Glossary

Chakra:

Chakra is a Sanskrit word meaning ‘wheel” or “turning”.
The seven primary chakras are conceptually viewed as a wheels on the fron of the body over the spinal column. They act as energy [pathways into and out from the body. Each chakra serves a different function related to the major areas of a persons life and personality. Actually there are hundreds of chakras but most people are only concerned with the seven “primary” chakras.

Enlightenment:

  1. the act or means of enlightening or the state of being enlightened
  2. Buddhism the awakening to ultimate truth by which man is freed from the endless cycle of personal reincarnations to which all men are otherwise subject
  3. Hinduism a state of transcendent divine experience represented by Vishnu: regarded as a goal of all religion

Esoteric:

Understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest

Muse:

  1. Classical Mythology.
    1. any of a number of sister goddesses, originally given as:
      • Aoede (song)
      • Melete (meditation)
      • Mneme (memory)

      but latterly and more commonly as the nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne who presided over various arts:

      • Calliope (epic poetry)
      • Clio (history)
      • Erato (lyric poetry)
      • Euterpe (music)
      • Melpomene (tragedy)
      • Polyhymnia (religious music)
      • Terpsichore (dance)
      • Thalia (comedy)
      • Urania (astronomy)

      also identified by the Romans with the Camenae.

    2. any goddess presiding over a particular art.

  2. (sometimes lowercase) the goddess or the power regarded as inspiring a poet, artist, thinker, or the like.
    Note: In this sense Isis is also my Muse.

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