“But the man who knows that he has a Solar Plexus will not fear criticism or anything else; he will be too busy radiating courage, confidence, and power; he will anticipate success by his mental attitude; he will pound barriers to pieces, and leap over the chasm of doubt and hesitation which fear places in his path.”

Charles Haanel, The Master Key System, 3:18

“A knowledge of our ability to consciously radiate health, strength and harmony will bring us into a realization that there is nothing to fear because we are in touch with Infinite Strength.”

Charles Haanel, The Master Key System, 3:19

Reading these quotes from Haanel is so empowering as I stand at the threshold between the finite, or individual, and the infinite, or universal. I feel the brilliance of the Sun of the Solar Plexus growing daily as I perform the Master Key Experience rituals and sacraments of daily repetition and affirmation.

For many years I practiced Iron Shirt Qi Gong. The source of its many practices was the Lower Dantian, or energy center in the solar plexus.

From Haanel, we know this solar plexus is the gateway to the subconscious field of Universal Intelligence. The Lower Dantian is a field of pure energy and unlimited potentiality. Dantian, or dan tian, translates from Chinese to mean “field of elixir.” It describes what’s believed by some to be the seat of life force energy in the body.

The concept of dantian has roots in Taoist and Buddhist traditions and is believed to be related to higher states of consciousness.

The Dantian holds the three treasures of the body, namely:

• – jing
• – qi
• – shen

Jing is the body fluids or essences that sustain the physical body.

Qi is the life force or energy (like the Force in Star Wars).

Shen is the spiritual essence, Spirit. 

The Master Key Experience is very much a Shen Gong Practice (Gong means work so literally Spirit Work). We are working with the thought and emotional force to create new belief structures which then structure a new personal reality or paradigm. 

Hanael says, “The Solar Plexus has been likened to the sun of the body, because it is a central point of distribution for the energy which the body is constantly generating. This energy is very real energy, and this sun is a very real sun, and the energy is being distributed by very real nerves to all parts of the body, and is thrown off in an atmosphere which envelopes the body.”

Charles Haanel, The Master Key System, 3:5

In Qi Gong, the Dantian is visualized literally as a sun. We consciously bring energy into this Sun through various forms and practices thereby strengthening the power of the Sun. This Sun, in turn, nourishes our physical body and all of our subtle bodies and expands our consciousness. The pure energy from the Sun radiates throughout our sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems lighting up every cell and amping up the radiance of the aura. The aura is but an emanation of the inner central sun at our core, or solar plexus.

Given this perspective, MKE is a very real and tangible spiritual – mental – emotional technique that raises our cosmic vibration and our level of consciousness.

As Haanel says, “this sun is a very real sun”. This might be hard for some to conceptualize but this material matrix that we find ourselves in is directly connected to the entire universe or multiverse. The whole is contained in the part and the part is in the whole. We are in the universe and the universe is in us. 

And, the keystone to the arch that unites the universal and the individual is the solar plexus. 

So, plug yourself in to the cosmic light socket and sing the body electric.

As Markie J. would say, “yeah baby.”