- [Narrator] If you've been around the channel long enough
or you've seen like, you know,
any meditation or spiritual-themed movie
over the last 10 years,
you probably know
that one of the most central and core themes
of many New Age disciplines is the seven chakra system.
Whether you've used them as meditation aids
or seen them in gift shops,
(bell ringing) you're probably at least
somewhat familiar with the idea.
If not, go and check out our videos on them
to get a basic understanding
or you know, just watch "Doctor Strange"
and see how it turned out for him.
Anyway, today's episode is kind of
a philosophical what-if one,
in that we're not going to be assessing
the scientific studies of energy medicine
or the empirical existence of chakras
as even we'll admit,
there's a lot lacking
in terms of proving alternative medicine.
Instead, this time,
we're gonna take a more open-ended question.
What would the world look like
if at some point in the future,
we actually found scientific evidence of the chakra system?
What if we discovered a chakra in the body?
Or all seven?
And how would such a discovery affect our approach
to different branches of science and philosophy?
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To start with, let's look real quick
at how the chakra system itself came into our Western world.
If you've watched our first video on chakras,
you'll know that the modern New Age understanding
identifies them as energy centers
or wheels or vortices of energy inside the body
that are associated with the classical Newtonian colors,
but this wasn't always the case.
In fact, the first uses of the term chakra in the "Vedas,"
didn't have anything to do with energy at all,
instead, it was used to refer to the wheel of motion
that a king had over his empire.
Further, even the breath channels
or as they're known in Sanskrit, the nadis,
are mentioned in the "Upanishads" around 1000 BC,
again, the chakras and energy centers aren't.
Most academics tend to agree
that the idea as we know it today,
came about during medieval India
during 800 AD from Buddhist texts
that showed them as hierarchies
of inner energy centers,
but this is still kind of debated
since others make the argument
that the concept of chakras
was only written down during this time,
but had been around for much longer.
So as always, decide for yourself on what feels right.
Even more interestingly,
the original Indian and Buddhist concepts of the chakras
don't make any reference to colors.
That's a completely modern thing.
A man named John Woodroffe translated
two classical Indian texts into English in his book,
"The Serpent Power" which is largely credited
with the introduction of the idea of the seven chakras
into the West.
You've probably seen a bunch of debates
about the amount of chakras,
with some people saying there are three, five, six,
or like in his version, seven.
See, the reason seven chakras are sort of canon
is because the texts
that Woodroffe was translating into English
came from a school of thought known as Kaula
that believed in seven,
and that was just the only version we got in English.
Later on, another man named Leadbeater
decided that Leadbeater's book was too hard to read
and full of jargon.
So he published his own which drew comparisons
with the 17th-century book the "Theosophia Practica"
by Johann Gichtel,
which talked about inner force centers in the body,
which were reminiscent of chakras
and kind of came to mean the same thing.
From that point on, the concept of chakras
as inner centers of prana and life energy
started to be adapted by theosophist movements
and slowly made their way into the New Age culture.
Now, you might be wondering why I'm going off
about all this history.
but it sets the groundwork for the problems that arise
when talking about Eastern concepts in a Western paradigm.
This video was actually inspired
by a section in Drunvalo's "Flower of Life" books,
where he stated that during his time in the technology lab,
his team was actually able to see extensions of the chakras
in the Merkaba light body,
by focusing on or charging each chakra,
and then scanning that area
with a molecular emission scanner or MES machine for short.
According to Drunvalo,
they originally struggled to find the chakras,
but once they started scanning the light body itself,
which extends outwards beyond the physical body,
the scanner would light up to show
that each chakra had a certain pulse attributed with it.
So this really begs the question,
can the chakras be measured scientifically?
And what would happen if a lab one day proved
their existence experimentally,
as perhaps they may even already have?
Now, today of course,
we have things like Kirlian photography
and biophoton imaging
that seemingly can photograph the human bioelectric field,
which some people are likening to the aura,
but even this isn't enough to convince skeptics.
So what would happen if we proved the chakras
in a foolproof way?
Well, the first thing would probably be
a complete shattering
of the current paradigm of understanding.
Simply put, if chakras existed,
one of the most central aspects of spirituality,
what else could exist from that paradigm?
First off, this would lead to a complete reevaluation
of what we know in fields
like biology, chemistry and physics.
It's kind of like a knock-on effect,
if one thing was proved,
then it would naturally encourage
the pursuit of other things,
which could lead to similar things
like auras, third eyes and morphogenetic fields,
also being proved and recognized scientifically.
Maybe this would even lead
to a new branch of science
appearing in the mainstream curriculum,
a spirit science, if you will.
If such discoveries were finally taken seriously,
then it would effectively eliminate the stigma
between science and spirituality,
allowing us to explore both concepts equally
and reach untold heights of understanding and philosophy.
To quote Tesla,
"The day science begins to study nonphysical phenomenon,
it will make more progress in one decade
than in all of the previous centuries of its existence."
But what would society look like?
What advances could we make holding the knowledge
of the chakra system?
Probably the biggest change for us
would be in healthcare and medicine.
See, the chakras for the most part,
stem from Ayurvedic tradition of ancient India
which is a practice of healing
that stems back over 5,000 years
and is often considered to be the foundation
of all Eastern medicine practices.
Here's where we see the fundamental difference
between Western and Eastern practices
like we've mentioned earlier.
while Western medicine follows the Hippocratic method,
one that focuses on curing diseases as they appear
or are already present in the body,
a paradigm that is incredibly lucrative, we might add,
Ayurveda is kind of the opposite,
in that it's a complete system of medicine
that combines natural therapies
with a highly personalized approach to treating disease
that has the prevention of disease as its primary emphasis.
So in this practice, as well as in the chakra tradition,
a healthy state is defined as one
in which there's a balance between body, mind and soul
in an equilibrium among the doshas or body types.
If we somehow proved the system to be accurate
and could measure its effectiveness,
not only what our general health as a species go up,
but so too would our quality of life,
harmony with ourselves and our environment,
and probably most important
during this trying time right now,
our relationship with each other would improve.
If we could use the chakra system
to predict when and where diseases would strike,
we could tackle the disease
before it took ahold of someone,
thereby saving countless lives.
Just imagine, "Oh, look!
Your root chakra is showing this negative energy pattern,
a common early sign of cancer.
So let's focus on healing that chakra
based on what's needed,
maybe nutrition, exercise or some childhood trauma therapy
and guarantee that we heal this thing before it gets worse."
We could even take it further
and nutritionists and sports scientists
could design diets and activities specifically catered
to keeping your chakras in balance
or maybe even target the centers that were out of whack
and we could eliminate disease altogether.
Of course, having no diseases
would probably put Big Pharma out of business,
which would probably make a lot of people lose their jobs,
but that $82 billion that Johnson & Johnson made last year
could be invested into further research
or other branches of science
that could lead to even greater discoveries,
like, I don't know, antigravity devices
or quantum teleportation?
I mean, maybe we might even finally find a way
to unify quantum physics and the standard model.
And guess what else?
If we could use the chakra system
to effectively eliminate disease,
that also means no more healthcare bills or debt
for millions upon millions people.
But hey, maybe I'm getting ahead of myself here.
After all, professional Ayurveda people
still charge for a session,
but it would be nowhere near as much.
Even being conservative
and saying that we could use the chakra system
to complement Western medicine,
it could pose a viable option
for people who are allergic to certain medication
or those who can't leave the house.
Further, machines like the ORA Star,
which is based on the sciences of biofeedback, reflexology,
kinesiology and concepts in Ayurveda medicine,
can actually be used to measure biofeedback data
and is way cheaper to produce than MRIs or CT scanners
and could be used for similar diagnostic treatment.
As a side consequence of this,
it may even start to eliminate class divides
with regards to access to treatment.
Since the machines can be produced for much cheaper,
anyone could access them.
Just try and picture it.
You wake up one morning
and you're feeling a bit groggy or fatigued.
You're suffering from low self-esteem.
You grab your coat, drive to your local GP
and the doctor tells you
that your solar plexus is weaker than normal
and prescribes a series of meditations,
foods and exercises
to help you get back to flowing normally.
Heck, imagine couples or marriage counseling,
where people could go to therapy
to work on rebalancing their throat chakra
to enable better communication.
What about energy itself?
Following numerous New Age beliefs,
all living things have chakras.
Since the Earth itself is a living being,
she too has chakras dotted around various places.
What if we could somehow tap
into these huge reservoirs of energy
to produce a natural, renewable and healthy source of energy
that could replace the fossil fuel industry?
If you watched our other videos on chakras,
we pointed out that as wheels of energy,
they both act as magnets for the energy around us
and as channels for the universal source of energy
to flow through us.
Hmm, maybe we could even tap into our own auras or chakras
to produce our own power by channeling the source field.
Imagine being able to charge your phone
using your solar plexus
and some kind of electromagnetic induction.
How cool would that be?
Maybe it's a little far out there,
I don't know if that's possible
but the conversation is at least worth considering.
Again, this would do wonders for eliminating class divides
and would also help to clean up the environment massively.
I wonder if Greta would get behind that.
But I guess if that happened, a lot of people would claim
that the introduction of chakras to the world
were a part of the Illuminati's plans to take over
and then we'd all beeline back to drilling oil.
So yeah, anyway,
probably the most important aspect of our lives
that would be changed
by the knowledge of the chakras though,
would be our understanding of emotions, personal energy,
and how interconnected we really are.
We've been saying this for a while now,
but while all the problems of today
appear as separate incidents,
they're all ultimately coming from the same source,
an unbalanced spirit body,
a disconnection between our egos and our souls
and the feeling of separation from each other.
Knowing about the chakras would change all of that.
We would finally understand
which areas of our spiritual body influence which chakras,
which in turn influence certain aspects
of our physical lives.
By working through the chakras together,
we could effectively help to dissolve our ego as a species.
We would be guided by a sense of compassion and unity
rather than ruled by a fear of separation.
We could set up centers for meditation and healing
that would cater to each chakra imbalance
and help heal each other.
It might even lead to the legalization of plant medicine
as a means of healing and mental wellbeing and therapy.
Conceptually though, as we mentioned earlier,
this would cause a paradigm shift
that could cause scientists
to examine things from an inherently
more spiritual perspective,
perhaps even allowing for consciousness itself
to be factored into equations,
leading to untold discoveries
about our place in the universe
and how we ourselves affect and shape reality.
Ultimately, discovering a way of measuring the impact
of any treatment or practice
on the energy system of an individual
would break ground in our current system,
both in terms of healthcare and scientific thinking.
Examining the combination of practices,
such as the chakras and other related alternative medicines,
in the context of how they are used
in our current medical paradigm
is a further step in this direction.
Really, there's nothing to lose.
Further scientific study into things like the bioelectric
or morphogenetic fields
and the concept of chakras in general,
can only provide clear
and potentially paradigm-altering results.
Even from a hardcore atheistic point of view,
if such things didn't exist at all,
more detailed study would prove that,
which would also have an impact on society as a whole
and at least evolve
our more philosophical understanding instead.
Whatever way the coin falls,
we have the potential to change society
by understanding the chakra system better.
So what do you think?
What kind of changes
would proving the chakra system scientifically
bring about in your life?
What do you think society would look like?
Let us know in the comments below
and if you're interested in exploring the chakras more,
please come and check out the 7-Day Transformation
in which over just one week,
we'll go through each of the chakras with you together
and help you to clear out and transform at every level.
Until next time, stay in balance and we'll see you soon.
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