God, have I ever.

Richard, the evidence against chakras is like the evidence against "the soul", Bigfoot, and other as yet unconfirmed matters: totally nil.

There is no evidence against chakras.

If you had been born in the Hindu culture or a number of other oriental cultures you'd be on the other side of this argument...simply because you would take chakras totally for granted.

And your emotional bent regarding the matter would be indentical (supporting the common belief of your culture)...but leading to the exact opposite belief.

I was not born in those cultures. I did not grow up believing in chakras. I found out about them in adulthood, and have given the matter very careful consideration. There is a great deal of evidence for the chakras and utterly not one shred of any kind of evidence against them. Not one shred. There is only blind cultural prejudice on the part of non-Eastern cultures who regard the idea as a foreign idea. Period.

I don't EXPECT most people to see chakras, Richard. Nor do I expect them to see thoughts, brain waves, nerve impulses, emotions, or any other non-material forces and energies that course through the body.

You don't HAVE to see something in order for that something to be real. You can experience something without seeing it at all, and we all do so, every waking moment of our lives. The irritation I feel when I read your posts is REAL. It's an emotion. It's an energy flowing in my nervous system. It has effects on my physical self. It's 100$ real. But NO ONE can see it AS the energy it is....unless, perhaps, they have a special ability. Just because you don't have such special ability, don't assume that no one else does.

Emotions too can be seen by some people as a cloud of colored energy swirling around the person. The stronger the emotion, the thicker and more noticeable is that cloud of energy.

That's why it is said that a very angry person is "seeing red". Red is a color that is associated with anger. Red and black swirling together: murderous anger.

Any yeah, I know...(ha!)...you don't believe any of this.

Well, big honking deal. What difference would it make, really, whether or not you or any other skeptic chose to believe something like that? No real difference at all. It won't change a thing.

It pisses me off that people think their determined non-acceptance of something is ITSELF proof that that something doesn't and can't exist. It's not proof of anything, it's just an opinion. Period. Opinions are not proof.