Chakras as Levels of Existence

   People living in different psychosomatic levels are found found everywhere. However, most are living at the basal plexus, the muladhara chakra that is characterised by just eating and sleeping like animals. Much of the leisure time is spent in some pastime. There is sex obsession and search for avenues of exciting games. There is no sense of higher purpose and normally people are bothered about higher levels of conscious living. There is plenty of scope for people to rise from mundane level to higher levels of spiritual life (mahat or anahata chakra level) as could be seen from the attainments of great sages. The attained people show a high sense of sacrifice, selfless service and get satisfaction from serving people at large. They become divine souls (vishuddhi chakra level). There are also people well-versed in knowledge of scriptures (ajnya chakra level) and spread spiritual knowledge all the world over. But, very few reach the highest level of the Sahasrar level attaining absolute state of the Buddha.   
  The idea of chakras as understood in Eastern philosophy does not exist in the West especially in the field of medical science. In Eastern thought, the chakras are thought to be levels of consciousness, and is said to be different states of the soul, and 'proving' the existence of chakras is akin to 'proving' the existence of a soul. A mystic deals with these metaphysical concepts on the metaphysical plane, as a model for their own internal experience, and when talking about 'energy centres', they are generally talking about subtle, spiritual forces, which work on the psyche and spirit, not about physical electrical or magnetic fields.

    The primary importance and level of existence of chakras is therefore posited to be in the psyche and in the spirit. However, there are those who believe that chakras have a physical manifestation as well. Although there is no evidence that Indian mystics made this association themselves, it is noted by many that there is a marked similarity between the positions and roles described for chakras, and the positions and roles of the glands in the endocrine system, and also by the positions of the nerve ganglia (also known as "plexuses") along the spinal column, opening the possibility that two vastly different systems of conceptualization have been brought to bear to systemize insights about the same phenomenon. By some, chakras are thought of as having their physical manifestation in the body as these glands, and their subjective manifestation as the associated psychological and spiritual experiences.

    Indeed, the various hormones secreted by these glands do have a dramatic effect on human psychology, and an imbalance in one can cause a psychological or physical imbalance in a person. Whether these changes in body state have a bearing on spiritual matters is a subject of dissent even among the Indian theorists, and the different systems of conceptualization, Indian and Western, make only a partial convergence in this case.

    Chemical reactions in the body as well as psychological changes take place under the influence of the chakras. One such example is the secretion of the glands, the psychedelic drug DMT (which is synthesized by the pineal gland, corresponding to the brow chakra). It is said that some individuals have sought spiritual breakthroughs through the use of the chemicals, occasionally referred to as entheogens in this context. 
  There is ample scope for further study of the influence of circulation of pranic energy, effect of chakras, on human body and mind.