Research on Chakra System

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On A Possible Psychophysiology of the Yogic Chakra System.

 

S.M. Roney - Dougal, PhD,

Psi Research Centre,

Glastonbury,

Somerset BA6 8HN, Britain.

 

Abstract

 

 

Recent theoretical research by myself into the pineal gland as the

physical locus of ajna chakra, conceived in yogic tradition as being

the psychic centre of our being, is extended here to explore the

yogic idea of ajna chakra as the command chakra, in command over all

the other chakra centres. I have come across multiple references to

the importance of melatonin as the off-switch for the endocrine

glands? output of hormones, working together with the pituitary

gland which is considered to be the on-switch. I am suggesting that

the pineal gland is the physical aspect of ajna chakra; the thyroid

of vishuddhi; the breasts of anahata; the adrenals of manipura; and

the gonads of swadhistana and muladhara. These endocrine glands are

all positioned at the traditional points of the chakras and their

functions are remarkably equivalent to the traditional descriptions

of the chakra functions. I am therefore proposing that the endocrine

system is the physiological aspect of the yogic spiritual tradition

of the chakras, and that the autonomic nervous system can be equated

with the yogic nadis.

 

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