Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chakra fundamentals and basic practices -- What are chakras? A pocket guide to your body's points of light -- Your spinning wheels of light -- What is kundalini? -- The Hindu chakra system -- Hindu chakras: the basic seven -- The first Hindu chakra: muladhara -- The second Hindu chakra: svadhisthana -- The third Hindu chakra: manipura -- The fourth Hindu chakra: anahata -- The fifth Hindu chakra: vishuddha -- The sixth Hindu chakra: Ajña -- The seventh Hindu chakra: sahasrara -- Fundamentals of chakra medicine -- The benefits of chakra medicine -- Chakra medicine methods I: preparation and analysis -- Chakra medicine methods II: healing -- Chakra medicine practices: Eastern methods -- Chakra techniques: from mantras to gemstone and everything in between -- Chakras in depth: historical, scientific, and cross-cultural understandings -- The history of chakra knowledge through the lens of ancient India -- Ancient vedic scripture: the four canons -- Chakras taking form: divining three movements from the Upanishads and other early sacred texts -- Following the light of tantra and yoga -- The science of subtle energy -- Your energy primer: understanding physical and subtle energy (and a few matters in between) -- Chakras as part of the subtle energy anatomy -- The science and structure of chakras -- Kundalini rises: the chakra serpent -- Chakra systems of Asia -- Chakra systems of India -- Tibet: Indian tantra meets Buddhism -- Other Asian chakra systems -- Ancient chakra systems across Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas -- The African continent -- Chakra systems of old Europe -- The Middle East -- Chakra medicine in the Americas -- Modern Western chakra systems -- Early Western mystics and esoteric orders -- The Theosophical Society -- Chakras come of age in the West -- Chakras et cetera: natural and unusual chakras -- Chakras in nature -- New and unusual chakras and chakra systems.