Thinking about merkabahs

In a lovely display of synchronicity, I have stumbled onto two different online disucssions on merkabahs in the past week. I’ve heard of these “spiritual vehicles” before, but never really thought about them too much. Here is a description from a website about them:

“Merkaba, also spelled Merkabah, is the divine light vehicle allegedly used by ascended masters to connect with and reach those in tune with the higher realms. “Mer” means Light. “Ka” means Spirit. “Ba” means Body. Mer-Ka-Ba means the spirit/body surrounded by counter-rotating fields of light, (wheels within wheels), spirals of energy as in DNA, which transports spirit/body from one dimension to another. …In modern esoteric teachings, it is taught that the MerKaBa is an interdimensional vehicle consisting of two equally sized, interlocked tetrahedra of light with a common center, where one tetrahedron points up and the other down [like a three-dimensional Star of David].”

Drunvalo Melchizedek’s Flower of Life site also has some good information about merkabah’s. And if you Google merkaba you can find all sorts of wonderful images.

Two points about the discussions on merkabah’s have grabbed my attention: First, I am unclear about whether one’s merkabah is supposed to be something that is a natural part of and perhaps an extension of our “natural” energy body or something that originates outside oneself that you draw to you or “build” around you. Second, I am unclear about whether the “travel to other dimensions” that one is supposed to be enabled to do once they have activated or built their merkabah is only possible with a merkabah or whether this is just one way of conceiving of multidimensional “travel” that one can do on their own (with practice) without a “vehicle.”

I’m sure that part of my questioning on this subject comes down to the simple fact that I don’t like being told what to do! LOL! As soon as someone tells me “this is the prescribed way to do this,” I balk. I immediately think “Oh yeah? Just wait. I’ll bet I can figure out my own perfectly valid and powerful way to do what you’re describing!” (Have I mentioned that I’m independent-minded and stubborn?)

My bad attitude aside, there are other reasons why I wonder about the source of the merkabah. There are two reasons that I question the source of this “vehicle.” First, the descriptions I have read of the merkabah resemble in many ways the structures I have observed in most people’s extended energy bodies. This leads me to believe that the merkabah is something that is already an inherent part of our energy systems, thought it may need to be fully activated and expanded in some people. Second, I have an inherent distrust of anyone or anything that tells me that I have to reach outside myself for a source of power. As an integral part of the Divine, of the All That Is, I have access from within myself to all the power of the universe! I may have to do some work (indeed, many lifetimes of work) in order to understand fully how to access and use this power, but it is there within me.

The second issue of whether or not a merkabah is required to access certain other “higher” dimensions is, for me, also related to my inate oneness with All That Is. It seems to me that if I am a part of the One then through the continuity of that Oneness I should be able to access all other parts of the One. Having said that, I will say that I also accept the premise that in coming to Earth and accepting the restrictions of this three-dimensional “game” I may be temporarily limited in my ability to access other parts of the One.

So, I guess my personal conclusion is that the merkabah is simply one way of conceiving of the expanded energy body and the ways in which we can “travel” to other dimensions once we have fully embraced (i.e. “activated”) the full extent and power of our energetic being.

I’d love to hear your thoughts!

Read more about it:
http://www.spiritofmaat.com/archive/sep2/merkaba.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkabah