Kurt Leland's Rainbow Body: A History of the Western Chakra System from Blavatsky to Brennan, which does a good job covering not only the history but the applications and methods.
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Gyalwa Yangönpa, Secret Map of the Body: Visions of the Human Energy Structure which goes into some detail as well, from a certain Tibetan point of view. This is useful not only for comparative purposes, but for a sense of the fact that there's as much variability in what seem to be older, established traditions as in what seem to be more recent, "western" adaptations.
This could be usefully read in connection with Janet Gyatso's Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet, which in a sense does for the Tibetan ener0gy body schemes what Leland's book does for the western ones.
The general point is that all of the energy body traditions are mutable, not fixed -- something that has caused some consternation in all traditions, especially as they engage with healing and medicine.
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Re: MOE online course, blessing, books about energy body
Date: 2025-02-18 03:00 am (UTC)Kurt Leland's Rainbow Body: A History of the Western Chakra System from Blavatsky to Brennan, which does a good job covering not only the history but the applications and methods.
and
Gyalwa Yangönpa, Secret Map of the Body: Visions of the Human Energy Structure which goes into some detail as well, from a certain Tibetan point of view. This is useful not only for comparative purposes, but for a sense of the fact that there's as much variability in what seem to be older, established traditions as in what seem to be more recent, "western" adaptations.
This could be usefully read in connection with Janet Gyatso's Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet, which in a sense does for the Tibetan ener0gy body schemes what Leland's book does for the western ones.
The general point is that all of the energy body traditions are mutable, not fixed -- something that has caused some consternation in all traditions, especially as they engage with healing and medicine.
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