Twin Heart Devotions ... the Wrong Way and the Right Way

A nearby Catholic parish offers something called "Twin Hearts meditation." While to most Catholics, any reference to "twin hearts" would imply the Sacredd Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, this is something a little different.

From the website:

"Meditation on Twin Hearts is based on the principle that some of the major energy centers or chakras are entry points or gateways to certain levels or horizons of consciousness. The Twin Hearts pertain to the heart and crown energy centers. The heart chakra is an energy center in front of a person's chest. It is the energy counterpart to the physical heart. The heart chakra is the center for compassion, joy, affection, consideration, mercy, and other higher refined emotions. The Crown energy center (also called the spiritual heart) located on the top of the head is the entry point to higher spiritual consciousness. To achieve illumination or cosmic consciousness, it is necessary to sufficiently activate the crown chakra. This can be done only when the heart chakra is sufficiently activated. Only by developing the higher refined emotions can one possibly experience divine love. When the crown center is highly developed, one experiences Divine Love and Oneness with All."

This past First Friday, I was able to take part in another Twin Hearts devotion, called the Alliance of the Two Hearts. It is thoroughly, completely Catholic, and comes, it appears, from the Philippines. There is no overall website for this program, but information can be found here. You can also Google the term yourself.

At the service I attended, there was First Friday Mass at 8:30 p.m., followed by adoration and confession, with the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, a beautiful devotion called the Nine Offices of the Sacred Heart, Saturday Matins, and Saturday Mass shortly after midnight. I must have missed the Rosary earlier in the evening.

If you ever get a chance to take part in one of these vigils, it is well worth it. There is much to make reparations for, especially the sins we commit and the laxity in our own lives.