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The Wawel ChakraThe chakra which allegedly is situated on Wawel Hill is one of the biggest Cracovian mysteries. It is very difficult to find some explicit information about it, but there are some more or less reliable hypotheses. Even though there is a lot of divergence between all the stories, many people come to Krakow to benefit from the unusual properties of the chakra.
Since the end of the 19th century and throughout the 20th century there was an increase in the fascination of non –European cultures; ethnography also developed in that period. Consequently, people of the west, who were becoming more and more enthusiastic about the new exotic religions, developed interest in the chakra hypothesis which originated in the Hindu tradition. Shortly after that, new theories were built referring to the so-called “Chakras of the Earth”. According to those ideas our planet, similarly to a human body, has energy focus points which posses some unusual or even magical properties. There are several lists of the seven main “Chakras of the Earth” – which is not surprising as a lot of countries would like to have energy points attracting mobs of enthusiasts. Krakow is on one of those lists. According to it, the Cracovian chakra is located on Wawel Hill and more precisely in the Crypt of St. Gereon. The crypt is unfortunately unavailable for the visitors. Therefore, those who want to benefit from the healing properties of the Wawel Chakra gather in the left-hand side of the castle’s courtyard to get at least some of the energy. Among the Chakra enthusiasts it is possible to find people from the most distant places of the world as the fame of Wawel has already spread around the globe. Many visitors of the castle’s courtyard would probably like to know how the chakra really looks like. As nobody is allowed inside St. Gereon’s Crypt, the imagination starts to work. Europeans have some problems with imagining focus points of pure energy, therefore the Wawel Chakra is considered to be a material object, a “Holy Stone”. There are quite a few theories concerning the origins of the stone. Some people think that it is a meteorite which gained its unusual properties in the outer space. Others think that the stone was brought from India where it was “charged” with energy. There are also hypothesis that it received magical properties from pagan druids. The interesting thing is, however, that the research conducted after the war by Władysław Rzepecki from the Institute of the Nuclear Physics revealed two points of strong energy radiation at the depth of 250 and 1200 metres within the area of St Gereon’s Crypt. That fact makes the whole chakra phenomenon even more ambiguous. The “Holy Stone” of Wawel is the youngest Cracovian legend. Michał Rożek, a prominent expert in the history of Krakow, maintains that the story began in a quite unusual period called Young Poland, and one of its biggest bards then was the “condemned poet”, Stanisław Przybyszewski. In the later, interwar period Wanda Dynowska, a co-originator of the Polish Theosophical Society, was responsible for spreading the chakra legend. Dynowska rendered the Wawel stone famous in India where she stayed since 1935. Soon after that, a lot of Indians started to appear in Krakow and their presence on Wawel Hill made the chakra story more believable. That’s how the story probably started. |
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But what the chakra really is? In order to answer this question it is necessary to look closely into the beliefs which originated in the distant territory of India. Chakras are energy focus points or even “circles” or “whirlpools” which, according to Buddhism and Hinduism, are located in a human body. Allegedly, in a human organism there are seven main chakras and thousands of minor ones and although they have never been scientifically proven, many people believe they exist.