I threw away my chakra book that I bought at Gypsy Soul last Thursday. This is the second time in recent years that I’ve bought a book like this and pitched it. Something about it makes me doubt or gives me a feeling that I shouldn’t be reading it, or am starting to give too much clout to Eastern philosophies.

The chakras are known as energy wheels that reside in ascending parts of the body. I like them because they provide a memorable, colorful, and easy-to-understand framework of the various internal levels of self-belief, as in, beliefs about the self. I’ve described it before like a map for the psyche, albeit a very basic one.

True enlightenment will manifest in physical change. Enlightenment is embodied and will not remain in your head or “up there” in the clouds of the collective unconscious. This is why Christianity is the perfect religion. We have spiritual unity with a physical being and as so we become like God, whole and divine.