There's definitely something to chakras. They were always my go to example of a thing to make fun of for being utterly absurd, without substance and based on s

There's definitely something to chakras. They were always my go to example of a thing to make fun of for being utterly absurd, without substance and based on something deeply unscientific. Then, after several months of intense meditation I started getting strong somatosensory perception in areas of my body traditionally associated with chakras, and Kundalini awakenings and the like. Terms I only picked up on after researching what might be happening. In short, it strongly appears that if you take a group of people and have them perform certain practices for an extended period of time, you will create a relatively consistent cluster of symptoms. Eastern mythology/religions have their own language to describe these phenomenona, and the alleged mechanisms are obviously ridiculous, but there is nevertheless something oddly consistent about reported experiences. Thus, I think it's pretty sound to conclude that there is something "real" going on, creating a relatively consistent pattern of somatosensory experiences. The mechanism is almost certainly explainable by neuroscience but has received little serious exploration due to its purported mechanism and religious background.