Quantum physicist Amit Goswami says there’s scientific evidence to suggest that chakras do exist and they relate to the movement of our morphogenetic fields
If you watch the television show, Star Trek–The Next Generation, you may be impressed how its android character Data struggles to incorporate emotions in his being.
Alas! The writers of Star Trek eventually gave in to the simplistic notion of an emotion chip. Unfortunately, most scientific thinking about this inner aspect of living is nearly as simplistic.
Most establishment biologists think that emotion is a brain phenomenon, though researchers currently debate about the extent to which emotion can be understood in terms of neurology
Many biologists use that ultimate black box, Darwinism, when they need to say something useful about emotion. Some biologists, to their credit, admit that feeling does not originate in the neocortex, that it is not computable.They even agree that feeling may occur before the cognition of thought during an emotion.
Sometimes, it is hypothesised that feeling and emotions are the territory of the neurochemistry of the limbic brain. To this end, the researcher Candace Pert’s experiments on the “molecules of emotion” are important. Certainly they are telling us something.The more one investigates the materialist research, however, the more confused one gets.
Isn’t it our experience that feelings originate in the bodyIJ Otherwise, how would our culture perpetuate such notions as “butterflies in the stomach,” or “heart warming” when talking about feelingsIJ Only William James, father of American psychology, had the right idea, and one that agrees with people’s experience. According to James, feelings are associated with direct bodily changes when confronted with some stimulus. Then again, James was hardly a materialist.
Fortunately, in the psychology of the East, feelings are recognised as being associated with the physical organs and emotions are seen as effects of feelings on the mind and body physiology. According to Easterners, the body has seven major centres — the chakras — where we feel our feelings in a big way. Through the centuries, although the idea of the chakras has been empirically validated by practitioners from many spiritual disciplines, not much theoretical understanding has been developed. Now, with the idea of Sheidrake’s morphogenetic field as reinterpreted here, an explanation of the chakras — that is, where feelings originate and why — can be given. I have treated this subject in some detail elsewhere, so I will be succinct here. You can discover for yourself what a little quantum thinking enables us to scientifically theorise. First, look at the major chakras and notice each is located near a major organ. Second, note the kinds of feeling you have experienced at each of these chakras; use your memory of past feelings. Third, realise that feelings are your experiences of the vital energy — the movements of your morphogenetic fields (cells able to respond to biochemical signals, leading to certain organs). The same morphogenetic fields are correlated with the organs of which they are the blueprint and source.
Now arrive at the inevitable conclusion: Chakras are those points of our physical body where consciousness simultaneously collapses the movements of important morphogenetic fields along with the organs of our body that represent these morphogenetic fields. Now was that so hardIJ
courtesy: Creative Evolution, Wisdom Tree