Table of Contents
List of Illustrations and Plates 9
Acknowledgments 13
Introduction 17
Note on Sanskrit Transliteration 24
Evolution of the Eastern Chakra System: A Chronology 25
Part 1 East Is East and West Is West 31
Chapter 1 The Mysterious Maps of Bipin Behari Shorn 33
"Errors" of Hinduism 36
East and West 41
Chapter 2 The Universe according to Tantra 44
The Eastern Chakra System 47
Chapter 3 Reversing Creation: Yoga and the Chakras 56
Hatha Yoga 59
Mantra Yoga 62
Nada Yoga 63
Laya Yoga 64
Chapter 4 The Western Chakra System 72
Typology of Expounders and Systems 76
Source Amnesia 79
Occult Correspondences 82
Researcher or Investigator?-My Position 86
Part 2 Esoteric Matrix: The Chakra Teachings of H. P. Blavatsky (1879-91) 91
Chapter 5 Journey to the West 93
Glimpses of Tantric Occultism 95
Tantric Anatomy 99
Chapter 6 Madame Blavatsky's Esoteric Instructions 102
Hatha versus Raja Yoga 103
The Pineal Gland 106
Chakras in the Head 109
Path of the Saints 110
The Seven Rays 112
The Aura 114
Chapter 7 Inner Group Teachings 117
The Kundalini Practice 122
Part 3 Whirling Wheels: Theosophical Clairvoyance (1890s-1920s) 129
Chapter 8 Annie Besant and the Higher Planes 131
Astral Projection 136
Chapter 9 The Lotus Petals of Rudolf Steiner 141
Initiation and Its Results 141
Chapter 10 The Law of Breath and the Tree of Life 151
Subtle Forces Rama Prasad 151
Kingly Yoga Swami Vivekananda 154
The Human Aura Auguste Jean-Baptiste Marques 157
Rhythmic Breathing Ella Adelia Fletcher 159
Flying Rolls Golden Dawn 161
Spheres, Pillars, and Paths Kabbalah 162
Chapter 11 Chakras of the Apocalypse James Morgan Pryse 170
The Kundalini Practice Revisited 173
Multiple Chakra Systems 174
The Snake and the Cross 176
Chapter 12 Charles W. Leadbeater and the Serpent Fire 183
The Inner Life 188
The Hidden Side of Things 191
Chapter 13 The Duel of Leadbeater and Woodroffe 197
The Serpent Power 197
The Chakras 201
Leadbeater's Legacy 207
Part 4 Chromotherapy: Science of Rays, Colors, and Glands (1920s-1950s) 211
Chapter 14 Alice Bailey and the Seven Rays 213
Initiation: Human and Solar 215
Letters on Occult Meditation 217
The Light of the Soul 220
The Soul and Its Mechanism 221
Esoteric Healing 222
Chapter 15 Mysterious Glands 226
Chemistry of the Soul Herman Harold Rubin 227
The Many Lives of Cajzoran Ali Amber Steen 230
Steen's Legacy 233
Chapter 16 The Sikh and the Psychic 237
Edgar Cayce and the Glad Helpers 237
Eastern Wisdom for Western Minds Bhagat Singh Thind) 241
The Lord's Prayer 244
Cayce's Legacy 249
A Question of Precedence 250
Chapter 17 Lost Teachings of Cosmic Color 254
Masters and Rays 255
Ivah Bergh Whitten 258
Color Awareness 261
Fundamentals of Cosmic Color 262
Color Correspondences 265
Whitten's Legacy 272
Chapter 18 Temples of Radiance 277
Color Temple College (Roland Hunt) 278
Cosmic Color Fellowship S. G. J. Ouseley 283
Temple of Radiant Reflection Mary L. Wiyninger 292
Part 5 Scholars and Swamis and Shrinks, Oh My! 295 (1930s-70s)
Chapter 19 The Serpent's Brood 297
Jung and The Serpent Power 298
The Chakras at Mid-Century 302
Joseph Campbell and Sri Ramakrishna 305
Chapter 20 Kundalini Hot Springs-Esalen Institute 312
Michael Murphy and Sri Aurobindo 313
Esalen and Energy 316
Chapter 21 Handbooks to Higher Consciousness 322
Transcendent Needs Abraham Maslow 322
The Only Dance There Is Ram Dass 324
Here Comes Everybody William Schutz 326
The Handbook to Higher Consciousness Ken Keyes Jr. 330
Total Orgasm Jack Lee Rosenberg 332
Chapter 22 The Birth of the Western Chakra System 334
Yoga Psychology (Haridas Chaudhuri) 334
The Yogi and the Shrinks (Swami Rama) 335
Child of Bodymind (Ken Dychtwald) 337
Part 6 Light-Wheels Roll On (1980s and Beyond) 349
Chapter 23 Way of the Dodo-Extinct Systems 351
Under the Hood Peter Rendel 351
Energy and Ecstasy Bernard Gunther 352
The Holy Grail Jack Schwarz 355
Mansions of Color Christopher Hills 361
Chapter 24 The Great Chakra Controversy 367
Wheels, Colors, and Crystals Anodea Judith Joy Gardner 370
Chakra Science Hiroshi Motoyama and Others 371
German Developments Klausbemd Vollmar and Others 372
Bailey Revisited David Tansley Zachary Lansdowne 375
Pranic Healing Choa Kok Sui 376
Going Within Shirley MacLaine 380
Chapter 25 The Multidimensional Rainbow Body 384
Hands versus Wheels Brennan Bruyere 386
Auras, Bodies, and Planes 392
Multiple Bodies and Systems 395
Multidimensional Chakras 399
The New Astral Projection 402
Chakras of the Future 404
Notes 407
Bibliography 474
Index 499
About the Author 517
Illustrations Figures
1 Mysterious Map A 34
2 Mysterious Map B 35
3 Chakras andNadis 48
4 Andhata-cakra 53
5 Correspondences from Blavatsky's Esoteric Instruction No. 1 119
6 Kundalini Rising 155
7 Chakra Locations according to Crowley 165
8 Chakras and the Tree of Life 167
9 Pryse's Chakras, Planets, and Signs 172
10 Chakra Locations according to Pryse 178
11 Chakra Functions according to Pryse 179
12 Leadbeater's Chakra Functions 195
13 Nadis and Caduceus 200
14 Endocrine Glands 228
15 Ali's Chakras and Glands 229
16 The Lord's Prayer according to Cayce 246
17 The Lord's Prayer according to Heindel 247
18 Head Chakras according to Hodson 253
19 Masters and Rays according to Whitten 263
20 Chakras and Planes according to Whitten 281
21 Mapping the Rays in Blavatsky's Esoteric Instruction No. 2 287
22 Tibetan Chakras as Chorten 359
23 Western Chakras as Holy Grail 359
24 Front and Back Chakras 379
Tables
1 The Sanskrit Alphabet 68
2 Basu's Tannic Anatomy (1888) 100
3 Basu's Chakras (1888) 100
4 Blavatsky's Kundalini Practice Correspondences (1891) 121
5 Planes. Bodies, and Principles according to Besant (1897-1912) 134
6 Chakras according to Steiner (1908) 143
7 Crowley's Chakra Correlations (1909) 164
8 Chakras according to Pryse (1910) 181
9 Leadbeater's Colors and Powers (1910) 192
10 Leadbeater's Colors and Powers (1927) 204
11 Bailey's Contributions to the Chakra System (1930-53) 223
12 Cajzoran Ali on the Chakras (1928) 234
13 Chakra/Gland Correspondences (1927-36) 251
14 Whitten's Major Ray Correspondences (1932) 266
15 Whitten's Types and Needs (1932) 268
16 Whitten's Minor Ray Correspondences (1932) 269
17 Tattvas, Symbols, and Colors 271
18 Rays, Chakras, and Colors (1920s-30s) 273
19 Ouseley's Correspondences (ca. 1950) 290
20 Evolution of Chakra Qualities (1970s) 346
21 The Voluntary Controls Chakra System (1978) 356
22 Chakras according to Christopher Hills (1977) 364
23 The Western Chakra System (ca. 1990) 382
24 Chakras according to Rosalyn Bruyere (1988) 388
25 Brennan's and Besant's Planes 396
Plates
Frontispiece. Four Missing Links
Color Insert follows page 256
1 Chakras East and West
2 Chakras according to Sabhapaty
3 Aura Layers and Principles
4 Pryse's Continuum of Human Potential
5 "The Chakras according to Gichtel"
6 Leadbeater's Chakras-Front View
7 Leadbeater's Chakras-Side View
8 Alt's Chakras and Glands
