresolved envy, someone else’s jealousy will hook you instantly. You will feel the sting, judge them harshly, and add a little more charge to your own stored pattern. If that frequency is not in you, the same moment can pass straight through without leaving a mark.
So it is not quite true that you consciously create every event in your life. Plenty of catalyst simply arrives. What is true is that your frequency decides what sticks, what it means to you and what you magnetise into your system. Every experience starts out neutral. Perception is the hinge on which it becomes either a new blockage or a release.
Two Destinations for Every Unit of Energy
When you strip the model down, energy in the human system has only two possible fates.
It can become radiance: compassion, joy, intuition, steady presence. This is energy rising and being put to conscious use.
Or it can become entropy: lack, fear, resistance, control. This is energy leaking sideways into patterns you never chose.
That framing is quietly empowering. It means you are never truly empty. You are only ever conducting well or conducting poorly. Clearing repairs the wiring. Activation turns on the lights. Neither denies your humanity, and that may be the most valuable lesson in the whole model. Spiritual growth is not an escape from the body, the ego and the messy business of being a person. It is the work of letting all of it carry the current upward.
A Note on Models
It is worth holding this framework with an open hand. Chakras do not appear on a multimeter, and the electrical language here works best as a precise metaphor rather than a laboratory claim. But a good metaphor is a tool, and this one earns its place. It explains why old wounds feel heavy, why triggers feel involuntary, why gratitude practices work, and why spiritual bypassing never quite holds. Try it on your own patterns for a week. Notice where the current leaks, and where it rises. The circuit will tell you a great deal.
