My theory and the chakras
I am sorry to not to know so muc about Indian traditional wisdom that I could connect my theory to anything else in it than to buddhism. But here is an attempt to use the perspective of the chakras with my theory, just to have something to start with.
The root chakra corresponds to human needs, the next one to feelings, one of the higher chakras to compassionate feelings and the head chakra to thinking(?) and the chakra at the top of the head to spirituality. These are ways in which our gesture language reflects our mind, emotions etc. , ways in which the functions of the mind are situated in the body. My theory suggests going toward the above mentioned directions at the same time via reaching for the health of the ways of living, of the individuals, of the social relationships, of the society ad of the world at large. In that way my theory suggests that one should aim at the right holistic healthy nastural wya to live which gives at the same time full functioning in all areas of life, from moral and survicval ability to sprórts, emotional life, social life, thinking and spirituality. This should be connected to the chakras functioning well.
My theory about the human functioning says the following: in order to get any chakra to function perfectly well, one needs to get all the other chakras to function well or perfectly well and even the whole world into a good shape: all the practises healthy and of a curing kind. In other words: all things interconnect and the health of one part presupposes the health of the wholes which support its functioning. My main example of this is the thinking ability of humans but this should apply also to other things.
I might add that I do not see the chakras as tiny round things but as areas in the body, like one can see that thinking connects to the head, sexuality to the bottom, feelings to the center of the body and talking to the throat area. (And the circulation of the chakras, what I have heard about, the only observations about that are in the way that I observe feelings, thinking etc in the space around the body, and it is much slower than what I would have imagined: maybe an inch in a second around the stomach area and ten centimeters per second around the head - maybe! May this slowness be connected to me thinking and feeling typically about the whole world and not especially about myself and/or my social environment, and to taking everything with a serious mind, kind of with my whole being and not just superficially or locally.)
Contrary to what I have heard from Asian wisdom which connects compassion to the chest, I feel compassion strongly in the bottom (the basic needs of me and others and of the society) and middle (living the life& lives) of my body, in my feet (the ground for life, for lives, for the world) and somewhat in my chest (feelings toward others because of likings), the insides of my arms (social feelings), hands (what I do in practise) and in the throat (compassion, being moved) and in my eyes (my observation of the world). This might be connected to the central role that compassion has in my picture of the world abpout what is the ground for life. Justice is to me a basic thing in life, so the good of all fits well together.
Some more remarks: The flow of intentional action from the stomach area seems to be forward when one is selfish and if one is naturally not taking sides at all, it is straight upward. So does the traditional Indian wisdom about some energy flowing upward along the direction of the spine presuppose not taking sides at all? That would make sense since it makes one's social life work out in harmony. The common view that selfishness is what keeps the societies, the market economies running, connects to our view on what is natural for humans and so supportable. Why does our nature not use several views at once, via the idea of health and the idea of one's own good being the same as the society's good, why do we need the totally unselfish view especially - it seems poor for defence and so makes absolute justice which is benefical to all and an important part of moral, maybe more difficult to achieve. The mode of selflessness seems to be the mode of a repairer of the society: with a much better skill in living than others have and with better social skills one repairs the ways of living of the people around oneself. The better skills come from the meditative (i.e. more aware and with a more natural attention so with a much bigger capacity) state of mind bought by compassion and action according to compassion toward all living beings, including oneself. We are pack animals by our nature, so we function best when basing our actions on compassion.
If I understand thinking right, it is in the head but flows downwards (or more precisely toward the flows from all the other chakras) trying to satisfy needs and to help feelings and religious intentions and giving them a picture of the world to act according to. But what says the Indian wisdom about this - is it the nadis?!?? Tobe clear, the flows do not necessarily meet in the body but in front of the body if one is selfish and partly above it if it a question of the goals in life or of religious feelings.
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