Richard, people have delusions about everything imaginable. Wouldn't it be convenient for you if they only had delusions about stuff you already don't believe in for some reason? ;-)

To trot out the old "delusion" horse in this discussion has no bearing on the matter whatsoever.

It is asinine to have a definite opinion on the non-existence of something you don't know anything about....just because you don't know about it yet. If you believed it couldn't exist for a good and rational/logical reason that made any kind of sense, fine, but that is not the case. You have no logical reason to believe that chakras don't exist.

A "chakra" is simply an Eastern term for an energy center in the body, through which large amounts of vital energy flow to other parts of the body. Do you deny that there is vital energy moving around in a living body? Do you think it impossible that some parts of that body might focus more vital energy flow than other parts, and might be like main junctions of energy flow? Is it possible that Eastern meditation techniques might have detected ways of observing and sensing the energy flow through such areas, and possibly influencing it in such a way as to enhance it?

If you state categorically that all the above premises are definitely "impossible" then you are simply talking through your hat and revealing irrational prejudice akin to the most blind fundamentalist religious faith. The fact is, you just don't know whether chakras exist or not. You presently HAVE no way of knowing.

The Kosher chicken matter is not comparable in any way, because we both can plainly observe the very same actual physical evidence about it: to wit: Millions of Jews eat kosher chicken and with good effect. Millions of non-Jews eat non-kosher chicken and with similarly good effect. There is therefore, logically, no particular reason to go dingy over having accidentally eaten some non-kosher chicken, to throw out crockery that has touched non-kosher chicken, or to sear the offended cookware with fire....is there?

The reason you and I can agree on that is that we both can observe the same plainly observable commonplace physical evidence of the non-harmful effects of non-kosher chicken! Case closed.

In the case of chakras, you haven't succeeded yet in observing anything about them, I would gather, nor, apparently, have the people you know and trust and accept as authoritative sources. Therefore, you are hardly in any position to HAVE any definitive opinion about chakras, because you have no evidence on which to form any definitive opinion about chakras.

All you have is an existing prejudice, based upon an arbitrary assumption, that assumption being that anything you have not already seen, by definition...cannot exist.

That's just plain silly. I'm sure that plenty of things exist which both you and I have not seen or maybe even heard of yet. For us to deny any such things out of hand if someone else were to speak of them would be nothing but opinionated hubris of the most empty sort on our part. We would not yet be in a position to have any valid opinion about the matter, especially if it did not violate known laws of reality as we know them.

The existence of energetic centers in the body does not violate any known laws of reality as we know them...nor does one person's ability to see what someone else doesn't see violate known laws of reality. A colorblind person can't see various colors, can he? You are like someone from a tribe of colorblind people insisting to me that NO ONE can see colors, and if they did they were suffering from a "delusion".

Well, you might be wrong about that, mightn't you?