The Secret Chamber of the Heart
Heart-shaped World Map, 1536.
Molly Hankins April 23, 2026
There is a tiny space inside our hearts. Described in ancient religious texts dating as far back as the Chandogya Upanishad, between the 8th and 6th century BCE, and even further, in a little-known addendum to the Torah written about in countless secondary sources, with a title said to roughly translate to ‘The Secret Chamber of the Heart.’ The original source material has never been found, and there is no known complete English translation but its message is said to mirror that of the Chandogya Upanishad - it is from this space in our hearts, which we can enter into through meditation or simply by visualising, where we access the part of ourselves still connected to The Creator. When we create from that place, we bypass the egoic mind of judgement, creating with the most highly potent energy available, free of fear.
In 1991, science identified this secret portal of creation when Dr. J. Andrew Armour discovered a neural network inside the heart he called the intracardiac nervous system (ICN), also known as the ‘heart brain.’ This network consists of approximately 40,000 brain cells, not heart cells, and is believed to power the rhythm of our heartbeat. HeartMath Institute has conducted studies where emotions are intentionally experienced through the heart, and found that the nature of electrical signals produced and shared with the brain change. Study participants intentionally feeling positive emotions in their heart consistently experienced a more smooth and stable heartbeat, and the opposite was also true. Cardiologist Dr. Sandeep Jauhar has studied how negative emotions not only change the behavior, but also the shape of the heart, for the worse.
“The nerves that control unconscious processes, such as the heartbeat, can sense distress and trigger a maladaptive fight-or-flight response,” said Dr. Jauhar in a 2019 TED Talk about how grief can affect cardiac health and the autonomic nervous system. The antidote to this negative impact is what HeartMath calls ‘generating coherence’ between our mental processes, intuition and emotional state by consciously experiencing positive emotions from our heart brain. Coherence is a paraphysiological state, and is described in HearthMath’s seminal white paper Science of the Heart as a balanced integration of mental constructs and emotions. “The heart is, in fact, a highly complex, self-organized information processing center with its own functional “brain” that communicates with and influences the cranial brain via the nervous system, hormonal system and other pathways. These influences profoundly affect brain function and most of the body’s major organs, and ultimately determine the quality of life.”
Both the scientific and spiritual interpretations of this information point to the same conclusion - working with our heart brain improves the quality of our creations, including our experience of life itself. We connect with ourselves as part of the mind of the One Creator when we enter this place, described by author and spiritual teacher Drunvalo Melchizedek as a sacred space where our lives can be remade through conscious co-creation. In his latest book, The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life Vol. 3 he writes, “In this secret chamber, you will discover a world as real as this outer world, but more ancient and primal. It is the very source of the world that we are now walking around in.” This chamber functions as a portal connecting us to the original source of consciousness, the fountainhead of all creation - our one true self.
Melchizedek and his team have been leading workshops across the world for over twenty years on how to enter this secret chamber. In his new book, he concedes that as Earth and her inhabitants are ascending into higher consciousness, it’s becoming increasingly simple to teach people how to access the tiny space inside in our hearts as more people are experiencing what he calls ‘mobility of spirit.’ This begins first with identifying as a spiritual being inhabiting a human body, then practicing moving our consciousness beyond the body. Can you imagine moving your spirit into the body of a tree and seeing the world from that perspective? Even if you feel like it’s just make-believe, that’s perfectly fine - this is the only precursor required for being able to consciously access the secret chamber of the heart.
“The truth is, once we achieve spiritual mobility and establish the conscious, loving connection between our Earthly home and the Sun, we intuitively find our own way into this place, and our experience of it is unique to us.”
Before we begin this work, our consciousness is either in the mind or the heart - never both. For this reason, it is recommended we begin by practicing moving our consciousness from the brain into the heart and envisioning what that looks like. In Melchizedek’s Living In The Heart workshops, participants spend several hours mastering the technique of moving the seat of individual consciousness first into the pineal gland, then into the heart by way of the throat, and describing how the inside of the heart appears. He recommends using a blackout eye-mask to enhance this practice because the pineal gland is best activated by total darkness.
The final step required to access the sacred space within the heart is using the ‘Unity Breath,’ a practice he channeled from Yogananda’s guru Swami Sri Yuktewar Giri, described in a previous article as allowing access to the subtle realms of expanded awareness. Imagine sending a cord of energy to Mother Earth, sending her love and then feeling her love come back into your being. Then imagine sending a cord of loving energy to the Sun, which he calls Father Sky, and feeling that love being returned. “When your heart, the heart of Earth, and the heart of our Sun are connected with love, a special vibration enters into your spirit, and at that moment, the trinity of love is alive on Earth,” Melchizedek explained in the third volume of The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life. “Your Divine Mother, your Divine Father, and you - their Divine Child - are one in love. This is the Unity Breath.”
Breathing into this connection expands our awareness of the tiny, secret space inside our physical hearts. This might materialise as an intuitive knowing that you’re already there, or you might imagine yourself crossing a threshold into what many describe as a crystal cave of humming vibration. Several different meditative methods of access are offered in Melchizedek’s workshop and books. The truth is, once we achieve spiritual mobility and establish the conscious, loving connection between our Earthly home and the Sun, we intuitively find our own way into this place, and our experience of it is unique to us.
Access can be blocked by incoherence generated from conditioning and trauma, but rest assured we can work through these blocks by building coherence. Intentionally experiencing positive emotions like gratitude through our hearts activates the parasympathetic nervous system, lowering our heart rate and creating a physical feeling of wellbeing. Using vibration to stimulate the vagus nerve, which is the main component of the parasympathetic nervous system, is another proven method. This can be done through humming or toning, as well as through music. “Numerous studies have shown that music affects emotions and mood states and can also modify physiological responses,” HearthMath tells us. Even a favorite song can be a portal to joy and a tool to facilitate coherence, acting as an access point to the secret chamber.
“Everything that has been manifested in the universe was created through this Tiny Space. When you are there, and the Source of Life merges with you, you and Source are one,” Melchizedek believes. “Engaging with this incredible Spirit will give you powerful guidance into the cosmos.” Once you experience it for yourself, you are forever changed. Once you learn to create from this place, coherence and stability become features of everything you make.
Molly Hankins is an Initiate + Reality Hacker serving the Ministry of Quantum Existentialism and Builders of the Adytum.
