Do you think there are energy centers called CHAKRAS along the human spinal column, as in Traditional Chinese Medicine? And if so, do you have any personal experience with your own chakra system?

Disclosure: I am biased here because I am already convinced the chakra system is authentic, but am interested in learning the experience/opinions of others...

A personal experience.

For a couple of years, back about the turn of the century, I presented the breakfast show on a community radio station. One morning the next presenter had two aboriginal guests who had come to talk about their culture and who had also brought along a didgeridoo. I asked if I could stay.

As the man played I felt a remarkably strong vibration in my solar plexus, said to be the location of the Manipura chakra.

When we went to a commercial break I said to the man, "You have no idea where that music hit me." He grinned, reached across to touch my solar plexus, and said, "It hit you right there."

He knew.

That man had an uncanny ability and he was the model for Johnno in my novel. He also made me a shield like those Johnno gave his friends. It's hanging on the wall in front of my laptop. Virginia, you can actually feel the energy from it. I'll add a picture of it below.

The two aspects of the physical realm that I like the most are its infinite complexity and absolute simplicity.  (Imagine how wondrous the supernatural must be.)

The material object (what we look at) is creation, the formal objects (the tools we use to look) are many.  (I just can't understand why some people think philosophy is useless---it teaches one how to think.)

Almost every way we have of looking at things seems to give us more insight into what wonders they contain.

So, yes, but I admit I only have "acquaintance level" knowledge of the subject.

I totally  believe in energy fields .. Especially in the body.  Every living entity has it. The chineese do have thousands of years of understanding about it and how it works.

It can even be measured scientifically .. So it is not just a philosophy but a real science.

I believe that Bioelectric energy travels along our nerve endings with the Human spine being the largest gathering of such energy second only to the human brain. I believe that these can be manipulated much like a regular electric energy field. I KNOW that by manipulating with targeting certain areas in the brain we have been capable of stopping tremors associated with Parkinson's disease.

I do not believe in any spirit metaphysical energy and it's flow or interruption.