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Renaissance courtyard of Wawel Castle. The Chakra - near left corner.

The Wawel Chakra (in polish: czakram wawelski) - a place on Wawel hill in Kraków in Poland which is believed to emanate powerful spiritual energy. It is believed to be one of the world's main centers of spiritual energy . The Wawel Chakra is said to be one of a few strongest places of power on the Earth, which - like a chakra in the human body functions in (esoteric) energetic system of Earth.

The very center of Wawel Chakra is situated under St. Gereon’s chapel which was built in 11th century and is located between Royal Castle and Wawel’s Cathedral - in the north-west corner of Wawel's courtyard.

No evidence of any physical phenomenon are known. So, probably, the nature of the Wawel Chakra ("Wawel Stone") is purely spiritual, paranormal, and transcendental.. Or - it is a pure legend.

The Wawel Chakra, or Wawel Stone, or Wawel Lotus or Wawel Power Place is treated as:

• a theosophical belief from 1930's (with legendary threads)
• a contemporary legend (so called urban legend) from 1980's (but with roots in 1930's)
• a place of great interest and researches (and speculations) of contemporary dowsers and geomants
• a place of powerful spiritual and healing energy for New Agers
• a nuissance for people of firm catholic or scientific background
• a tourist attraction, not welcomed by church and museum authorities

The Wawel Chakra as an urban legend

One of Wawel’s most well-known, but officially unendorsed legends is that of the fabled chakra stone. Chakra stone is believed to be a holy stone, one of seven mysterious energy sources placed in different locations around the world - the seven main energy centres of Earth.

Chakra stone guards Wawel’s hill, and thus - the whole city.

There is an assumption that the Earth has seven special places quite like ‘force centers’ of the human body called chakras in the tantric and yogic teachings of Hinduism. Krakow, and specifically the Wawel Hill, is supposed to be one of those holy areas. Also Rome, Jerusalem, and Delhi are usually awarded the same status. No consensus as regards the remaining three places on the list. Internet is full of about 40 locations claiming to be one of the seven chakras of the Earth.

The origins of the tale have been traced to a newspaper story published in the mid-1930s. It reported that two mysterious gentlemen from India visited the Wawel Castle and were overly interested in an empty corner of the courtyard, which prompted guesswork. The story resurfaced in the 1980s. Soon the Wawel Chakra has become famous in Krakow and Poland, its legend fanned by New Age enthusiasts. In the 21st century it began to wane. Recently such authorities as the Wawel museum management and the church has engaged in battling the chakram fallacy which may breathe new life into it.

The Wawel Chakra as Theosophical occult center

According to european theosophical tradition, there are seven chakras of Earth, the other six are located in New Dehli, Mekka, Delphi, Rome, Velehrad. In Hindu tradition there are also chakras in Benares, Hardwar, Rishikesh, Allahabad.

According to a legend, Greek philosopher, mystic and explorer, Appollonius of Tyana, during one of his long-term voyages discovered a hill, now called Wawel, with great positive radiation. He left there one of his talismans, to reveal full potential of chakra radiation.

Probably it was Wanda Dynowska, polish theosophist and translator, who bond Wawel with an old Hindu legend. The legend tells, that God Shiva threw seven stones on seven Earth's directions, to make gift to the people - seven places of powerful God's energy.

Annie Besant, Charles Leadbeater visited Wawel, and stated, they felt powerful spiritual energy. George Arundale wrote in 1932 about powerful magnetic aura of Wawel/>.

Polish theosophist, Kazimierz Chodkiewicz wrote a book The Cracow Occult Centre.

New Agers and the Wawel Chakra

Although St. Gereon’s chapel isn’t opened to public, still single people engrossed in meditation can be found - all year around, standing or sitting near the north-west corner of Wawel's courtyard. Believers may also touch the wall by their heads, backs, hands or heels – the wall which screens St. Gereon’s chapel from eyes of the public.

It became customary for cultists and followers of the chakra to come here and lean against the wall for a few minutes in order to recharge their spiritual batteries..

Researches and speculations of geomants and dowsers

According to geomants, dowsers and psychics, there is no doubt about the powerful positive radiation of the place called Czakram Wawelski.

But there is no consensus on the stone.

Maybe the stone is

• pure legend
• metaphor
  • metaphorical source of positive terrestrial radiation
  • metaphorical source of spiritual forces
• true, physical stone - maybe a precious stone, or a piece of meteorite, programmed as an amulet, to strengthen and streamline the radiation of this place of power, intentionally placed in a rock crack on Wawel Hill (by Apollonius of Tyana, if the story is true).

According to prominent polish geomant and dowser, Leszek Matela, there is unusual radiation there, both cosmic and terrestrial, conducted by water veins ascending under the chapel . The water veins flow deep underground in the bedrock, lifting up beneath the Chapel. Consequently, the annular radiation occurs. The radiation is benefitial to human beeings, unlike the radiation of usual water veins.

Additionally, these powerful radiations are intensified by global Hartmann network and diagonal Curry network. These both cosmic radiation networks distribute and intensify both earth and cosmic radiation, either negative (of water veins etc.) or positive of places of power.

As many as seven ley lines cross at Wawel. They link Wawel to many other places of power, including Stonehenge, Jerusalem, Stara Zagora, Istanbul, Arkona, Rome, Vilnius.

More researches, statesments and speculations

There is no simple analogy between human chakras and the chakras of the earth. There are more then seven Earth chakras, and they are nodes of Earth's subtle radiation network and subtle energy transformers . Perhaps - if the hypothesis of Goncharov, Makarov and Morozov is true - Earth chakras are active nodes of Earth global crystal-like structure

The Wawel Chakra is a left-handed one, which means that its main purpose is to absorb negative energy and cleanse energy aura this part of Earth.

The power of Cracow Chakra’s Stone geomantic energy has been estimated by famous polish geomant, Leszek Matela and is 120.000 points on BSM scale (Bovis-Simenoton-Matela) – for comparison, radiation of healthy human body is ‘just’ 6500 points.

The Cracow chakra reached its full power in 1935, on the day of the funeral of Marshall Jozef Pilsudski (known as man who lead Poland to its independence in 1918). According to reports from the event, extraordinary things happened then – suddenly air temperature has dropped by 7 Celsius degrees and about 14 o’clock the darkness overcame.

Oldest stories tell about the Dragon of Wawel Hill which lived in a cave under Wawel on the bank of the Vistula river. In eastern traditions dragons were great guards of power places, especially those connected to the energy of Earth. So perhaps the legend about Dragon referres also to Wawel Chakra..

The Wawel Chakra as not wanted tourist attraction

The very center of positive energy of Wawel Chakra, St. Gereon’s chapel isn’t opened to public in spite that archeological researches there were finished.

When the chakra area was roped off in 2001, a conservationists desire to protect the wall from the public was touted as the main reason for this, although there's no doubt that the cathedral hierarchy's distaste for New Age tourism also played a part.

Bibliography

• Leszek Matela Tajemnice czakramu wawelskiego i sekrety Krakowa (Secrets of the Wawel Chakra and Mysteries of Cracow), Białystok, 2006. ISBN 83-7377-113-1 (referred as "Matela L.(2006)")

• Zbigniew Święch Czakram wawelski. Największa tajemnica wzgórza (The Wawel Chakra. The Biggest Secret of the Hill). Kraków, 2005. ISBN 83-85347-12-7 (referred as "Święch Z.(2005)")

• Michał Rożek Kraków, czyli siódmy czakram ziemi. O tajemniczych osobliwościach tego miasta (Cracow, or the Seventh Chakra of the Earth. About Mysterious Peculiarities of the Town), Kraków 1991, ISBN 8385104-13-5 (referred as "Rożek M.(1991)")

• Kazimierz Chodkiewicz The Cracow Occult Center, London 1966 ( "The most important 20th century voice on the extraordinary powers of Wawel"
  • Italian edition: Il centro occulto di Cracovia, Torino 1975
  • Polish edition: Kraków: ognisko sił tajemnych - duchowy ośrodek mocy, Kraków 1992 (reprinted in Święch Z.(2005), pp.75-97) (referred as "Chodkiewicz K.(1992)")

References

Category:Polish legends